Christmas with Chet Atkins

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christmas with Chet Atkins
Studio album by Chet Atkins
Released	1961
Label	RCA Victor LSP-2423 (Stereo)
Producer	Chet Atkins
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Country Standard Time link
Chet Atkins chronology
Chet Atkins' Workshop (1961) Christmas with Chet Atkins (1961) The Most Popular Guitar (1961)
Alternate Cover

Christmas with Chet Atkins is a recording by Chet Atkins. It is a Christmas album.

All Music Guide stated that "His version of "Silver Bells" is, quite simply, one of the best versions of the standard ever, and possibly one of Atkins' most arresting performances of all-time." The album is "Overall, criminally underrated... Gorgeous."^[1]

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

1. "Jingle Bell Rock" (Beal, Boothe)
2. "Winter Wonderland" (Bernard, Smith)
3. "Jolly Old St. Nicholas" (Trad.)
4. "White Christmas" (Berlin)
5. "Blue Christmas" (Hayes, Johnson)
6. "Jingle Bells" (Pierpont)
7. "Silver Bells" (Madden, Wenrich)

[edit] Side two

1. "The Little Drummer Boy" (Davis, Onorati, Simeone)
2. "Medley: The Coventry Carol/God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen" (Trad.)
3. "The First Noel" (Sandys)
4. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (Mendelssohn, Wesley)
5. "O Come All Ye Faithful" (Oakeley, Wade)
6. "Deck the Halls" (Trad.)
7. "Silent Night" (Gruber, Mohr)

[edit] Personnel

• Chet Atkins – guitar
• The Anita Kerr Singers - background chorus

[edit] References