The Most Popular Guitar

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The Most Popular Guitar
The Most Popular Guitar cover
Studio album by Chet Atkins
Released 1961
Recorded Nashville, TN
Genre Country, pop, jazz
Length 34:05
Label RCA Victor LSP-2346 (Stereo)
Professional reviews
Chet Atkins chronology
Christmas with Chet Atkins
(1961)		 The Most Popular Guitar
(1961)		 Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns
(1962)

The Most Popular Guitar is a recording by Chet Atkins. It is an example of his highly orchestrated, smooth sound with lush strings and vocal choruses. While it did not top the chart action of his previous release Chet Atkins' Workshop, it spent ten weeks on the Billboard LP chart.

It was re-released on CD by One Way Records along with Down Home in 1995.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

  1. "It Ain't Necessarily So" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 2:43
  2. "My Dear Little Sweetheart" (Smith, Weiss) – 2:48
  3. "Stay as Sweet as You Are" (Gordon, Revel) – 3:38
  4. "Monte Carlo Melody" (Shapiro) – 2:30
  5. "When Day Is Done" (DeSylva, Katscher) – 2:20
  6. "My Prayer" (Boulanger, Kennedy) – 2:22

[edit] Side two

  1. "Rock-A-Bye-Bye" (Curtis, Wood) – 2:40
  2. "Vanessa" (Wayne) – 3:57
  3. "Intermezzo" (Henning, Provost) – 3:04
  4. "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" (Deutsch, Kaper) – 2:40
  5. "East of the Sun (West of the Moon)" (Bowman) – 2:28
  6. "Goin' Home" (Atkins) – 2:53

[edit] Personnel

  • Chet Atkins – guitar
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Chet Atkins' Gallopin' Guitar  · Stringin' Along With Chet Atkins  · A Session with Chet Atkins  · Stringin' Along with Chet Atkins (LP version)  · Chet Atkins in Three Dimensions  · Finger Style Guitar  · Chet Atkins at Home  · Hi Fi in Focus  · Chet Atkins in Hollywood  · Hum & Strum Along with Chet Atkins  · Mister Guitar  · After the Riot at Newport  · Teensville  · The Other Chet Atkins  · Chet Atkins' Workshop  · Christmas with Chet Atkins  · The Most Popular Guitar  · Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns  · Caribbean Guitar  · Down Home  · Our Man in Nashville  · Teen Scene  · Travelin'  · Guitar Country  · Progressive Pickin'  · My Favorite Guitars  · More of That Guitar Country  · Chet Atkins Picks on The Beatles  · From Nashville With Love  · Music From Nashville, My Home Town  · It's a Guitar World  · Picks the Best  · Class Guitar  · Hometown Guitar  · Solid Gold 68  · Solo Flights  · Lover's Guitar  · Solid Gold 69  · Yestergroovin'  · Solid Gold 70  · Pickin' My Way  · For the Good Times  · Picks on the Hits  · Alone  · The Night Atlanta Burned  · Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies  · Teen Scene  · Me and My Guitar  · Country After All These Years  · East Tennessee Christmas  · Work It out with Chet Atkins C.G.P.  · Stay Tuned  · Street Dreams  · Sails  · Chet Atkins, C.G.P.  · Read My Licks  · Almost Alone  · Solo Sessions
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