Picks the Best

Chet Atkins Picks the Best
Studio album by Chet Atkins
Released 1967
Recorded RCA "Nashville Sound" Studios, Nashville, TN
Genre Country, pop
Label RCA Victor LSP-3818 (Stereo)
Producer Bob Ferguson and Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins chronology

Chet
(1967)
Chet Atkins Picks the Best
(1967)
Class Guitar
(1967)

Chet Atkins Picks the Best is the title of a recording by guitarist Chet Atkins. At the Grammy Awards of 1968, Chet Atkins Picks the Best won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "You'll Never Walk Alone" (Rogers, Hammerstein)
  2. "Lovely Weather" (Lima)
  3. "Insensatez (How Insensitive)" (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
  4. "Colonel Bogey" (Kenneth J. Alford)
  5. "Nuages" (Django Reinhardt)
  6. "Anna (El Negro Zumbón)" (R. Valtro, F. Giordano)

Side two

  1. "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (Julia Ward Howe)
  2. "All (Theme from the Motion Picture Run for Your Wife)"
  3. "El Paso" (Marty Robbins)
  4. "Tears" (Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli)
  5. "I Wish I Knew" (Wayne Moss)
  6. "Ay, Ay, Ay"

Personnel