The Most Popular Guitar

Infobox Album
Name = The Most Popular Guitar
Type = album
Artist = Chet Atkins


Released = 1961
Recorded = Nashville, TN
Genre = Country, pop, jazz
Length = 34:05
Label = RCA Victor LSP-2346 (Stereo)
Producer =
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fjfpxql5ldde link]
Last album = "Christmas with Chet Atkins"
(1961)
This album = "The Most Popular Guitar"
(1961)
Next album = "Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns"
(1962)

"The Most Popular Guitar" is a recording by guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1961. 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.

Track listing

ide one

# "It Ain't Necessarily So" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:43
# "My Dear Little Sweetheart" (Johnny Smith, George Weiss) – 2:48
# "Stay as Sweet as You Are" (Mack Gordon, Harry Revel) – 3:38
# "Monte Carlo Melody" (Maurice Shapiro) – 2:30
# "When Day Is Done" (Buddy DeSylva, Robert Katscher) – 2:20
# "My Prayer" (Georges Boulanger, Jimmy Kennedy) – 2:22

ide two

# "Rock-A-Bye-Bye" (Curtis, Wood) – 2:40
# "Vanessa" (Wayne) – 3:57
# "Intermezzo" (Robert Henning, Heinz Provost) – 3:04
# "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" ( Bronislau Kaper, Helen Deutsch) – 2:40
# "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Brooks Bowman) – 2:28
# "Goin' Home" (Atkins) – 2:53

Personnel

*Chet Atkins – guitar