Picks on the Hits

Infobox Album
Name = Picks on the Hits
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Chet Atkins


Released = 1972
Recorded =
Genre = Country, pop
Length = 27:48
Label = RCA Victor
Producer =
Chronology = Chet Atkins
Last album = "Identified!"
(1971)
This album = "Picks on the Hits"
(1972)
Next album = "The Bandit"
(1972)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate Cover
Type = album


Lower caption =

"Picks on the Hits" is an album by guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1972. It was nominated for the 1972 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance but did not win. Chet's duet release with Jerry Reed "Me & Chet" was also nominated in the same category.

It was re-issued on CD along with "Superpickers" in 1998. The CD re-issue by Pair Records adds eight additional tracks from "Picks the Best" and leaves off "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" and "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard".

Track listing

# "The Masterpiece" (Mouret, Parnes) – 2:33
# "After Midnight" (J. J. Cale) – 2:53
# "Song Sung Blue" (Neil Diamond) – 3:03
# "An Old Fashioned Love Song" (Paul Williams) – 2:30
# "Amazing Grace" (Newton) – 2:30
# "Sweet Caroline" (Diamond)
# "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)" (Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway, Bill Backer, Billy Davis) – 2:19
# "Vincent" (Don McLean) – 3:22
# "Godfather (Theme)" (Nino Rota, Larry Kusic) – 2:54
# "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" (Paul Simon) – 2:29
#:Pair CD reissue additional tracks:
# "You'll Never Walk Alone" (Rogers, Hammerstein)
# "Lovely Weather"
# "Insensatez :: How Insensitive"
# "Colonel Bogey" (F. J. Ricketts)
# "Anna (El Negro Zumbon)"
# "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (Julia Ward Howe)
# "El Paso" (Marty Robbins)
# "Ay Ay Ay"

Personnel

*Chet Atkins – guitar

External links

* [http://www.misterguitar.com/discography/picksonhits.html Official Web Site discography]