Picks the Best

Infobox Album
Name = Chet Atkins Picks the Best
Type = album
Artist = Chet Atkins


Released = 1967
Recorded = RCA "Nashville Sound" Studios, Nashville, TN
Genre = Country, pop
Length =
Label = RCA Victor LSP-3818 (Stereo)
Producer = Bob Ferguson and Chet Atkins
Reviews =
Chronology = Chet Atkins
Last album = "Chet"
(1967)
This album = "Chet Atkins Picks the Best"
(1967)
Next album = "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

ide one

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

ide two

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

Personnel

*Chet Atkins – guitar