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Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies

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Released
  
1976

Release date
  
1976

Genres
  
Country music, Pop music

Artist
  
Chet Atkins

Label
  
RCA Records

Producers
  
Chet Atkins, Bob Ferguson

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Recorded
  
RCA's "Nashville Sound" Studio, Nashville, TN

Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies (1976)
  
Chester & Lester (1976)

Similar
  
Chet Atkins albums, Country music albums

Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies is an album by guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1976.

Contents

Chet won the 1976 Best Country Instrumental Performance Grammy for "The Entertainer". He and Jerry Reed were also nominated that year for their performance of "Colonel Bogey".

Side one

  1. "Paramount on Parade" (Janis, King) – 0:19
  2. "My Own True Love" – 3:00
  3. "Everybody's Talkin'" (Fred Neil) – 2:56
  4. "Terry Theme from Limelight" (Chaplin) – 2:50
  5. "Emily" (Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer) – 2:28
  6. "Charade" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) – 3:46
  7. "Paramount on Parade" (Janis, King) – 2:25

Side two

  1. "Solace" – 2:49
  2. "The Entertainer" (Scott Joplin) – 2:17
  3. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg) – 2:55
  4. "Somewhere, My Love" (Maurice Jarre, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:33
  5. "A Man and a Woman" – 2:41
  6. "Merrily We Roll Along" – 0:26

Personnel

  • Chet Atkins - guitar, banjo, violin, viola
  • Paul Yandell – guitar, high-strung guitar
  • Boyce Hawkins – organ
  • Larrie Londin – drums
  • John Christopher – guitar
  • Terry McMillan – harmonica
  • Bobby Wood – piano
  • Beegie Cruser – piano
  • Mike Leach – bass
  • Tommy Cogbill – drums
  • Billy Sanford – guitar
  • Hayward Bishop – drums
  • Ray Stevens – ARP

    • Production notes

  • Produced by Chet Atkins, Bob Ferguson
  • Chuck Seitz – engineer
  • Bubba Campbell – recording technician
  • Roy Shockley – recording technician
  • Ray Butts – recording technician
  • John Knowles – arranger ("A Man and a Woman", "Merrily We Roll Along", "Solace", "The Entertainer")
  • Lenny Breau – arranger ("Emily")

    • References

    Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies Wikipedia
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