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Released
  
1968

Solid Gold 68 (1968)
  
Solo Flights (1968)

Release date
  
1968

Genres
  
Country music, Pop music

Length
  
28:56

Artist
  
Chet Atkins

Label
  
RCA Records

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Producers
  
Felton Jarvis, Bob Ferguson

Similar
  
Solid Gold 69, The Best of Chet Atkins - Vo, The Best of Chet on the Road, For the Good Times, Country After All These Ye

Solid Gold 68 is the title of a recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins, released on RCA Victor LSP-4061. It is the first in a series of three albums providing Chet with the opportunity to interpret some of the pop hits of the year. It reached No. 18 on the Country Album charts.

Contents

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell wrote of the album "a mostly overproduced, perfunctory collection of period pop hits that does neither the guitarist nor the tunes much good."

Side one

  1. "Slick" (Herb Alpert/Pisano)– 2:57
  2. "Lady Madonna" (Lennon–McCartney) – 2:30
  3. "Prayer Meetin'" (Smith) – 2:47
  4. "Sealed with a Kiss" (Peter Udell, Gary Geld) – 2:31
  5. "Stoned Soul Picnic" (Laura Nyro) – 2:55
  6. "The Sounds of Silence" (Paul Simon) – 2:52

Side two

  1. "Mrs. Robinson" (Paul Simon) – 2:54
  2. "Harper Valley PTA" (Tom T. Hall) – 2:43
  3. "Light My Fire" (Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek, Morrison) – 3:05
  4. "Sleep Safe and Warm (Lullaby from Rosemary's Baby)" (Kusic–Snyder–Komeda) – 3:03
  5. "Grazing in the Grass" (Harry Elston, Philemon Hou)– 2:38
  6. "It Never Hurts to Ask" (Saussy) – 2:36

Personnel

  • Chet Atkins – guitar
  • Bill Walker, Cam Mullins – string arrangements

    • Songs

    1Slick2:57
    2Lady Madonna2:30
    3Prayer Meeting2:47

    References

    Solid Gold 68 Wikipedia
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