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The Pops Goes Country

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Released
  
1966

Producer
  
Peter Dellheim

Label
  
RCA Victor Red Seal

Recorded
  
1966

Release date
  
1966

Genres
  
Country music, Pop music

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The Pops Goes Country (1966)
  
Music from Nashville, My Home Town (1966)

The Pops Goes Country (1966)
  
The Nashville String Band (1969)

Artists
  
Chet Atkins, Arthur Fiedler, Boston Pops Orchestra

Similar
  
Teen Scene, Stringin' Along with Chet Atkins, Progressive Pickin', Chet Atkins Picks on the Pops, Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies

The Pops Goes Country is the title of the first collaborative recording by guitarist Chet Atkins and Arthur Fiedler with the Boston Pops Orchestra. The arrangements were done by Richard Hayman.

Contents

Side one

  1. "Country Gentleman" (Atkins, Boudleaux Bryant)
  2. "Tennessee Waltz" (Pee Wee King)
  3. "Alabama Jubilee" (Jack Yellen, George L. Cobb)
  4. "Faded Love" (Bob Wills, Johnnie Lee Wills)
  5. "In the Pines/Wildwood Flower/On Top of Old Smokey" (Traditional)
  6. "Windy and Warm" (John D. Loudermilk)

Side two

  1. "I'll Fly Away" (Albert E. Brumley)
  2. "Adios Amigo" (Jay Livingston, Ralph Freed)
  3. "John Henry/Listen to the Mocking Bird" (Traditional)
  4. "Cold, Cold Heart" (Hank Williams)
  5. "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" (A. P. Carter)
  6. "Orange Blossom Special" (Ervin T. Rouse)

Personnel

  • Chet Atkins – guitar
  • Henry Strzelecki - bass
  • John Greubel - drums
  • The Boston Pops Orchestra - orchestra
  • Richard Hayman - arranger
  • Arthur Fiedler - conductor

    • Songs

    1Country Gentleman1:48
    2Tennessee Waltz2:42
    3Alabama Jubilee2:29

    References

    The Pops Goes Country Wikipedia
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