View basket “Café Blue” has been added to your basket. In Hollywood Chet Atkins SKU: RCALSP1993 Barcode: 4260019715050 34.00 £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Speakers Corner Released Date: 6th May 2016 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info When stringed instruments are employed, it is often an indication that the protagonist is somewhat mature. It is an unwritten law that sooner or later every rock, jazz or folk musician will bathe in soft tones for once. Chet Atkins, however, was light years away from his artistic zenith, came up with a wealth of ideas and was in a great position with regards to recording facilities when he set down his Hollywood album in 1959. Two years earlier, “Mister Guitar” had become boss of the newly founded RCA Studio in Nashville. Here he recorded several records, which reflected his ideas of an appealing, catchy Nashville Sound as an answer to the declining rock and roll. The Hollywood numbers were by no means dynamite movie tracks or showstoppers. Dennis Farnon’s delicate, lush arrangements rather more pay homage to the maestro with his no-frills art of playing. The gentle Italo evergreen “Santa Lucia”, Chaplin’s beautiful “Limelight” with its violins and the time-honoured “Greensleeves” – all of them flawlessly performed – are a real pleasure for the ears. Atkins greatly admired the superb string orchestra and two years later he re-recorded the album using the tapes from the Hollywood session to create this new version. Artist Chet Atkins Genre Jazz Label Speakers Corner Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings "Armen's Theme" (Ross Bagdasarian) – 2:12 "Let It Be Me" (Gilbert Becaud, Mann Curtis, Pierre Delanoe) – 3:22 "Theme from Picnic"" (George Duning) – 3:24 "Theme from a Dream" (Boudleaux Bryant) – 3:58 "Estrellita" (Manuel Ponce) – 2:51 "Jitterbug Waltz" (Richard Maltby, Fats Waller) – 3:00 "Little Old Lady" (Stanley Adams, Hoagy Carmichael) – 2:20 "Terry Theme from Limelight" (Charlie Chaplin) – 3:16 "The Three Bells" (Bert Reisfeld, Jean Villard) – 3:06 "Santa Lucia" (Titman) – 2:50 "Greensleeves" (Traditional) – 3:05 "Meet Mister Callaghan" (Eric Spear) – 2:23 Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Chet Atkins and more from Jazz View Product Quick View Chet Atkins Workshop Jazz | Modern Harmonic | 180g, 1LP Released 1st February 2018 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chet Atkins Workshop £28.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Modern Harmonic SKU: MH8064 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 1st February 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chet Atkins Mister Guitar Rock And Pop | Speakers Corner | 180g, 1LP Released 1st July 2008 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chet Atkins Mister Guitar £34.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Speakers Corner SKU: LSP2103 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 1st July 2008 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chet Baker Trio Mr B. 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