''Eclectic Guitar'' is a compilation recording by
American
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guitarist
Chet Atkins, released in 2007 on the El label.
History
The single disc contains 20 tracks from the three-year period of 1954 through 1956 representing Atkins' work in a variety of styles; mostly pop, jazz, and classical with very little country music. Most of the songs are solo performances.
The cover photo had been previously used for the 1961 reissue of ''
A Session with Chet Atkins''.
Track listing
# "
Sunrise Serenade" (Carle) – 2:47
# "
Honeysuckle Rose" (
Andy Razaf
Andy Razaf (born Andriamanantena Paul Razafinkarefo; December 16, 1895 – February 3, 1973) was an American poet, composer and lyricist of such well-known songs as " Ain't Misbehavin'" and " Honeysuckle Rose".
Biography
Razaf was born in Washi ...
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Fats Waller
Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, violinist, singer, and comedic entertainer. His innovations in the Harlem stride style laid much of the basis for modern jazz pi ...
) – 2:41
# "
Caravan
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based ...
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Irving Mills
Irving Harold Mills (born Isadore Minsky; January 16, 1894 – April 21, 1985) was an American music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Goody Goodwin and Joe Primrose.
Personal
Mills was ...
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Juan Tizol
Juan Tizol Martínez (22 January 1900 – 23 April 1984) was a Puerto Rican jazz trombonist and composer. He is best known as a member of Duke Ellington's big band, and as the writer of the jazz standards " Caravan", "Pyramid", and " Perdid ...
) – 3:28
# "
Mister Sandman" (
Pat Ballard) – 2:18
# "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:25
# "Minute Waltz" (
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leadin ...
) – 1:47
# "Intermezzo" (Robert Henning, Heinz Provost) – 2:33
# "Minuet/Prelude" (Bach) – 2:30
# "Little Rock Getaway" (
Carl Sigman
Carl Sigman (September 24, 1909 – September 26, 2000) was an American songwriter.
Early life
Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish-American family, Sigman graduated from law school and passed his bar exams to practice in ...
, Joe Sullivan) – 2:19
# "Ochi Chornya (Dark Eyes)" (Traditional) – 2:46
# "La Golondrina" (Traditional) – 2:48
# "Indian Love Call" (
Rudolf Friml,
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,
Otto Harbach) – 2:58
# "
St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 3:01
# "
Alice Blue Gown "Alice Blue Gown" is a popular song written by Joseph McCarthy (lyricist), Joseph McCarthy and Harry Tierney. The song, which was inspired by Alice Roosevelt Longworth's signature gown, was first performed by Edith Day in the 1919 Broadway musical ' ...
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Joseph McCarthy
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Harry Tierney) – 2:22
# "
Malaguena" (
Ernesto Lecuona
Ernesto Lecuona y Casado (; August 7, 1896 – November 29, 1963) was a Cuban composer and pianist, many of whose works have become standards of the Latin, jazz and classical repertoires. His over 600 compositions include songs and zarzuelas as ...
) – 2:48
# "Gavotte in D" (
François Joseph Gossec) – 1:43
# "Waltz in A Flat" (
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...
) – 1:50
# "Adelita" (Tarrega) – 1:39
# "Petite Walz" (Traditional) – 2:50
# "
Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)" (
George Gershwin
George Gershwin (; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions ' ...
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Ira Gershwin
Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershovitz; December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 2 ...
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Gus Kahn) – 2:46
Personnel
*Chet Atkins – guitar
*
Ray Edenton
Ray Quarles Edenton (November 3, 1926 – September 21, 2022) was an American guitar player and country music session musician.
Early life
Ray Edenton was born into a musical family on November 3, 1926, and grew up near Mineral, Virginia. His f ...
– guitar
*Poppa John Gordy – piano, celeste
*
Buddy Harman – drums
*Marvin Hughes – piano, celeste
*Ernie Newton – bass
*Dale Potter – fiddle
References
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2007 compilation albums
Chet Atkins compilation albums