CHET ATKINS 10" LP - GALLOPIN' GUITAR - RCA LPM 3079 - w/ Homer & Jethro
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Clean copy - both cover and vinyl are VG++; minor restoration to ringwear
Gallopin Guitar was the first long play record made by Chet Atkins. It was recorded for RCA records with Jethro Burns and Homer Haynes, with Charlie Green on bass.
Atkins had previously recorded on Bullet Records and also as a sideman with various acts. He was brought to RCA by Steve Sholes in 1947 where he recorded several single releases. After playing on a variety of radio shows, Radio manager Si Simon had been promoting Atkins by sending acetates of Chet's live radio performances to various record companies. One landed in Sholes' hands. Chet had relocated to Denver after being fired by KWTO in Missouri for "not sounding country enough." He was to be brought into RCA as a guitarist, singer and song-writer. Arrangements were made for Atkins to travel to Chicago to do a demo recording. He cut eight "sides" (songs) in Chicago with his idol George Barnes on rhythm guitar.
Atkins later traveled to New York to record as a side-man and, because of an impending musician's strike, to also stockpile solo recordings for release in case the strike was a protracted one. After these initial recordings, he was still unemployed. He returned to Knoxville and continued on radio there until he joined The Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle Carter.
The song "Gallopin' on the Guitar" had been released as a single in 1947 and was a minor hit, often being used as a radio theme song by 1949.
During the same periodas this first LP, Chet released his single "Country Gentleman", co-written with Boudleaux Bryant. Another minor hit, it was recorded in a garage.
- "Third Man Theme" (Anton Karas) – 2:26
- "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 2:17
- "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein, Sigmund Romberg) – 2:26
- "Nobody's Sweetheart" (Ernie Erdman, Gus Kahn, Billy Meyers, E. Schoebel) – 2:16
- "Stephen Foster Medley" (Stephen Foster) – 2:26
- "Hangover Blues/Imagination" (Atkins, Bryant) (Atkins)
- "Black Mountain Rag" (Traditional) – 2:18
- "Galloping on the Guitar" (Atkins) – 2:29
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