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Chet Atkins Picks on The Beatles
Here’s today’s trivia question: Which collection of Beatles songs made the Billboard Country Album Top 10?
Well, heck, the answer is in the headline. Released in late 1964, “Chet Atkins Picks on The Beatles” reached No. 6 in 1965. It did not do well on the pop chart.
Chet managed to show the influence country music had on the early Beatles in such songs as “I’ll Cry Instead,” “She’s a Woman,” and even “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “She Loves You.”
The Beatles overtly loved country music. They covered it in their early days and wrote it in their latter; but country music folks did not return the affection.
I recall, at age 11, making one of my annual trips to Texas. I was already playing the guitar and arrived with my Beatles collection only to encounter culture clash for the first time.
In California, Beatles music blared from jukeboxes, even during Little League games. In Texas, I couldn’t find any Brits anywhere on jukeboxes and Texans made it very clear to me they wanted no part of these four guys or any of the other Brits.
I understand that. A mixture of hair and social attitudes made it impossible for The Beatles to fit in country territory. Girls fainted at Beatles concerts as much in country territory as they did anywhere else, but the region snarled at them when they came to town and sometimes the fellas snarled back.
The video below was recorded about 20 years after Chet’s album came out and includes instrumental bits from some of their later works.
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