{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Solid Gold 68 | type = album | artist = Chet Atkins | cover = Solid_Gold_68.jpg | alt = | released = 1968 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Country, pop | length = 28:56 | label = RCA Victor | producer = Felton Jarvis, Bob Ferguson | chronology = Chet Atkins | prev_title = Hometown Guitar | prev_year = 1968 | next_title = Solo Flights | next_year = 1968 }}
'''''Solid Gold 68''''' is the thirty-fifth studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins, released on RCA Victor LSP-4061. It is the first in a series of three albums providing Chet with the opportunity to interpret some of the pop hits of the year. It reached No. 18 on the Country Album charts.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 =Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}} <ref name="AM">{{cite web |first=Richard S. |last= Ginell |title= ''Solid Gold 68'' > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r105405 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=July 2, 2011}}</ref> }} Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell wrote of the album "a mostly overproduced, perfunctory collection of period pop hits that does neither the guitarist nor the tunes much good."<ref name="AM" />
==Track listing== ===Side one=== # "Slick" (Herb Alpert/Pisano)– 2:57 # "Lady Madonna" (Lennon–McCartney) – 2:30 # "Prayer Meetin'" (Smith) – 2:47 # "Sealed with a Kiss" (Peter Udell, Gary Geld) – 2:31 # "Stoned Soul Picnic" (Laura Nyro) – 2:55 # "The Sounds of Silence" (Paul Simon) – 2:52
===Side two=== # "Mrs. Robinson" (Paul Simon) – 2:54 # "Harper Valley PTA" (Tom T. Hall) – 2:43 # "Light My Fire" (Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek, Morrison) – 3:05 # "Sleep Safe and Warm (Lullaby from ''Rosemary's Baby'')" (Kusik–Snyder–Komeda) – 3:03 # "Grazing in the Grass" (Harry Elston, Philemon Hou)– 2:38 # "It Never Hurts to Ask" (Saussy) – 2:36
==Personnel== *Chet Atkins – guitar *Bill Walker, Cam Mullins – string arrangements
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