# Solid Gold 68

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Solid Gold 68
| type       = album
| artist     = [Chet Atkins](/source/Chet_Atkins)
| cover      = Solid_Gold_68.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1968
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Country](/source/Country_music), [pop](/source/Pop_music)
| length     = 28:56
| label      = [RCA Victor](/source/RCA_Victor)
| producer   = [Felton Jarvis](/source/Felton_Jarvis), [Bob Ferguson](/source/Bob_Ferguson_(music))
| chronology = Chet Atkins
| prev_title = [Hometown Guitar](/source/Hometown_Guitar)
| prev_year  = 1968
| next_title = [Solo Flights](/source/Solo_Flights)
| next_year  = 1968
}}

'''''Solid Gold 68''''' is the thirty-fifth studio album by [American](/source/United_States) guitarist [Chet Atkins](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Allmusic) |accessdate=July 2, 2011}}</ref>
}}
Writing for [Allmusic](/source/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](/source/Herb_Alpert)/Pisano)– 2:57
# "[Lady Madonna](/source/Lady_Madonna)" ([Lennon–McCartney](/source/Lennon%E2%80%93McCartney)) – 2:30
# "Prayer Meetin'" (Smith) – 2:47
# "[Sealed with a Kiss](/source/Sealed_with_a_Kiss)" (Peter Udell,  Gary Geld) – 2:31
# "Stoned Soul Picnic" ([Laura Nyro](/source/Laura_Nyro)) – 2:55
# "[The Sounds of Silence](/source/The_Sounds_of_Silence_(song))" ([Paul Simon](/source/Paul_Simon)) – 2:52

===Side two===
# "[Mrs. Robinson](/source/Mrs._Robinson)" ([Paul Simon](/source/Paul_Simon)) – 2:54
# "[Harper Valley PTA](/source/Harper_Valley_PTA)" ([Tom T. Hall](/source/Tom_T._Hall)) – 2:43
# "[Light My Fire](/source/Light_My_Fire)" ([Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek, Morrison](/source/The_Doors)) – 3:05
# "[Sleep Safe and Warm (Lullaby from ''Rosemary's Baby'')](/source/Sleep_Safe_and_Warm)" ([Kusik](/source/Larry_Kusik)–[Snyder](/source/Eddie_Snyder)–[Komeda](/source/Krzysztof_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](/source/guitar)
*Bill Walker, Cam Mullins – string arrangements

==References==
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Category:1968 albums
Category:Chet Atkins albums
Category:RCA Victor albums
Category:1960s instrumental albums
Category:1960s covers albums

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