{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Teensville | type = album | artist = Chet Atkins | cover = Teensville.jpg | alt = | released = January 1960 | recorded = Nashville, TN | venue = | studio = | genre = {{Flatlist| * Rock<ref name="AM" /> * rockabilly<ref name="AM" /> * rhythm and blues<ref name="AM" /> * country<ref name="AM" /> * pop<ref name="AM" /> }} | length = 28:16 | label = RCA Victor LSP-2161 (Stereo) | producer = Chet Atkins | chronology = Chet Atkins | prev_title = After the Riot at Newport | prev_year = 1960 | next_title = The Other Chet Atkins | next_year = 1960 }} '''''Teensville''''' is the twelfth studio album recorded by American guitarist and producer Chet Atkins, released in 1960. == Overview ==
The idea here was for Atkins to release a record appealing to teens who were now interested in rock 'n roll. The original version of "Oh Lonesome Me", a hit on both the pop and country charts for Don Gibson, was produced by Atkins and featured his guitar.
The original liner notes were by The Everly Brothers whom Atkins later produced.
It was his second charting album, coming after 2 years of minor commercial success. The album peaked at No. 16 on the ''Billboard'''s albums chart<ref name="Whitburn">{{cite book | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | title = Top LPs, 1955–1972 | year = 1973 | publisher = Record Research | page = 13 | url = https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstoplp00whit/page/12/mode/2up | access-date = 2025-07-10}}</ref> during a twelve week-stay. It reached the same position on Cash Box.<ref name="Cashbox"/> ==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 =Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} <ref name="AM">{{cite web |first=Stephen Thomas |last= Erlewine |title= ''Teensville'' > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= mw0000532228 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=July 2, 2011}}</ref> }} In his review for Allmusic, critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote Atkins "never captures the raw spark of rock & roll. What shines through is Atkins' understated elegance. All of the numbers are arranged as pop instrumentals and his guitar playing is so tasteful that it makes the half-hearted execution almost forgiveable."<ref name="AM" />
==Reissues== * ''Teensville'' was re-released on CD in 1998 by BMG International.
==Track listing== ===Side one=== # "White Silver Sands" (Charles "Red" Matthews) – 2:19 # "Boo Boo Stick Beat" (Buddy Harman, John D. Loudermilk) – 2:11 # "Oh Lonesome Me" (Don Gibson) – 2:20 # "One Mint Julep" (Rudy Toombs) – 2:09 # "Take a Message to Mary" (Felice Bryant, Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:21 # "Teensville" (Wayne Cogswell) – 2:16
===Side two=== # "Night Train" (Jimmy Forrest, Lewis Simpkins) – 2:36 # "Come Softly to Me" (Gretchen Christoper, Barbara Ellis, Gary Troxel) – 2:01 # "Sleep Walk" (Santo & Johnny) – 2:33 # "Django's Castle" (Django Reinhardt) – 2:32 # "Till There Was You" (Meredith Willson) – 2:30 # "Hot Toddy" (Ralph Flanagan) – 2:22
==Personnel== *Chet Atkins – guitar
==Production notes== *Bill Porter – engineer == Charts ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" ! Chart (1960) ! Peak<br />position |- | US ''Billboard'' Top Albums<ref name="Whitburn" /> |rowspan="2"|16 |- | US Cashbox Top Albums (Monoraul)<ref name="Cashbox">{{Cite book |last=Hoffmann |first=Frank W |url=https://archive.org/details/cashboxalbumchar0000hoff/page/12/mode/2up |title=The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974 |date=1988 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=0-8108-2005-6 |location=Metuchen, N.J. |pages=12}}</ref> |- | US Cashbox Top Albums (Stereo)<ref name="Cashbox"/> | 32 |- |} ==References== {{Reflist}}
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