Five Foot Two, Chet Atkins
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 4:08 pm
I was recently "cleaning up" the hard drive on my computer and came across this old recording of Chet playing "Five Foot Two" in an unknown venue...and thought it might interest some of the folks on the ChetBoard!
I do not recall recording this myself, and I have no recollection of this particular "show" which Chet mentions at the very start of his performance! Before he plays the number, Chet says: "Thanks a lot JIM...so I could guess, and say he might be speaking to his brother (Jim Atkins), who was the program director of KOA Radio in Denver, Colorado when I lived there. As I found out later, Chet and Leona lived just a couple of blocks from me, and I didn't even know it at the time!
The sound quality is pretty bad on this, and I can tell it was recorded when Chet was still developing the "style" that would later make him world famous, but there's no mistaking that SOUND!
I’ve never uploaded just a sound file to the Board, so hopefully I’m doing it correctly!
David
I do not recall recording this myself, and I have no recollection of this particular "show" which Chet mentions at the very start of his performance! Before he plays the number, Chet says: "Thanks a lot JIM...so I could guess, and say he might be speaking to his brother (Jim Atkins), who was the program director of KOA Radio in Denver, Colorado when I lived there. As I found out later, Chet and Leona lived just a couple of blocks from me, and I didn't even know it at the time!
The sound quality is pretty bad on this, and I can tell it was recorded when Chet was still developing the "style" that would later make him world famous, but there's no mistaking that SOUND!
I’ve never uploaded just a sound file to the Board, so hopefully I’m doing it correctly!
David