Nagasaki By Chet Atkins
"Nagasaki" is a jazz song from 1928 by Harry Warren and Mort Dixon with silly, bawdy lyrics that became a popular Tin Pan Alley hit. The title was sung to rhyme with "where the fellas chew tobaccy and the women wicky-wacky-woo". Chet Atkins was an American guitarist and record producer who helped create the music style known as the Nashville sound. While mostly associated with country music, he also recorded and performed most other genres, including jazz and classical. He produced records for Perry Como, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson . . . As well as Jim Reeves, Jerry Reed, Skeeter Davis, Connie Smith, Waylon Jennings and many others. He became a design consultant for Gretsch, who manufactured a popular Chet Atkins line of electric guitars from 1955--1980. He became manager of RCA's Nashville studio, eventually inspiring and seeing the completion of the legendary RCA Studio B. He received 14 Grammy Awards, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and 9 CMA Instrumentalist of the Year awards. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in 1973. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. He joined with pianist Floyd Cramer and saxophonist Boots Randolph as a member of the "Million Dollar Band".
This selection is from his album "Relaxin' with Chet" released in 1969. "Relaxin' with Chet" was also remastered and released as a CD in 1999.