Of course, he collaborated with his producer, Chet Atkins, as to which songs he would record, but even Atkins did not have the final say. RCA headquarters in New York did.
Jim was also habitually upset with the way his label manufactured his records, believing they did not press them "hot enough." He chronically fussed that when one of his songs came on the radio, he had to turn it up to hear it because the volume was too low. It was a running complaint with him.
RCA apparently had a lot of people working for it and its licensees with a rather low IQ. Including the idiot head of the company who at one point decreed that priceless recordings by stellar artists should be erased and re-used, just to save on tape. So many historic recordings were thereby lost.
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