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tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 to 9 a&r Frank Morin
tracks 19 accordion Flaco Jimenez
tracks 3, 5, 6 arranged by Doug Sahm
tracks 1, 2, 4, 8 arranged by Frank Morin
art direction Anne MacLean
tracks 17, 18 bajo sexto Doug Sahm
tracks 11 to 13 bass Bob Moore
tracks 1, 2, 4, 8 to 10 bass Harvey Kagan
tracks 17 to 19 bass Jack Barber
tracks 7 bass Jance Garfat
tracks 14 to 16, 21, 22 bass Jim Stallings
tracks 20 bass Steve Vargas
tracks 3, 5, 6 bass Whitney "Hershey" Freeman
compilation producer Gregg Geller
design Joey Reinleib
tracks 17, 18 drums Ernie Durawa
tracks 3, 5, 6, 9, 19, 20 drums George Rains
tracks 7 drums Jim Jenkins
tracks 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 14 to 16, 21, 21 drums Johnny Perez
tracks 11 to 13 drums Kenny Buttrey
tracks 1, 2, 4, 8 engineer Dan Healy
tracks 14 to 16 engineer Doyle E. Jones
tracks 1, 2, 4, 8, 10 engineer George Horn
tracks 1, 2, 4, 8, 14 to 16 engineer Greg Venable
tracks 3, 5, 6 engineer Jay Snyder
tracks 19 engineer Jimmy Douglass
tracks 20 engineer Ken Hopkins
tracks 7, 9 engineer Mark Harman
executive-producer Bill Levenson
tracks 21, 22 executive-producer Neil Bogart
tracks 11 to 13 fiddle Buddy Spicher
tracks 1 to 6, 8, 10, 19 fiddle Doug Sahm
tracks 19 fiddle Kenny Kosek
tracks 11 to 13 fiddle Tommy Jackson
tracks 7 guitar Byron Farlow
tracks 11 to 13 guitar Chip Young
tracks 1 to 10, 14 to 22 guitar Doug Sahm
tracks 7 guitar Hewlett Crist
tracks 21, 22 guitar John Reed
tracks 11 to 13 guitar Ray Edenton
tracks 14 to 16 harmony vocals Atwood Allen
tracks 3, 5, 6, 9 horns Bill Atwood
tracks 1 to 6, 8 to 10 horns Frank Morin
tracks 3, 5, 6, 9 horns Martin Fierro
tracks 3, 5, 6, 9 horns Mel Martin
tracks 3, 5, 6 horns Terry Henry
tracks 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 14 to 18 keyboards Augie Meyers
tracks 20 keyboards Barry Goldberg
tracks 21, 22 keyboards Link Davis, Jr.
liner notes Gene Santoro
mastered by Dennis Drake
tracks 2, 21 mixed by Rick Rowe
tracks 10 mixed by [mixing engineer] Bert Frilot
tracks 21, 22 organ Doug Sahm
tracks 19 pedal steel guitar Charlie Owens
tracks 11 to 13 pedal steel guitar Pete Drake
tracks 14 to 16 percussion Leonidas Baety
photography by Baron Wolman
tracks 15 piano Doug Sahm
tracks 11 to 13 piano Hargus Robbins
tracks 3, 5 to 7, 9 piano Wayne Talbert
tracks 1, 2, 4, 8 producer Amigos De Musica
tracks 19 producer Arif Mardin
tracks 17 producer Atwood Allen
tracks 3, 5, 6, 17 to 19, 21, 22 producer Doug Sahm
tracks 10 producer Huey P. Meaux
tracks 11 to 13 producer Jerry Kennedy
tracks 19 producer Jerry Wexler
tracks 14 to 16, 20 producer [vocals] Doug Sahm
tracks 14 to 16 producer [vocals] [with help from] Doyle E. Jones
tracks 14 to 16 producer [vocals] [with help from] Huey P. Meaux
tracks 14 to 16 tenor saxophone Rocky Morales
tracks 19 vocals Bob Dylan
tracks 1 to 10, 14, 22 vocals Doug Sahm
tracks 11 to 13 vocals Wayne Douglas
Phonographic Copyright (p) PolyGram Records, Inc.
Copyright (c) PolyGram Records, Inc.
Produced For Amigos De Musica
Manufactured By PolyGram Records, Inc.
Marketed By PolyGram Records, Inc.
Recorded At Columbia Studios
Recorded At Amigo Studios
Recorded At Mercury Sound Studios West
Recorded At Amigos De Musica
Recorded At Monument Recording Studio
Recorded At Doyle Jones' Studio
Recorded At Devonshire Studios
Recorded At Atlantic Studios
Recorded At Wally Heider Studios
Mixed At Baby Monster Studios
Mastered At PolyGram Studios
Glass Mastered At PDO, USA
Recorded in San Francisco, California, March - June 1968 (tracks 3, 5, 6).
Recorded at Columbia Recording, San Francisco and Amigo Recording, N. Hollywood, California, 1969 (tracks 1, 2, 4, 8).
Recorded at Mercury Sound Studio West, San Francisco, California, 1970 (tracks 10).
Recorded at Amigos De Musica, Los Angeles and Mercury Sound Studio West, San Francisco, California, 1970 (track 7, 9).
Recorded at Monument Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, 1970 (tracks 11 to 13).
Recorded at Doyle Jones Studios, Houston, Texas and Devonshire Sound, N. Hollywood, California, 1971 (tracks 14 to 16).
Recorded at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York, 1973 (track 19).
Recorded at Wally Heider Recording Studios, San Francisco, California, 1973 (track 20).
Recorded in Hollywood, California, 1975 (tracks 21, 22).
A&R - Amigos De Musica (tracks, 7, 9)

Mixed at Baby Monster, New York, 1989 (track 2, 21)
℗ © 1990 PolyGram Records, Inc.
Manufactured and marketed By PolyGram Records, Inc., New York, New York.
Mastered at PolyGram Studios.
Made in U.S.A.

European release LINK The Best Of Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet 1968-1975 has a different SPARS Code.
American repress The Best Of Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet 1968-1975 has a Mastering SID Code and a Mould SID Code and does not include the number 0704 on the lower right corner of the back cover and of the last page of the booklet, as on on this version

Previously unreleased - tracks 2, 4 (Alternate Mix), 11, 21
From the album [m396845] Smash SRS 67115 - tracks 2, 4, 8
From the album [m868524] Smash SRS 67108 - tracks 3, 5, 6
From the album [m362780] Philips PHS 600-244 - tracks 7, 9, 13.
From the album [m628321] Smash SRS 67130 - track 10
From the single Be Real / I Don't Want To Go Home Mercury 73098 - track 12
From the album [m479874] Philips PHS 600-353 - tracks 14 to 16
From the single [m1501214] Mercury 73257 - track 17, 18 (track 17 from the Columbia Pictures release 'Cisco Pike'.)
From the album [m152060] Atlantic SD 7254 - track 19
From the album [m457196] Atlantic SD 7287 - track 20
From the single [m517399] Casablanca 0828 - track 22.

12 page front booklet.
Barcode: 0 422-846586-2 1
SPARS Code: AAD
Matrix / Runout: 846 586-2 01@ F MADE IN USA BY PDO (Variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: 846 586-2 02@ T (Variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: 846 586-2 01@ K MADE IN USA (Variant 3)
Other: 0704 (Bottom right -back cover and last page of booklet)



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