The Very Best of Buddy Holly

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Release credits

• Abby Hoffer
  background vocals [5]
• Abraham “Boomie” Richman
  tenor saxophone [9-10, 15]
• Al Caiola
  guitar [5, 9-10, 15]
• Andrew Ackers
  piano [26]
• Bill Pickering
  background vocals [4, 27]
• Bob Lapham
  background vocals [4, 27]
• Bob Thiele
  producer [5]
• Buddy Holly
  acoustic guitar [22, 26, 32], background vocals [11], guitar [2, 2-5, 7, 11, 14, 17-20, 23, 27, 29-31, 33], lead vocals [2, 4, 11], vocal [3-5, 5, 7, 9-11, 14-15, 17-20, 22-23, 26-27, 29-33]
• Cliff Leeman
  drums (drum set) [9-10, 15]
• David Schwartz
  viola [10, 15]
• Dick Jacobs
  conductor [9-10, 15], producer [9-10, 15]
• Dick Jacobs & His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [9-10, 15]
• Don Guess
  bass [23]
• Donald Amone
  guitar [5, 26]
• Doris Johnson
  harp [9-10, 15]
• Doug Kirkham
  percussion [23]
• Ernest Hayes
  piano [9-10, 15]
• Gary Tollett
  background vocals [2]
• George Tomsco
  guitar [19, 32]
• Grady Martin
  guitar [23]
• Herbert Bourne
  violin [9-10, 15]
• Howard Kay
  viola [10, 15]
• Irving Spice
  violin [9-10, 15]
• Jack Hansen
  producer [26]
• Jerry Allison
  background vocals [11], cymbal [18], drums (drum set) [2-5, 5, 7, 14, 17, 19-20, 27, 29-31], percussion [11, 33]
• Joe B. Mauldin
  bass [3-5, 5, 11, 14, 17-18, 27, 29-31, 33]
• John Pickering
  background vocals [4, 27]
• Julius Held
  violin [9-10, 15]
• June Clark
  background vocals [2]
• Keith McCormack
  guitar [19]
• King Curtis
  tenor saxophone [30]
• Larry Welborn
  bass [7, 19], double bass [2]
• Leo Kruczek
  violin [9-10, 15]
• Leonard Posner
  violin [9-10, 15]
• Maurice Bialkin
  cello [10, 15]
• Maurice Brown
  cello [10, 15]
• Merril Ostrus
  background vocals [5]
• Milton DeLugg
  producer [5]
• Niki Sullivan
  background vocals [2, 11], guitar [2-3, 14, 27]
• Norman Petty
  organ [31], piano [5], producer [2-5, 7, 11, 14-15, 17-19, 22, 24, 27, 29-33], recording [7]
• Owen Bradley
  producer [23]
• Panama Francis
  drums (drum set) [26]
• Paul Winter
  violin [9-10, 15]
• Ramona Tollett
  background vocals [2]
• Ray Free
  violin [9-10, 15]
• Robert Bollinger
  background vocals [5]
• Robert Harter
  background vocals [5]
• Sanford Bloch
  bass [26], bass guitar [9-10, 15]
• Sonny Curtis
  guitar [23]
• Stan Lark
  bass [19, 32]
• Sylvia Shulman
  violin [9-10, 15]
• The Fireballs
  background vocals [22, 24], instrument [22], performer [30]
• The Ray Charles Singers
  background vocals [26]
• Vi Petty
  celesta [11], piano [31, 33]
• William Marine
  background vocals [5]
• Wolfman Jack
  spoken vocals [2]
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Issues

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  The Very Best of Buddy Holly and The Crickets

  CD
  16 August 1999
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  The Very Best of Buddy Holly and The Crickets

  Unknown format
  1999