The Best of John Denver

Compilation by John Denver

Released 1972

Bill Danoff
background vocals [1, 4], guitar [1]
Dick Kniss
arranger [7, 9, 11], double bass
Eric Weissberg
banjo [1], pedal steel guitar [1], steel guitar [11]
Frank Owens
piano [1-3, 9], strings [9]
Gary Chester
membranophone [1], percussion [9, 11]
Herb Lovelle
drums (drum set) [5], membranophone [2-3, 6-7, 10]
Jean Kaplow
assistant [1]
John Denver
12 string guitar [2-10], acoustic guitar [1-3, 5-7, 9-11], arranger [7, 9, 11], guitar [8], lead vocals [1, 5, 7-9, 11], vocal [1-4, 6-7, 9-10]
Kris O'Connor
assistant [2, 5-7, 10]
Lee Holdridge
orchestrator [7], strings [2-3, 10]
Lennie Niehaus
orchestrator [8]
Martine Habib
background vocals [2, 9]
Michael Taylor
arranger [7, 9, 11], guitar [1, 4, 8-9, 11]
Milt Okun
conductor [3, 7-8, 10], producer
Paul Prestopino
guitar [10], harmonica [3]
Ray Hall
recording
Starland Vocal Band
background vocals [1]
Steve Weisberg
guitar [3, 6-7, 10], pedal steel guitar [5]
Taffy Nivert
background vocals [1, 4]