Track listing
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Personnel
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- Ry Cooder - guitars, vocals, mandolin, bass guitar
- Van Dyke Parks - piano
- Chris Ethridge (contribution not specified in sleeve notes) - bass guitar
- Richie Hayward (contribution not specified in sleeve notes) - drums
- Roy Estrada (contribution not specified in sleeve notes) - bass guitar
- Milt Holland (contribution not specified in sleeve notes) - drums, percussion
- John Barbata (contribution not specified in sleeve notes) - drums
- Max Bennett (contribution not specified in sleeve notes) - bass guitar
- Bobby Bruce (contribution not specified in sleeve notes) - violin
- Gloria Jones & Co. - backing vocals
- Kirby Johnson - orchestration and conductor on "One Meat Ball", "Do Re Mi", "Old Kentucky Home" and "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?"
Production
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- Van Dyke Parks - producer, arrangement on "One Meat Ball"
- Lenny Waronker - producer
- Judy Betz - production assistant
- Lee Herschberg - engineer, mix-down
- Doug Botnick - engineer
- Thaddeus James Lowe - engineer
- Rudy Hill - engineer
- Bob Kovach - engineer
Other credits
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- Airstream - for the 1937 trailer pictured on the front of the album sleeve
- Frank Bez - for the photo of the Airstream trailer (photographed at dry lake El Mirage)
- Susan Titelman - for the photo of Cooder on the back of the album sleeve
- Ed Thrasher - for art direction
- John Uomoto - for the title neon lettering
References
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Pop albums
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