Media Condition:  Very Good (VG)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Country:    US  
Released:  1981
Genre:       Rock
Style:         Hard Rock, Blues Rock, Pop Rock

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Comments:
Marks on vinyl, clean labels. light edge and age wear on sleeve.
 

Notes:

$uper $tars At $uper $avings specially priced reissue in non-gatefold jacket with barcode, issued on 1980-era MCA rainbow labels, with original MCA catalog number "MCA 37052" on jacket (back, spine), new MCA catalog number MCA-1601 on labels (and in gold stamp on cover).

Similar issues:
- [r=7523244 with old catalog number on labels and jacket.
- [r=6176902 with new catalog number and series.
- [r=6359600 with new catalog number and different barcode.

"◈-P-◈" etched in runouts denotes MCA Pressing Plant, Pinckneyville, pressing. Stamped Gloversville symbol ("⧈-G-⧈") is scratched out.

Jacket back, labels:
℗ 1972/1973/1974/1978 MCA Records, Inc. 

Jacket back:
© 1978 MCA Records, Inc.

Label rimtext:
©1980 MCA Records, Inc. Mfd. by MCA Records, Inc.

Series hype is printed on jacket front, with ©1981 MCA Records, Inc.

Title on labels: "Best of Joe Walsh"

Recorded at:
Record Plant, New York (A1, B3)
Record Plant, Los Angeles (A2, A3, B1, B5)
Criteria Recording Studios (A4)
Record Plant, Sausalito (B2)
Joe Walsh's House (B4)

Overdubs:
Record Plant, Los Angeles (A1, A3, B2, B3, B4)
Caribou Ranch (A2, A4, B1)
Cleveland Recording (B5)

Remixed at Bayshore Recording Studios (A1, A3, B2) and Record Plant, Los Angeles (B5)

Mixed at:
Caribou Ranch (A2, A4, B1)
Record Plant, Los Angeles (B3, B4)

Track copyrights:
A1, A3, B3: ℗ 1978 ABC Records, Inc.
A2: ℗ 1972 ABC Records, Inc.
A4, B1: ℗ 1973 ABC Records, Inc.
B4: ℗ 1974 ABC Records, Inc.

A1. Joe Walsh - Turn To Stone 3:59
A2. Barnstorm, Joe Walsh - Mother Says 5:41
A3. Joe Walsh - Help Me Through The Night 3:51
A4. Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way 5:15
B1. Joe Walsh - Meadows 4:43
B2. Joe Walsh - County Fair 6:49
B3. James Gang - Funk #49 3:52
B4. Joe Walsh - Time Out 4:18
B5. James Gang - Walk Away 3:48

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Barcode 0 7674-17052-1
Barcode 0076741705214
Rights Society BMI
Matrix / Runout AA-1083-A
Matrix / Runout AA-1083-B
Matrix / Runout AA-1083-A W1 3 ⧈̶-̶G̶-̶⧈̶ ◈-P-◈
Matrix / Runout AA-1083-B W1 ◈-P-◈11 ⧈̶-̶G̶-̶⧈̶

Phonographic Copyright (p) MCA Records, Inc.
Copyright (c) MCA Records, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) ABC Records, Inc.
Manufactured By MCA Records, Inc.
Recorded At Record Plant, N.Y.C.
Recorded At Record Plant, Los Angeles
Recorded At Criteria Recording Studios
Recorded At Record Plant, Sausalito
Recorded At Joe Walsh's House
Overdubbed At Record Plant, Los Angeles
Overdubbed At Caribou Ranch
Overdubbed At Cleveland Recording Company
Mixed At Record Plant, Los Angeles
Mixed At Caribou Ranch
Remixed At Bayshore Recording Studios
Remixed At Record Plant, Los Angeles
Mastered At MCA Pressing Plant, Gloversville
Pressed By MCA Pressing Plant, Pinckneyville