Tracklist
| A1 | Down In The Bottom | 2:05 |
| A2 | No Place To Go | 2:31 |
| A3 | Sitting On Top Of The World | 2:30 |
| A4 | Smokestack Lightnin' | 2:23 |
| A5 | The Red Rooster | 2:22 |
| A6 | Spoonful | 2:42 |
| A7 | Evil | 3:01 |
| B1 | Killing Floor | 2:48 |
| B2 | Do The Do | 2:20 |
| B3 | I Ain't Superstitious | 2:48 |
| B4 | Who's Been Talkin' | 2:18 |
| B5 | Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy | 2:59 |
| B6 | Back Door Man | 2:45 |
| B7 | Wang Dang Doodle | 2:18 |
Companies, etc.
- Manufactured By – MCA Distributing Corporation
- Distributed By – MCA Distributing Corporation
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – Chess Records
- Copyright (c) – Sugar Hill Records Ltd.
- Copyright (c) – Chess Records
- Published By – Arc Music
- Remastered At – Sterling Sound
- Pressed By – MCA Pressing Plant, Pinckneyville
- Copyright (c) – MCA Records, Inc.
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – MCA Records, Inc.
Credits
- Baritone Saxophone – Donald Hankins (tracks: B5)
- Bass – Buddy Guy (tracks: B5), Willie Dixon (tracks: A1, A2, A5 to B4, B6, B7)
- Design [Album] – Mike Metz
- Drums – Clifton James (tracks: B1), Earl Phillips (tracks: A2, A3, A4, A7, B4), Fred Below (tracks: A6, B6, B7), Junior Blackman (tracks: B2), Sam Lay (tracks: A1, A5, B3, B5)
- Engineer [Reissue] – Eric Thorngren
- Guitar – Hubert Sumlin (tracks: A1 to B3, B5 to B7), Jimmy Rogers (tracks: A1, B3), Jody Williams (tracks: A3, A7), Lee Cooper (tracks: A2), Otis "Smokey" Smothers (tracks: B4), Willie Johnson (tracks: B4)
- Liner Notes – Peter Guralnick
- Mastered By – Jack Skinner
- Photography By – Ray Flerlage
- Piano – Henry Gray (tracks: B3), Hosea Lee Kennard (tracks: A3, A4), Lafayette Leake (tracks: B5), Johnny Jones* (tracks: A1, A5, B2), Otis Spann (tracks: A2, A6, A7, B6, B7)
- Producer [Original Recordings] – Leonard Chess, Phil Chess
- Tenor Saxophone – Adolph "Billy" Docking* (tracks: B4), J.T. Brown (tracks: B2, B5)
- Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica – Howlin' Wolf
- Written-By – Chester Burnett (tracks: A2 to A4, B1, B4), Willie Dixon (tracks: A1, A5 to A7, B2, B3, B5 to B7)
Notes
Label variation: All other releases currently in database have artist name on top of album title. This release has album title on top of artist name.Pressing plant variation. ⧈-P-⧈ symbol in runouts = Pickneyville.
© 1984 Sugar Hill Records, Ltd. (on cover).
©℗ 1983 MCA Records, Inc. (on labels).
Back cover: "
These recordings previously appeared on Chess Lp's 2 ACMB-201, CH-418.
Chess Records, A Division of Sugar Hill Records, Ltd., 96 West St. Englewood, NJ 07631, Manufactured & Distributed by M C A Dist. Corp., Universal City, CA 91608 in the U.S.A., Jacket Made in Canada"
Label: "A Division of Sugar Hill Record, Ltd., 96 West St. Englewood, New Jersey, 07631
MFG. & DIST. BY MCA DIST. CORP. UNIVERSAL CITY CALIF. 91608
© 1984 Sugar Hill Records, Ltd."
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 0 76732-9107-1
- Barcode (Scanned): 07673291071
- Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): CH-8205A (TR) CR 1184 ⧈-P-⧈ I
- Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): CH-8205B (TR) CR 1184 ⧈-P-⧈ I
- Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): (CH-8205-A)
- Matrix / Runout (Side B Label): (CH-8205-B)
Other versions
| Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH-8205 | Howlin' Wolf | His Greatest Sides, Volume One (LP, Comp) | Chess | CH-8205 | US | 1983 |
| CHC-9107 | Howlin' Wolf | His Greatest Sides Vol. 1 (Cass, Comp) | Chess | CHC-9107 | US | 1984 |
| CH-9107 | Howlin' Wolf | His Greatest Sides, Volume One (LP, Comp) | Chess | CH-9107 | US | 1984 |
| GCH 8009 | Howlin' Wolf | His Greatest Sides, Volume One (LP, Comp, RE) | Chess, Green Line Records | GCH 8009 | Italy | 1985 |
| 2222302 | Howlin' Wolf | His Greatest Sides, Volume One (LP, Comp) | PGP RTB | 2222302 | Yugoslavia | 1984 |
