Compact disc. Popular vocal and instrumental music of Cuba. Program notes by Nick Gold and Nigel Williamson, and song lyric transcriptions by Juan de Marcos González and Maria Rodríguez with English translations by Jenny Adlington and Francesca Clarke, in booklet inserted in container. Recorded at Egrem Studios, Havana, Cuba, March, 1996 and Ocean Way Studios, Los Angeles. Produced by Ry Cooder. Buena Vista Social Club: Compay Segundo (vocals, guitar, congas) ; Eliades Ochoa (vocals, guitar) ; Ibrahim Ferrer (vocals, bongos, clave) ; Ry Cooder (acoustic & electric slide guitar, guitar, oud, bolon, mbira, percussion) ; Rubén González (piano) ; Omara Portuondo (vocals) ; Juan de Marcos González (conductor, guiro, background vocals) ; Julio Alberto Fernández (vocals, maracas) ; Manuel "Puntillita" Licea (vocals, congas) ; Benito Suárez Magana (guitar) ; Barbarito Torres (laoud) ; Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal (trumpet) ; Orlando "Cachaíto" López, Salvador Repilado Labrada (bass) ; Joachim Cooder (drums, udu drum, dumbeck, conga) ; Alberto "Virgilio" Valdés (maracas, background vocals), Luis Barzaga (vocals) ; Carlos González, bongos, cowbell) ; Julienne Oviedo Sánchez (timbales) ; Lázaro Villa (güiro, conga). Sung in Spanish.