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Best Of The Doobies vinyl value

Best Of The Doobies — The Doobie Brothers album cover
Prices for this album are still being collected: our eBay tracker quotes a pressing only after at least three live listings match it. The pressings and identification below are complete.

The Doobie Brothers — Best Of The Doobies: pressings we track

PressingCatalogCountryNotes
1979 Warner Bros.BSK 3112USCompilation, Club Edition, Reissue
1992 Warner Bros.759927335 - 1ItalyCompilation
1998 DCC Compact ClassicsLPZ-2053USCompilation, Limited Edition, Numbered
2013 Rhino8122796236EuropeCompilation, Reissue
2013 Warner Bros.R1-2978USCompilation, Reissue
2020 WarnerRCV1 2978 / 081227906313USCompilation, Limited Edition, Reissue
Undated Warner Bros.WB 56 308EuropeCompilation, Reissue
Undated WarnerR1 2978USCompilation, Reissue

8 pressings tracked · catalog of 974,753 releases, August 2026

What separates the pressings

Oldest we track, 1979First released 1976; our table starts at 1979 (Warner Bros., US). A copy older than 1979 predates everything here. Treat it as the find.
Collector variants1998 US: Compilation, Limited Edition, Numbered; 2020 US: Compilation, Limited Edition, Reissue. Pressed in small numbers, and priced accordingly.
Reissues, 2013+2 pressings. Easy to find, priced as listening copies.

How to identify your copy

Three checks, in the order worth doing them.

  1. 1

    Match the catalog number. It is printed on the spine and the record label. Check it together with the country against the pressings table above: the same number can appear in more than one country.

  2. 2

    Read the runout. The code etched in the dead wax near the label names the exact pressing. On the 1979 US pressing it reads “BSK-1-3112-WW3 SP#4 0-1 -------◁” on side one and “BSK-2-3112 SR-CH1 SRC” on side two. Sleeves migrate between copies over the years; the etching stays with the record.

  3. 3

    Grade the condition. Condition multiplies the price: near mint can bring several times what a VG copy does. Vinyl and sleeve get separate grades; the scale is in our grading guide.

Discs and jackets part ways over the decades: a 1976 sleeve proves nothing about the record inside it. The runout etching and the label decide the pressing; the cover never does.

Questions

Which pressing of Best Of The Doobies is worth the most?

Original 1976 pressings lead; they predate everything in our table, and that scarcity is the point. Among tracked copies, the 1979 pressings come first. Scarcer variants (the 1998 “Compilation, Limited Edition, Numbered” and the 2020 “Compilation, Limited Edition, Reissue”) can beat an ordinary early copy. After that it is all condition: the gap between near mint and VG is usually larger than the gap between pressings.

How do I tell which pressing I have?

Match the catalog number on the spine and label against the table above, check the country, then read the etched code in the runout groove. On the 1979 US pressing the runout reads “BSK-1-3112-WW3 SP#4 0-1 -------◁”. A period jacket with a later disc inside is still a reissue.

How much is Best Of The Doobies worth today?

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