I just picked up a remastered CD version of Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding, one of Dylan's many permutations of himself, and one where his singing is more emotional than some of his other work. I'm happy to acquire this CD, and I'm thinking, "Remastered? Didn't Greg Calbi do these remasters at Sterling Sound?" So I go to look for the credits — and despite the fact that there's a big yellow sticker permanently affixed to my CD case with the excited yet, vague sentence "Spectacularly remastered from original source tapes", there's no mention of who remastered this CD anywhere on the packaging. There are two credits for Bob Johnston's production, as there should be, and credit for Dylan writing the songs, the players and the engineer, Charlie Bragg — but nowhere are there credits for who did the remastering, let alone who tracked down the "original source tapes" or who oversaw the process of remastering Dylan's back catalog.
I was visiting an old friend and former band member last year. Right as I was about to drive off she said, "Hey, there's a record you really should check out. Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins." I replied, "Uh, I engineered some of that album and even played bass on a song!" Then she told me, "Oh, I've got a copy someone burned for me."
I buy a few tunes from iTunes every once in a while. Sometimes you buy a track and ask yourself the same question, "Who recorded this?" Good luck finding out. Or the time I wanted to know who did string arrangements for Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman". The name Al De Lory took a while to dig up on Google.