Personnel includes: Neil Diamond (vocals); Dolly Parton (vocals); Bob Mann, Dean Parks (guitar); Bill Bergman, Brandon Fields, Greg Smith (saxophone); Oscar Brashear (trumpet); Dennis Farias, Wayne Bergeron, Nicholas Lane, Don Markese (horns); Bill Payne (piano); Jim Cox (Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond B3 organ, bass); Robbie Buchanan (piano, keyboards); Larry Klein, Bob Glaub (bass); Carlos Vega, Russell Kunkel (drums); M.B. Gordy (tympani, vibraphone); Mike Fisher (percussion); Mary's Danish.

Recorded at Conway Studios and Arch Angel Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California and AIR Studios, Lyndhurst Hall, London, England. Includes liner notes by Neil Diamond.

UP ON THE ROOF: SONGS FROM THE BRILL BUILDING contains music written by songwriters who worked in the Brill Building located in the heart of New York's music industry center Tin Pan Alley. Getting his start in The Brill building himself, Neil Diamond pays to tribute to other Brill Building artists including Carole King, Ellie Greenwich, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Neil Sedaka Otis Blackwell, Phil Spector, Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager.