Up on the Roof: Songs From Brill Building

Performer: Neil Diamond
Artist: Dolly Parton; Mary's Danish
Engineer: Frank Wolf
Producer: Peter Asher
Distributor: Sony Music Entertainment

Notes: 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.

With a career as a hitmaker stretching across the decades, Neil Diamond has purveyed catchy, three-chord pop/rock, progressive singer/songwriter material, middle-of-the-road balladry, and even traditional country. He started out as a Brill Building hitmaker; a songwriter for hire, he worked alongside the likes of Carole King and Gerry Goffin, and penned hits for the Monkees and Jay & the Americans. His solo career took off in the mid 1960s and made him one of America's most successful recording artists and concert attractions for a long time to come. Even decades down the road, younger groups such as UB40 in the '80s, Urge Overkill in the '90s, and Smash Mouth in the 2000's were still scoring hits with Diamond's evergreen compositions.

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