congas Maurice McKinley
cover, painting Price Givens
design Loring Eutemey
engineer Bob Liftin
engineer Lew Hahn
harmonium, piccolo flute, bass drum, bells, timpani, gong, tenor saxophone, liner notes, saxophone [stritch], saxophone [manzello], clarinet [b flat], clarinet [e flat], flute, flute [black puzzle], pipe [black mystery], percussion [thunder sheet], cymbal [sock], musical box [music box], body percussion [palms] Roland Kirk
lacquer cut by George Piros
mixed by Lew Hahn
tracks a4 piano Sonelius Smith
producer, liner notes Joel Dorn
washboard, triangle, tambourine, percussion [thunder sheet] Joe Texidor
tracks a4 written-by Billy Strayhorn
tracks a4 written-by Duke Ellington
tracks a4 written-by John Latouche
tracks a1 to a3, a5 to b7 written-by Roland Kirk
Manufactured By Atlantic Recording Corporation
Recorded At Regent Sound Studios, New York City
Engineered At Atlantic Studios
Lacquer Cut At Atlantic Studios
Pressed By Presswell
Different labels (printing) to release Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata

Rights Society: BMI
Rights Society: ASCAP
Matrix / Runout: ST-A-712197 PR (Label, side A)
Matrix / Runout: ST-A-712198 PR (Label, side B)
Matrix / Runout: ST-A-712197A AT-GP PR (Runout A, etched)
Matrix / Runout: ST-A-712198A AT-GP PR (Runout B, etched)