Tower Of Power Drop It In The Slot Album
In the Slot
1975 - 12 Songs
Album 1975 12 Songs. Available with an Apple Music subscription. Drop It In the Slot. More by Tower Of Power. The Very Best of Tower of Power. Tower Of Power – In The Slot Label: Warner Bros. Records – BS 2880 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1975 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul, Funk. Tracklist Slot One A1 Just Enough And Too Much A2 Treat Me Like Your Man A3 If I Play My Cards Right A4 As Surely As I Stand Here A5 Fanfare: Matanuska A6 On The Serious Side Slot Two.
1. Just Enough And Too Much
2. Treat Me Like Your Man
3. If I Play My Cards Right
4. As Surely As I Stand Here
5. Fanfare: Matanuska
6. On The Serious Side
7. Ebony Jam
8. You're So Wonderful, So Marvelous
9. Vuela Por Noche
10. Essence Of Innocence
11. The Soul Of A Child
12. Drop It In The Slot
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Personnel:
Hubert Tubbs: lead vocals
Greg Adams: trumpet (solo in 'Vuela por noche'), fluegelhorn (solo in 'Ebony Jam'), strings arrangement and conduction
Emilio Castillo: 2nd tenor sax, background vocals, (co-lead on 'You're so wonderful, so marvelous')
Bruce Conte: guitar, background vocals
David Garibaldi: drums
Mic Gillette: trumpet, trombone, fluegelhorn, piccolo trumpet, bass trombone, background vocals
Stephen 'Doc' Kupka: baritone sax
Lenny Pickett: 1st tenor sax, alto sax, soprano sax (all sax solos), piccolo flute, clarinet, contra-bass clarinet, lyricon
Francis Rocco Prestia: bass
Chester Thompson: organ, bass pedals, piano, clavinet, ARP ensemble, background vocals
Additional background vocals:
Bootche Anderson, Marylin Scott, Pepper Watkins, David Bartlett,
Ron Beck, Frank Biner and Roger Rifkind
Tower Of Power Drop It In The Slot Album Cover
The renowned horn-driven funk outfit Tower of Power has been issuing albums and touring the world steadily since the early '70s, in addition to backing up countless other musicians. The group's leader since the beginning has always been tenor saxophonist Emilio Castillo, who was born in Detroit, but opted to pursue his musical dreams in Oakland, CA. It was in Oakland that Castillo put together a group called the Motowns, which as its name suggested, specialized in '60s-era soul. Castillo teamed up with a baritone sax player (and Motowns fan) Stephen 'Doc' Kupka, and soon the Motowns had transformed into Tower of Power (one of the first tunes the duo penned together was 'You're Still a Young Man,' which would eventually go on to be one of the TOP's signature compositions). Tower of Power played regularly in the Bay Area throughout the late '60s, as its lineup often swelled up to ten members, including such other mainstays as Greg Adams on trumpet and vocals and Rocco Prestia on bass. By 1970, the funk outfit had inked a recording contract with Bill Graham's San Francisco Records, resulting in the group's debut the same year, East Bay Grease, which failed to make an impression on the charts as TOP was still trying to find their own sound.
But it all came together quickly for the group, as 1972's Bump City would touch off a string of classic hit releases, including 1973's self-titled release (which included another one of the group's most enduring tunes, 'What Is Hip?'), 1974's Back to Oakland, plus 1975's Urban Renewal and In the Slot. While Tower of Power remained a must-see live act, the quality of their subsequent records became erratic, resulting in some admirable releases (Ain't Nothin' Stoppin' Us Now, Live and in Living Color) and several uninspired albums that are best skipped over (We Came to Play, Back on the Streets).
Despite the dip in the quality of their albums, Tower of Power remained a much in-demand backing group for some of pop/rock's biggest names, including Elton John, Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Huey Lewis, Little Feat, David Sanborn, Michelle Shocked, Paula Abdul, Aaron Neville, Aerosmith, Michael Bolton, Billy Preston, PiL, Rod Stewart, Toto, Merl Saunders, and others. Tower of Power remains very active to this day, keeping up a brisk touring schedule and issuing such new albums as 1999's Soul Vaccination: Live; while several compilations were issued around the same time: Rhino's double disc What Is Hip?: The Tower of Power Anthology (1999) and Very Best of Tower of Power: The Warner Years (2001), plus Epic/Legacy's Soul With a Capital 'S': The Best of Tower of Power (2001).
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