In the Slot

Studio album by Tower of Power

Released

September 1975

Genre

Funk, soul, R&B

Length

38:20

Label

Warner Bros.

Producer

Emilio Castillo and Tower of Power

Tower of Power chronology

Urban Renewal
(1975)

In the Slot
(1975)

Live And In Living Color
(1976)

In the Slot is a Tower of Power album released in 1975. It was their last studio album for Warner Bros. Records. It also marked the debut of new vocalist Hubert Tubbs. David Garibaldi returns to the drummer's throne after being absent from the previous album Urban Renewal (save for one track), although the drummer from that album, David Bartlett, does appear as a background vocalist on this album, as does Garibaldi's next successor, Ron Beck. "Ebony Jam" and "Drop It in the Slot" were sampled on the Beastie Boys' 1989 album Paul's Boutique.

Track listing

LP side one

"Just Enough and Too Much" - 3:25 - (Emilio Castillo, Stephen Kupka, Frank Biner)
"Treat Me Like Your Man" - 3:08 - (Lenny Williams, Emilio Castillo, Stephen "Doc" Kupka)
"If I Play My Cards Right" - 3:12 - (Frank Biner, Stephen "Doc" Kupka, Emilio Castillo)
"As Surely as I Stand Here" - 5:15 - (Stephen "Doc" Kupka, Chester Thompson, Emilio Castillo)
"Fanfare-Matanuska" - 0:16 - (Greg Adams)
"On the Serious Side" - 2:51 - (Emilio Castillo, Stephen "Doc" Kupka)

LP side two

"Ebony Jam" - 6:44 - (Chester Thompson)
"You're So Wonderful, So Marvelous" - 3:51 - (Frank Biner, Stephen "Doc" Kupka, Emilio Castillo)
"Vuela Por Noche" - 1:34 - (David Garibaldi, Bruce Conte, Greg Adams, Francis Rocco Prestia)
"Essence of Innocence" - 0:36 - (Chester Thompson)
"The Soul of a Child" - 4:58 - (Stephen "Doc" Kupka, Bruce Conte, Emilio Castillo)
"Drop It in the Slot" - 3:13 - (Emilio Castillo, Stephen "Doc" Kupka)

Personnel

Hubert Tubbs - lead vocals
Bruce Conte - guitar, background vocals
Chester Thompson - organ, bass pedals, acoustic piano, clavinet, ARP String Ensemble, background vocals
Francis Rocco Prestia - bass guitar
David Garibaldi - drums
Lenny Pickett - 1st tenor sax, alto sax, soprano sax, all sax solos, piccolo, clarinet, contrabass clarinet, lyricon
Emilio Castillo - 2nd tenor sax, background vocals, (co-lead on "You're So Wonderful, So Marvelous")
Steve Kupka - baritone sax
Mic Gillette - trumpet, trombone, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet, bass trombone, background vocals
Greg Adams - trumpet (solo on "Vuela Por Noche"), flugelhorn (solo on "Ebony Jam"), string arrangements and conductor
Additional background vocals: Bootche Anderson, Marilyn Scott, Pepper Watkins, David Bartlett, Ron Beck, Frank Biner and Roger Rifkind

Production

Recorded and Mixed at Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, USA
Engineers: Tom Flye and Alan Chinowsky
Assistant Engineer: Cris Morris
Album Design and Photography: Bruce Steinberg
Design Assistant: Ellie Oberzil
Pinball Consultants: B&B Novelty Corp., San Francisco, CA, USA

Sources

http://www.discogs.com/release/575680

Tower of Power

Emilio Castillo Stephen 'Doc' Kupka Rocco Prestia David Garibaldi Roger Smith Lee Thornburg Adolfo Acosta Larry Braggs Tom Politzer Jerry Cortez Lenny Williams Herman Matthews Lenny Pickett Mic Gillette Michael Jeffries Victor Conte Richard Elliot Jesse McGuire Euge Groove Brandon Fields

Studio albums	East Bay Grease (1970) Bump City (1972) Tower of Power (1973) Back to Oakland (1974) Urban Renewal (1975) In the Slot (1975) Ain't Nothin' Stoppin' Us Now (1977) We Came to Play! (1978) Back on the Streets (1979) Power (1987) Monster on a Leash (1991) T.O.P. (1993) Souled Out (1995)

Notable singles	"So Very Hard to Go"

Live albums	Live and in Living Color (1976) Direct (1981) Soul Vaccination: Live (1999)

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