Singer: Tower Of Power
Title: Bump City
Label: Warner Bros. Records ‎– WB 46 167, Warner Bros. Records ‎– BS 2616
Type: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Germany
Date of released: 1972
Category: Jazz, Funk / Soul
Style: Jazz-Funk, Funk
Size MP3 zip: 1343 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1877 mb
Rating: 4.8✭
Format: MP3 MPC AIFF VOC TTA ADX MP4 APE FLAC

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1	You Got To Funkifize Written-By – E. Castillo*, S. Kupka*	4:31
A2	What Happened To The World That Day? Written-By – E. Castillo*, S. Kupka*	4:12
A3	Flash In The Pan Written-By – E. Castillo*, S. Kupka*	3:35
A4	Gone (In Memory Of Jacqueline Mesquite) Written-By – G. Adams*, S. Mesquite*	3:42
A5	You Strike My Main Nerve Written-By – L. Gordon*, E. Castillo*, L. Williams*, S. Kupka*	2:53
B1	Down To The Nightclub Written-By – D. Garibaldi*, E. Castillo*, S. Kupka*	2:43
B2	You're Still A Young Man Written-By – E. Castillo*, S. Kupka*	5:36
B3	Skating On Thin Ice Written-By – E. Castillo*, S. Kupka*	3:39
B4	Of The Earth Written-By – E. Castillo*, S. Kupka*	4:33

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – TMI Sound Studios
• Record Company – Kinney Music GmbH

Credits

• Arranged By [Strings], Conductor [Strings] – Greg Adams (tracks: A2, B2, B4)
• Baritone Saxophone, Vocals – Stephen Kupka
• Bass – Francis Rocco Prestia
• Congas, Vocals – Brent Byars
• Drums – David Garibaldi
• Engineer [Re-mix], Other [Special Thanks, Assistance] – Steve Cropper
• Guitar, Vocals – Willie James Fulton
• Illustration [Album], Photography By, Design – Bruce Steinberg
• Lead Vocals – Rick Stevens, Skip Mesquite (tracks: A4)
• Piano, Organ – Jay Spell (tracks: A2, B2, B4)
• Producer – Tower Of Power
• Producer, Engineer [Recording, Re-mix] – Ron Capone
• Soloist, Flugelhorn, Piano – Greg Adams (tracks: A4)
• Strings – Memphis Strings* (tracks: A2, B2, B4)
• Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Vocals – Skip Mesquite
• Tenor Saxophone, Vocals – Emilio Castillo
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn, French Horn, Vocals – Greg Adams
• Trumpet, Trombone, French Horn, Vocals – Mic Gillette

Notes

Produced for Trans Maximus
Kuptillo Music, ASCAP [A1 to A3, A5 to B4]
Fatback Music, ASCAP [A4]
Recorded at TMI Sound Studios in Memphis, Tennessee
Thanks to Doug “Kim” Sohn, David Crockett and Jerry Perkins.
Special thanks to Steve Cropper for his kind and valuable assistance.
Warner Bros. Records Inc., a Subsidiary & Licensee of Warner Bros. Inc.
℗1972—Warner Bros. Records Inc.
A Product of Kinney Music GmbH · Made in Germany

℗ 1972
A Warner Bros. Inc. U.S.A. recording · Kinney Music GmbH., Hamburg · Made in Germany by TELDEC, licensee, trade mark ®

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Track title A1 misspelt on center labels as “You Got To Funkefize”.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (A): 40 162
• Matrix / Runout (B): 40 163
• Rights Society: GEMA

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
BS 2616	Tower Of Power	Bump City ‎(LP, Album)	Warner Bros. Records	BS 2616	US	1972
2-2616, 2616-2	Tower Of Power	Bump City ‎(CD, Album, Club, RM)	Warner Archives, Warner Bros. Records	2-2616, 2616-2	US	1993
BS 2616	Tower Of Power	Bump City ‎(LP, Album)	Warner Bros. Records	BS 2616	Canada	1972
BS 2616	Tower Of Power	Bump City ‎(LP, Album)	Warner Bros. Records	BS 2616	Australia	1972
WBS-2616	Tower Of Power	Bump City ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, RE, 180)	Warner Bros. Records, Rhino Records	WBS-2616	US	Unknown

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