The album peaked at #15 on the Billboard Pop Album Chart

Billboard 200

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 in 1973 and received a gold record award for sales in excess of 500,000. The album also spawned their most successful single, "So Very Hard To Go". Although the single peaked at #17 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

, "So Very Hard To Go" landed in the Top 10 on surveys of many West Coast Top 40 radio stations, hitting #1 on most of them. Two other singles from the album also charted on the Billboard Hot 100: "This Time It's Real" and "What Is Hip?". It marked the debut of Lenny Williams

Lenny Williams

Leonard Charles "Lenny" Williams is an American singer known for his work in the R&B and soul music genres. During the 1970s, he was the lead vocalist for Tower of Power...

 being the lead vocalist (though Williams had a solo career prior to joining T.O.P., plus he co-penned the song "You Strike My Main Nerve" from the previous album Bump City

Bump City

Bump City is the second album by the soul/funk group Tower of Power. The album cover is derived from a sketch by David Garibaldi. It's also their first album for Warner Bros. Records...

). Tower of Power also introduced the world to saxophonist and future Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...

 band leader, Lenny Pickett, who was the youngest member of the band at the time.

Track list

All songs written by Emilio Castillo and Stephen "Doc" Kupka except when noted.

1. "What Is Hip?" (Castillo, Kupka, Garibaldi) - 5:08
2. "Clever Girl" (Castillo, Kupka, Fulton) - 2:56
3. "This Time It's Real" (Castillo, Kupka, Bartlett) - 2:54
4. "Will I Ever Find a Love?" – 3:51
5. "Get Yo' Feet Back on the Ground" (Fulton) - 4:52
6. "So Very Hard to Go" – 3:41
7. "Soul Vaccination" – 5:13
8. "Both Sorry Over Nothin" (Castillo, Kupka, Williams) - 3:25
9. "Clean Slate" (Castillo, Kupka, Fulton) - 3:22
10. "Just Another Day" (Conte) - 4:34

Personnel

• Greg Adams  – Strings, Trumpet, Arranger, Conductor, Flugelhorn, Horn, Vocals, String Arrangements
• Brent Byars – Bongos, Conga
• Emilio Castillo  – Saxophone, Sax (Tenor), Vocals, Production Supervisor
• Bruce Conte – Guitar, Vocals
• David Garibaldi
  David Garibaldi
  David Garibaldi may refer to:* David Garibaldi , American musician* David Garibaldi , American performance artist...
  
    – Drums
• Mic Gillette
  Mic Gillette
  Mic Gillette is an American brass player born in 1951 and raised in northern California's East Bay area. He is famous for being a member of Tower of Power, Cold Blood, and The Sons of Champlin....
  
    – Trombone, Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Horn, Horn (Baritone), Vocals
• Stephen "Doc" Kupka  – Oboe, Saxophone, Sax (Baritone), Vocals
• Lenny Pickett  – Clarinet, Flute, Saxophone, Sax (Tenor), Vocals
• Francis "Rocco" Prestia
  Rocco Prestia
  Francis «Rocco» Prestia is an American musician, the bassist of the legendary funk band Tower of Power and one of the most important figures in electric bass' history.- Biography :...
  
    – Bass
• Jay Spell – Piano
• Bruce Steinberg – Harmonica, Art Direction, Design, Photography, Illustrations, Cover Design
• Chester Thompson – Organ, Keyboards, Vocals
• Lenny Williams
  Lenny Williams
  Leonard Charles "Lenny" Williams is an American singer known for his work in the R&B and soul music genres. During the 1970s, he was the lead vocalist for Tower of Power...
  
    – Vocals

Charts

Year	Album	Chart positions
		US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	US R&B Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...
1973	Tower of Power Tower of Power (album) The album peaked at #15 on the Billboard Pop Album Chart in 1973 and received a gold record award for sales in excess of 500,000. The album also spawned their most successful single, "So Very Hard To Go". Although the single peaked at #17 on the Billboard Hot 100, "So Very Hard To Go" landed in...	15	11

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions
		US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	US R&B Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...	US Dance
1973	"So Very Hard to Go"	17	11	—
	"This Time It's Real"	—	65	27
1974	"What Is Hip?"	91	39	—

External links

• Tower Of Power-Tower Of Power at Discogs