Label : Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
SIDE ONE (52 mn)01 - Stroke (Emilio Castillo & Stephen 'Doc' Kupka)
02 - Ain't Nothing Stopping Us Now (Emilio Castillo, Stephen 'Doc' Kupka & David Bartlett)
03 - You Ought To Be Having Fun (Emilio Castillo, Stephen 'Doc' Kupka & Hubert Tubbs)
04 - Soul With A Capital S (Emilio Castillo & Stephen 'Doc' Kupka)
05 - Stop (Jerry Cortez & Emilio Castillo)
06 - You're So Wonderful, So Marvelous (Stephen 'Doc' Kupka, Frank Biner & Emilio Castillo)
07 - On The Serious Side (Emilio Castillo & Stephen 'Doc' Kupka)
08 - Just When We Start Makin' It (Emilio Castillo, Stephen 'Doc' Kupka & Lenny Williams)
09 - Soul Vaccination (Stephen 'Doc' Kupka & Emilio Castillo)
10 - What Is Hip? / Soul Power (Stephen 'Doc' Kupka, Emilio Castillo & David Garibaldi)
Bonus Songs
11 - Can't You See (You Doin' Me Wrong)? (Emilio Castillo, Stephen 'Doc' Kupka & Lenny Williams)
12 - Maybe It'll Rub Off (Stephen 'Doc' Kupka, Emilio Castillo & Chester Thompson)
SIDE TWO (65 mn)
01 - Do You Like That? (Emilio Castillo & Mark Dolin)
02 - Drop It In The Slot (Emilio Castillo & Stephen 'Doc' Kupka)
03 - Don't Change Horses (Lenny Williams & Johnny Watson)
04 - Squib Cakes (Chester Thompson)
05 - On The Soul Side Of Town (Emilio Castillo & Leo Sacks)
06 - Diggin' On James Brown (Medley): Diggin' On James Brown / It's A New Day / Mother Popcorn / There It Is / I Got The Feelin' / Diggin' On James Brown Reprise (Stephen 'Doc' Kupka, Emilio Castillo & Ken Kessie) / (James Brown) / (James Brown) / (James Brown) / (James Brown) / (Stephen 'Doc' Kupka, Emilio Castillo & Ken Kessie)
07 - So Very Hard To Go (Emilio Castillo & Stephen 'Doc' Kupka)
08 - Knock Yourself Out (Stephen 'Doc' Kupka & Emilio Castillo)
09 - You're Still A Young Man (Emilio Castillo & Stephen 'Doc' Kupka)
Bonus Features (16 mn)
Rehearsal / Interview
ToP Alumni / Back to Oakland
Expanded Horns & Strings
The Fans
ToP Day in Oakland, CA
Total running time - 146 mn
A Chime Interactive Production / Produced by Jon R. Luini / Directed by Arthur Rosato
Executive Producer for Tower Of Power's 50th Anniversary : Tom Consolo
Music Producers : Joe Vannelli & Emilio Castillo
Tower Of Power :
Emilio Castillo : Bandleader, 2nd Tenor Sax, Background vocals ; Lead vocals on "Diggin' On James Brown", Partial Lead vocal on "You're So Wonderful, So Marvelous" & "Maybe It'll Rub Off"
Stephen 'Doc' Kupka : Baritone Sax
Francis 'Rocco' Prestia : Bass on "Can't You See (You Doin' Me Wrong)?", "Maybe It'll Rub Off", "Knock Yourself Out" & "You're Still A Young Man"
David Garibaldi : Drums
Roger Smith : Keyboards, Background vocals
Tom Politzer : 1st Tenor Sax, Background vocals
Adolfo Cortez : Guitar, Background vocals
Sal Cracchiolo : Lead Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Background vocals
Marcus Scott : Lead vocals on All Tracks except "Can't You See (You Doin' Me Wrong)?", "Maybe It'll Rub Off", "Knock Yourself Out" & "You're Still A Young Man"
Marc van Wageningen : Bass on All Tracks except "Can't You See (You Doin' Me Wrong)?", "Maybe It'll Rub Off", "Knock Yourself Out" & "You're Still A Young Man"
Tower Of Power Alumni :
Chester Thompson : Hammond B3, Clavinet
Lenny Pickett : Tenor Sax
Bruce Conte : Guitar on "What Is Hip? / Soul Power" & "Squib Cakes"
Ray Greene : Trombone
Additional Musicians :
Dave Eskridge : Horn & String Arranger, Additional Keyboards
Melanie Jackson : Background vocals
Tony Lindsay : Background vocals
Chime Interactive Video Production
Produced by Jon Luini - Chime Interactive
Directed by Arthur Rosato
Edited by Jon Luini & Arthur Rosato
Lighting & Design Director : Jeff Ravitz, Intensity Advisors
Lighting Engineer : Dee Stone
Production Lead : Jon Fox
Line/Tech Producer : Doug Farris
Tech Manager : Cesar Salazar
Tech Manager Assistant : Cody Fansler
Camera Operators : Amy Pangilinan, Chris Sentovich, Jim Granato, Ron Ciro, Stephen Berke, William Harper
Jib Operator : Joe Wolohan
Railcam Operators : Brent Murray, Ryan McNurney
Color Grading House : Ghost Hand Productions
Colorist : Michael Wiser
Media Management : Craig McGillivray
Production Assistants : Rocky Mullin, Olive Fox
Still Photography : Elissa Rosato
Additional Bonus Feature Editing by ZZ Satriani
Additional Interview & B-roll Footage
Director : Brad Magon - Murph 6 Productions
Camera Operators : Robert Phillips & Marcus Glasgow
Opening crane drone footage by Eddie Codel
Orchestrations & Adaptations by Dave Eskridge
Original Arrangements :
Horns & Strings Arranged by Greg Adams, except :
"Squib Cakes" & "Maybe It'll Rub Off" Horns Arranged by Chester Thompson
James Brown Medley: "Diggin' On James Brown" Horn Arranged by David Mann & Barry Danielian
"There It Is" & "I Got The Feelin'" Horns Arranged by Adolfo Acosta
"It's A New Day" & "Mother Popcorn" Horns Arranged by Mike Bogart
"Souled Out" Horns Arranged by David Mann & Barry Danielian
"You Ought To Be Having Fun", "You're So Wonderful So Marvelous", "On The Soul Side Of Town", "Do You Like That?" Strings Arranged by Dave Eskridge
"Stop", "On The Soul Side Of Town" & "Do You Like That?" Horns Arranged by Dave Eskridge
The Fow Theather / Another Planet Entertainment
Gregg Perloff, Sherry Wasserman
Tony Leong, Fox Theater Production Manager
Recorded at The Fox Theater - Oakland, CA - June 1 & 2, 2018
Recorded by Mark Hornsby, Jimmy Blankenship & Nathan Heironimus from Sweetwater Studios, Fort Wayne, IN
Recording Supervised & Mixed by Joe Vannelli
Mixed at Blue Moon Studio, Agoura Hills, CA
Mixing Supervised & Assisted by Emilio Castillo
Set Up at Blue Moon Studio, Assisted Joe Primeau
DVD Audio Mastered by Joe Vannelli at Blue Moon Digital
DVD Authoring by Rich Winter at Blackbird Digital Studios
Party Assembly for DDP & Adm by Harold LaRue Mastering
CD Mastered by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, CA
Executive Producers for Mack Avenue Music Group : Gretchen Valade & Denny Stilwell
Senior Director of A&R : Will Wakefield
VP, Creative Services + Production : Maria Ehrenreich
Product Manager : Matthew Jurasek