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| We Came to Play! | ||||
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| Released | 1978 | |||
| Studio | Cherokee Studios (Hollywood, California) | |||
| Genre | Soul, funk | |||
| Length | 38:40 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Steve Cropper | |||
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We Came to Play! is an album by the American band Tower of Power, released in 1978.[1][2] It marked the debut of singer Michael Jeffries, who would stay with T.O.P. through the mid-1980s. Steve Cropper produced the album.[3] It peaked at No. 89 on the Billboard 200.[4]
We Came to Play! features Victor Conte, the future founder of the controversial BALCO, on bass, and who is also the cousin of band guitarist Bruce Conte. Drummer Ron Beck takes a lead vocal spot on "Love Bug", which features founding T.O.P. drummer David Garibaldi on second drums. Garibaldi would return to the band on the next album, but neither Conte, Bruce or Victor, would after this album.
- ^ "Tower of Power Biography by Greg Prato". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
- ^ Scott, Marilyn (Feb 18, 1978). "Talent in Action". Billboard. Vol. 90, no. 7. p. 39.
- ^ Thompson, Dave (2001). Funk. Backbeat Books. p. 186.
- ^ "Tower of Power". Billboard. Retrieved 10 March 2024.