Tower of Power live in Manila!

Romar Fernando

July 31, 2018

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  Photo credit: Vilar Performing Arts Center

  The much-awaited Manila performance of Tower Of Power is finally happening September 7, 2018 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum to be mounted by Ovation Productions. The triple bill event also features Dennis Lambert and Kalapana.

  Tower of Power was signed to Bill Graham’s San Francisco records and their first album was East Bay Grease. All of the compositions were original tunes written by Castillo and Kupka. Their next album, Bump City, led to a string of hits and memorable albums that include many of the songs that TOP fans come out in force to hear, even to this day.

  Over the years, the Tower of Power Horns have recorded with hundreds of artists as diverse as Aerosmith, Elton John, Little Feat, Phish, Santana, Heart, and many others, forever infusing the radio airwaves with Tower’s musical DNA.

  Dennis’ album Bags and Things was very popular in the Philippines in the early 1970s and contained hit songs Of All the Things, Ashes to Ashes, Somebody Found Her Before I Lost Her, and So Little Time. He also either co-wrote and/or produced huge 1970s hits for other singers like for Glen Campbell, Tavares, Player, Sergio Mendes, Brazil ’77 in 1974. In the 1980s, Lambert continued to write and produce alone under his Tuneworks banner. Lambert was the subject of an award-winning feature-length documentary film, which followed him on a cross-country tour of the Philippines promoted by Ovation Productions.

  As for Kalapana, they emerged as one of the most popular bands on the Hawaiian music scene in the 70s, and is much loved by Filipinos for their songs: Nightbird, The Hurt, You Make it Hard, and When the Morning Comes. Ovation Productions took them on a Philippine Tour back to back with the band America in 2012.

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