Thursday music corner: California funk-soul group Tower of Power were formed in Oakland in 1968 and released nine albums that reached the US pop charts throughout the 1970s. Their self-titled third album was their highest-charting, reaching number 15 on the US album charts and being certified gold. The band released 18 singles in the 1970s, with three reaching the top 40 of the US singles charts: You're Still A Young Man (1972), So Very Hard To Go (1973) and Don't Change Horses (In the Middle of a Stream) (1974).
The impossibly punchy funk of It's Not The Crime appeared on Tower of Power's Urban Renewal album, the first of two album releases on Warner in 1975. Lead vocals are by band founder Emilio Castillo, who co-wrote the track.
Tower of Power - It's Not The Crime (1975)
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