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Young and Rich
Studio album by The Tubes
Released	April 1976
Studio	A&M (Hollywood)
Genre	Glam rock
Length	38:08
Label	A&M
Producer	Ken Scott
The Tubes chronology
The Tubes (1975) Young and Rich (1976) Now (1977)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Christgau's Record Guide	B−

Young and Rich is the second studio album by The Tubes, released in 1976. It reached #46 on the Billboard 200.

The album is no longer available on CD, although all of its songs can be found on "White Punks on Dope".

Track listing

1. "Tubes World Tour" (Spooner, Steen, Waybill) – 4:43
2. "Brighter Day" (Steen) – 3:39
3. "Pimp" (Spooner) – 4:27
4. "Stand Up and Shout" (Ray Trainer, Mike Condello) – 2:37
5. "Don't Touch Me There" (Ron Nagle, Jane Dornacker) – 3:30
6. "Slipped My Disco" (Spooner, Steen) – 4:27
7. "Proud to Be an American" (Spooner) – 2:58
8. "Poland Whole/Madam I'm Adam" (Steen, Spooner, The Tubes) – 6:30
9. "Young and Rich" (Spooner) – 5:07

Personnel

• Fee Waybill - vocals
• Bill "Sputnik" Spooner - guitar, vocals
• Roger Steen - guitar, harp, vocals
• Rick "Gator" Anderson - bass, vocals
• Vince Welnick - keyboards, synthesizer
• Michael Cotten - synthesizer
• "Preposterous" Prairie Prince - percussion
• Re Styles (Shirley MacLeod) - "funky-pretty" vocals

with:

• David Paich, Jack Nitzsche - arrangements
• Chuck Domanico - bass
• Don Randi - piano
• Alan Estes, Julius Wechter - percussion
• Jay Migliori, Steve Douglas - saxophone
• Bobby Shew - trumpet
• George Bohanon - trombone
• Deniece Williams, Gene Morford, Jerry Whitman, Julia Tillman Waters, Maxine Williard Waters, Ron Hicklin, Stan Farber - backing vocals
• Allan Harshman, Assa Drori, Harry Bluestone, Herschel Wise, James Getzoff, Jesse Ehrlich, Leonard Malarsky, Lou Klass, Marshall Sosson, Marvin Limonick, Murray Adler, Nathan Ross, Ray Kelley, Samuel Boghossian, Virginia Majewski, William Kurasch - strings
• Armand Kaproff, David Speltz - cello

Technical

• Ed Thacker - engineer
• Michael Cotten, Prairie Prince - album design
• Harry Mittman, Norman Seeff - photography

Covers

• Lizzy Borden covered "Don't Touch Me There" on their Terror Rising EP.

Charts

References

1. Guarisco, Donald A.. Young and Rich at AllMusic
2. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: T". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 16, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
3. "The Tubes - Young and Rich". www.pastemagazine.com. September 14, 2015.
4. Eddy, Chuck (August 25, 2016). Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822373896 – via Google Books.
5. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 314. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
6. "RPM Top 100 Albums - June 12, 1976" (PDF).

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