The Wailing Buddy Rich

{{Infobox album

| name = The Wailing Buddy Rich

| type = studio album

| artist = Buddy Rich

| cover = BuddyRich_TheWailingBuddyRich.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1956

| recorded = 1955

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length =

| label = Norgran{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBVjDwAAQBAJ&q=The+Wailing+Buddy+Rich+1955&pg=PA4944|title=Goldmine Record Album Price Guide|first=Martin|last=Popoff|date=September 8, 2009|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781440229169|via=Google Books}}

| producer = Norman Granz

| prev_title = The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio

| prev_year = 1955

| next_title = Krupa and Rich

| next_year = 1956

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=the-wailing-buddy-rich-r156074|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

}}

The Wailing Buddy Rich is an album by jazz drummer Buddy Rich, released in 1956 on Norgran Records. The first two tracks were recorded on May 16, 1955, in New York; the remaining tracks were recorded with different personnel in Los Angeles on August 26.