Young and Rich

{{Infobox album

| name = Young and Rich

| type = studio

| artist = The Tubes

| cover = Young and Rich Album.jpg

| alt =

| released = April 1976

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = A&M (Hollywood)

| genre = Glam rock

| length = 38:08

| label = A&M

| producer = Ken Scott

| prev_title = The Tubes

| prev_year = 1975

| next_title = Now

| next_year = 1977

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}} {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r20557|first=Donald A.|last=Guarisco}}

| rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide

| rev2Score = B−{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: T|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=T&bk=70|access-date=March 16, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}

}}

Young and Rich is the second studio album by The Tubes, released in 1976.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/02/the-tubes-young-and-rich.html|title=The Tubes - Young and Rich|date=September 14, 2015|website=www.pastemagazine.com}} It reached #46 on the Billboard 200.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-vDgDAAAQBAJ&q=Young+and+Rich+the+tubes+1976+a&pg=PT49|title=Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music|first=Chuck|last=Eddy|date=August 25, 2016|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=9780822373896|via=Google Books}}

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

Track listing

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

class="wikitable"

!Chart (1976)

!Position

Australia (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=314}}

|align="center"|55

Canada (RPM){{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.4143b.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Albums - June 12, 1976}}

|align="center"|75

United States (Billboard 200)

|align="center"|46

References

Category:1976 albums

Category:The Tubes albums

Category:Albums arranged by Jack Nitzsche

Category:Albums produced by Ken Scott

Category:A&M Records albums

Category:Albums recorded at A&M Studios