Young and Rich explained

Young and Rich
Type:	studio
Artist:	The Tubes
Cover:	Young and Rich Album.jpg
Released:	April 1976
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

Young and Rich is the second studio album by The Tubes, released in 1976.^[1] It reached #46 on the Billboard 200.^[2]

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, Julia Tillman Waters, Maxine Williard Waters, The Ron Hicklin Singers - 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

Chart (1976)	Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[3]	55
Canada (RPM)^[4]	75
United States (Billboard 200)	46

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Tubes - Young and Rich. September 14, 2015. www.pastemagazine.com.
2. Book: Eddy, Chuck. Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music. August 25, 2016. Duke University Press. 9780822373896. Google Books.
3. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 314.
4. Web site: RPM Top 100 Albums - June 12, 1976.