Young and Rich

Young and Rich is the second studio album by The Tubes, released in 1976.^[3] It reached #46 on the Billboard 200.^[4]

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	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B−[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 - "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

Chart (1976)	Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[5]	55
Canada (RPM)[6]	75
United States (Billboard 200)	46