THE TUBES – YOUNG AND RICH LP – Nr MINT UK 1976 ART ROCK PUNK NEW WAVE

The Tubes – Young And Rich
(A&M Records  1976  AMLH64580)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Sleeve in Nr MINT- condition
– a little rubbing near the top
Insert in Nr MINT condition

The Tubes are a San Francisco-based rock band. Their eponymous 1975 debut album included the single “White Punks on Dope” while their 1983 single “She’s a Beauty” was a top 10 U.S. hit and a frequently-played music video in the early days of MTV. They also performed in the 1980 film Xanadu, singing the rock portion of the cross-genre song “Dancin'” opposite a big band.

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

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

• 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