''Down for the Count'' is the seventh studio album by the American heavy metal band Y&T, released in 1985 by

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. The album marks the band's change to a lighter sound to find success in the hair metal scene. It contains the band's biggest hit "Summertime Girls", which charted at #55 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. This song had initially appeared as the only studio track on the band's live album, '' Open Fire'', released earlier in the year. The album itself peaked at #91 on the Billboard 200 on December 14, 1985. It was the last album with the original line-up of Meniketti, Alves, Kennemore and Haze, as Haze left the following year.

Reception

The ''AllMusic'' reviewer Eduardo Rivadavia gave the album two stars out of five, and criticized the band for " oiningthe perm-haired masses then issuing like dandruff out of the California dust to redefine the meaning of the word "dumb"".

Track listing

All songs written by Y&T except where indicated. ;Side one # "In the Name of Rock" – 5:32 # "All American Boy" (Dave Robbins,

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) – 2:24 # "Anytime at All" – 4:32 # "Anything for Money" – 3:22 # "Face Like an Angel" – 4:36 ;Side two # "

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, Jim Messina) – 2:50 # "Don't Tell Me What to Wear" – 4:02 # "Hands of Time" – 6:11

Band

Dave Meniketti David Alan Meniketti (born December 12, 1953) is the singer, songwriter and lead guitarist for hard rock/ heavy metal band Y&T. He has also released three solo efforts (including "Live in Japan"), one of which is more blues-oriented. He currentl ...

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*Joey Alves –

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*Phil Kennemore –

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, backing vocals *Leonard Haze –

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;Additional musicians *Randy Nichols - keyboards on "Summertime Girls" *John Nymann - vocals *Bill Costa - vocals *Steffen Presley - keyboards on "Hands of Time" *

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- keyboards on "Anytime at All" and "Face Like an Angel" *Adam Day - guitar ;Production *Remixed at Battery Studios (

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Kevin Beamish Kevin Keith Beamish is an American record producer, sound engineer, songwriter and mixer. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he became a naturalized American citizen at the age of nine. Classically trained on woodwind instruments, he secured a rec ...

- producer, engineer *Nigel James - coordination producer, manager, direction *Tony Platt - engineer, remixer *Bruce Barris - engineer *Geoff Gillespie - A&R *Bill Traut - management *Sally Wood - management *Lyle Schatz - management *Scott Wood - management *Quadrangle management - management *Donald Krieger - design *Neon Park - illustrations *

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- art direction *Chuck Beeson - art direction * Mark Weiss - photography

Charts

Album

Singles

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20071011013621/http://www.meniketti.com/discography.htm {{Authority control Y&T albums A&M Records albums 1985 albums Albums produced by Kevin Beamish Glam metal albums