Down for the Count is the seventh studio album by the American heavy metal band Y&T, released in 1985 by A&M Records. The album marks the band's change to a lighter sound to find success in the hair metal scene.[2] 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.

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Down for the Count
Studio album by Y&T
Released	November 9, 1985
Recorded	Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, California
Genre	Glam metal
Length	40:49
Label	A&M
Producer	Kevin Beamish
Y&T chronology
Open Fire (1985) Down for the Count (1985) Contagious (1987)
Singles from Down for the Count
"Summertime Girls" Released: 1985 "All American Boy" Released: 1985

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Reception

The AllMusic reviewer Eduardo Rivadavia gave the album two stars out of five, and criticized the band for "[joining] the perm-haired masses then issuing like dandruff out of the California dust to redefine the meaning of the word "dumb"".[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Y&T except where indicated.

Side one

1. "In the Name of Rock" – 5:32
2. "All American Boy" (Dave Robbins, Van Stephenson) – 2:24
3. "Anytime at All" – 4:32
4. "Anything for Money" – 3:22
5. "Face Like an Angel" – 4:36

Side two

1. "Summertime Girls" – 3:28
2. "Looks Like Trouble" – 4:07
3. "Your Mama Don't Dance" (Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina) – 2:50
4. "Don't Tell Me What to Wear" – 4:02
5. "Hands of Time" – 6:11

Band

• Dave Meniketti – lead guitar, lead vocals
• Joey Alves – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Phil Kennemore – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Leonard Haze – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

• Randy Nichols - keyboards on "Summertime Girls"
• John Nymann - vocals
• Bill Costa - vocals
• Steffen Presley - keyboards on "Hands of Time"
• Claude Schnell - keyboards on "Anytime at All" and "Face Like an Angel"
• Adam Day - guitar

Production

• Remixed at Battery Studios (London)
• Kevin Beamish - 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
• Jeff Gold - 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