Down for the Count

For other uses, see Down for the Count (disambiguation).

Down for the Count
Studio album by
Y&T
ReleasedNovember 4, 1985 (1985-11-04)[1]
Recorded1985
StudioSound City (Van Nuys, California)
Genre
Length40:49
LabelA&M
ProducerKevin Beamish
Y&T chronology
Open Fire
(1985) 		Down for the Count
(1985) 		Contagious
(1987)
Singles from Down for the Count
  1. "Summertime Girls"
    Released: 1985
  2. "All American Boy"
    Released: 1985
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]

Down for the Count is the seventh studio album by American hard rock/heavy metal band Y&T, released on November 4, 1985, by A&M Records. The album marks the band's change to a lighter sound to find success in the hair metal scene.[3] 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.

  1. ^ "New Releases" (PDF). FMQB. November 1, 1985. p. 37. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Y&T - Down For The Count". Metal Storm.
  3. ^ a b Popoff, Martin (August 15, 2014). The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade. Voyageur Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-7603-4546-7 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Down for the Count - Y&T", AllMusic, retrieved June 28, 2021