Down for the Count

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. 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 "[joining] the perm-haired masses then issuing like dandruff out of the California dust to redefine the meaning of the word "dumb"".

Personnel

 * Dave Meniketti – lead vocals, lead guitar
 * Joey Alves – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
 * Phil Kennemore – bass, 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
 * Tony Platt – engineer, remixer
 * Bruce Barris – engineer
 * Donald Krieger – design
 * Neon Park – illustration
 * Jeff Gold – art direction
 * Chuck Beeson – art direction
 * Mark Weiss – photography