You Bought It, You Name It
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You Bought It – You Name It is the sixth studio album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh
Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B...

, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music
1983 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1983.-January-April:*January – ZTT Records is founded.*January 8 – The UK singles chart is tabulated from this week forward by The Gallup Organization...

).

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic James Chrispell wrote of the album "Rather retro in feel, like the title, it harkens back to a wackier time. Good, but flawed."

Track listing

  1. "I Can Play That Rock and Roll" (Joe Walsh) – 3:03
  2. "Told You So" (Don Felder
    Don Felder
    Donald William "Don" Felder is an American musician and songwriter, best known for his work as lead guitarist for the Eagles from 1974 to 1980 and again from 1994 to 2001.-Early life and influences:...

    , Walsh) – 3:54
  3. "Here We Are Now" (Walsh) – 3:54
  4. "The Worry Song" (George Perry, Walsh) – 4:37
  5. "'I.L.B.T.'s'" (Joe Vitale, Walsh) – 2:53
  6. "Space Age Whiz Kids" (Vitale, Walsh) – 3:40
  7. "Love Letters
    Love Letters (song)
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    " (Edward Heyman
    Edward Heyman
    Edward Heyman was an American musician and lyricist, best known for his compositions "Body and Soul", "When I Fall in Love", and "For Sentimental Reasons". He also contributed many songs for films.-Biography:...

    , Victor Young
    Victor Young
    Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. He was born in Chicago.-Biography:...

    ) – 3:11
  8. "Class of '65" (Walsh) – 4:27
  9. "Shadows" (Walsh) – 5:09
  10. "Theme from Island Weirdos" (Vitale, Walsh) – 3:35

Personnel

  • Joe Walsh - synthesizer
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

    , bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , guitar
    Guitar
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    , vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

    , slide guitar
    Slide guitar
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    , drum machine
    Drum machine
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    , Linn drum
  • Kevin Dukes
    Kevin Dukes
    Kevin Dukes is an American guitarist, born in Brookhaven, Mississippi in 1956.A native of Natchez, Mississippi, Kevin attended The University of Southern Mississippi as a Music Theory and Composition major prior to moving to Los Angeles, California in the late 1970s...

     - guitar
  • Don Felder
    Don Felder
    Donald William "Don" Felder is an American musician and songwriter, best known for his work as lead guitarist for the Eagles from 1974 to 1980 and again from 1994 to 2001.-Early life and influences:...

     - guitar, vocals
  • Don Henley
    Don Henley
    Donald Hugh "Don" Henley is an American singer, songwriter and drummer, best known as a founding member of the Eagles before launching a successful solo career. Henley was the drummer and lead vocalist for the Eagles from 1971–1980, when the band broke up...

     - vocals, background vocals
  • Michael Martin Murphey
    Michael Martin Murphey
    Michael Martin Murphey is an American singer-songwriter best known for writing and performing Western music, Country music, and Popular music. A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter...

     - vocals
  • George Perry - bass, vocals
  • Joe Pruessner - bass
  • Timothy B. Schmit
    Timothy B. Schmit
    Timothy Bruce Schmit is an American musician and songwriter, best known for his work as bass guitar player and singer for Poco and the Eagles. Schmit has also worked for decades as a session musician and solo artist.-Early career:Raised in Sacramento, Schmit began playing in the folk music group...

     - vocals, background vocals
  • Bill Szymczyk - vocals
  • Joe Vitale - bass, flute
    Flute
    The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

    , piano
    Piano
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    , drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , vocals, syndrum
  • Waddy Wachtel
    Waddy Wachtel
    Robert "Waddy" Wachtel is an American musician, composer and record producer, most notable for his guitar work...

     - guitar, synthesizer guitar

Production

  • Producers: Joe Walsh, George Perry, Bill Szymczyk
  • Engineer: Jim Nipar
  • Assistant engineer: Terry Nelson
  • Mastering: Ted Jensen
    Ted Jensen
    Ted Jensen is an American recording engineer. Jensen is the chief mastering engineer at Sterling Sound. He started his career as a mastering engineer in 1976 and is currently the most active Mastering Engineer in the industry...

  • Direction: Irving Azoff
    Irving Azoff
    Irving Azoff is an American personal manager, representing recording artists in the music industry such as Christina Aguilera, Journey, Jewel, the Eagles, X Japan, Bush, REO Speedwagon, Seal, David Archuleta, Alter Bridge, Van Halen, 30 Seconds to Mars, Neil Diamond, New Kids on the Block, Steely...

  • Art direction: Jeff Adamoff
  • Design: Jeff Adamoff
  • Photography: Jim Shea
  • Hand Coloring: Bob Jacobs

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)
Year Chart Position
1983 Pop Albums 48


Singles - Billboard (North America)
Year Single Chart Position
1983 "I Can Play That Rock & Roll" Mainstream Rock 13
1983 "Space Age Whiz Kids" Mainstream Rock 21
1983 "Space Age Whiz Kids" Pop Singles 52
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