Live: You Get What You Play For
Live album by
REO Speedwagon
ReleasedMarch 1977[1]
Recorded1976
VenueSoldiers and Sailors Memorial Building, Kansas City, Kansas; Convention Center, Indianapolis, Indiana; Kiel Auditorium, Saint Louis, Missouri; Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom, Atlanta, Georgia
GenreRock
Length77:47 (LP edition)
68:35 (CD edition)
80:34 (Two-CD edition)
LabelEpic
ProducerJohn Stronach, Gary Richrath, John Henning
REO Speedwagon chronology
R.E.O.
(1976) 		Live: You Get What You Play For
(1977) 		You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish
(1978)

Live: You Get What You Play For is a live album by rock band REO Speedwagon, released as a double-LP in 1977 (and years later as a single CD omitting "Gary's Guitar Solo" and "Little Queenie"). It was recorded at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building in Kansas City, Kansas, the Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kiel Auditorium in Saint Louis, Missouri and Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom in Atlanta, Georgia. It peaked at number #72 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1977.[2] The song "Ridin' the Storm Out" reached #94 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, but has since become a classic rock radio staple. The album went platinum on December 14, 1978.

The Japanese CD reissue, released in 2011, restores the album and songs to its original full length by including both "Gary's Guitar Solo" and "Little Queenie", which were omitted in the original single CD release due to time constraints. Sony Music also released the unedited double LP Epic master on its Legacy Label for Compact Disc in 2011 as well.

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]

Track listing

All songs written by Gary Richrath, except where noted.

Side one
  1. "Like You Do"  – 6:43
  2. "Lay Me Down" (Neal Doughty, Alan Gratzer, Terry Luttrell, Gregg Philbin, Richrath[a])  – 3:34
  3. "Any Kind of Love"  – 3:33
  4. "Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes)" (Kevin Cronin)  – 6:27
Side two
  2. "Keep Pushin'" (Cronin)  – 3:59
  3. "(Only A) Summer Love"  – 6:06
  4. "Son of a Poor Man"  – 5:25
  5. "(I Believe) Our Time Is Gonna Come" (Cronin)  – 4:46
Side three
  2. "Flying Turkey Trot"  – 2:34
  3. "Gary's Guitar Solo"+  – 6:10
  4. "157 Riverside Avenue (Doughty, Gratzer, Luttrell, Philbin, Richrath)  – 7:35
  5. "Ridin' the Storm Out"  – 5:34
Side four
Encores
  2. "Music Man" (Cronin)  – 2:29
  3. "Little Queenie"+ (Chuck Berry)  – 4:45
  4. "Golden Country"  – 8:12

Total length  – 77:18

(+) Appeared on the original double-LP release of the album, but omitted from the original single CD release. They are included on the 2011 Japanese "remaster" two-CD release.

Personnel

Production

Production as listed in album liner notes.

Charts

Chart (1977) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[4] 72

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[5] Platinum 1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog #
USA March 1977 Epic Records Stereo Vinyl E-34494
USA 1977 Epic Records Tape EGT-34494
USA 1977 Epic Records 8 Track E34494
UK August 1977 Epic Records Stereo Vinyl
USA 1988 Epic Records CD EK34494
Japan 2011 Sony Music 2-CD (DSD-Remaster) EICP 1486-7

Notes

  1. ^ The album's label credits Philbin and Richrath alone as the writers of "Lay Me Down", but the album R.E.O. Speedwagon, on which the song was first published, additionally credits Doughty, Gratzer, and Luttrell. BMI records (see BMI work #838213) confirm that the credit on R.E.O. Speedwagon is the correct one. However, given that all the tracks on R.E.O. Speedwagon are credited to Doughty/Gratzer/Luttrell/Philbin/Richrath, it is possible that the band had an agreement to copyright all their songs as group compositions (a fairly common practice) and that only Philbin and Richrath actually contributed to writing "Lay Me Down".

References

  1. ^ "Great Rock Discography". p. 685.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2011). Top Pop Albums (Seventh ed.). Record Research. ISBN 978-0-89820-183-3.
  3. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. REO Speedwagon: Live: You Get What You Play For at AllMusic. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
  4. ^ "REO Speedwagon Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved July 8, 2023.
  5. ^ "American album certifications – R.E.O. Speedwagon – You Get What You Play For". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
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