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If You're Ready (Come Go with Me)

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"If You're Ready (Come Go with Me)"
Single by The Staple Singers
from the album Be What You Are
B-side"Love Comes in All Colors"
ReleasedOctober 1973
GenreSoul
Length4:29
LabelStax
Songwriter(s)Homer Banks, Carl Hampton, Ray Jackson
The Staple Singers singles chronology
"Be What You Are"
(1973)
"If You're Ready (Come Go with Me)"
(1973)
"Touch a Hand, Make a Friend"
(1974)

"If You're Ready (Come Go with Me)" is a song by The Staple Singers. Released from their album Be What You Are, the single spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard magazine's Hot Soul Singles chart in 1973. It peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart.[1] It became a gold record.

The arrangement, tempo, cadence, and melody reflect more constant uptempo than the group's 1972 number 1 hit "I'll Take You There".

Chart history

Chart (1973-74) Peak
position
Canada 79
UK 27
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 9
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles 1

Other versions

In 1985 British Jamaican singer Ruby Turner covered this song featuring South African singer-songwriter and guitarist Jonathan Butler. Her version reached #30 in the UK, #29 in Ireland and number three in New Zealand.

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 547.