I'm Ready for Love

1966 single by Martha and the Vandellas

"I'm Ready for Love"

Single by Martha and the Vandellas

from the album Watchout!

B-side

"He Doesn't Love Her Anymore" (Hunter)

Released

October 6, 1966

Recorded

Hitsville U.S.A., Detroit, Michigan, 1966

Genre

Soul/Pop

Length

2:54

Label

Gordy

Songwriter(s)

Holland–Dozier–Holland

Producer(s)

Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier

Martha and the Vandellas singles chronology

"My Baby Loves Me"
(1966)

"I'm Ready for Love"
(1966)

"Jimmy Mack"
(1967)

"I'm Ready for Love" is a 1966 single by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. The song, produced and written by Holland–Dozier–Holland, and was written in a similar style to The Supremes' smash hit, "You Can't Hurry Love".

Background

The Vandellas' version was issued as the first official release off the group's 1966 album, Watchout!, though the album's actual first single, the emotive ballad "What Am I Going to Do Without Your Love" bombed on the chart. This song renewed the Vandellas' popularity among mainstream audiences with its top ten showing.

Cash Box said that it is a "hard driving rocker has the girls spilling out a potent, effective romance lyric in a mood that should have every dancer who spins the disk on the floor."^[1]

Chart performance

Scoring their biggest hit since "Nowhere to Run", rose to #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on Billboard's Hot R&B singles chart.^[2] "I'm Ready For Love" was also a chart hit for the group in the UK where the song peaked at number twenty-two on the chart.^[3]

Other recordings

Other than the Vandellas, The Temptations also recorded a version of this song that was released on their 1967 album In A Mellow Mood.

References

^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. October 15, 1966. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 378.
^ "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com. Retrieved December 29, 2020.

External links

Martha and the Vandellas - "I'm Ready for Love" song review by Richard Gilliam, credits & releases at AllMusic
Martha and the Vandellas - "I'm Ready for Love" single releases & credits at Discogs
Martha and the Vandellas - "I'm Ready for Love" song to be listened on Spotify
Martha and the Vandellas - "I'm Ready for Love" song to be listened on YouTube

Martha and the Vandellas

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

Martha Reeves
Lois Reeves
Delphine Reeves

The Original Vandellas

Rosalind Ashford
Annette Beard
Roschelle Laughhunn

Studio albums

Come and Get These Memories
Heat Wave
Dance Party
Watchout!
Ridin' High
Sugar 'n' Spice
Natural Resources
Black Magic

Live albums

Martha and the Vandellas Live!

Compilation albums

Greatest Hits

Singles

"I'll Have to Let Him Go"
"Come and Get These Memories"
"Heat Wave"
"Quicksand"
"Live Wire"
"In My Lonely Room"
"Dancing in the Street"
"Wild One"
"Nowhere to Run"
"You've Been in Love Too Long"
"My Baby Loves Me"
"I'm Ready for Love"
"Jimmy Mack"
"Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone"
"Honey Chile"
"I Promise to Wait My Love"
"Forget Me Not"
"I Can't Dance to That Music You're Playin'"
"(We've Got) Honey Love"
"I Should Be Proud"
"Bless You"

Related topics

Discography

v t e Holland–Dozier–Holland
Brian Holland Lamont Dozier Eddie Holland
Songs	1962 "Dearest One" "Old Love (Let's Try It Again)" "Darling, I Hum Our Song" 1963 "Leaving Here" "Locking Up My Heart" "What Goes Up Must Come Down" / "Come on Home" "Tie a String Around Your Finger" "Come and Get These Memories" / "Jealous Lover" "You Lost the Sweetest Boy" "Heat Wave" / "A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)" "(He Won't Be True) Little Girl Blue" "Mickey's Monkey" "Too Hurt to Cry, Too Much in Love to Say Goodbye" / "Come on Home" "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" / "Standing at the Crossroads of Love" "I Gotta Dance to Keep from Crying" "Quicksand" / "Darling I Hum Our Song" "Live Wire" / "Old Love (Let's Try It Again)" "Run, Run, Run" / "I'm Giving You Your Freedom" "Can I Get a Witness" 1964 "A Tear from a Woman's Eyes" "My Lady Bug Stay Away from That Beatle" "Like a Nightmare" / "If You Were Mine" "In My Lonely Room" "Just Ain't Enough Love" "Where Did Our Love Go" "Baby Don't You Do It" "Guarantee for a Lifetime" "Baby I Need Your Loving" / "Call on Me" "Candy to Me" / "If You Don't Want My Love" "Whisper You Love Me Boy" "Baby Love" / "Ask Any Girl" "Come See About Me" / (You're Gone But) Always in My Heart" "Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worth While)" / "Love has Gone" "You're a Wonderful One" "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" 1965 "Where Did You Go" "Stop! In the Name of Love" / "I'm in Love Again" "You've Been a Long Time Coming" "Who Could Ever Doubt My Love" "Nowhere to Run" "Back in My Arms Again" / "Whisper You Love Me Boy" "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" "The Only Time I'm Happy" "Mother Dear" / "He Holds His Own" "Nothing but Heartaches" / "He Holds His Own" "Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things)" "It's the Same Old Song" / "Your Love Is Amazing" "Mother Dear" / "Who Could Ever Doubt My Love" "I Hear a Symphony" / "Who Could Ever Doubt My Love" "Something About You" "Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)" "Darling Baby" "There's a Ghost in My House" 1966 "(I'm a) Roadrunner" "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" "Ask any Man" "My World Is Empty Without You" "Put Yourself in My Place" "There's No Love Left" "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)" / "Just as Long as You Need Me" "Helpless" / "A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)" "Call on Me" "Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart" / "He's All I Got" "Who Could Ever Doubt My Love" "I Like Everything About You" "I Guess I'll Always Love You" "Nothing but Soul" "Love's Gone Bad" / "Put Yourself in My Place" "You Can't Hurry Love" / "Put Yourself in My Place" "Little Darling (I Need You)" "Reach Out I'll Be There" / "Until You Love Someone" "Stay in My Lonely Arms" "You Keep Me Hangin' On" / "I Wanna Mother You, Smother You With Love" "You Keep Me Hangin' On" / "Remove This Doubt" "Standing in the Shadows of Love" / Since You've Been Gone" "I'm Ready for Love" "(Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need" "Heaven Must Have Sent You" 1967 "Just One Last Look" "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" / There's No Stopping Us Now" "Your Love Is Amazing" "Jimmy Mack" / "Third Finger, Left Hand" "Bernadette" / "I Got a Feeling" "My World Is Empty Without You" "The Happening" / "All I Know About You" "Just Ain't Enough Love" "7 Rooms of Gloom" / "I'll Turn to Stone" "I Understand My Man" "Your Unchanging Love" / "I'll Take Care of You" "Reflections" / "Going Down for the Third Time" "One Way Out" "You Keep Me Running Away" / "If You Don't Want My Love" "I Got a Feeling" "In and Out of Love" / "I Guess I'll Always Love You" 1968 "Whisper You Love Me Boy" "Forever Came Today" "I'm in a Different World" 1969 "We've Got a Way Out Love" "Crumbs off the Table" 1970 "Give Me Just a Little More Time" "(You've Got Me) Dangling on a String" "Everything's Tuesday" "Band of Gold" "Westbound #9" 1972 "The Day I Found Myself" "Don't Leave Me Starvin' for Your Love" "Why Can't We Be Lovers" 1973 "You're Gonna Need Me" 1975 "We're Almost There" "Just a Little Bit of You" "Early Morning Love" "Where Do I Go from Here" 1976 "I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do the Walking" "High Energy" "Let Yourself Go" 1982 "We Can Never Light That Old Flame Again"
Related topics	Motown Hot Wax Records Invictus Records List of songs written by Holland, Dozier and Holland