I'm Ready For Love

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"I'm Ready For Love"

Single by Martha and the Vandellas
from the album Watchout!
Released	October 1966
Format	Vinyl record (7" single)
Recorded	Hitsville USA, Detroit, Michigan, 1966
Genre	Soul
Length	2:54
Label	Gordy
Writer(s)	Holland-Dozier-Holland
Producer(s)	Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier
Chart positions
#9 US Pop Singles #2 Hot Soul Singles #21 UK Singles Chart
Martha and the Vandellas singles chronology
"What Am I Going to Do Without Your Love" (1966)	"I'm Ready for Love" (1966)	"Jimmy Mack" (1967)

"I'm Ready For Love" is a 1966 soul single by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. Scoring their biggest hit since "Nowhere to Run" peaked at #8 on the pop singles chart, this tune, which had the narrator longing to be in love with her object of affection, rose to #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on Billboard's Hot R&B singles chart. The song, produced and written by Holland-Dozier-Holland, was originally given to record by The Supremes who passed on the song. Other than the Vandellas, The Temptations also recorded a version of this song that failed to be released on an album. 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 and also was a chart hit for the group in the UK where the song peaked at number twenty-one on the chart. The Vandellas are helped in harmony by session girl group the Andantes, who sing the higher parts of the song with the Vandellas singing the lower parts as similar as records produced with The Four Tops.