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"
Released 1973
Genre Soul
Length 4:29
Label Stax
Writer(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 the name of a well known song by The Staple Singers. Released from their album, Be What You Are, the single spent three weeks at #1 on the Hot Soul Singles chart in 1973. It also peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.


[edit] Chart positions

Charts Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 9
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles 1 (3)


Preceded by
"The Love I Lost (Pt. 1)" by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Billboard's Hot Soul number one single
December 8 - December 22, 1973
Succeeded by
"Living for the City" by Stevie Wonder