Ready an' Willing

Ready an' Willing
Studio album by Whitesnake
Released 31 May 1980
Recorded Ridge Farm, Central Recorders Studio and Sauna, December 1979, February 1980
Genre Hard rock, blues-rock
Length 40:10
Label Mirage/Atlantic (USA/Canada)
Polydor (Japan)
United Artists (Rest Of World)
Producer Martin Birch
Whitesnake chronology
Lovehunter
(1979)
Ready an' Willing
(1980)
Live...in the Heart of the City
(1980)
Singles from Ready an' Willing
  1. "Fool for Your Loving"
    Released: 1980
  2. "Ready an' Willing"
    Released: 1980

Ready an' Willing was Whitesnake's third studio album, released in 1980 and peaked at #6 on the UK Albums Chart[1], it was also the band's first to chart outside of the UK reaching #32 in Norway and #90 in the US. It featured two of the band's UK single-hits from that year: "Fool for Your Loving", which reached #13 in the charts in April 1980 and the title-track, "Ready an' Willing (Sweet Satisfaction)", which made #43 in July of the same year. In August 1980 "Fool for Your Loving" peaked at #53 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Contents

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Fool for Your Loving"   David Coverdale, Micky Moody, Bernie Marsden 4:17
2. "Sweet Talker"   Coverdale, Marsden 3:38
3. "Ready an' Willing"   Coverdale, Moody, Neil Murray, Jon Lord, Ian Paice 3:44
4. "Carry Your Load"   Coverdale 4:06
5. "Blindman"   Coverdale 5:09
6. "Ain't Gonna Cry No More"   Coverdale, Moody 5:52
7. "Love Man"   Coverdale 5:04
8. "Black and Blue"   Coverdale, Moody 4:06
9. "She's a Woman"   Coverdale, Marsden 4:07

Mirage Records (a subsidiary of Atlantic Records)

2006 remastered bonus tracks
No. Title Writer(s) Length
10. "Love for Sale" (Previously unreleased) Coverdale 3:05
11. "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City" (Live at the Reading Festival 1979) Michael Price, Dan Walsh 6:54
12. "Mistreated" (Live at the Reading Festival 1979) Coverdale, Ritchie Blackmore 13:30
13. "Love Hunter" (Live at the Reading Festival 1979) Coverdale, Moody, Marsden 5:56
14. "Breakdown" (Live at the Reading Festival 1979) Coverdale, Moody 5:38

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Charts

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Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1980 Pop Albums 90

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