"Are You Ready for Love" is a song recorded by English musician Elton John in 1977 and first released in the UK in 1979 as the first single from the EP The Thom Bell Sessions. It was written by Leroy Bell, Thom Bell and Casey James, and was originally produced in Philadelphia by Thom Bell (who had already produced a series of hits for the Spinners, the Delfonics and the Stylistics). While the song "Mama Can't Buy You Love" from the EP charted in 1979, this song and the other track on the three-track 12-inch vinyl disc, "Three Way Love Affair", were only minor footnotes at the time.
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Single by Elton John | ||||
from the album The Thom Bell Sessions | ||||
B-side | "Are You Ready for Love Part 2" | |||
Released | 31 May 1979 | |||
Recorded | October 1977 | |||
Genre | Soft rock, soul | |||
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Label | The Rocket Record Company | |||
Songwriter(s) | Thom Bell, LeRoy Bell, Casey James | |||
Producer(s) | Thom Bell | |||
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"Are You Ready for Love" (1979 promo video version) on YouTube | ||||
In 1989, MCA released a 6-track CD, The Complete Thom Bell Sessions, which contained a different mix of "Are You Ready for Love" in place of the one that appeared on the original 1979 EP. (The original Thom Bell Sessions EP mix did, however, surface – along with the EP's other two original tracks – as a B-side to a UK CD-single of "The Last Song" in 1992, issued as Rocket/Phonogram EJSCB-30).
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Single by Elton John | ||||
B-side | "Three Way Love Affair" | |||
Released | 25 August 2003 (2003-08-25) | |||
Label | Southern Fried, Mercury, Ultra | |||
Songwriter(s) | Thom Bell, LeRoy Bell, Casey James | |||
Producer(s) | Thom Bell | |||
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"Are You Ready for Love" (2003 music video version) on YouTube | ||||
In 2003, "Are You Ready for Love" was remixed by Ashley Beedle and released as a 12-inch vinyl single on 25 August 2003.[1] It gave John another No. 1 hit on the UK Singles Chart in its first week of its 2003 re-release,[2] following his performance of the song in a television advertisement promoting the new 2003–2004 football season for Sky Sports. It scored John his sixth UK number one.[3] The 2003 single's B-side is "Three Way Love Affair" (from the original EP) and also the full-length 1979 version of "Are You Ready for Love". On some CD versions, the CD also contains a QuickTime version of a video for the song, with recording studio footage from 1977 with John recording his vocals.
Various hit R&B vocalists of the late 1970s, including Bell and James, MFSB and the Spinners with lead singer John Edwards, contributed backing and accompanying lead vocals, most prominent on the Thom Bell Sessions mixes of the song. In 1979, the Spinners also recorded a version of the song which charted at number 25 on the US Billboard R&B chart.
The music video, produced in a 1970s retro style, was directed by Kate Dawkins.
UK, US, and Australian CD single[4][5][6]
UK 12-inch single 1[7]
UK 12-inch single 2[8]
UK cassette single[9]
European CD single[10]
US 12-inch single[11]
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In 2003, the Spinners reissued "Are You Ready for Love", featuring them on backing vocals. In 1977, the Spinners had recorded two versions of the track. One had all of the Spinners, the other with only lead singer John Edwards on vocals. Finally in 1979, the John Edwards version was released making it to number 42 on the UK Singles Chart.
"Are You Ready for Love" was featured on the European version of Donkey Konga 2.[33]
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