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Get Ready (The Temptations song)

"Get Ready"
The-temptations-get-ready.jpg
Single by The Temptations
from the album Gettin' Ready
B-side "Fading Away"
Released February 7, 1966
Format 7" single
Recorded Hitsville USA (Studio A); December 5, December 9, and December 29, 1965
Genre Soul, R&B
Length 2:39
Label Gordy
G 7049
Writer(s) Smokey Robinson
Producer(s) Smokey Robinson
The Temptations singles chronology
"My Baby" / "Don't Look Back"
(1965)
"Get Ready"
(1966)
"Ain't Too Proud to Beg"
(1966)
"Get Ready"
RARE EARTH Get Ready - Magic Key.jpg
Single by Rare Earth
from the album Get Ready
B-side "Magic Key"
Released February 18, 1970
Format 7" single
Recorded Hitsville USA (Studio A); 1969
Genre Hard rock, blues rock
Length 2:48 (single edit)
21:06 (album version)
Label Rare Earth
R 5012
Writer(s) Smokey Robinson
Producer(s) Rare Earth
Rare Earth singles chronology
"Generation, Light Up The Sky"
(1969)
"Get Ready"
(1969)
"(I Know) I'm Losing You"
(1970)

"Get Ready" is a Motown song written by Smokey Robinson, which resulted in two hit records for the label: a U.S. #29 version by The Temptations in 1966, and a U.S. #4 version by Rare Earth in 1970. It is significant for being the last song Robinson wrote and produced for the Temptations, due to a deal Berry Gordy made with Norman Whitfield, that if "Get Ready" did not meet with the expected degree of success, then Whitfield's song, "Ain't Too Proud To Beg", would get the next release, which resulted in Whitfield more or less replacing Robinson as the group's producer.

The original Temptations version of "Get Ready", produced by Smokey Robinson, was designed as an answer to the latest dance craze, "The Duck". The Temptations' falsetto Eddie Kendricks sings lead on the song, which Robinson produced as an up-tempo dance number with a prominent rhythm provided by Motown drummer Benny Benjamin. In the song, Kendricks informs his lover to "get ready" because "I'm bringin' you a love that's true". Melvin Franklin sings lead on the pre-chorus: "fe, fi, fo, fum/look out/'cause here I come" along with several other similar lines. The song made it to number one on the U.S. R&B singles chart, while peaking at number twenty-nine on the pop charts.

The B-side to "Get Ready" was the ballad "Fading Away", which was also led by Kendricks. The song talks about fading love with its narrator asking his soon-to-be-former-lover "Where is your love going?" and saying how much she changed since they fell in love. Written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson, Pete Moore, & Bobby Rogers, and produced by Robinson, "Fading Away" was later included on the Temptations 1966 album Gettin' Ready along with the hit side.


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