I'm Ready for Love

"I'm Ready for Love" is a song by the American girl group Martha and the Vandellas. It was issued as a single by Motown in October 1966. The song, produced and written by Holland–Dozier–Holland, and was written in a similar style to the Supremes' smash hit, "You Can't Hurry Love".

"I'm Ready for Love"
Single by Martha and the Vandellas
from the album Watchout!
B-side	"He Doesn't Love Her Anymore"
Released	October 6, 1966
Studio	Hitsville U.S.A., Detroit
Length	2:54
Label	Gordy
Songwriter(s)	Holland–Dozier–Holland
Producer(s)	Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier
Martha and the Vandellas singles chronology
"My Baby Loves Me" (1966) "I'm Ready for Love" (1966) "Jimmy Mack" (1967)

Background

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.

Cash Box said that it is a "hard driving rocker has the girls spilling out a potent, effective romance lyric in a mood that should have every dancer who spins the disk on the floor."^[1]

Chart performance

Scoring their biggest hit since "Nowhere to Run", rose to #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on Billboard's Hot R&B singles chart.^[2] "I'm Ready For Love" was also a chart hit for the group in the UK where the song peaked at number twenty-two on the chart.^[3]

Other recordings

• Other than the Vandellas, The Temptations also recorded a version of this song that was released on their 1967 album In A Mellow Mood.