Ready to Roll
Ready to Roll is the eighth album by Thelma Houston, released in 1978 on Motown Records.[1] It was a modest success, peaking only at #74 in the US R&B charts. The single "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" gained momentum in 1979 and was included in a remixed version on Houston's Ride to the Rainbow album in 1979. The album was released on CD in 2018 by Soulmusic Records, in a compilation that also includes The Devil in Me, Ride to the Rainbow and Reachin' All Around.
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| Released | October 20, 1978 | |||
| Recorded | 1978 | |||
| Genre | R&B | |||
| Label | Motown | |||
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Track listing
- "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" (Mitchell Botler, Norma Helms)
- "Love Is Comin' On" (Greg Wright, Karin Patterson, Ronnie Vann)
- "I Wanna Start My Life All Over Again" (Sandra Crouch, Sharon Anton)
- "Midnight Mona" (Greg Wright, Kain Patterson, Ronnie Vann)
- "Pardon Me" (Alfred McCrary, Sundray Tucker)
- "Everybody's Got a Story" (Sandra Crouch, Sharon Anton)
- "Strange" (Greg Wright, Karin Patterson, Olivia Foster)
- "Am I Expecting Too Much" (Curtis Anthony Nolen, Dana Meyers, Maureen Bailey, Raymond Crossley)
- "Can't We Try" (Ken Hirsch, Ronald Miller)
Personnel
- Thelma Houston – lead vocals
- Rock Deadrick – percussion
- James Gadson – drums
- Greg Wright – keyboards, backing vocals
- Ray Parker Jr. – guitar
- Greg Phillinganes – keyboards
- Eddie N. Watkins Jr. – bass guitar
- Gary Coleman – percussion
- Sonny Burke – keyboards
- Roland Bautista – guitar
- Robert Lee Hill – bass guitar
- Gene Estes – vibraphone
- Alan Estes – percussion
- Alan Oldfield – keyboards
- Wah Wah Watson – guitar
- Eddie "Bongo" Brown – percussion
- John Barnes – keyboards
- Tony Newton – bass guitar
- Ronnie Vann – guitar
- Clarence McDonald – keyboards
- Ivory Davis – backing vocals
- Maxi Anderson – backing vocals
- Julia Tillman Waters – backing vocals
- Maxine Waters – backing vocals
- Oren Waters – backing vocals
- Roger St. Kenerly – backing vocals
- Pattie Brooks – backing vocals
- Platypus – backing vocals
- Olivia Foster – backing vocals
- Karin Patterson – backing vocals
- Stephanie Spruill – backing vocals
- Venetta Fields – backing vocals
- Dorothy Sheffield – backing vocals
- Arthur G. Wright, David Blumberg, Jimmie Haskell – string and horn arrangements
References
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