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"If You're Ready (Come Go with Me)" is a song by the Staple Singers. Released from their album '' Be What You Are'', the single spent three weeks at number one on the ''Billboard'' magazine's Hot Soul Singles chart in 1973. It peaked at number nine on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 pop singles chart. It became a gold record. The arrangement, tempo, cadence, and melody reflect more constant uptempo than the group's 1972 number 1 hit "I'll Take You There". Chart history Other versions * In 1985, British Jamaican singer Ruby Turner covered this song featuring South African singer-songwriter and guitarist Jonathan Butler. Her version reached #30 in the UK, #29 in Ireland and number three in New Zealand. * In 1987, American Contemporary Christian singer Steve Archer covered this song for his fourth solo album ''Off the Page''. * In 1991, Australian singler Wendy Matthews Wendy Joan Matthews (born 13 January 1960) is a Canadian-born Australian singer-songwriter who has been ...
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The Staple Singers
The Staple Singers were an American Gospel music, gospel, soul music, soul, and Rhythm and blues, R&B singing group. Pops Staples, Roebuck "Pops" Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000), the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha (April 11, 1934 – February 21, 2013), Pervis (November 18, 1935 – May 6, 2021), and Mavis Staples, Mavis (b. July 10, 1939). Yvonne (October 23, 1937 – April 10, 2018) replaced her brother when he was drafted into the U.S. Army, and again in 1970. They are best known for their 1970s hits "Respect Yourself", "I'll Take You There", "If You're Ready (Come Go with Me)", and "Let's Do It Again (song), Let's Do It Again". While the family name is Staples, the group used "Staple" commercially. History First child to Roebuck "Pops" Staples and his wife Oceola Staples, Cleotha was born in Drew, Mississippi, in 1934. Two years later, Roebuck moved his family from Mississippi to Chicago. Roebuck and Oceola's children, s ...
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Ruby Turner
Francella Ruby Turner MBE (born 22 June 1958) is a British Jamaican R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and actress. In a music career spanning more than 40 years, Turner is best known for her album and single releases in Europe and North America. She is also known for her work as a session backing vocalist, with artists including Bryan Ferry, UB40, Steel Pulse, Steve Winwood, Jools Holland, and Mick Jagger. She has also written songs that have been covered by musicians including Lulu, Yazz and Maxi Priest. Turner achieved the rare feat, for a British singer, of reaching No. 1 on the US R&B chart, with " It's Gonna Be Alright" in February 1990. Between 1986 and 1995, eight of her singles appeared in the UK Singles Chart with "I'd Rather Go Blind" being the most successful, reaching No. 24 in 1987. Turner performed at the Birmingham Heart Beat 86 concert, which featured George Harrison. She is a regular guest on BBC Television's ''Jools' Annual Hootenanny'', performing every y ...
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Stax Records Singles
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Songs Written By Raymond Jackson (songwriter)
A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice. The voice often carries the melody (a series of distinct and fixed pitches) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs have a structure, such as the common ABA form, and are usually made of sections that are repeated or performed with variation later. A song without instruments is said to be a cappella. Written words created specifically for music, or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics. If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in the classical tradition, it is called an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs composed in a simple style that are learned informally by ear are often referred to as folk songs. Songs composed for the mass market, designed to be sung by professional singers who sell their recordings or live shows, are called popular songs. These songs, which have broad appeal, are oft ...
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The Staple Singers Songs
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ...
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1973 Singles
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The Way It Has To Be
''The Way It Has to Be'' is the first live album released by Australian singer Wendy Matthews recorded in Melbourne in May 1991, the album was released in October 1991. Following the commercial and critical success of her album '' Émigré'', Matthews assembled a touring band that included Paul Abrahams (bass), Robbie James (guitar), Michael King (guitar), Amanda Brown (oboe, violin), James Valentine (sax), Mark O'Connor (keyboards), Lisa Maxwell (backing vocals) and Mark Meyer (drums). Track listing # " If You're Ready" (Homer Banks, Raymond Jackson, Carl Hampton) # "As We Speak" (Paul Abrahams, Robbie James) # "Token Angels" ( Roger Mason) # "I Didn't Take Your Man" # "Until You Say" (Preston Glass, Narada Michael Walden) # "Bitter Fruit" (Little Steven) # "Doomsday Lullaby" (Danny Bruce Peck) # "Take Your Time" # " Sweet Fire of Love" (Robbie Robertson Jaime Royal Robertson (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) was a Canadian musician of Indigenous and Jewish an ...
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Wendy Matthews
Wendy Joan Matthews (born 13 January 1960) is a Canadian-born Australian singer-songwriter who has been a member of Models (band), Models and Absent Friends (band), Absent Friends and is a solo artist. She released Top 20 hit singles in the 1990s including "Token Angels", "Let's Kiss (Like Angels Do)", "The Day You Went Away" and "Friday's Child (Wendy Matthews song), Friday's Child" with Top 20 albums, ''You've Always Got The Blues'' (duet album with Kate Ceberano), ''Émigré (album), Émigré'', ''Lily (Wendy Matthews album), Lily'', ''The Witness Tree'' and her compilation, ''Stepping Stones (album), Stepping Stones''. She has won six Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) ARIA Music Awards, Awards. According to rock music historian, Ian McFarlane she provides "extraordinary, crystal-clear vocals [...] a soulfulness that was the mark of a truly gifted singer". Matthews appeared on three series of ''It Takes Two (Australian TV series), It Takes Two''—an ...
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Steve Archer
Steve Archer (born January 5, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter and producer. He is a pioneer of the genre of Jesus music, later to become known as contemporary Christian music. He is the former lead singer of the Archers, a contemporary Christian music and Jesus music band who toured and recorded throughout the decades of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Biography Born Stephen Mark Archer in Mojave, California, US, the son of an Assemblies of God pastor, he began singing with his brother, Tim in their father's church in the northern San Joaquin Valley of California at age nine. They eventually branched out to other churches in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. Throughout the late 1960s they toured with older brother, Gary, as the Archer Brothers'. In 1970, Tim and Steve formed the Archers with Nancye Short and Billy Rush Masters in Southern California. They recorded and toured internationally from the 1970s through the early 1990s. Younger sister Janice replaced Short in ...
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Jonathan Butler
Jonathan Kenneth Butler (born 10 October 1961) is a South African singer-songwriter and guitarist. His music is often classified as R&B, jazz fusion or worship music. Biography Born and raised in Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa, during apartheid, Butler started singing and playing acoustic guitar as a child. Racial segregation and poverty during apartheid has been the subject of many of his records. His first single was the first by a black artist played by white radio stations in the racially segregated South Africa and earned a Sarie Award, South Africa's equivalent to the Grammy Awards. He began touring at the age of seven when he joined a travelling stage show, and was later signed up to perform on a string of hit recordings, turning him into a local teen idol. In 1975, his cover of " Please Stay" by the Drifters reached number 2 in South Africa. The same year his cover of " I Love How You Love Me" by The Paris Sisters reached number 4. "I'll Be Home" reached number 1 ...
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Official Charts Company
The Official UK Charts Company Limited (formerly Music Industry Chart Services Limited), trading as the Official Charts Company (OCC) or the Official Charts (formerly the Chart Information Network), is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France. In the United Kingdom, its charts include ones for singles, albums and films, with the data compiled from a mixture of downloads, purchases (of physical media) and streaming. The OCC produces its charts by gathering and combining sales data from retailers through market researchers Kantar, and claims to cover 99% of the singles market and 95% of the album market, and aims to collect data from any retailer who sells more than 100 chart items per week. The OCC is operated jointly by the British Phonographic Industry and the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) (formerly the British Association of Record Dealers (BARD)) and is incorporated as a ...
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