Are You Ready for This [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

Jackie DeShannon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 21, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Rpm Records UK
• ASIN: B000BAVZ26
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #267,478 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This is Jackie's girl-group album, and includes Jackie's hit 'I Can Make It With You' along with the Bacharach-David collectables 'To Wait For Love', 'Windows & Doors' and 'So Long Johnny'. Plus some non-LP singles from the same 1966 period have been added as bonus tracks. RPM. 2005.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Are You Ready For This On CD?, January 6, 2007

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Music & Movie Luver (Hollywood, Florida USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Are You Ready for This (Audio CD)

This is a very good album from talented singer/songwriter Jackie DeShannon, from 1967. The cool, late 1960's photo on the cover alone is beautiful & worth having if you're a fan. Jackie wrote four songs on this album. She was a big fan of Diana Ross & The Supremes, so she pays homage to them on three Motown inspired tunes "Are You Ready For This?", "Love Is Leading Me", & "Find Me Love". They're worth a listen to hear the Holland-Dozier-Holland influence. There are two lesser known songs by popular writers Burt Bacharach & Hal David, "Windows & Doors" & "To Wait For Love". Jackie had a hit with their "What The World Needs Now Is Love" in 1968. She also does a good cover of The Shirelles "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (covered by everyone from Dionne Warwick to Deborah Gibson). Also on here is her rendition of "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me". In my opinion her version is superior to Dusty Springfield's. Jackie DeShannon is an underrated talent & this album, as well as all of her others, is proof of that.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jackie at her peak, May 13, 2009

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Are You Ready for This (Audio CD)

Jackie DeShannon made a lot of excellent music in the sixties, some of which can be found here. The first twelve tracks made up the original album Are you ready for this?, originally released in 1966, with the remaining tracks having been recorded between 1964 and 1967. One of the bonus tracks, What the world needs now is love, provided Jackie with her first American top ten hit in 1965, but only because Dionne Warwick rejected the song. (Dionne must have changed her mind about the song, because she eventually recorded it.) After a series of minor hits, this looked as if it was the big breakthrough that Jackie was looking for as a singer, but it was not to be. Five of the other tracks here were released as the A-sides of singles, but none were really big hits.

This collection is about much more than that one classic song. Jackie wrote six of the songs here (Are you ready for this?, To be myself, Love is leading me, Find me love, Be good baby, Where does the sun go?), while the Bacharach and David team contributed five other songs (Windows and doors, So long Johnny, To wait for love, A lifetime of loneliness, Come and get me) besides What the world needs now is love. Hal David co-wrote another song here, The wishing doll, with Elmer Bernstein for a movie, Hawaii, that co-starred Julie Andrews.

The remaining songs include great covers of Will you still love me tomorrow? (taken at a slightly faster tempo than the original by the Shirelles), Call me (first recorded by Petula Clark but an American hit for Chris Montez), You don't have to say you love me (a huge international hit for Dusty Springfield, whose own version was itself a translation of an Italian song). The set is completed by 500 miles from yesterday (written by Warren Zevon, whose music Jackie discovered long before Linda Ronstadt helped make him famous) and two other great songs (Music and memories, Come on down from the top of that hill).

As ever with Jackie's music, there is much to like about this collection. If you are a Jackie DeShannon fan, you'll love it.