Are You Ready for Love

"Are You Ready for Love"
Single by Elton John
from the album The Thom Bell Sessions
B-side"Are You Ready for Love Part 2"
Released4 May 1979[1]
Length
  • 5:05 (Part 1)
  • 3:26 (Part 2)
LabelThe Rocket Record Company
Songwriter(s)Thom Bell, LeRoy Bell, Casey James
Producer(s)Thom Bell
Elton John singles chronology
"Return to Paradise"
(1979)
"Are You Ready for Love"
(1979)
"Mama Can't Buy You Love"
(1979)
Music video
"Are You Ready for Love" (1979 promo video version) on YouTube

"Are You Ready for Love" is a song recorded by English musician Elton John in 1977 and first released in the UK in 1979 as the first single from the EP The Thom Bell Sessions. It was written by LeRoy Bell, Thom Bell and Casey James, and was originally produced in Philadelphia by Thom Bell, who had already produced a series of hits for the Spinners, the Delfonics and the Stylistics. While the song "Mama Can't Buy You Love" from the EP charted in 1979, this song and the other track on the three-track 12-inch vinyl disc, "Three Way Love Affair", were only minor footnotes at the time. The song originally peaked at number 42 on the UK Single Charts in 1979.

In 1989, MCA released a 6-track CD, The Complete Thom Bell Sessions, which contained a different mix of "Are You Ready for Love" in place of the one that appeared on the original 1979 EP. (The original Thom Bell Sessions EP mix did, however, surface – along with the EP's other two original tracks – as a B-side to a UK CD-single of "The Last Song" in 1992, issued as Rocket/Phonogram EJSCB-30).

  1. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 59.