Get Ready (The Temptations song)

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"Get Ready"
Side A of the US single
Single by The Temptations
from the album Gettin' Ready
B-side	"Fading Away"
Released	February 7, 1966
Recorded	Hitsville USA (Studio A); December 5, December 9, and December 29, 1965
Genre	Soul
Length	2:39
Label	Gordy G 7049
Songwriter(s)	Smokey Robinson
Producer(s)	Smokey Robinson
The Temptations singles chronology
"My Baby" / "Don't Look Back" (1965) "Get Ready" (1966) "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" (1966)

"Get Ready" is a Motown song written by Smokey Robinson, which resulted in two hit records for the label: a U.S. No. 29 version by The Temptations in 1966, and a U.S. No. 4 version by Rare Earth in 1970. It is significant for being the last song Robinson wrote and produced for the Temptations, due to a deal Berry Gordy made with Norman Whitfield, that if "Get Ready" did not meet with the expected degree of success, then Whitfield's song, "Ain't Too Proud to Beg", would get the next release, which resulted in Whitfield more or less replacing Robinson as the group's producer.