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| "Ready 'n' Steady" | |
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| Song by D. A. | |
| Recorded | 1979 |
| Genre | Pop rock |
| Length | 3:15 |
| Label | Rascal |
| Songwriter(s) | D. A. Lucchesi, Jim Franks |
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"Ready 'n' Steady" is a song by American musicians Dennis Lucchesi and Jim Franks, recorded in 1979. The song appeared on Billboard's Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart for three weeks in June 1979, with the artist credited as Lucchesi's first and middle initials, D. A., which he had used as his stage name as a regional performer.[1] For decades, the identity of D.A. was unknown, and no evidence of the song, nor any other recording of it, could be found; this led many record collectors to consider the song a "phantom record" that possibly did not exist. In 2016, researcher Paul Haney used copyright records to trace and find the record, giving the song its first known public exposure.[2]