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Biography
Refimprove|date=March 2008Infobox musical artist| name = Ready for the World| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| origin = Flint, Michigan , United States|USA | genre = Rhythm and blues|R& B , Funk , Soul music|soul , Pop music|Pop , Electro music|Electro , New jack swing | years_active = 1982–1991 2004–present| label = MCA Records Thump Records | associated_acts =| website =| current_members = Melvin Riley Gordon Strozier Gregory Potts Willie Triplett John Eaton Gerald Valentine Vincent Hunt| notable_instruments = Ready for the World is an American Rhythm and blues|R& B band from Flint, Michigan|Flint , Michigan who scored several moderate pop music|pop , soul music|soul , and dance hit record|hits in the mid to late 1980s. They were founded by Melvin Riley and Gordon Strozier.
History
The group originally consisted of lead vocalist / keyboardist /occasional rhythm guitar ist Melvin Riley with Gordon Strozier ( lead guitar ), Gregory Potts ( Keyboard instrument|keyboards ), Willie Triplett ( percussion / Keyboard instrument|keyboards ), John Eaton ( bass guitar ), and Gerald Valentine ( Drum kit|drums ). They had performed throughout Flint at high school talent shows and were discovered by WJLB Detroit Radio personality The Electrifying Mojo in 1982. They gained regional fame with their first release "Tonight" in 1983. "Tonight" was an underground hit in Flint and Detroit which helped garner them national prominence shortly after their signing under the MCA label. Ready for the World recorded their album Ready for the World during 1984 in Flint, Michigan under the production of Bernard Terry and recording engineer Charles Brown, Jr.
Success
In 1985, the band signs to the Steven Machat-Rick Smith management company AMI, the agreement with MCA are redrawn and promotion and marketing dollars is committed to break the group. This Machat and Smith do as the two men steer the group to number one on the US pop charts as well as top five in all the Western European countries and Australia as well, with their best-known hit " Oh Sheila ,". This song in the US went to number one on the R& B Chart|R& B , Billboard Hot 100|Pop Charts , and the Hot Dance Club Play record chart|charts that year, becoming the first ever single to hold the number one spot on all three of these charts simultaneously. The song "Digital Display" followed and hit number 21. In 1986, the band released their second album Long Time Coming (Ready for the World album)|Long Time Coming , which returned them to the Top 40|Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100|pop charts when the slow jam " Love You Down "(Written by Vincent Hunt) climbed to number nine. (source: Book of Billboard Top 40 Singles)
The band would go on to release a couple more albums into the 90s, but they weren't as successful as the first pair. This caused the band to break up in 1991.
Post-break-up
After the breakup, lead singer Riley went on to sound recording and reproduction|record solo (music)|solo album s, one released in 1994 and the other in 2000. A Ready for the World reunion album followed in 2004, featuring mostly urban ballad s.
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See also
List of number-one hits (United States)
List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
List of number-one dance hits (United States)
List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart
References
reflist
External links
http://www.readyfortheworld.net/ Ready for the World official website
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