Ready an' Willing
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Ready an' Willing was Whitesnake
's third studio album, released in 1980 and peaked at #6 on the UK Albums Chart
, it was also the band's first to chart outside of the UK reaching #32 in Norway and #90 in the US. It featured two of the band's UK single-hits from that year: "Fool for Your Loving", which reached #13 in the charts in April 1980 and the title-track, "Ready an' Willing (Sweet Satisfaction)", which made #43 in July of the same year. In August 1980 "Fool for Your Loving" peaked at #53 on the Billboard Hot 100
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Whitesnake
Whitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1978 by David Coverdale after his departure from his previous band, Deep Purple. The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple, but by the mid 1980s they had moved to a more commercial hard rock style...
's third studio album, released in 1980 and peaked at #6 on the UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
, it was also the band's first to chart outside of the UK reaching #32 in Norway and #90 in the US. It featured two of the band's UK single-hits from that year: "Fool for Your Loving", which reached #13 in the charts in April 1980 and the title-track, "Ready an' Willing (Sweet Satisfaction)", which made #43 in July of the same year. In August 1980 "Fool for Your Loving" peaked at #53 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
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Track listing
Mirage Records (a subsidiary of Atlantic Records)Personnel
- David CoverdaleDavid CoverdaleDavid 'Jack' Coverdale is an English rock singer, most famous for his work with the his own hard rock band Whitesnake which achieved massive commercial success.-Early life:...
– vocals - Micky MoodyMicky MoodyMichael Joseph "Micky" Moody is an English guitarist, and a former member of the rock bands Juicy Lucy and Whitesnake. He was also a founder-member of Snafu. Together with his former Whitesnake colleague Bernie Marsden he founded the Moody Marsden Band, and later, The Snakes...
– guitars - Bernie MarsdenBernie Marsden-External links:*...
– guitars - Jon LordJon LordJonathan Douglas "Jon" Lord is an English composer, pianist and Hammond organ player.Jon Lord, also known as 'Hammond Lord', is a classically trained piano player. He is recognised for his Hammond organ blues-rock sound and for his pioneering work in fusing rock and classical or baroque forms...
– keyboards - Neil MurrayNeil Murray (British musician)Philip Neil Murray is a Scottish bass player, best known for his work in Whitesnake and Black Sabbath.-Early days:Originally a drummer, Murray formed his first band with school friends in 1967 and his musical tastes were heavily influenced by the mid-1960s 'blues boom' bands and musicians,...
– bass - Ian PaiceIan PaiceIan Anderson Paice is an English musician, best known as the drummer of the English rock band Deep Purple. As of Jon Lord's departure in 2002, he is the only founding member of the band who never stopped performing with the group, and the only member to appear on every album the band has...
– drums
Album
Billboard (North America)| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1980 | Pop Albums | 90 |