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Ready For The World

Ready for the World toured Live in Concert for a Darrin McGillis Promotion

Ready for the World - often ignored in modern retrospectives of 80's music, during 1985-1988 there were few acts that were bigger than Ready For the World. Their Jheri curl look made them the young heartthrobs of R&B/Pop music, and their series of hit dance cuts and ballads, were absolutely infectious.

Formed in the early 80's in Flint, Michigan by singer/songwriter Melvin Riley along with Gordon Strozier, John Eaton, Willie Triplett, Gerald Valentine and Gregory Potts, Ready for the World scored sizeable hits with the first two singles, the ballads “Tonight” and “Deep Inside Your Love.” But it was their third single, the magnificent Prince-sounding electronic dance tune “Oh Sheila,” that moved the group to the top of the Pop and Soul charts. The song became one of the year’s biggest pop hits.

The group tabbed local rock producer Gary Spaniola for their sophomore disc, Long Time Coming, and landed another top 10 crossover hit with “Love You Down” and also scored big with “Merry Goes Round”.

The 1989 release "Ruff ‘N Ready", landed the R&B hit “My Girly.”. The 1991 release "Straight Down to Business", was the group's last to chart, and in 1994 Riley left to record a couple solo albums.

Ready for the World reunited for two albums in the late 90's (Freak the World and BYOB) but broke up again by 2000.

While Riley, who reaped the most benefits as the lead singer/songwriter for the group. They occasionally reunited for mini-tours and in 2004 signed with Thump Records in time to release "She Said She Wants Some". They received some attention in 2005 when “Tonight” was sampled by Twista on his single “Girl Tonight,”.