Diana Ross - Gettin’ Ready For Love
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Topic: Diana Ross - Gettin’ Ready For Love
Posted By: Paul C
Subject: Diana Ross - Gettin’ Ready For Love
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 11:36am
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On all CDs containing Diana Ross' 'Gettin' Ready For Love' listed in the database, the running time of this song is 2:44-2:45. The database indicates this as the LP length, but this is also the length of my 45 (matrix M1427F-64925-S-RE2-06A). The printed time is 2:45. Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual 1955-1999 gives the running time as 2:55.
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Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 1:12pm
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My commercial 45 has the exact same deadwax info, and I can confirm all of Paul C's other details as well. Further, both the mono and stereo sides of my promo 45 have a listed time of (2:45), and also come in with an actual time right between (2:44) and (2:45). It would appear that an actual (2:55) 45 version for this song does not actually exist, unless a 2nd commercial 45 was put out for it.
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Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 11 January 2007 at 8:19am
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One final note, before we put this one to bed: I did a poor job of explaining one detail. Although both my stock and promo copies have an actual time of (2:45), my commercial 45 DOES state a listed time of (2:55). So, to consistently apply Pat's long-established standards in this case, something like "commercial copies list a time of (2:55), but actually run (2:45)" should be added, to alert folks to the bogus stock 45 listed time.
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Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 04 January 2011 at 7:02am
Pat, since I first posted about this 4 years ago, I noticed in the db that both
the 45 & LP versions run around the same time. What is the tipoff for you
between one and the other? Because I now own two promo copies for this;
both mono/stereo, all listed times (2:45). One has an "RE-2" on both sides,
while the other has an "RE-3" on both sides. I'm wondering if one of my
promos might actually include the LP version on it. Finally, if anyone
happens to own a promo 45 with either no "RE" designation on it, and/or an
"RE-1", perhaps they could pass along its details, for full assessment
purposes.
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Posted By: Pat Downey
Date Posted: 04 January 2011 at 11:01am
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Jim, I have the RE-3 dj 45 and on this version there are handclaps on the introduction which are not found on the LP version. I do not have a commercial copy to check and see if there are handclaps present so can you listen to your commercial copy to see if there are handclaps present on the introduction?
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Posted By: Santi Paradoa
Date Posted: 11 April 2025 at 8:15pm
There are versions of this song found on CD releases that have no handclaps on the intro.
However, there are versions of this song found on CD releases that do have the handclaps on the intro.
Pat reports above that his DJ 45 has the handclaps. It appears the LP version has no handclaps on the intro.
The online database may need to be updated to indicate which US CD releases have which version.
We also may still need a 1978 commercial 45 to see what version appeared on that (with or without the handclaps).
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Santi Paradoa
Miami, Florida
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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 11 April 2025 at 9:10pm
I have a dub of the promo 45 on my hard drive, and it does not contain the handclaps. I'll grab my copy of the commercial 45 to see what's on it, but it might take a few days before I can get to it.
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Posted By: ChicagoBill
Date Posted: 12 April 2025 at 9:12am
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I have 3 copies of 'Gettin' Ready For Love' by Diana Ross on Motown 1427 RE-2 and all 3 have no handclaps. However, on my re-issue of it on Collectables/Motown 749, it does include handclaps. Figure that out. Hmmm. -Bill.
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 13 April 2025 at 2:09am
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Bill, are your three copies of "Gettin' Ready for Love" all identical commercial 45 pressings?
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Posted By: ChicagoBill
Date Posted: 13 April 2025 at 10:07am
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Yes, as identical as I can tell. The run-out wax, anyway. Then I looked on my stock card and discovered that 2 of them I purchased from Kent Kotal in March of 1984! I told him because I was in retail that for me to purchase them from him, they had to be un-played. He assured me that all the records I bought from him were. He probably bought them from me. The other one that I have was purchased for my store from regular wholesale sources. -Bill.
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 14 April 2025 at 3:38am
Thanks for confirming, Bill. So, it looks like the version of "Gettin' Ready for Love" with the handclaps in the intro only appears on some DJ 45 pressings. The commercial 45 (not including the reissue pressings), LP, and some DJ copies all seem to have the non-handclap version.
Actually, Paul C, if you still have your 45 and LP handy, can you confirm whether your copy of each are also without the handclaps?
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Posted By: Glenpwood
Date Posted: 08 May 2025 at 8:43am
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I may be able to help here. I am a big fan of the Baby It's Me this hails from and have about 12 vinyl copies, the original solo issue & 2fer Cd pairing it with Touch Me In The Morning, the download only expanded edition, one 8 track, and two cassette copies of it (club and retail). I even bought the pink vinyl reissue a few years back. All my versions though don't carry the handclap version nor was it included in the expanded download set in 2014. The handclap version on the promo came about last minute as Motown was trying to goose the track up the charts as it was struggling in the lower top 40 slowly drifting to its #27 peak. Those are reservice copies although I don't believe Motown labeled the actual promos that. When it didn't help the label quickly moved to another single in hopes of saving the album.
One of the reasons this whole era struggled was the label unwisely put the album out for a month before a single basically telling radio to pick whatever they wanted to play from it. Most stations and discos picked the Love Hangover-eque track "Your Love Is So Good For Me" instead of GRFL. Berry Gordy liked "Ready" more though so it was ultimately chosen to be first. All the split airplay ended up with both singles not connecting nationally. Once the label gave up on Ready they put out "Your Love" but the early airplay meant the stations that had played it early didn't re-add it so it stalled at #48. A more typical Ross mid tempo ballad came next, "You Got It," but it also stalled at #48 although it did go top ten at AC. None of this revived the album which had been off the chart since before the second single came out so plans to go with a 4th single, Top Of The World, were scrapped although promo 45's are out there.
Baby It's Me, despite its pedigree and quality, wound up nothing more than a big cut out title for a few years which is a shame as all the right elements were there but the promotion wasn't. Getting Ready For Love did get a new mix for that 2014 expanded set which is excellent and probably would've helped back in 77 but ultimately the song probably was the wrong lead single for the album at the dawn of the Saturday Night Fever domination of radio.
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Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 10 May 2025 at 2:05pm
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I'm not clear - you're saying there was a new mix for the 2014 expanded set. You also say the handclap version was not included in the expanded download set in 2014. Are there 3 mixes, with one mix first coming out in 2014?
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