Ready to Roll
Ready to Roll is the eighth album by Thelma Houston, released in 1978 on Motown Records. It was a modest success, peaking only at #74 in the US R&B charts. The single "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" gained momentum in 1979 and was included in a remixed version on Houston's Ride to the Rainbow album in 1979.
The album was released on CD in 2018 by Soulmusic Records, in a compilation that also includes The Devil in Me, Ride to the Rainbow and Reachin' All Around.

Track listing
"Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" (Mitchell Botler, Norma Helms)
"Love Is Comin' On" (Greg Wright, Karin Patterson, Ronnie Vann)
"I Wanna Start My Life All Over Again" (Sandra Crouch, Sharon Anton)
"Midnight Mona" (Greg Wright, Kain Patterson, Ronnie Vann)
"Pardon Me" (Alfred McCrary, Sundray Tucker)
"Everybody's Got a Story" (Sandra Crouch, Sharon Anton)
"Strange" (Greg Wright, Karin Patterson, Olivia Foster)
"Am I Expecting Too Much" (Curtis Anthony Nolen, Dana Meyers, Maureen Bailey, Raymond Crossley)
"Can't We Try" (Ken Hirsch, Ronald Miller)

Personnel
Thelma Houston - lead vocals
Rock Deadrick - percussion
James Gadson - drums
Greg Wright - keyboards, backing vocals
Ray Parker Jr. - guitar
Greg Phillinganes - keyboards
Eddie N. Watkins Jr. - bass guitar
Gary Coleman - percussion
Sonny Burke - keyboards
Roland Bautista - guitar
Robert Lee Hill - bass guitar
Gene Estes - vibraphone
Alan Estes - percussion
Alan Oldfield - keyboards
Wah Wah Watson - guitar
Eddie "Bongo" Brown - percussion
John Barnes - keyboards
Tony Newton - bass guitar
Ronnie Vann - guitar
Clarence McDonald - keyboards
Ivory Davis - backing vocals
Maxi Anderson - backing vocals
Julia Tillman Waters - backing vocals
Maxine Waters - backing vocals
Oren Waters - backing vocals
Roger St. Kenerly - backing vocals
Pattie Brooks - backing vocals
Platypus - backing vocals
Olivia Foster - backing vocals
Karin Patterson - backing vocals
Stephanie Spruill - backing vocals
Venetta Fields - backing vocals
Dorothy Sheffield - backing vocals
Arthur G. Wright, David Blumberg, Jimmie Haskell - string and horn arrangements


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