Ready, Willing, and Able | |
Artist: | Doris Day |
Type: | single |
B-Side: | Hold Me in Your Arms |
Composer: | Al Rinker, Floyd Huddleston, and Dick Gleason |
Released: | 1954 |
Length: | 2:26 |
Label: | Columbia |
"Ready, Willing, and Able" is a popular song written by Al Rinker, Floyd Huddleston, and Dick Gleason.[1] The song was performed by Doris Day in the 1954 musical film Young at Heart,[2] The song was released in November 1954 together with "Hold Me in Your Arms", both from the same film.[3]
The song is included on the soundtrack album from the movie. Doris Day's recording reached No. 7 on the UK chart in 1955.[4]
The song was also recorded by Eve Boswell in the United Kingdom, in a version where she gets the lyric wrong and as a result loses a rhyme.