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

 * 1) "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" (Mitchell Botler, Norma Helms)
 * 2) "Love Is Comin' On" (Greg Wright, Karin Patterson, Ronnie Vann)
 * 3) "I Wanna Start My Life All Over Again" (Sandra Crouch, Sharon Anton)
 * 4) "Midnight Mona" (Greg Wright, Kain Patterson, Ronnie Vann)
 * 5) "Pardon Me" (Alfred McCrary, Sundray Tucker)
 * 6) "Everybody's Got a Story" (Sandra Crouch, Sharon Anton)
 * 7) "Strange" (Greg Wright, Karin Patterson, Olivia Foster)
 * 8) "Am I Expecting Too Much" (Curtis Anthony Nolen, Dana Meyers, Maureen Bailey, Raymond Crossley)
 * 9) "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