Talk:Ready 'n' Steady

Efforts to improve this article
I have made several edits to this article in a legitimate attempt to improve it by clarifying certain facts about the subject and removing what appears to nothing but unfounded speculation on the part of one editor. The questionable passage begins with "Before his 1995 interview on the subject, some collectors speculated that the record never existed at all,"

There is no evidence that anyone questioned the existence, or had any reason to question the existence of this record prior to Whitburn's 1995 interview. In that interview he said only that he had yet to find a copy of the record but did not say he doubted its existence.

The passage continued: "and was in Whitburn's books only as a copyright trap."

Not only is there no evidence to support this, it is not even a possibilty since it couldn't have been a copyright trap by Whitburn because the record was in fact on the Billboard chart and not invented by Whitburn. The editor then tried to qualify his claim by adding "however, many collectors who read Whitburn's books without actually seeing the magazine didn't known this." All I can say is ignorance is no excuse and somehow seems unecyclopedic.

Another passage read: "Collectors have differing theories concerning "Ready 'N Steady": (1) it was listed by mistake and/or Billboard was actually referring to another record; (2) it couldn't have been a mistake, as it was listed for three consecutive weeks.

Who are these collectors? Even if they could be identified can they be considered a reliable source? This article contained numerous claims that are not supported by sources, cannot be verified, and are in all likelihood false. So far all my edits have been have been summarily reverted with no explanation or support for the previous version other than comments such as "sez you" and "move along." If there are any sound reasons for retaining these questionable claims and theories, please explain them here. Piriczki (talk) 00:28, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Once again my good faith edits have been undone without explanation and the highly questionable, if not impossible, claim of a copyright trap has been re-inserted. Just to be clear, the entry for "Ready 'n' Steady" in Whitburn's book accurately reflects what was published in Billboard magazine's Bubbling Under chart in 1979 and was not invented later by Whitburn and was therefore not a copyright trap. If "some collectors", whoever they are, wrongly speculated that it was, they were simply ignorant of the facts. This section violates WP:WEASEL, WP:BURDEN and WP:NOR and should be removed. Also, the remainder of the section detailing two instances where Whitburn did insert copyright traps in other books is irrelevant to the subject of this article. Piriczki (talk) 13:46, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

External links modified
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Ready 'n' Steady Found
Just heard Ready 'n' Steady on KFAI radio program Crap From The Past. Host Ron "Boogie Monster" Gerber with guest Paul Haney - Record Research Inc. Paul Haney obtained a copy from cassette to disc of Ready 'n' Steady from Jim Franks And was "premiered" on "Crap From The Past" on July 8, 2015. show will be archived at http://www.crapfromthepast.com/ Not sure how the page should be updated with new information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ten8ciousb (talk • contribs) 04:58, 9 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the link. Their song "Don't Let Go" was on Soundcloud a couple years ago but I don't see it there anymore. Piriczki (talk) 12:40, 9 July 2016 (UTC)