Barbara Mason – Yes, I’m Ready 1965

A beautiful record this.
Written and recorded by an eighteen year old Barbara Mason in 1965, “Yes, I’m Ready” hit number five on the US pop chart. It’s a perfect teen record. It’s achingly, painfully sincere.

Mason has had a long career since this first single though it’s probably still her best known song. If you buy a greatest hits or get it on a compilation it tends to be a later, smoother rerecording which to my ears has little of the original’s appeal.

Check out the great be-penguined Artic label! I guess nobody told them penguins only live in the southern-hemisphere…