Get Ready  by Rare Earth

Rare Earth was a band from Detroit that managed to blend blues rock, funk, progressive rock, and rhythm 'n' blues in their sound with particular ease and mastery most of the time. Their second album titled Get Ready remains the best showcase of the above.

It is an album consisting of six songs. Five of them were on the first side of the vinyl, among which the cover of bluesman John D. Loudermilk's Tobacco Road stands out, as well as their own composition that opens the album, Magic Key. The second side is taken over by a cover of The Temptations' Get Ready, which is a composition by Smokey Robinson. Rare Earth's performance is not a live recording, the voices and claps were added in the studio. The song exceeds 21 minutes in length and is the epitome of both progressive rock and progressive soul, while psychedelia also takes its place in the limelight. The single was limited to 2 minutes and 46 seconds (!)

The album reached No. 12 on the Billboard chart and slowly and steadily sold 1,000,000 copies. The production belongs to the band itself.