Ready Steady Who

Ready Steady Who
EP by The Who
Released 11 November 1966
Genre Rock
Length 11:05
Label Reaction
Producer Kit Lambert, The Who
The Who chronology
My Generation
(1965)
Ready Steady Who
(1966)
A Quick One
(1966)

Ready Steady Who is a 7" EP by The Who, released only in the UK on 11 November 1966. The title refers to a Ready Steady Go! TV special the band had recently appeared in, but the EP contains different recordings to those performed on the TV show. These consist of two original songs by Pete Townshend, as well as covers of the theme from the Batman TV series and Jan and Dean's "Bucket T". Also included is a cover of The Regents' "Barbara Ann", a song whose famous arrangement by The Beach Boys The Who follows more closely.

The original EP credits the song "Batman" to Jan Berry, Don Altfeld (misspelled as "Altfield") and Fred Weider. The song was actually written by Neal Hefti, and is not a cover of the Jan and Dean-embellished version. The credit was corrected in the liner notes to the 1995 CD release of A Quick One.

All of the songs are available as bonus tracks on the 1995 reissue CD of A Quick One, except for "Circles", which differs from the version on the 2002 deluxe version of the My Generation LP, and can be found on Two's Missing.[1]

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Track listing

Side one
  1. "Disguises" (Pete Townshend) – 3:10
  2. "Circles" (Townshend) – 2:27
Side two
  1. "Batman" (Neal Hefti) – 1:22
  2. "Bucket 'T'" (Don Altfeld, Roger Christian, Dean Torrence) – 2:07
  3. "Barbara Ann" (Fred Fassert) – 1:59

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