“Ready ‘n’ Steady” is a song by the artist D.A. that appeared on Billboard magazine’s Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart for three weeks in June 1979. The record, along with any information about it or the artist, has been notoriously hard to find, leading many collectors to consider it a “phantom record”.
The most recent edition of Jerry Osbourne’s Official Price Guide to Records (16th Edition, published 2002) lists the record (and a value of $75–125), along with an unnamed LP on the Frontline label, dated 1985 or 1986 (this is actually the album Fearful Symmetry by the Christian rock band Daniel Amos).
In the fourth edition of Joel Whitburn’s Bubbling Under the Hot 100 book, published in 2005, the entry for “D.A.” was amended with a note stating “the existence of this record and artist is in question,” and quotes a price of $150 as its value.
Finally, in 2009, Whitburn brought out his newest Top Pop Singles book, which includes both Hot 100 and Bubbling Under singles—but D.A. is not listed at all. In an interview with the website CelebrityAccess, Whitburn noted he still has not been able to find “Ready ‘n’ Steady” and said “I don’t think it exists.”
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