Bryan Adams: rhythm guitar, vocal
Keith Scott: rhythm guitar, lead guitar
Tommy Mandel: organ, synthesizer
Dave Taylor: bass
Mickey Curry: drums
Backing vocals: Bryan Adams, Lou Gramm

Produced by Bob Clearmountain and Bryan Adams.  Recorded by Bob Clearmountain, September 1982, at Little Mountain Sound (Vancouver) and the Power Station (New York).  Mixed by Bob Clearmountain.

Bryan Adams: acoustic guitar, vocal
Keith Scott: acoustic guitar
Patrick Leonard: piano
Tommy Mandel: keyboards
Davy Spillane: Irish whistle
Dave Taylor: bass
Mickey Curry: drums
Danny Cummings: percussion
Strings: Julliard School String Ensemble, arranged and conducted by Michael Kamen

Bryan Adams: acoustic guitar, vocal
Gary Breit: piano

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Bryan and I wrote "I'm Ready" in 1978, but he didn't record it himself for another four of five years. Instead, Ian Lloyd was the first artist to record the song (it appears on Ian's 1979 album "Goosebumps", produced by Bruce Fairbairn).

Bryan finally got around to recording "I'm Ready" for his third album "Cuts Like A Knife" in 1983.

I love the energy of that 1983 recording -- producer Bob Clearmountain captured a great Rock-and-Roll performance in the studio -- but I've always considered "I'm Ready" to be an unremarkable song with a half-baked lyric. In fact, Adams and I used to joke about the lyric's shallowness ...

One time, about 1985, Bryan was a guest on a radio talk-show in Vancouver, and fans were phoning in with questions. I called the station.  Disguising my voice (quite well, I thought) I asked Bryan: "What do the lyrics to 'I'm Ready' mean?". Bryan started to laugh and said, "Is that you, Vallance?"

Considering the low esteem in which we held the song, I was surprised when Bryan told me he planned on recording "I'm Ready" for his 1997 "MTV Unplugged" CD. I was even more surprised to learn that he'd re-arranged the song as a ballad, complete with Michael Kamen string arrangement. I didn't know what to expect, but when he invited me to his Warehouse studio and played the finished track, I was floored.  I loved it!

Bryan hired Madonna collaborator Patrick Leonard to arrange and produce the MTV session, and I think he did a fabulous job! At their first meeting, Patrick asked to hear every song Bryan had ever written. When they got to "I'm Ready", Patrick heard something that Bryan and I had previously missed. 

Patrick re-shaped our up-tempo rock track into a beautiful ballad.  In fact, it's now one of my favourite songs from the years I spent with Bryan.

In 2001 Bryan recorded an Italian version of "I'm Ready" -- "Io Vivo In Te" -- with a new lyric by the Italian recording artist Zucchero.