Barbara Mason (born August 9, 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an Am… Read Full Bio ↴Barbara Mason (born August 9, 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American soul[1] singer with several R&B and pop hits in the 1960s and 1970s, best known for her self-written 1965 hit song "Yes, I'm Ready".

Mason initially focused on songwriting when she entered the music industry in her teens. As a performer, though, she had a major hit single with her third release in 1965, "Yes, I'm Ready" (#5 pop, #2 R&B). She had modest success throughout the rest of the decade on the small Arctic label, run by her manager, top Philadelphia disc-jockey, Jimmy Bishop. She reached the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 again in 1965 with "Sad, Sad Girl", and "Oh How It Hurts" in 1967. A two-year stay with National General Records, run by a film production company, produced one album and four singles which failed to find success.[citation needed]

In the 1970s, Mason signed to Buddah Records and toughened her persona, singing about sexual love and infidelity with an uncommon frankness at the time in songs like "Bed and Board", "From His Woman to You", and "Shackin' Up" and would interrupt her singing to deliver straight-talking 'raps' about romance. She also continued to write some of her new material. Curtis Mayfield produced her on a cover version of Mayfield's own "Give Me Your Love", which restored her to the pop Top 40 and R&B Top Ten in 1973; "From His Woman to You" (the response to Shirley Brown's single "Woman to Woman") and "Shackin' Up", produced by former Stax producer Don Davis in Detroit were also solid soul sellers in the mid-1970s.

Mason also sang vocals on the tracks "Sheba Baby," "I'm In Love With You," "A Good Man Is Gone," and "She Did It" on the soundtrack for the 1975 Pam Grier film, Sheba, Baby.[2]

After leaving Buddah Records in 1975 after two top ten R&B hits, she only dented the charts periodically on small labels. They included "I Am Your Woman, She Is Your Wife", which was produced in 1978 by Weldon McDougal who had produced her first major success, "Yes I'm Ready", and later in 1984, "Another Man" on West End Records.

Mason started to concentrate on running her own publishing company in the late 1980s, but continues to perform occasionally. She released a new CD, Feeling Blue, in September 2007. Mason was still performing to sold-out audiences in 2016. Her most recent show was at the Terrance Theater in Long Beach, California. Mason was inducted into the Soul Music Hall of Fame on March 1, 2016.

Give Me That Love
Barbara Mason Lyrics

Ooh, baby, ooh, baby
Ooh, baby, ooh, baby

Want you so bad
Can't even get mad at you
What a thing, you really swing
And I feel so good, it's true

You said you're gonna make my lung
Start breathing in the air

Through loving you
I really know, child
Just how much I care

Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love
Ooh, baby

Give me such a tingle
All down along my side
I can't remove my?
Give love all the night

I want to be part of you
Keep our feeling tight
Keep the faith in all
Cause everything is alright

Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love
Ooh, baby

I need your love
Ooh, baby
I want your love
Ooh, baby
Ooh, baby

Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love
Ooh, child

Prepared for tomorrow
Do what you have to do
I'll share the weight
Whatever fate plans
To bring to you

Don't worry 'bout no attitude
You just be yourself
Could live with you in solitude
And need no one else

Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

Written by: JAY KEVIN LOGAN, PERRI ARNETTE REID

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@intergalacticchicano

1y↑1

Even after almost 4 decades of listening to her music, her music still lightyears ahead of a lot music now a days. Souldies are forever.

@HippieGoddess142

11y↑4

This should have been longer. I love this woman's voice.

@QueenAnitaSoul

It
Is
Longer

@nulightpros136

could use a remix.

@veronica0902

7y↑26

I love both Barbara Mason and Curtis Mayfield version.

@mathiasbanan

7y↑1

Check out the Sisters Love version then :)

@QueenAnitaSoul

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@@mathiasbanan
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@razorbackfilms

5y↑1

Veronica Moore I never heard this until 2008 listening to a rebroadcast of a t 40 on satellite radio I remember Casey saying that this was the third song from Superfly to hit the top 40. I was so locked into Curtis I thought he had a song I missed. Anyway here it is.

@foxystream5854

👍🔥🔥🔥🔥

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@sauquoit13456

5y↑16

On this day in 1972 {December 23rd} Barbara Mason performed "Give Me Your Love" on the Saturday-afternoon syndicated television program, 'Soul Train'...
At the time "Give Me All Your Love" was at #45 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart, nine weeks later it would peak at #9 {for 2 weeks} and it spent sixteen weeks on the chart...
It reached #31 on Billboard's Top 100 chart and stayed on the chart for twelve weeks...
Between 1965 and 1984 the Philadelphia native had sixteen records on the Hot R&B Singles chart; four made the Top 10, besides "Give Me Your Love", her three other Top 10 records were "Yes, I'm Ready"" {#2* for one week in 1965}, "From His Woman to You" {#3 in 1974}, and "Shackin' Up" {#9 in 1975}...
Ms. Mason celebrated her 71st birthday four months ago on August 9, 2018...
* The week "Yes, I'm Ready" was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "I Can't Help Myself" by the Four Tops...

@foxystream5854

2y↑1

Bed and Board 😉🔥🔥🔥🔥

@bennyadler5882

Vermettya Roysters leads top 'em all (Sister's Love). I'm a huge fan of Barbara, just being straight.

@cmcduffcduff7630

8y↑16

This is one of the most sensual and erotic tunes ever recorded.Great Stuff,RIP Curtis Mayfield.

@rickyleftridge6981

4y↑4

I love Sweet Barbara Mason, she still today has a beautiful voice.

@kerryeberrie6587

2y↑1

Loved both versions, but seems like the music is amped up in Barbara's version and her soprano voice riding the top is smoking..thank you for posting this rich, clear version

@AliciaBrown19882011

11y↑3

Another great classic introduced to me by my great Mother!

@DaveWollenberg

14y

Hit #31 in Billboard. God bless!

@vanessagwynn5815

2y↑3

This is so funky

@michaelalexander43

3y↑1

I managed record it on to my homemade cassette off the radio back in the day.

@danieldowcoldchillin

I remember this !! Still jamming this in 2022 😎

@DiscoHank

12y↑1

Thing about it is, Curtis wrote it from the perspective of the female lead character in Superfly, so it kind of makes sense that it'd sound really good with a woman singing it. I prefer the groove and the drama and the way he built the music up on "Superfly", with those Wes Montgomery style guitar licks, but I like the way this beat is more uptempo and how he builds in his soundtrack groove toward the end of this version

@wadegenwright4629

4y↑3

This Awesome Version By The Fantabulous Barbara Mason Will Trully Split Your Spleen To Pieces Second To None. O Also Liked Curtis Mayfield Smash

@veronica0902

12y↑2

SHE'S ROCKING THE 'FRO!!!

@Youknowmeozone

46w↑1

I love Curtis but this version goes hard . One time for b mason

@foxystream5854

My Jam 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@Rockchisler

11y↑2

Gotta go dig for it someone has it at one of the mom and pop record stores.

@ReeseMac

My favorite version followed by Sisters Love's version.

@nufaralb333

10y↑1

Excellent !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@1080GotIt

11y↑1

Pure DopeNess!

@vincentthomas9817

What hurt Barbara version Curtis was a superstar and he did the score for Super Fly, which was a mega hit

@QueenAnitaSoul

My
Favorite
👑 Queen

@CheckMate657879

5y↑1

I love Barbara Mason but have to go with Curtis' version of this song. His is much more intense - and so should be given that he wrote the soundtrack to Super Fly.

@bobbybuckhead

💥💥💥

@DrexelRivers

2y↑2

Epmd did this sample proud !

@dennissievert5731

The version is shorter, she's more on the point than Curtis...

@patrickamos4632

4y↑5

Only DJ skratch from epmd could use this track andake it funky kids do your homework on epmd they bring the funk rap need to pay homage to them

@NuJerzyDevil973

Thank you for this 👍👍👍👍

@FunkMobbMack

12y↑1

damn. this woman is gettin hers!

@LMaxx5

Wooow!

@marcusulrich3482

6y↑1

She my favorite

@sherieberrie1479

8y↑7

The sex/love scene between Ron O'Neal and Sheila Frazier in the bathtub is one of the best I've ever seen on film. It was real. This song was the background to the scene...imagine....

@joannjohnson2481

5y↑1

Yes🔥🔥🔥🔥

@QueenAnitaSoul

5y↑1

Yes

@rrickrude

11y

Got here from Rick Ross. Amazing but that's how I got here it is true, and, I love it.

@Demebeso714

13y

gimme your luv..1973..i was in 8th grade i remember that part..hahah

@johnruben1963

13y↑3

this song come out the early 70s it was on super bad soul train lp that sold on tv and one of my fav of her sex hits from the 70s johnny quiroz

@kerrykeane4623

I had that Soul Train album too! This was my favorite track on it.

@soulstarcris9109

💖

@EnryMusica

13y

Good from the album cover ; )

@ccalccol

8y↑2

entered Billboard Jan 13, 1973.. reached #31

@pmoverecords

This song is so sexxxy!!!

@crisastemisofficial5665

<3 <3 <3

@mastertung7

13y

@doctanner1 nah, this had to be after 73, i do believe this was apart of the superfly soundtrack in that year, so this was probably a few years after that ,i read it was recorded in sigma sound, with gamble and huff dem deh.in philly

@divadrrek6412

Yes she's ready

@dorailcrayton3676

she sounds funny😆

@QueenAnitaSoul

No
U
Do

@tarekali1932

dilla dilla beats beats

@djmichaeltimex4511

9y↑9

Rick Ross......Pfffftttttt! EPMD brought me here.

@susanfit47

EPMD and Hurricane G brought me here.

@FlukeDogg08

RIP Hurricane G

@nastydudehall9050

11y↑1

COPY NOW>>EPMD CANT HEAR NOTHING BUT THE MUSIC

@elohim77

3y↑1

Cant hear nothing but the music im slipping go ask epmd

@FlukeDogg08

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@sandralawson18

13y

Sandra Dee Lawson.

@oldiesmusic76

13y

@doctanner1 1973

@mrkhrum

13y

milky

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