“Proper Right here Ready” was the second single from Marx’s Repeat Offender, after “Happy“. It entered the US Billboard Scorching 100 singles chart at quantity 44 within the week of July 8, 1989, and have become Marx’s third consecutive number-one single on August 12, 1989. The document spent three consecutive weeks at primary.[11] The music was Marx’s first of a number of to go to primary on the Grownup Modern chart. Licensed platinum on October 16, 1989, “Proper Right here Ready” grew to become Marx’s best-selling single. The music additionally reached primary on the Radio & Information CHR/Pop Airplay chart on August 4, 1989, remaining on the highest of the chart for 3 weeks. In the UK, the music was launched in August 1989 and peaked at quantity two, behind the Italian home music “Journey on Time” by Black Field.
The video for this music was directed by Jim Yukich, and produced by Paul Flattery. It seems to be filmed on the highway throughout Marx’s 1989 Repeat Offender Tour, however was all shot in Los Angeles. It options numerous black-and-white tour footage interspersed with coloration scenes of Marx taking part in the music to an empty auditorium with a grand piano at a (staged) soundcheck. Attributable to Marx’s hectic touring schedule, little or no time was obtainable to supply a video for this single, so different tour footage was compiled to make an official video for the monitor.