The song appeared on Billboard's Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart for three weeks in June 1979, with the artist credited as Lucchesi's first and middle initials, D. A., which he had used as his stage name as a regional performer.
[6] Whitburn had found a small ad for a Rascal label located in Detroit in a punk rock publication, but by then the address was a boarded-up vacant house.
[7] The entry in Billboard shows "Ready 'n' Steady" had a catalog number of 102; if there was a Rascal 101 released, it remains unknown to collectors.
In 2009, Whitburn published his latest Top Pop Singles book, which includes both Hot 100 and Bubbling Under singles—but D. A. was not listed at all.
The United States Copyright Office catalog contains a registration of a song titled "Ready & Steady" with authorship credited to D. A. Lucchesi and Jim Franks; it was registered on September 16, 1986, with a creation date of 1979.
Lucchesi (June 5, 1945 – August 18, 2005) was an American mortgage broker and part-time musician from California who performed locally as "D. A. and the Dukes.
As for how it appeared on the charts without any records for sales or airplay, according to Haney, a record promoter with a major label took an interest in the band and somehow managed to get the song listed on the Billboard chart; this makes "Ready 'n' Steady" the only song ever to appear on any Billboard listing without actually being released.