Ike & Tina

I just watched the Tina Turner "Celebration" DVD and it has me itching for some classic Ike & Tina. Thing is I've never heard any good sounding Lp's or Cd's from the classic 1960-1972 period. I love "River Deep, Mountain High" and the early Sue stuff. I also dig the late 60's funky stuff. Any good sources for this stuff?

 

Good stuff! I have an EMI Legends of Rock N' Roll series CD entitled "Proud Mary, The Best of Ike and Tina Turner"...catalog number CDP-7-95846-2 (released in 1991). I'm not sure if it's still in print, but I still see it in stores from time to time. Nice sound on this one. Many CDs from this series were remixed by Ron Furmanek...this was not. All 23 tracks are the original mixes. They were remastered from the original 2-track and full-track masters. The tracklisting is as follows:

1 A Fool in Love
2 I Idolize You
3 I'm Jealous
4 It's Gonna Work Out Fine
5 Poor Fool
6 Tra La La La La
7 You Should'a Treated Me Right
8 Come Together
9 Honky Tonk Women
10 I Want To Take You Higher
11 Workin' Together
12 Proud Mary
13 Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter
14 Ooh Poo Pah Doo
15 I'm Your's (Use Me Anyway You Wanna)
16 Up In Heah
17 River Deep, Mountain High
18 Nutbush City Limits
19 Sweet Rhode Island Red
20 Sexy Ida (Part 1)
21 Sexy Ida (Part 2)
22 Baby-Get It On
23 Acid Queen

That's all but three of Ike and Tina Turner's Billboard chart hits. The three missing reached #95, #98, and #59. Nice CD if you come across it. Check the online retailers...somebody probably has it.

 

Dean,

I just checked cdnow. They've got the CD I was referring to above for $9.99. Here's a link to it:

http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserve...html/artistid=IKE+&+TINA+TURNER/itemid=328586

 

Ihave "working together" which has proud mary on it, from what I can recall it sounds good and I was justhappy just to see it on cd.

 

Great! I'll give it a try!

 

I have the '91 EMI I&TT CD and can also recommend it.

FYI, Steve mastered "It's Gonna Work Out Fine" on the '87 Garland/DCC "Foot Stompin' Oldies" CD ... but that one is hard to find.

I was fortunate enough to attend a private party in the early '70s where Ike & Tina and the Ikettes performed. I watched two sets standing less than 10' feet away from Tina ... she was awesome.