Golden Classics

Performer: Ike & Tina Turner
Distributor: Gotham Distributing Corp.

Notes: Includes liner notes by Mark Marymont. Liner Note Author: Mark Marymont. Unknown Contributor Role: Ike & Tina Turner. GOLDEN CLASSICS is a great compilation of Ike and Tina Turner's earliest work, originally recorded for the Sue label between 1960 and 1962. Highlights include "A Fool in Love," which marks Tina's first solo recording solo, and the often-covered "I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine," a sly sexually charged call and response number deliberately patterned along the lines of Mickey and Sylvia's "Love is Strange" (Mickey "Guitar" Baker actually subs for Ike on the vocal). Most of the production is appropriately gritty, but overall this is a textbook look at the evolution of R&B into soul.

While Ike Turner helped lay the foundations of rock & roll and Tina Turner went on to become one of the most successful female singers in pop history, some would argue that the duo made their best music together. Ike & Tina began working together in the early 1960s when Ike discovered the young singer Anna Mae Bullock and transformed her into the smoldering, seemingly unstoppable musical force known as Tina Turner. Their artistic run--which produced soul/R&B/pop classics such as "It's Gonna Work Out Fine," "River Deep Mountain High," and their near earth-moving version of "Proud Mary"--was eclipsed in intensity only by the tumultuous nature of their marriage. Both facets of their partnership came to an end in the mid 1970s.

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