Proud Mary And Other Hits

Performer: Ike & Tina Turner
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Proud Mary and Other Hits is a skimpy nine-track collection of Ike & Tina Turner's early-'70s work for Liberty Records. It is undoubtedly awe-inspiringly tough and funky music from the dynamic duo: "Proud Mary" is a stone classic, "Sexy Ida" isn't far behind, and their inspired take of "I Want to Take You Higher" almost trumps Sly's original. Between Ike's freaked-out productions and Tina's raw vocals, they weren't just walking the line dividing rock and funk, they were dynamiting it. The problem with this collection is that nine songs aren't nearly enough. Only someone who wants just the barest hint of what the Turners could do might be satisfied. Everyone else needs to look elsewhere to get his or her fill. ~ Tim Sendra

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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