"Proud Mary", written by John Fogerty, was a CCR original and a big hit for them in '69, Biz. Two years later, in '71, Ike and Tina covered it and once again Proud Mary was a hit. Ike is the dude in the purple jacket at 1:25 of the video playing guitar or bass. Ike and Tina's version won them a Grammy in '72 for "Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Band." What a thrill to see Tina perform "Proud Mary" in '81 when she opened for the Stones. Others from Ike and Tina - "Nutbush City Limits", "River Deep Mountain High"(a masterpiece), "Honky Tonk Women", "I've Been Loving You Too Long", "Come Together".
Thank u for sharing this info, u were so blessed to see and experience this Queen! I just learned that she has left us, and I'm so sad, but yet the timing of this showing up on my Home page was just eerie and so somber...🥹😢 Thank u so much for your awesome reaction BizMatik! RIP Queen🙏🏽💗💗💗💐💐💐
@@earth2kosmickitty I just heard the awful news as well, my friend. Yes, eerie and somber is a good way to describe the feeling. But through her music and videos Tina will live forever. Look at Elvis and John Lennon. I don't believe the music legends we've lost are ever truly gone. RIP Tina, and thank you for the all the great music.
@@KennyY-bh3zl Thank u friend for your response and heartfelt words... I agree wholeheartedly that they are never truly gone, but live on forever through their music that thankfully will continue to be discovered for generations to come...I feel so very fortunate that I was one of the many people who were touched by her music, beauty, soul, and stage presence, which will continue to touch many generations to come. Thank u, and rest easy Queen T👑💗💗💗
Tina Turner is the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll". She has spanned over 6 decades of music. She started out with her husband Ike & had some hits such as "It's Gonna Work Out Fine", "River Deep-Mountain High", "Nutbush City Limits". But she had even bigger hits when she went solo such as "What's Love Got To Do With It", "Better Be Good To Me", "Private Dancer", "We Don't Need Another Hero (from Thunderdome)", "Typical Male", "The Best", "I Don't Wanna Fight", "GoldenEye" (James Bond movie), "It's Only Love" (duet with Bryan Adams).
Tina Turner was the show but Ike Turner put it all together. He wrote, produced and arranged most of their music. He was also the bandleader. He can't take credit for Tina's natural talent but he came up with the concept for her stage persona down to the her name. Ike was am established musician before he discovered Tina. His song "Rocket 88" is considered the first rock and roll song. He discovered many blues musicians as a talent scout, including Howlin' Wolf, Little Milton, Bobby "Blue" Bland and Rosco Gordon. Ike also played piano on B.B. King's first two No. 1 songs.
Others have already said the essentials about them but this really is only the second half of the stage act for this show. This was the Ed Sullivan Show so they're going to make it as G-rated as possible and it's going to be much shorter. But the one that they normally did, and there are several different live footage RU-vid videos available for this, and they're all good, and I loved this as well, I just really think you would love and should react to one of the longer versions where you get to see it, because she announces the whole thing and she runs the whole show, for that song in particular, and then she has a talking part at the beginning about how they're going to do it slow and then they're going to do it fast, and it's really sexy and all that. And then they do it slow, and it's so slow that you get to hear every bit of nuance in her voice, and that band was actually fantastic as well.
Ike Turner was a songwriter and lead guitarist when he worked with Tina Turner. But prior to that, he had his own band named Ike Turner And His Kings Of Rhythm. In the early-1950s, he was a session piano player, and a talent scout for the Meteor/Flair/Modern family of record labels for the Bihari Brothers in Memphis, Tennessee and Chicago, Illinois. He played piano on “Rocket 88” by Jackie Brenston And His Delta Cats, and “Hand In Hand”, by Elmore James.
You’ve got to watch the award-winning documentary 20 feet from stardom, if you haven’t already. It features some of the top back-up singers over the years, including Claudia lennear, the tall Ikette in that clip. Guarantee you will like it.
I was a college student in 1962 in Knoxville TN when some friends and I went over to the black part of town, when audiences had to be racially segregated by law, and saw the Ike and Tina Revue. It was mind blowing. At another time same year, we saw the James Brown show. That was back when most R & B performers played at small chitlin' circuit venues. This was before they "crossed over" to a wider audience. Baby, that music was pure gold!
love this song. watched your great RX this morning and thought "one day I'd love to meet Tina Turner", since she's just so awesome. Didn't realize at the time that later today that she passed away. RIP Tina. She's simply the best.
Tina's hit 'Simply the Best' - my favorite version is the one she did with Jimmy Barnes - awesome version and she sounds and looks incredible in that video
What a great choice, what a great performance. Ike and Tina had a truly toxic relationship. Tina's catalog is defiantly worth jumping into and her life story is one of hardship, tenacity and intestinal fortitude, also worth looking into.
This is exactly the same line-up I saw not long after at Amherst College, except Ike was not present, home with pneumonia or something. We didn't miss him. Did you notice the slight lyric change? They sang it "rolling DOWN the river" early on, changing it to ON the river later.
You're right, this was fire but watch her do it years later at Wembley stadium. She was astonishingly good. As for your question about Ike, he's the one at the back glowering at the girls.
When John Fogerty wrote "Proud Mary" 45 years ago, he had never cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis or hitched a ride on a riverboat queen. But he was on to something with those lyrics.
LOVE Tina Turner. She was a ball of energy and a great singer. PP Arnold (the beautiful background singer for Small Faces Tin Soldier) started out as an Ikette and writes about the experience in her recent memoir. I looked, but couldn't tell if one of these dancers was Pat - they were moving too fast! She writes that Ike was a hard taskmaster and they worked very hard to choreograph these chaotic seeming performances. She claimed that Ike was a terrible person who sexually abused her and the other Ikettes and beat Tina regularly. Ike was the boss and I believe he played guitar (or bass). PP escaped from them in London, and Tina finally had enough abuse and left him later, where she went on to blossom into the star she was surely meant to be. Tina is one of a kind and a true icon - respect !!
Live vid of "It's Only Love" with THE TINA in concert...joined onstage by Bryan Adams who wrote/performed the original. It gets all electric-attraction between the 2 that's palpable & fabulous. Memorable. Tina at her hot peak.
Ike Turner was the musical director of the "Revue" and Tina and the Ikettes were his all stars! Their routines were so physically demanding they changed the girls out every 90 days! But Tina was the constant. Check out "A Fool in Love", "Nut Bush City Limits" and "Bold Soul Sister (BSS)"!
Classic! "Proud Mary" was a huge hit for CCR in 1969. Ike Turner arguably released the first rock and roll single, "Rocket 88", in 1951. That's Claudia Lennear with the Ikettes, standing on the right in the close ups of the three of them doing that hand rolling gesture, and closest to Tina during the slow parts -- that got cut from the video. Claudia Lennear is often credited as the inspiration for The Rollng Stones "Brown Sugar" and David Bowie's "Lady Grinning Soul". She also sang back up for Joe Cocker, including on his legendary live 1970 album, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, recorded over two nights at the Fillmore East. Check out "The Letter" or "Feelin' Alright" from that album or "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window".
At 14 years old, I was treated to watching a performance of this on a HUGH projection screen, with Tina wearing a skin tight gold lame' micro-mini skirt with thigh high white patent leather boots. Life changing, man! 😍
Seems like BizMatik recorded this before Tina's Death with no reference to it.... RIP TINA. Doesn't get better than - Tina Live.... here at the end of the long running Ed Sullivan Show and pretty much HD and Color recorded live showing Tina was a STAR already despite her personal trauma with Ike. So lucky we have the archives of the Ed Sullivan Show over so many years of iconic performances from the show....
The Ike and Tina Turner Revue was one of the most exciting groups of the late '60s and early '70s, imo. Ike discovered and molded Tina into the great star she became. He was a great bandleader, funky guitarist and rock pioneer before Tina entered his life. (Ike is the guitarist in the purple suit.) He was abusive, and Tina had no choice but to leave him. She went on to have some huge solo hits, but I found her solo work to be slick pop, weak and disappointing after the volcano of energy that was the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. Nonetheless, Tina was a tremendous performer and a beloved personality who will be sorely missed.
He was the one that looked like he put a bowl over his head and got a haircut! He played guitar and unfortunately abused her until she had enough. He ran the band.
The wierd thing was this came out at like the same time as CCR s version... it was confusing at the time.... she could Rock....I think like produced and played I'm not sure what he played......
Ike was the b*&^ch slapper. Kept the girls in line. I don't think there is a studio version of this by Ike and Tina. I like the version where they do this song nice and easy.
Not sure if I seen this one. But I rarely watch any with ike in them. Woman beater is what like did. So glad she got away from him and had an amazing career.
Hey Man! We just lost Tina at age 83 a day after this post on You Tube. Sad....she was about 30 years old here. Ike was the band leader played guitar and sang. But Ike was also a wife beating asshole. She left him in 1978 finally.
