Proud Mary: The Best of Ike & Tina Turner
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Proud Mary: The Best of Ike & Tina Turner is a compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 by Ike & Tina Turner
Ike & Tina Turner
Ike & Tina Turner were an American rock & roll and soul duo, made of the husband-and-wife team of Ike Turner and Tina Turner in the 1960s and 1970s. Spanning sixteen years together as a recording group, the duo's repertoire included rock & roll, soul, blues and funk...

, released in 1991. Songs were originally recorded on Sue Records
Sue Records
Sue Records was founded in 1957 by Henry 'Juggy' Murray in New York City.Also within the group was Symbol Records and Sue also financed and distributed A.F.O.Records owned by Harold Battiste in New Orleans....

, Liberty Records
Liberty Records
Liberty Records was a United States-based record label. It was started by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Al Bennett as president and Theodore Keep as chief engineer. It was reactivated in 2001 in the United Kingdom and had two previous revivals.-1950s:...

, and United Artists Records
United Artists Records
United Artists Records was a record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1957 initially to distribute records of its movie soundtracks, though it soon branched out into recording music of a number of different genres.-History:...

 labels during the 1960s and 1970s.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 212 on Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is the title of a 2003 special issue of American magazine Rolling Stone, and a related book published in 2005.Related news articles:...

.

Personnel

  • Ike Turner
    Ike Turner
    Isaac Wister Turner was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. In a career that lasted more than half a century, his repertoire included blues, soul, rock, and funk...

     - vocals, guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Tina Turner
    Tina Turner
    Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...

     - vocals
  • The Ikettes
    The Ikettes
    The Ikettes were a trio of female backing vocalists for the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, a prominent American rhythm and blues group from the 1960s.-Career:...

     - backing vocalist
    Backing vocalist
    A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

    s
  • Ike Turner, Juggy Murray
    Juggy Murray
    Henry 'Juggy' Murray Jr. was an influential rhythm and blues music producer....

    , Mickey & Sylvia
    Mickey & Sylvia
    Mickey & Sylvia was an American R&B duo, composed of Mickey Baker and Sylvia Robinson. They were the first big seller for Groove Records.Mickey was a music instructor and Sylvia one of his pupils. Baker was inspired to form the group by the success of Les Paul & Mary Ford. They had a Top 20 hit...

    , Gerhard Augustin, Claude Williams - original producers

Track listing

  1. "A Fool In Love
    A Fool in Love
    " A Fool in Love" is a soul single released as the debuting single for Ike & Tina Turner, released in 1960 on the Sue Records label.-Production history:...

    " (mono
    Monaural
    Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction is single-channel. Typically there is only one microphone, one loudspeaker, or channels are fed from a common signal path...

    )
  2. "I Idolize You" (mono)
  3. "I'm Jealous" (mono)
  4. "It's Gonna Work Out Fine
    It's Gonna Work Out Fine
    "It's Gonna Work Out Fine" is a "rock-ish" soul song issued by the team of Ike & Tina Turner, released in 1961.The single, which featured support from another popular duo, Mickey & Sylvia, became another popular single by Ike & Tina, who were still supporting themselves off the success of their...

    " (mono)
  5. "Poor Fool" (mono)
  6. "Tra La La La La" (mono)
  7. "You Should'a Treated Me Right" (mono)
  8. "Come Together
    Come Together
    "Come Together" is a song by The Beatles written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song is the opening track on The Beatles' September 1969 album Abbey Road....

    "
  9. "Honky Tonk Women
    Honky Tonk Women
    "Honky Tonk Women" is a 1969 hit song by The Rolling Stones. Released as a single on 4 July 1969 in the UK and a week later in the US, it topped the charts in both nations.-Inspiration and Recording:...

    "
  10. "I Want To Take You Higher
    I Want to Take You Higher
    "I Want to Take You Higher" is a 1969 song by the soul/rock/funk band Sly & the Family Stone, the B-side to their Top 30 hit Stand!". Unlike most of the other tracks on the Stand! album, "I Want to Take You Higher" is not a message song; instead, it is simply dedicated to music and the feeling one...

    "
  11. "Workin' Together"
  12. "Proud Mary"
  13. "Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter"
  14. "Ooo Poo Pah Doo"
  15. "I'm Yours (Use Me Anyway You Wanna)"
  16. "Up In Heah
    Up In Heah
    Up In Heah or "Up In Hell" is the title of an Ike and Tina Turner song.It is a somewhat humorous forbidden fruit tale of the "corruption" of a society so simple that a young woman's only options are the restricted life of a religious fundamentalist or the socially isolated and "cold" life of a sex...

    "
  17. "River Deep - Mountain High
    River Deep - Mountain High
    "River Deep – Mountain High" is a 1966 single by Ike & Tina Turner. Considered by producer Phil Spector to be his best work, the single was successful in Europe, peaking at #3 in the United Kingdom, though it flopped on its original release in the United States...

    " (1973 Nutbush City Limits LP version)
  18. "Nutbush City Limits
    Nutbush City Limits
    "Nutbush City Limits" is a semi-autobiographical rock and roll song written and originally performed by Tina Turner in which she commemorates her rural hometown of Nutbush, Tennessee. Released June 1973, shortly before her separation from then-husband and musical partner Ike Turner, "Nutbush City...

    "
  19. "Sweet Rhode Island Red"
  20. "Sexy Ida (Part 1)"
  21. "Sexy Ida (Part 2)"
  22. "Baby Get It On"
  23. "Acid Queen" (Tina Turner solo)
  24. 1970 Liberty Turner (radio spot)
  25. Come Together (radio spot)
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