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unusual facts about Proud Mary: The Best of Ike & Tina Turner


The Acid Queen

It has also been included in some Ike & Tina Turner compilations including Proud Mary: The Best of Ike & Tina Turner (1991), even though it is officially a solo Tina Turner song.


A Fool in Love

"A Fool in Love" is the debut single for the team of Ike & Tina Turner.

Baron Wolman

Because of Wolman's virtually unlimited access to his subjects, his photographs of Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Iggy Pop, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Phil Spector, Jim Morrison, Ike & Tina Turner, and other musicians were the graphic centerpieces of Rolling Stones layout.

I Want to Take You Higher

Aside from the famous cover by Ike & Tina Turner, Australian rock band Noiseworks recorded the song as 'Take You Higher' with Michael Hutchence of INXS in 1992, for the third Noiseworks album Love Versus Money, releasing their version as a single in Australia.

Juggy Murray

1958 marked the release of an early Don Covay single, 'Believe It Or Not', and in 1960, Sue launched the collaboration of Ike & Tina Turner with 'A Fool In Love'.

Tamiko Jones

Jones became Burke's fiancée and manager for a time, and co-produced his single "Proud Mary".

The Stovall Sisters

They also toured with Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson of Sanford & Son and briefly performed as the Ikettes with Ike & Tina Turner, 1967.

The Young Punx

Some of their most well known mixes include "Hideaway" by De'lacy, "Stoned in Love" by Chicane and Tom Jones, "Come on get it on" by Studio B, "I like girls" by Hound Dogs and "Rocket (a natural gambler)" by Braund Reynolds along with tracks by the Scissor Sisters, Don Diablo, Ike & Tina Turner, The Similou, Krafty Kuts, Space Cowboy and Norman Cook's "Mighty Dub Katz".

Valley Music Theater

Among the performers who appeared at the Valley Music Theater were Sammy Davis Jr., Johnny Carson, Don Rickles, Woody Allen, Ray Charles, Art Linkletter, Robert Goulet, Mitzi Gaynor, Ike & Tina Turner, Peter, Paul & Mary, B.B. King, Lou Rawls, Three Dog Night, Jim Croce, and the Spiral Staircase.

Workin' Together

The album featured the duo's biggest-selling hit, a funk rock styled cover of "Proud Mary" and also featured another popular Ike & Tina song, the Ike Turner & Alliene Bullock-composed "Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter", later covered by Nina Simone.


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