IKE & TINA: Single

I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (1971)

I’ve Been Loving You Too Long is a cover version from Otis Reeding and was taken from the album Outta Season. This is the second release of the song with a different b-side track, after Ike & Tina performed it in the Rolling Stones movie Gimme Shelter. This live version from the Madison Square Garden in New York is available on the album Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! from 2009. In England, the track Crazy Bout’ You Baby was instead released as the a-side.

Producer: Bob Krasnow, Tina Turner
Release: July 1971
Label: Blue Thumb / Liberty
Format: 7“ Vinyl
Charts: USA: #120 (Pop)
Album: Outta Season

Billboard - July 10, 1971

From the „Outta Season“ LP, comes this potent cut of the Otis Redding blues ballad featured by the Turners in the Rolling Stones flick „Gimme Shelter.“ Blue Thumb 202