Come Together features beside original Ike Turner material also two cover versions from The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, as well as the very successful single I Want To Take You Higher, which was originally released from the band Sly & The Family Stone. A different version of the title track with an orchestra background instrumentation can be found on the soundtrack album All This And World War II from 1976. The album was reissued several times, among others in 2010 on the double CD Come Together / Nuff Said. In Germany, the album was reissued under the different title Pop Gold in 1978 with a different cover artwork. In Japan, it was originally released with an alternate gatefold cover and on red vinyl.
Producer: Ike Turner
Photographer: Rhonda Graham, Ed Caraeff
Release: May 1970 / 1978 (Pop Gold) / Various (Reissue)
Label: Liberty / Various (Reissue)
Format: Vinyl (Gatefold, Colored) / Cartridge / Reel Tape / Cassette / CD
Charts: USA: #13 (R&B)
Radio Promo
It’s been said: Give the public what they want. Give them your best. Give them one hundred percent. Give them entertainment in every sense of the word. Come Together - Ike & Tina Turner. Now it’s been done!
Tracks
- It Ain’t Right (Lovin’ To Be Lovin’) 2:38
- Too Much Woman (For A Hanpecked Man) 2:37
- Unlucky Creature 2:26
- Young And Dumb 2:53
- Honky Tonk Women 3:10
- Come Together 3:42
- Why Can’t We Be Happy 3:56
- Contact High 2:18
- Keep On Walking (Don’t Look Back) 2:12
- I Want To Take You Higher 2:55
- Evil Man 3:29
- Doin’ It 2:40
Singles
The title track and first single Come Together is a Beatles cover, with a song from the Rolling Stones on the flip side. Ike & Tina performed both songs live in their concerts and promoted it at the German TV-Show Beat Club. A live version was released on the album Live In Paris. Tina performed Honky Tonk Women also live in her Nice 'N' Rough solo concerts and together with the Rolling Stones in 1981 as well as with Mick Jagger at her Break Every Rule Tour in Japan.
The second single I Want To Take You Higher is a cover version from the band Sly and the Family Stone, promoted from the duo at several TV-Shows. Live versions are available on the album Live In Paris and the home video Live In '71. Thirty years later in 2000, Tina used this song as the opening track for her Twenty Four Seven Tour.
Come Together: January 1970 (USA) / February 1970 (Europe) / USA: #21 (R&B) / #57 (Pop)
I Want To Take You Higher: May 1970 (USA) / June 1970 (Europe) / USA: #25 (R&B) / #34 (Pop)
