Festival of Live Performances features live recordings from different concerts and includes the wonderful James Brown cover Please, Please, Please, which was a single in 1964. The album was originally released in 1970 and was re-issued several times on different labels and different cover pictures. In Europe it was issued under the title On Stage (Vol. 1) in 1974 with the same songs, but in a slightly different order. In 1977, it was reissued as the two record set A Fool In Love, together with the album The Soul of Ike & Tina. In Spain, it was released in 1979 without a title and it was also available as a two disc set including the album So Fine under the title The Great Album in France.
Producer: Ike Turner
Release: March 1970 / Various (Reissue) / 2007 (CD)
Label: Kent / Disques Motors (France) / Joker (Italy) / Circulo (Spain) / Various (Reissue)
Format: Vinyl / Cassette / CD
Tracks
- A Fool In Love (Live) 2:43
- He Is Mine (Live) 3:47
- Stop The Wedding / Please, Please, Please (Live) 8:30
- If I Can’t Be First (Live) 2:21
- My Man (He’s A Loving Man) (Live) 3:33
- I Know (You Don’t Love Me No More) (Live) 3:27
- It’s Gonna Work Out Fine (Live) 2:32
- If I Only Had You aka The Way You Love Me (Live) 1:48
- I Can’t Stop Loving You (Live) 3:29
- You Should Have Treated Me Right (Live) 3:22
Single
In Germany, a single was released in 1972 on the Bellaphon label with two tracks from the album, maybe to promote Ike & Tina’s German concerts as part of their European tour. It features the duos debut single A Fool In Love and the Barbara George cover I Know (You Don’t Love Me No More).
Liner Notes
Ike & Tina Turner are perhaps the greatest husband and wife team to ever perform in the Rock & Soul division of the pop music field. They have led that division for more years than is polite to recall, and today they are in greater demand than ever for live appearances, TV shows, and are maintaining a steady flow of best selling albums.
More than anything else the key word to their success would have to be entertainment. It isn't necessarily their choice of material. They are a gas whether it is a low-down and dirty blues ballad or a stone rocker, and anything in between. It isn't just Ike's fantastic musical abilities and ideas, his arrangements and leadership. It is not only due to the fact that Tina is backed by the Ikettes, by themselves one of the most successful female groups ("Peaches 'N Cream" and "I'm So Thankful" are but two of their hits). And it is not only that Tina is one of the great vocal stylists in this field.
Not that all of these ingredients alone might make any team successful, but add to all of these the verve, energy and love of entertaining and you have this team, Ike & Tina, that are truly incomparable in todays music.
If you have ever seen any appearances of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, or Ike & Tina In Person (it isn’t that difficult to assume... they have repeatedly appeared all over the United States and in Europe) then you know what we mean. The band swings, Ike grooves, the Ikettes do their thing, and Tina ENTERTAINS. Tina, a great looker off stage as well as on, is pure electricity when she is working. She sings with her sock-it-to-em voice. But she also sings with all the rest of her. She gives every song everything she’s got, and she has plenty. Her dancing, her facial expressions, her body movements... she is completely wrapped up in each number. It is wonderful entertainment to see and to hear.
And that is what this album is all about. A rare collection of some of the great songs by Ike and Tina, with the original Ikettes, all done in live performance. You don’t have to buck the crowds, or worry about parking the car. It wont cost you $5.50 a ticket. Just put it on your phonograph and close your eyes. It is a fabulous Ike & Tina show... but you are there.
Robert J. Demain