Ike & Tina Turner - Greatest Hits - Album

Greatest Hits

Album / Singles (1976)

Greatest Hits is an official greatest hits album, featuring all of Ike & Tina’s biggest hits and is also the very last album from the duo before they separated. The cover pictures were photographed by Norman Seeff at a session in 1975. At least four songs were released as singles in Europe.

In England, Spain and Australia, the album was released under the different title The Very Best of Ike & Tina Turner with a different cover picture and two additional tracks. Also in France it was issued with a different cover under the title Disque D’or, including the same tracks, but with a gatefold cover and in the former Republik of Czechoslovakia, it was released as The Best of Ike & Tina Turner, featuring three additional tracks and very nice different cover pictures as well as extensive liner notes from Fero Hora.

Producer: Ike Turner
Photographer: Norman Seeff
Release: March 1976 / Various (Reissue)
Label: United Artists / Liberty
Format: Vinyl / Cartridge / Cassette

Ike & Tina Turner - Greatest Hits - Album

Tracks

  1. Proud Mary (Edit) 3:15
    2. Written by John C. Fogerty / From the album 'Workin' Together'
  2. Come Together 3:41
    3. Written by John Lennon, Paul McCartney / From the album 'Come Together'
  3. Ooh Poo Pah Doo (Edit) 2:48
    4. Written by Jesse Hill / From the album 'Workin' Together'
  4. Nutbush City Limits 2:57
    5. Written by Tina Turner / From the album 'Nutbush City Limits'
  5. Sexy Ida (Part II) 3:01
    6. Written by Tina Turner / Single in 1974
  6. I Want To Take You Higher 2:55
    7. Written by Sylvester Stewart / From the album 'Come Together'
  7. River Deep, Mountain High (Live) 2:14
    8. Only on 'The Very Best...' / Written by P. Spector, J. Barry, E. Greenwich / From the album 'The World of Ike & Tina'
  8. It’s Gonna Work Out Fine 3:03
    9. Written by Sylvia McMinney, Rose Marie McCoy / Produced by Juggy Murray / From the album 'It's Gonna Work Out Fine'
  9. A Fool In Love 2:41
    10. Written by Ike Turner / From the album 'The Soul of Ike & Tina'
  10. Baby, Get It On 3:15
    11. Written by Ike Turner / From the album 'Acid Queen'
  11. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (Live) 8:31
    12. Written by O. Redding, J. Butler / From the album 'What You Hear Is What You Get'
  12. Sweet Rhode Island Red 3:08
    13. Only on 'The Very Best...' / Written by Ike Turner / From the album 'Sweet Rhode Island Red'

Baby, Get It On

In Europe, four songs from the album were released on double a-sided singles. Baby, Get It On was Ike & Tina’s last chart entry before their separation, taken from the album Acid Queen and Sexy Ida from the flip side was already a single in 1974 to promote Ike & Tina’s European tour. The live version was taken from the album What You Hear Is What You Get, recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York.

    7" single
  1. Baby, Get It On 3:15
  2. Sexy Ida (Part II) 3:01
    12" single
  1. Baby, Get It On (Disco Version) 5:33
  2. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (Live) 7:16

Release: 1976
Format: 7“ Vinyl / 12“ Vinyl

Proud Mary

was Ike & Tina’s biggest hit, originally released in 1971 from the album Workin’ Together. The flip side features the Beatles song Come Together from the same named album. The live version was taken from the album What You Hear Is What You Get, recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York.

  1. Proud Mary (Edit) 3:15
    2. From the 7" single
  2. Proud Mary (Live) 6:35
    3. From the 12" single
    Additional track:
  1. Come Together 3:45

Release: 1976
Format: 7“ Vinyl / 12“ Vinyl

Copyright by Norman Seeff

Norman Seeff

1975

„The footage was riveting. There was incredible energy and vitality between them. Tina was a whirlwind of freedom and spontaneity and she was teasing Ike, trying to get him to loosen up, but there was an edge about it. It was as if she was challenging him just a bit. It felt almost dangerous but at the same time ecstatically creative. Ike, on the other hand, was reserved and controlled. He was very charismatic. He had a regal, majestic quality about him, and a tremendous sense of who he was. A planned shot of the pair kissing didn’t pan out— the two never quite got there. I didn’t see love and affection between them as much as I saw an intense creative interaction.“

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