Ike & Tina Turner’s Greatest Hits is not really a greatest hits album, but a sampler with selected live tracks from the album Live! The Ike & Tina Turner Show and The Ike & Tina Turner Show Vol. 2, both from 1965. In England, it was released in 1973 with a different cover and in Germany in 1972 under the different title Star Collection with two additional tracks and two different cover pictures. In Australia, it was released in 1975 with the original track listing as Greatest Hits but with the same cover as one of the German releases.
Producer: Robert A. "Bumps" Blackwell
Release: July 1969 (USA) / 1972, 1973 (Europe) / 1975 (Australia) / 1999 (CD)
Label: Warner
Format: Vinyl / Cartridge / Reel Tape / CD
Tracks
- Tell The Truth (Live) 2:43
- Good Times (Live) 2:52
- You Are My Sunshine (Live) 3:16
- It’s All Over (Live) 3:21
- All I Can Do Is Cry (Live) 5:35
- Something’s Got A Hold On Me (Live) 3:43
- Early In The Morning (Live) 2:19
- I Can’t Stop Loving You (Live) 3:39
- Somebody (Somewhere) Needs You (Live) 2:40
- A Fool For You (Live) 5:17
A jumbo helping of soul as Ike & Tina Turner turn up the heat on their Greatest Hits
Liner Notes
When I say soul, I think of greasy food — I mean hot, greasy food. What do you think of when I say soul?
Tina Turner’s question was addressed to an experienced but insanely enthusiastic Dutch audience in the immense Symphony Hall in Amsterdam, Holland. Their response to Tina’s query was ear-shattering and immediate. It included random shoutings of the American words „soul music“, and grease amidst great decibels of Dutch emotions. It was obvious that the appearance of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in Amsterdam had become a milestone in international communication.
Communication is the keynote here, Ike and Tina do it. Their music underlines language and culture. With Tina’s voice as a spearhead, they penetrate to the basic, to those feelings and emotions which though buried in some of us, are present in all of us. Words are part of the feeling, but no dictionary is needed to experience this album, it’s all in front of you.
Ike and Tina have been around for a few years now, and this collection of their past hits is a powerful summary of hundreds of shows and of a thousand moments of pure, emotional, live communication. For some listeners, this album will be a completely new sensation and for others, it will be a necessary reprise. But no matter who you are, you will feel this LP. Whether it is putting a cutting edge on Sam Cooke („Good Times“), doing ultimate justice to Ray Charles („A Fool For You“) or singing their own souls („It’s All Over“), Ike and Tina Turner never fail to penetrate. — Christopher Bateman