Ike & Tina Turner - Let Me Touch Your Mind - Album

Let Me Touch Your Mind

Album / Singles (1973)

Let Me Touch Your Mind was recorded at Ike’s Bolic Sound studio in July 1972 and features two tracks written by Tina Turner. The album was originally released with a very special deluxe foldout cover, with many artistic pictures from Norman Seeff. He photographed Ike & Tina as well as Tina solo many times. The track „Born Free“ was taken from the same named Columbia motion picture. The album was reissued several times, among others in 2011 on the double CD Workin’ Together / Let Me Touch Your Mind.

Producer: Ike Turner, Andre Williams
Recorded: Bolic Sound, July 1972
Photographer: Norman Seeff
Release: January 1973 / Various (Reissue)
Label: United Artists / Various (Reissue)
Format: Vinyl (Gatefold) / Cassette / Cartridge / Reel Tape / CD

Ike & Tina Turner - Let Me Touch Your Mind - Album

Tracks

  1. Let Me Touch Your Mind 4:08
    2. Written by Oliver Sain
  2. Annie Had A Baby 2:43
    3. Written by H. Glover, L. Mann
  3. Don’t Believe Her 2:47
    4. Written by Ike Turner
  4. I Had A Notion 2:42
    5. Written by J. Morris
  5. Popcorn 3:04
    6. Written by Tina Turner
  6. Early One Morning 3:33
    7. Written by Little Richard
  7. Help Him 3:38
    8. Written by Tina Turner
  8. Up On The Roof 2:53
    9. Written by G. Goffin, C. King
  9. Born Free 3:18
    10. Written by J. Barry, D. Black
  10. Heaven Help Us All 3:09
    11. Written by R. Miller

Let Me Touch Your Mind

was released worldwide, promoted from Ike & Tina at the Tonight Show in 1971 and live in their concerts. A live version is available on the album The World of Ike & Tina from 1973.

  1. Let Me Touch Your Mind 4:06
  2. Chopper 2:34

Writer: Oliver Sain
Producer: I & TT Productions
Recorded: Bolic Sound, June 1972
Release: June 1972 (USA) / October 1972 (Europe)
Format: 7“ Vinyl

Early One Morning

is a cover from Little Richard and was only released in America without a picture cover. The b-side track With A Little Help From My Friends was instead a single in Europe.

  1. Early One Morning 3:38
  2. With A Little Help From My Friends 3:17

Writer: Little Richard
Producer: Ike Turner, Soko Richardson, Warren Dawson
Recorded: Bolic Sound, July 1972
Release: 1973
Format: 7“ Vinyl
Charts: USA: #47 (R&B)

Their smash new single — Ike & Tina Turner are back with one of their hottest singles to date. In the tradition of their classics It's Gonna Work Out Fine and A Fool In Love, Early One Morning features the Ikettes prominently with Tina’s sensual magnificence on a lyric line the finest this side of Proud Mary. (From their album Let Me Touch Your Mind, recorded at Bolic Sound Studios, Inglewood, CA). — Billboard - March 10, 1973
Ike & Tina Turner - Annie Had A Baby - Single

Annie Had A Baby

is a rare Portuguese single with two songs from the album and with the same cover art. The title track is a cover from The Midnighters, originally released in 1954. Ike & Tina performed the it live in their concerts, available on the album The World of Ike & Tina from 1973.

  1. Annie Had A Baby 2:43
  2. Help Him 3:38

Writer: H. Glover, L. Mann
Producer: Ike Turner, Andre Williams
Recorded: Bolic Sound, July 1972
Photographer: Norman Seeff
Release: 1973
Format: 7“ Vinyl

Ike Tina Turner Album Let Me Touch Your Mind Promo 01
Their new album, Let Me Touch Your Mind, finds Ike & Tina again doing standard songs, after a long period in which they recorded only originals. Hank Ballard’s „Annie Had A Baby“ meets Carole King’s „Up On The Roof,“ and even „Born Free“ fits in when the Turner’s exciting treatment is applied.

Nobody else in the world knows how to make music, like Ike & Tina. As unique as this cover design, it combines both the roughest and the smoothest qualities of rhythm & blues at its best to produce the unforgettable sound that made classics of songs like „Proud Mary“ and „Honky Tonk Women“ after nobody thought the original versions could be taken any farther. But then it never pays to underestimate Ike & Tina Turner. They’ll get you every time.

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