Let Me Touch Your Mind

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
Design: Norman Seeff / Dave Bhano
Release: January 1973 / Various (Reissue)
Label: United Artists / Various (Reissue)
Format: Vinyl (Gatefold) / Cassette / Cartridge / Reel Tape / CD

Tracks

Singles

Let Me Touch Your Mind was released worldwide, promoted from Ike & Tina at the Tonight Show in 1971 and live in their concerts. The track Early One Morning is a double a-sided single together with With A Little Help From My Friends, released without a picture cover in America, but with different covers in Europe. In contrast to the European release, it was promoted with Early One Morning in America, where it also reached the charts. It’s a cover song from Little Richard. Annie Had A Baby is a very rare single, only released in Portugal with the same cover picture as the album. It’s a cover from The Midnighters, originally released in 1954.

Billboard

January 27, 1973

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 Turners' 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.

February 03, 1973

Just about the same thing can be said about the latest Ike & Tina album as about their other recent-vintage successes on UA. It is burningly energetic soul with Tina's uniquely sexy showmanship way out front on display, in a well-conceived program of Turner originals and covers. Duos next hit could be the slow-cooking title tune or Tina's lecture on mating „Help Him“. Jacket packaging is a unique foldout poster with computer-processed abstractions.