The Edge features the very last Ike & Tina recordings with lead vocals from Tina Turner on the a-side and Ike Turner compositions without Tina on the b-side. The instrumental part was played by Home Grown Funk, a popular Memphis group in the '70s. After Tina’s comback in 1984, all five songs with lead vocals by Tina have been reissued on a Mini album.
Some songs can be found on an early demo record from 1976, maybe for a planned album which never materialised because of the split of the duo. Another demo from 1980 features a very different tracklist, including only songs with lead vocals from Ike Turner - some of them still unavailable anywhere else. Maybe The Edge was initially intended as an Ike Turner solo album.
Producer: Ike Turner
Release: 1976 (Demo) / 1980 / 1984 (Mini) / 2017 (CD)
Label: Fantasy
Format: Vinyl / Cassette / CD
Tracks
- Shame, Shame, Shame 2:59
- Lean On Me 3:32
- Philadelphia Freedom 4:10
- Use Me 3:08
- Only Women Bleed 3:56
- Party Vibes 4:37
- Lum Dum 3:27
- No Other Woman 3:31
- I Can’t Believe 3:27
- I Don’t Want Nobody 3:37
Singles
Party Vibes with vocals from Ike Turner was released in 1980 as a promotional single in North America and reached the Billboard dance chart. The b-side track Shame, Shame Shame with vocals from Tina is a cover version from Shirley And Company and was instead a single two years later in Europe. Tina promoted it at the Willem Ruis Lotto Show. Lean On Me, a cover from Bill Withers was a single in 1984, taken from the album Mini.