Studio Productions (2012)

Studio Productions - New Orleans And Los Angeles 1963-65 (Ike Turner’s other sings step up to the microphone) features 27 recordings, among which 15 previously unissued Modern Recordings and some other tracks released previously on various Ace or Kent longplayer. The extensive liner notes in the 16-page booklet were written by Brian Nevill.

Jimmy Thomas: “I’ll tell you some strange stuff. I’ll tell you why you get confused with this stuff. Everybody gets confused. Look … Ike was a wheeler-dealer when it came to … I mean he knew how to juggle. In them days people like myself … in the organisation … we were just young, only Ike knew what was going on. And Ike would make masters and masters of other masters and wheel and deal and change names around and stuff … like, I wrote two or three Ikettes songs that sold pretty good and Ike stuck his name on ’em and stuff like that. Because he said, ‘Hey, don’t worry about it, I got the publishing company so the money’ll come’ … you don’t know until later on, a few years later you learn better and you do it different.

But, yeah, he sold a lot of masters more than one time. He re-recorded songs, you know, new masters of various songs. That’s why you see things on various labels, same song by a different name … We would be on the road, we did a lot of recording down in New Orleans, Cosimo’s studio … Whatever city we’d be in, we was always touring, we’d do some recording usually. Lay down some tracks. Odd places, population twenty and stuff like that. If there was a studio there and we was in town, Ike got some ideas, even if they ain’t new ideas, just re-record what we did last year, you know, whatever …”

Release: March 2012
Producer: Ike Turner
Design: Niall Mccormack
Label: ace
Format: CD