Name: Legends of American Music: Ike and Tina Turner [Box]
Brand: Time Life/ Wea
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Album: Legends of American Music: Ike and Tina Turner [Box]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Fool in Love, A
2)	I Idolize You
3)	I'm Jealous
4)	It's Gonna Work out Fine
5)	Poor Fool
6)	Don't Play Me Cheap
7)	Tra La La La La
8)	You Shoulda Treated Me Right
9)	Good Good Lovin'
10)	Stagger Lee and Billy
11)	Two Is a Couple
12)	I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)
13)	I Can't Believe What You Say (For Seeing What You Do)
14)	Fool for a Fool, A
15)	Something's Got a Hold on Me
16)	Tell Her I'm Not Home
17)	Finger Poppin'
18)	I'm Gonna Do All I Can (To Do Right by My Man)
19)	River Deep, Mountain High
1)	Hunter, The
2)	I've Been Loving You Too Long
3)	Bold Soul Sister
4)	Come Together
5)	Honky Tonk Women
6)	I Want to Take You Higher
7)	Workin' Together
8)	Proud Mary
9)	Get Back
10)	Ooh Poo Pah Doo
11)	I'm Yours (Use Me Any Way You Wanna)
12)	Up in Heah
13)	Feel Good
14)	Early One Morning
15)	Nutbush City Limits
16)	Sexy Ida, Pt. 1
17)	Sweet Rhode Island Red
18)	Baby-Get It On
19)	Acid Queen
1)	Intro/Soul Serenade
2)	Everday People
3)	Medley: Gimme Some Lovin'/Sweet Soul Music
4)	Son of a Preacher Man
5)	I Heard It Through the Grapevine
6)	Respect
7)	Medley: There Was a Time/African Boo's
8)	Funky Street
9)	Fool in Love, A
10)	Medley: All I Could Do Was Cry/Please, Please, Please/Baby, I Love You
11)	Goodbye, So Long

Album: Legends of American Music: Ike and Tina Turner [Box]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Fool in Love, A
2)	I Idolize You
3)	I'm Jealous
4)	It's Gonna Work out Fine
5)	Poor Fool
6)	Don't Play Me Cheap
7)	Tra La La La La
8)	You Shoulda Treated Me Right
9)	Good Good Lovin'
10)	Stagger Lee and Billy
11)	Two Is a Couple
12)	I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)
13)	I Can't Believe What You Say (For Seeing What You Do)
14)	Fool for a Fool, A
15)	Something's Got a Hold on Me
16)	Tell Her I'm Not Home
17)	Finger Poppin'
18)	I'm Gonna Do All I Can (To Do Right by My Man)
19)	River Deep, Mountain High
1)	Hunter, The
2)	I've Been Loving You Too Long
3)	Bold Soul Sister
4)	Come Together
5)	Honky Tonk Women
6)	I Want to Take You Higher
7)	Workin' Together
8)	Proud Mary
9)	Get Back
10)	Ooh Poo Pah Doo
11)	I'm Yours (Use Me Any Way You Wanna)
12)	Up in Heah
13)	Feel Good
14)	Early One Morning
15)	Nutbush City Limits
16)	Sexy Ida, Pt. 1
17)	Sweet Rhode Island Red
18)	Baby-Get It On
19)	Acid Queen
1)	Intro/Soul Serenade
2)	Everday People
3)	Medley: Gimme Some Lovin'/Sweet Soul Music
4)	Son of a Preacher Man
5)	I Heard It Through the Grapevine
6)	Respect
7)	Medley: There Was a Time/African Boo's
8)	Funky Street
9)	Fool in Love, A
10)	Medley: All I Could Do Was Cry/Please, Please, Please/Baby, I Love You
11)	Goodbye, So Long

Performer Notes

Disc 3 includes the complete IN PERSON LP (1969).
Liner Note Author: Colin Escott.
Recording information: Basin Street West, San Francisco, CA.
For an act as iconic as Ike & Tina Turner, they sure haven't been given a CD compilation worthy of their stature. The main problem has always been that the duo, like many early R&B and rock & roll artists, recorded for a variety of labels, including many independents, which makes cross-licensing the key tracks a headache, and an expensive one at that. Time/Life's three-disc box The Ike & Tina Turner Story 1960-1975 comes close to being that long-awaited definitive set. It's close enough to satisfy, since it's certainly the easiest way to get the great majority of their best material, yet it falls just short of being the final word due to that long-standing problem of cross-licensing. Here, the blind spot is the mid- to late '60s, as this is missing the legendary Phil Spector production of "River Deep-Mountain High" and cuts that often show up on EMI-affiliated compilations, such as "Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter" and other minor charting singles. These songs, especially "River Deep," are missed, but their absence hurts the set only slightly, because this traces their story very well and has all the other major hits and singles. Essentially, this set breaks down to three parts: the first disc concentrates on the first half of the '60s (even adding the Ikettes' "I'm Blue [The Gong-Gong Song]" into the mix), while the second is the early '70s and the third is devoted to the 1969 album Live...in Person, which finds its first CD release here. This gives the box a narrative and it also makes each disc very listenable on its own terms, as the first disc is hard-driving early R&B while the second is funkier and the final showcases their still-stunning live prowess. This listenability, combined with the comprehensiveness of the set -- it is as complete as the compilers could make it -- is why The Ike & Tina Turner Story 1960-1975 is the best overall Ike & Tina set yet assembled. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine