IKE & TINA TURNER DYNAMITE COLLECTR'S ITEM

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Nov 29, 2006 Sold Date

Nov 19, 2006 Start Date

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A REAL COLLECTOR'S ITEM

Ike & Tina Turner

DYNAMITE

on SUE RECORDS #LP 2004

Dynamite
IKE Turner, TINA Turner

The item you are bidding on is an ORIGINAL 1963

(NEAR-MINT), copy of :

IKE & TINA TURNER, "DYNAMITE"

on SUE records

#2004 (MONO)

ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING
THIS IS AN ORIGINAL, U.S. PRESSING, NOT A REISSUE, IMPORT, OR COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
EARLY, RARE, "SUE RECORDS" IN WHITE PRINT (NOT BLACK), LEFT OF CENTER HOLE ON ORANGE LABEL WITH TITLES IN BLACK PRINT.
ORIGINAL COVER, MADE OF THICK CARDBOARD (AMERICAN STYLE)
"WHAT D'YA KNOW"> Ike & Tina first recorded as "Ike and Tina Turner" in 1960 after a singer failed to appear for a session. Tina stood in for the missing singer, and the song, "A Fool in Love" became a hit in 1960 (#27 pop, #2 R&B). Ike then developed his entire revue around Tina. With nine musicians and three scantily clad female background singers called "the Ikettes", the Ike and Tina Turner Revue became a major soul act.
BEAUTIFUL WEAR-FREE LABELS.

(***PLEASE SEE THE PICTURE OF THE COVER AND LABELS BELOW***) >NOTE: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT an image from a previous auction. What you see is what you get.

History

There was a time when the Ike and Tina Turner Revue was one of the hottest, most durable, and potentially most explosive of all R&B ensembles. Fronted by Tina, with one of the rawest, most sensual and impossibly dynamic voices in Black music, the Ike And Tina Revue was an ensemble that dripped musical discipline while manifesting nearly unbearable tension, eventually giving way to wave upon wave of catharsis. The Ike and Tina Turner Revue were rivaled only by James Brown and The Fabulous Flames in terms of musical spectacle.

Ike Turner was born November 5, 1931 in Clarksdale, MS. Starting to play the piano at five, Ike Turner began his musical career at eleven as a piano accompanist to Sonny Boy Williamson and Robert Nighthawk. Turner learned guitar shortly afterwards, and backed up other R&B artists at Sun Records in the early '50s.

Then Ike became a talent scout and producer for Modern Records, ostensibly "discovering" B.B. King and Howlin' Wolf. Around 1954, he moved to East St. Louis, Missouri where he became a rhythm and blues star with The Rhythm Kings. In 1959 in East St. Louis, he met Anna Mae Bullock. Anna was just eighteen and still in high school when she joined the group as a singer. Later she changed her name to Tina Turner. Ike added Tina to their group's horn section and also added some backup singers in 1957. They recorded a demo of "A Fool in Love" in late 1959; by the autumn of 1960 the record was a number two R&B hit on Sue Records. "I Idolize You," "It's Gonna Work Out Fine," "Poor Fool," and "Tra La La La La" all quickly followed, giving the Turner's five Top Ten R&B hits in two and a half years (all of which are on this lp). Tina was the star and the group was renamed The Ike and Tina Turner Revue.

Tina became pregnant by Ike's saxophone player (her first son, Raymond), moved into Ike's house, began a relationship with Ike, and eventually gave birth to Ike's baby. They were married in a quickie Tijuana ceremony, which turned out to be illegal, since Ike never bothered to divorce his first wife.

In 1961 Ike and Tina released many singles including "It's Gonna Work Out Fine," which made them major stars in England. Soon the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, dominated by Tina's gyrating, prancing, and her thrilling voice, had crossed over from R&B to become a top pop-rock act with hit singles like "River Deep Mountain High," "Want To Take You Higher," "Nutbush City Limits," and "The Midnight Special." Ike and Tina reached worldwide popularity when they opened for the Rolling Stones in 1969. All expectations were filled in 1971 with "Proud Mary," a number four hit which became the capstone of Ike & Tina's Revue.

Ike Turner had many problems when he was off the stage. A drug addict, he abused his wife and children both mentally and physically. Ike's complete dominance over her life had become too much for Tina, and after an unsuccessful suicide attempt, she walked out on him in 1975, with nothing more than thirty-six cents and a gas station credit card. Later Ike would be arrested for drugs and battery.

Many thought Tina would disappear without Ike's musical muscle. Tina relinquished almost all claims for compensation, deciding her complete freedom from Ike was more important than the money. In debt, she briefly lived on food stamps before climbing her way back up by working in small-time nightclub six days a week.

After her divorce from Ike Tina celebrated her new-found freedom in 1975 with a role in a film version of the Who's Tommy. Playing the Acid Queen. She recorded only occasionally later in the decade but resurfaced in the mid-'80s first teaming with a Heaven 17 project named BEF on a remake of the Temptations' "Ball of Confusion." That same year she signed a solo contract with Capitol Records. Her first single, a cover of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," hit the Top 30 early in 1984. Second single "What's Love Got to Do with It" became one of the year's biggest hits, spending three weeks at number one. Her album Private Dancer included two more Top Ten singles, the title track and "Better Be Good to Me." With another movie role in 1985 (Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome), she found a number-two hit with its theme, "We Don't Need Another Hero." She embarked on the twenty-five-country Break Every Rule tour in 1987, breaking box-office records around the globe.Her next big hit followed in 1986 ("Typical Male"), after which Tina began to decline, still charting occasionally and selling respectably with each album.

I, Tina, the entertainer's best-selling autobiography, became the basis of the 1993 hit movie What's Love Got to Do With It.

Following an extended period of relative silence Tina Turner once again got ready to strut her stuff on stage. In 1997, Tina embarked on her first North American tour in six years; proving her staying power, Turner's tour proved to be the seventh most popular draw of 1977, earning $24.8 million.

Two years later, Turner was once again ready to prove her stage prowess. On April 13, she joined Whitney Houston, Cher, and Brandy on the stage of New York City's Beacon Theater as one of VH1's second wave of Divas Live.

Ike and Tina Turner were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.

CONDITION OF THE RECORD:

(IMPORTANT NOTE: We grade ALL records under a strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight).

WE GRADE THE VINYL AS NEAR-MINT. The original luster is very much in tact, and the vinyl is beautiful. The record shows a minimum number (just a couple) of very faint, surface marks/just a couple minor, small, surface scratches (cannot be felt with a finger-nail), that can ONLY be seen under a light and when played; they DO NOT affect the listening experience. Only the beautiful quality of the music comes through. CAUTION>labels show a very faint amount of spindle wear - some will not see this (not significant).
The record is pressed on beautiful, THICK, semi-flexible vinyl. This vinyl was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such vinyl pressings is full-bodied, bright and rich in quality.

CONDITION OF THE COVER:

COVER IS EXCELLENT; AND GRADED VG++.

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

Cover shows little wear on corners. Tips on three corners show the smallest of bend (seen from the back only) and NOT SIGNIFICANT. Seams leading up to corners (top and bottom), show some wear that make corners appear with wear that is actually seam wear. On our scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and 10 being the most severe), we assess the corner wear as a 1.
As mentioned, cover shows little wear on seams leading up to corners. Top and bottom seams show beginning wear with small amounts of peeling with the top seam showing a bit more peeling than bottom seam (not significant). On our scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and 10 being the most severe), we assess the seam peeling wear as a 2> (top) and as a 1> (bottom). The seams ARE NOT split, just show little peeling.
Cover shows the smallest of ring impression. On our scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and 10 being the most severe), we assess the ring impression as a 1> (front) and as a 1 (back).
Cover shows minor wear. A small piece of tape (scotch), is seen on right top corner (back), please see picture below. Also, a few short wrinkles/creases come off the spine. On our scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and 10 being the most severe), we assess the wear from wrinkles/creases as a 1 (front) and as a 1> (back).