TINA TURNER: EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN RARE 45 DEMO DISC

$

530

"Ike and" Tina Turner
Two To Tango/
Everything Under The Sun
(7" two-sided Bell Sound 45 rpm demo disc;
9/19/66 typed on disc labels)

"Two to Tango," written in 1952 by Dick Manning and Al Hoffman, saw release in 1966 as the follow-up to the unsuccessful "River Deep - Mountain High." It was the A-side of Philles 134, one of the last few singles released on Phil Spector's by-then ill-fated label, with the Pete Antell-penned "A Man Is a Man Is a Man" on the B deck. (Trivia note: both Pearl Bailey and Louis Armstrong had chart hits with "Tango" in 1952.)

Production duties on both sides of the single were handed over to Bob Crewe by a despondent Phil Spector in the wake of the failure of "River Deep"; the two sides of the 45 were both arranged by Herb Bernstein. I believe that the acetate and Philles iterations of "Two to Tango" are identical, especially since the time on both is shown as 2:45. Hear a piece of "Tango" right H E R E .

By far, the main attraction here is "Everything Under the Sun," a Bob Crewe-Gary Knight composition, a third Philles-era Crewe production for "Ike and" Tina Turner (along with "A Man Is a Man Is a Man"). (The quotes are because there's no more evidence, historically or sonically, of Ike's presence on these Philles sessions than there is of his presence on the Spector-produced ones from which he's known to be absent.) Catch a generous sound-sample H E R E .

It's on a 7" Bell Sound Studios acetate dated September 19, 1966, with title and artist information typewritten on both sides. The definitive article on this acetate is a bit long to reproduce here, but if you're a fan of Phil Spector, Bob Crewe, Tina Turner, Peter Antell, and/or the Wall of Sound, it's required reading; check it out HERE .

As noted in that article, Crewe produced a highly derivative version of the song, released as a single, for The Walker Brothers. However, their version swapped the Herb Bernstein credits for "accompaniment directed by Reg Guest." In addition to the other cover versions cited at the link above, one more has since been discovered; it's by Walter Jackson, originally on an Okeh 45 and recently reissued on his "Vol. 3" Ace CD out of the UK.

As with the "River Deep - Mountain High" acetate also on offer here on eBay right now, the sound samples you hear here are directly recorded from the disc, without digital enhancement. Both sides are obviously in super-fine shape for acetates of their age. But just so they don't have to play them again and further degrade the records, the winning bidder(s) will receive a CD-R bonus disc of the respective acetates’ two sides along with the record itself.

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