Ike & Tina Turner - Soul of Ike and Tina Turner - LP

The Soul of Ike & Tina Turner is the debut album by Ike & Tina Turner. It was released on the Sue Records in February 1961. The album is noted for containing the duo's debut single "A Fool in Love" and their follow-up singles "I Idolize You" and "I'm Jealous."

In March 1960, Turner scheduled his band for a session at Technisonic Studios in St. Louis to record his composition, "A Fool in Love," which he had written for singer Art Lassiter. Lassiter failed to show up for the session, so Bullock recorded a demo track with Turner and Lassiter's backing girl group, the Artettes. Turner had intentions of erasing her vocals later and replacing it with Lassiter's, but he never returned. Turner played the song during his gig at Club Imperial in St. Louis. Disc jockey, Dave Dixon, heard the record and asked Turner to send it to Juggy Murray, president of R&B label Sue Records in New York. After listening, Murray wanted the record and offered Turner a contact. Murray suggested that Turner concentrate on making Bullock the star of the show.

Ike responded to this by changing Bullock's stage name from Little Ann to Tina Turner, for two reasons: one because Tina rhymed with Sheena, one of his favorite fictional characters Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, and the other was for control of the name. He had the name trademarked so that in case Bullock decided to leave, he could hire another female vocalist to be Tina Turner. He later reformed the Artettes into the Ikettes, and with the Kings of Rhythm, The Ike & Tina Turner Revue was created.

This album was composed when the group was on the road. Most of the songs on the album are led solely by Tina though at least two songs, "You Can't Blame Me" and "You're My Baby" feature Ike singing with Tina.

Tracklist

A1 I'm Jealous

A2 I Idolize You

A3 If

A4 Letter From Tina

A5 You Can't LoveTwo

A6 I Had A Notion

B1 A Fool In Love

B2 Sleepless

B3 Chances Are

B4 You Can't Blame Me

B5 You're My Baby

B6 The Way You Love Me