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...eager young nebbish in Goodbye, Columbus, plays the same man here, now successful but no less insecure. With the obsessive concern of the nouveau riche he pesters his wife about her clothes, about party invitations that she must send out, about choosing the proper wine, and so forth. Tina is being pecked not by a rooster but by a hen. Her lover, on the other hand, comes on as a virile, aggressive bastard with a sexy smile-and you know that if her husband were to find about the affair he would probably say, "Why Tina! I'm surprised...
...Elaine Brown is at the stand. Deputy Minister of Information for the Panther Party in Oakland. She could be a member of the Ikettes that back up Ike and Tina Turner. She doesn't even have a fro. Soft hair and rimless glasses. In a knit jumpsuit that might have come from Bobbi Baker's she moves with her words...
...result of Ike and Tina's growing concern with recordings is that Ike is producing their albums now. Their last release, Come Together, on the Liberty label, has a very basic, uncluttered sound. It contains mostly songs written by Ike, as well as "Honky Tonk Women," "Come Together," and "I Want To Take You Higher." Their upcoming album should be equally good. It will include a superb "Get Back" and "Proud Mary...
...pointless to speculate too much where Ike and Tina are going, beyond their next album. It's safe to say that they won't fade away, however. With their eclecticism and firm grasp of so many styles, they will never be without an audience. They are too versatile to lose either the R and B connoisseurs or the Las Vegas crowd merely because youth digs them as well. And their recipe for live entertainment, corny or not, will always generate a lot of excitement. I mean, exuberance and Sex are not matters of trendy fashion, are they...
...today," he asks, "you know what you're getting? A 1948 Buick." But it isn't simply a return to the past; rather, as he says, "we're trying to get that old feeling back and then add some of the new tricks we've been learning." Ike and Tina, with Phil Spector's help, have already fully recaptured the feeling of the late Fifties in parts of the "River Deep Mountain High" album-and added something as well. And if people ever start really dancing again at concerts, it will surely be at an Ike and Tina show. Wake...