Don't Play Me Cheap/It's Gonna Work Out Fine [Import]

Don't Play Me Cheap/It's Gonna Work Out Fine [Import]

Track Listings

1. Wake Up
2. I Made A Promise Up Above
3. Desire
4. Those Ways
5. Mama Tell Him
6. Pretend
7. Don't Play Me Cheap
8. Real Me
9. Forever Mine
10. No Amends
11. Love Letters
12. My Everything To Me
13. Gonna Find Me A Substitute
14. Mojo Queen
15. Kinda Strange
16. Why Should I
17. Tinaroo
18. It's Gonna Work Out Tine
19. I'm Gonna Cut You Loose
20. I'm Fallin' In Love
See all 27 tracks on this disc

Don't Play Me Cheap/It's Gonna Work Out Fine,Ike & Tina Turner,EMI Int'l,Pop,Pop-Soul,R&B,R&B/Soul,Soul,Soul/R & B

Don't Play Me Cheap/It's Gonna Work Out Fine
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Tina-with-strings?
  • Original recordings back in catalogue
  • Wow this is so good!
 Don't Play Me Cheap/It's Gonna Work Out Fine
Ike & Tina Turner
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000296HEM
Release Date: 2004-07-05

Tracks:

  1. Wake Up
  2. I Made A Promise Up Above
  3. Desire
  4. Those Ways
  5. Mama Tell Him
  6. Pretend
  7. Don't Play Me Cheap
  8. Real Me
  9. Forever Mine
  10. No Amends
  11. Love Letters
  12. My Everything To Me
  13. Gonna Find Me A Substitute
  14. Mojo Queen
  15. Kinda Strange
  16. Why Should I
  17. Tinaroo
  18. It's Gonna Work Out Tine
  19. I'm Gonna Cut You Loose
  20. I'm Fallin' In Love
  21. Foolish
  22. This Man's Crazy
  23. Good Good Lovin'
  24. Two Is A Couple
  25. Can't Chance A Break Up
  26. Stagger Lee And Billy
  27. Dear John

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Tina-with-strings?.......2005-08-07

Together with "The Soul of Ike & Tina/Dynamite" this Cd collect complete discography of Turners for "Sue" company,their historic begginings,worlds away from latter soul/rock covers and Tina's metamorphosis into feminist icon.Both LPs were released in 1963 and they are very different from each other,Tina passionate vocals only thing they share in common.One of the biggest oddities in Turner's discography,"Dont play me cheap" in fact doesnt even sound like their typical repertoire,rather like some strange Tina-with-strings solo outing: instead of Ike's barrelhouse piano,chunking rhythms and Ikettes,Mrs.Turner is surrounded with angelic choruses,strings,harps and generic arrangments that start to sound uninspired after several songs.Since at that time she was strong soul shouter,neither Tina suited these songs,neither they showed her off in the best light (her strongest points being rhytmic numbers,not string-laced ballads).The whole LP sound strangely mismatched and my guess is that this is compilation of unreleased tracks delievered as contractual obligation."Its gonna..." is return to "real" Ike & Tina jukebox style with rollicking pianos,fiery guitars,drumms and ass-shaking Ikettes: nothing matches title track,althought "This man's crazy" shows Tina as Little Richard (she's having a fun) and "Good good lovin'" is a very good James Brown cover (Tina namechecking her previous hits).Contrary to liner notes,bonus tracks have nothing to do with "Sue" period - by the sound of them "Two is a couple"/"Cant chance a break up" is mid-60s rarity while "Dear John" not a final "Sue" single but a 1974.LP track (her voice very different by than).

4 out of 5 stars Original recordings back in catalogue.......2005-06-22

There are many inexpensive Ike & Tina compilations on the market but until recently they had always dated from a slightly later period than their Sue labels recordings, which Stateside have now released, almost in full, on this and its companion, The Soul Of Ike And Tina Turner/Dynamite. Apart from a few singles, most are appearing on CD for the first time.
These two albums were released by Sue in 1963, by which time they had effectively left the label, having stockpiled a great deal of material over the previous two years despite touring for 22 of the 24 months.
Don't Play Me Cheap, named after the only single taken from the album, has a sound that is distinct from the two earlier albums, with more prominent horns, flutes and strings. This suggests either that the tracks were recorded specifically for it, or that they were overdubbed in a manner consistent with their release as a collection.
Apart from Ike Turner's compositions there is a version of Ketty Lester's Love Letters. Wake Up was the title track's flipside, whilst I Made A Promise Up Above was to back up Dear John in 1965.
It's Gonna Work Out Fine was named after their hit single from 1961, a call and response song, unusually not written by Ike but by Rose Marie McCoy and Sylvia McKinney. It was brought to them by Mickey and Sylvia, who had recorded their own version but not released it. It is Mickey "Guitar" Baker who calls to Tina, much as he had to Sylvia Vanderpool on their Love Is Strange hit, while Sylvia plays guitar and Ike piano on this million selling record.
The other non-original on the album is a bluesy version of James Brown's Good Good Lovin'. Although there were no other singles from the album, there a number of great tracks which could have been, including Mojo Queen, Foolish, This Man's Crazy and the could-have-been dance sensation the Tinaroo. I can just imagine the frantic routine with Tina and the Ikettes, who add so much to the sound of this album.
Having known Gonna Find Me A Substitute for years by the Pretty Things, I had never realised it was an Ike and Tina Turner original until this CD came along.
The collection is rounded off with a few stray singles. Can't Chance A Break Up from 1965, unreleased in the UK, marked a change of direction, a far more up tempo and frenetic Northern Soul sound, and still sounds absolutely classic to me, as does its other side, Stagger Lee And Billy. This is Ike's variation on the much mythologized classic tale, as retold by everyone from Mississippi John Hurt to Lloyd Price. There are a few singles omissions - Please Don't Hurt Me (1962), Tin Top House (1965) - but this places some very influential and important recordings back in catalogue at last

5 out of 5 stars Wow this is so good!.......2004-11-04

This early sixties stuff is as strong as any Ike/Tina stuff, a real knockout! The "Tinaroo" is wild! The albums are augmented by four singles from the period. My one complaint is that there are no reproductions of the original album covers, as they are classic. Otherwise two big thumbs up.

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