Ike and Tina Turner: River Deep, Mountain High

Weekend Music

I usually don’t get around to posting these until Saturday morning, but I’m going to be out of town this weekend.

Years ago, when I started hearing people refer to this as one of the greatest rock-and-roll singles ever recorded, I couldn’t understand why I had never heard it. I certainly heard plenty of top-40 radio in the mid-’60s, when it was released. I just found out, by way of the All Music Guide entry on the Turners (not a happy story), that it was a huge hit in the UK but flopped over here. I am in fact hearing the original for the first time today, having heard several covers over the years. I must say it deserves its reputation.


 

Here’s a very shall we say dynamic live performance. I don’t know where they are–it almost looks like some kind of tunnel or something.


 


5 responses to “Ike and Tina Turner: River Deep, Mountain High”

  1. I just can’t imagine never having heard that song.

  2. I heard it a few years after it originally came out–performed by Deep Purple. Not quite the same…

  3. Never heard it before, but it really kicks!

  4. I’d like to hear Camera Obscura do a cover of the song. They can do a pretty good job on stuff like this (of course it would be somewhat mellower, I’m sure…)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfDg7Vz8Ow4

  5. As usual I don’t have enough bandwidth to watch that now, but yeah, that would be an interesting cover.

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