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Stay Down Like Ike and Tina Turner T Shirt . Ike & Tina Turner were inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.[5] They have two singles inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, “River Deep – Mountain High” and “Proud Mary”.[6] Rolling Stone ranked them No. 2 on its list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Time. In March 1960, Ike scheduled his band to record a song he wrote titled, “A Fool In Love“, for singer Art Lassiter. Lassiter failed to show up for the recording session at Technisonic Studios in St. Louis.[18] Having already booked the studio time, Ike allowed Bullock to record the song as a demo with Lassiter’s backing vocalists, the Artettes: Robbie Montgomery, Frances Hodges, and Sandra Harding.[19] During a gig at the Manhattan Club in East St. Louis, Ike played the record which caught the attention of local disc jockey Dave Dixon from the radio station KATZ.[8] Dixon asked Ike to let him send the record to Juggy Murray, the president of Sue Records in New York. Murray was impressed by Bullock’s vocal delivery and bought the rights to the song. Murray offered Ike a $20,000 advance, convincing him to keep Bullock’s vocals on the record and suggested that he “make her the star” of his show.[20] This prompted Ike to rename her Tina Turner, however, family and friends still called her Ann.[8][21] He then trademarked the name for protection, so that if she left he could hire another female artist and have her perform under the moniker “Tina Turner”.[22][8] He chose the name Tina because it rhymed with Sheena, his favorite character, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.[23] At first they were going to use “Ike Turner and Tina” on the record, but Murray suggested that “Ike and Tina Turner” sounded better.[8] Tina had reservations about continuing her relationship with Ike. According to Tina, after she expressed her concern, Ike responded by hitting her in the head with a wooden shoe stretcher.
Stay Down Like Ike and Tina Turner T Shirt . In 1962, Ike and Tina married in Tijuana, Mexico, and moved their entire band to Los Angeles.[11] In November 1962, Ike and Tina filed a $330,000 joint lawsuit with Placid Music Corporation against Sue Records, Saturn Music, and Juggy Murray for “failing and refusing to give an accounting and pay certain royalties.” They also charged that Sue “withheld and concealed over $100,000” of their earnings from them.[34] Their last studio albums on Sue, Don’t Play Me Cheap and It’s Gonna Work Out Fine were released in 1963. In 1963,[35] Ike purchased a home in View Park with an advance given by Murray for a renewed contract which they didn’t sign.[8][36] Instead, the duo signed to Kent Records; severing ties with Murray who had been their manager during their Sue tenure. When that deal failed to produce any significant hits, they signed to Loma Records and hired Bob Krasnow as their manager.
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