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"River Deep – Mountain High" is a song by Ike & Tina Turner released on Philles Records as the title track to their 1966 studio album. Produced by Phil Spector and written by Spector, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. Rolling Stone ranked "River Deep – Mountain High" No. 33 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. [2]
"River Deep-Mountain High" is one of Phil Spector's best compositions, and Ike & Tina Turner sing the original 1966 version, since revived by Eric Burdon, Deep Purple and others. A hit album in England, A&M and Phil Spector add this 'historic recording' to the Ike & Tina Turner sweepstakes.
Ike & Tina Turner had 9 singles chart in the UK, their first was "River Deep – Mountain High" in 1966 and their last being "Baby, Get It On" in 1975. [3] A few years after their dissolution, Ike Turner released "Party Vibes"/" Shame, Shame, Shame " taken from their last recording sessions.
Pranysqa Mishra, 9, performed Ike and Tina Turner's "River Deep —Mountain High" on "America's Got Talent," earning a Golden Buzzer from judge Heidi Klum.
Including previously unreleased live performances from her multi-platinum album Falling into You, this 17 song concert-length program also features a rare performance of "The Power of the Dream" written exclusively for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and The Isley Brothers song "Twist and Shout".
The second CD includes various rarities, including the 7″ version of the duo's take on "River Deep, Mountain High" and US-specific remixes of "Chains of Love" and "A Little Respect" that were not released in the UK singles box set. The album cover image derives from the stained glass window of St. James and Charlemagne, in Chartres Cathedral ...
MFQ was signed to Spector's label and wanted to release their recording as a single in hopes of breaking into the folk rock market, but according to the music historian Barney Hoskyns, Spector instead abandoned the group to work on the 1966 single "River Deep – Mountain High". MFQ's recording of "This Could Be the Night" was not commercially ...
Whenever he does this, it makes the song sound like a warped record; his voice was always as its best in the more comfortable range of falsetto." [ 9 ] In 2014, Chris Gerard from Metro Weekly described it as a "dramatic ballad" that showed a completely different side of Erasure.