Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary (Live in Soul Train 1972)

Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary (Live in Soul Train 1972) Artist : Ike & Tina Turner Song : Proud Mary Album : Workin’ Together (1970) “Proud Mary“ is a rock n’ roll song written by John Fogerty and first recorded by his band Creedence Clearwater Revival. Ike & Tina Turner first covered “Proud Mary“ in 1970. This version was released as a single from their Workin’ Together album and the song differed greatly from the structure of the original, but is also well known and has become one of Tina Turner’s most recognizable signature songs. The Turners’ version was substantially rearranged by Soko Richardson and Ike Turner. The song started off with a slow, sultry soulful tone in which Tina introduced the song and warned the audience that she and the band were gonna start it off “nice and easy“ as “we never do nothing nice and easy“ but said they would finish it “nice and rough“. After the lyrics are first sung softly by the Turners, the song is then turned into a funk rock vamp with Tina and the Ikettes deliver