| "A Fool in Love" | ||||
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| Single by Ike & Tina Turner | ||||
| from the album The Soul of Ike & Tina Turner | ||||
| B-side | "The Way You Love Me" | |||
| Released | July 1960 | |||
| Recorded | March 1960 | |||
| Studio | Technisonic Studios (St. Louis, Missouri) | |||
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| Length | 2:30 | |||
| Label | Sue Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Ike Turner | |||
| Producer(s) | Ike Turner | |||
| Ike & Tina Turner singles chronology | ||||
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"A Fool in Love" is the debut single by Ike & Tina Turner. It was released on Sue Records in 1960. The song is Tina Turner's first release with the stage name "Tina Turner" although she had been singing with Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm since 1956.[3] It was the first national hit record for bandleader Ike Turner since the number-one R&B hit "Rocket 88" in 1951, for which he did not receive proper credit.[4]
"A Fool In Love" is one of the first R&B recordings to successfully cross over to the pop charts and became a million-seller. Music journalist Kurt Loder deemed it "the blackest record to creep into the white pop charts since Ray Charles's gospel-styled 'What'd I Say.'"[5]
- ^ a b "Record Reviews - The Cash Box Pick of the Week" (PDF). Cash Box: 10. November 19, 1960.
- ^ a b Rolling Stone Staff (24 May 2023). "Tina Turner: 15 Essential Songs". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
...punctuating her performance with roof-raising shrieks, blending blues and gospel, fighting through the hurt she's enduring ...
- ^ Gleason, Ralph J. (November 16, 1969). "Tina Turner - A Triumph of Instant Ecstasy". San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle. p. 37.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Turner, Tina; Loder, Kurt (1986). I, Tina : My Life Story. William Morrow and Company. ISBN 9780670808731.