Tina Turner: Top 50 Songs

Tina Turner Top 50 Songs

R&B/rock singer born Anna Mae Bullock on 11/26/39 in Nutbush, TN. Died 5/24/2023. Found success as half of a duo with Ike Turner, to whom she was married from 1962-78. After a few overlooked solo efforts in the ‘70s, Tina returned with the album Private Dancer in 1984 and launched one of rock’s greatest comeback stories. The 12-time Grammy winner has been called “The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll” and sold more than 200 million records worldwide. For a complete list of this act’s DMDB honors, check out the DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry. Click here to see other acts’ best-of lists. Check out the DMDB podcast episode Celebrating Tina Turner, 1939-2023 based on this list.

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Top 50 Songs Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists, appearances on compilations and live albums by the featured act, and songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards. DMDB Top 1%: 1. What’s Love Got to Do with It? (1984) 2. River Deep, Mountain High (with Ike, 1966) DMDB Top 5%: 3. Proud Mary (with Ike, 1971) 4. We Don’t Need Another Hero (1985) 5. The Best (1989) DMDB Top 10%: 6. Private Dancer (1984) 7. I Don’t Wanna Fight (1993) 8. Typical Male (1986) 9. It’s Only Love (with Bryan Adams, 1984) 10. Better Be Good to Me (1984) 11. Let’s Stay Together (1983) DMDB Top 20%: 12. Help! (1984) 13. Tonight (with David Bowie, 1984) 14. Come Together (with Ike, 1970) 15. Nutbush City Limits (with Ike, 1973) 16. One of the Living (1985) 17. Two People (1986) 18. What You Get Is What You See (1986) 19. Golden Eye (1995) 20. Tearing Us Apart (with Eric Clapton, 1986) 21. Steamy Windows (1989) 22. I Want to Take You Higher (with Ike, 1970) 23. It Takes Two (with Rod Stewart, 1990) 24. Ooh Poo Pah Doo (with Ike, 1964) 25. Fool in Love (with Ike, 1960) Beyond the DMDB Top 20%: 26. Show Some Respect (1984) 27. Why Must We Wait Until Tonight (1993) 28. Missing You (1996) 29. It’s Gonna Work Out Fine (with Ike, 1961) 30. Up in Heah (with Ike, 1972) 31. When the Heartache Is Over (1999) 32. Baby Get It On (with Ike, 1975) 33. Bold Soul Sister (with Ike, 1969) 34. Sexy Ida (with Ike, 1974) 35. Tra La La La La (with Ike, 1962) 36. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (1969) 37. Come Together (1976) 38. Addicted to Love (1988) 39. I Idolize You (with Ike, 1960) 40. I Can’t Stand the Rain (1984) 41. Workin’ Together (with Ike, 1970) 42. I’m Yours (Use Me Anyway You Wanna) (with Ike, 1971) 43. Poor Fool (with Ike, 1961) 44. The Hunter (with Ike, 1969) 45. You Should’a Treated Me Right (with Ike, 1962) 46. Open Arms (2004) 47. Break Every Rule (1986) 48. Look Me in the Heart (1989) 49. I Don’t Wanna Lose You (1989) 50. I Can’t Believe What You Say for Seeing What You Do (with Ike, 1964) Resources and Related Links: DMDB Encyclopedia entry for Tina Turner Dave’s Music Database: “Acts’ Profile Pages and Best-of Lists” First posted 5/27/2023; last updated 6/14/2023.

Today in Music (1969): “Proud Mary” set sail on the charts

Proud Mary Creedence Clearwater Revival

Writer(s): John Fogerty (see lyrics here) First Charted: January 18, 1969 Peak: 2 US, 2 CB, 11 GR, 11 HR, 8 UK, 2 CN, 5 AU, 1 DF (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): 2.0 US Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 5.0 radio, 31.1 video, 140.04 streaming

Proud Mary Ike & Tina Turner

First Charted: January 30, 1971 Peak: 4 US, 5 CB, 6 HR, 5 RB, 3 CL, 62 UK, 11 CN, 4 DF (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): 1.0 US Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 5.0 radio, 117.46 video, 47.50 streaming

Awards (CCR): Click on award for more details.

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About the Song: “Proud Mary” established Creedence Clearwater Revival as the best act out of New Orleans since Fats Domino, an impressive feat since they’d never been there! SJ In fact, singer/songwriter John Fogerty had never been to the South period, but said “I was drawn to that my typical world of Mark Twain…Stephn Foster, Howlin’ Wolf…The South seemed to exist in another time – a slower, more leisurely time. It seemed exotic as if it were someplace far away, and yet very American at the same time.” SS The band’s signature swampy sound understandably gave them a Louisiana vibe, but a guitar solo which Fogerty said was influenced by Booker T & the MG’s Steve Cropper helps tie the song to the musical South as well. The fact that it also sounds “like an ancient gospel song in its rousing rallying cry” AMG doesn’t hurt either. Music critic Dave Marsh called it “a riff and a rhythm that roll along as mighty as the Mississippi itself.” DM Add in steamboat-themed lyrics and the connection is complete. Fogerty called “Proud Mary” “the first really good song I ever wrote.” RS500 Bob Dylan called it his favorite song of the year. SS Fogerty had the title first, thinking it might be a song about a maid in a rich household. SS When he started singing about the river, he decided to make the song about a boat, RS500 a “story of a Mississippi paddle steamer as she plies the waters from Memphis to New Orleans, a reminder of the days when the river was alive with traffic.” DT This blossomed into a tale of a man abandoning the city for work on a steamboat, a theme which fit well with the 1969 back-to-the-country counterculture movement, even if Fogerty’s message was really about “a working man finding release, not a middle-class hippie yearning for a pastoral ideal.” AMG Some people interpreted the line “keep on rolling” as a drug reference. DT As the band’s first U.S. top ten, “Proud Mary” has also become the definitive CCR song, blending Americana, swamp rock, blues, country, rockabilly, gospel, and soul. AMG The song gave the band a dubious record – as the first of five CCR singles to peak at #2, the band gained the distinction of hitting the runner-up slot the most times without ever going to #1. WK While it didn’t go to the top, it pulled off a rare feat in becoming the signature song for not one, but two major recording acts. Ike and Tina Turner enhanced the song’s gospel and soul vibe to create “a raveup with the feel of a church revival.” AMG It landed the duo at #4 on the pop charts and #5 on the R&B charts in 1971. Resources: AMG All Music Guide DM Dave Marsh (1989). The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made. New American Library: New York, NY. Page 60. RS500 Rolling Stone (2011). “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time” SJ Bob Shannon and John Javna (1986). Behind the Hits: Inside Stories of Classic Pop and Rock and Roll. Warner Books, Inc.: New York, NY. Page 72. SS Steve Sullivan (2013). Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings (Volumes I & II). Scarecrow Press: Lanham, Maryland. Pages 561-2. DT Dave Thompson (2011). 1000 Songs That Rock Your World. Krause Publications: Iola, WI. Page 124. WK Wikipedia Related Links: Last updated 9/15/2023.

Creedence Clearwater Revival: 1967-1972

Creedence Clearwater Revival A Retrospective: 1967-1972

Overview: Rock group formed while members attended high school at El Cerrito, CA. Active: 1967-72. The Players: John Fogerty (vocals, guitar: 1967-72) Tom Fogerty (guitar: 1967-71) Stu Cook (keyboards/bass: Blue Velvets: 59-64; Golliwogs: 64-67; CCR: 67-72; Don Harrison Band) Doug Clifford (drums: Blue Velvets: 59-64; Golliwogs: 64-67; CCR: 67-72; Don Harrison Band) Links: DMDB encyclopedia entry for Creedence Clearwater Revival Facebook Wikipedia

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CCR’s seven studio albums are listed below. Those songs which are highlighted are those featured on the greatest hits compilation Chronicle, are noted after the song with the code CH. Also listed with the song are the writer(s) in parentheses, the running time in brackets, and the chart date and chart peaks on various charts in parentheses. Click for codes to charts.

Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968): Susie Q (Dale Hawkins) [4:36] (9/7/68, 11 BB, 9 CB, 4 GR, 11 HR, 4 CL, 1 DF) CH I Put a Spell on You (Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Herb Slotkin) [4:32] (11/9/68, 58 BB, 65 CB, 55 HR, 12 CL, 19 DF) CH

Bayou Country (1969): Proud Mary (John Fogerty) [3:08] (1/18/69, 2 BB, 2 CB, 1 GR, 1 HR, 1 CL, 8 UK, 2 CN, 5 AU, 1 DF) CH

Green River (1969): Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty) [2:19] (4/16/69, 2 BB, 2 CB, 1 GR, 1 HR, 1 CL, 1 UK, 5 CN, 3 AU, 1 DF) CH Lodi (John Fogerty) [3:10] (4/16/69, 52 BB, 58 CB, 46 HR, 7 CL, 5 DF) CH Green River (John Fogerty) [2:33] (7/26/69, 2 BB, 3 CB, 2 GR, 2 HR, 2 CL, 19 UK, 4 CN, 6 AU, 10 DF) CH Commotion (John Fogerty) [2:42] (7/26/69, 30 BB, 40 CB, 50 HR, 19 CL) CH Read more on the DMDB page for this album.

Willy and the Poor Boys (1969): Down on the Corner (John Fogerty) [2:45] (10/24/69, 3 BB, 10 CB, 2 GR, 4 HR, 2 CL, 31 UK, 5 DF) CH Fortunate Son (John Fogerty) [2:20] (10/24/69, 3 BB, 6 CB, 2 GR, 4 HR, 1 CL, 2 CN, 2 AU, 1 DF) CH Read more on the DMDB page for this album.

Cosmo’s Factory (1970): Travelin’ Band (John Fogerty) [2:08] (1/24/70, 2 BB, 5 CB, 2 GR, 2 HR, 2 CL, 8 UK, 12 DF) CH Who’ll Stop the Rain (John Fogerty) [2:28] (1/24/70, 2 BB, 13 CB, 2 GR, 2 HR, 2 CL, 5 DF) CH Up Around the Bend (John Fogerty) [2:42] (4/18/70, 4 BB, 2 CB, 6 GR, 2 HR, 2 CL 3 UK, 1 CN, 1 AU, 20 DF) CH Run Through the Jungle (John Fogerty) [3:07] (4/18/70, 4 BB, 48 CB, 6 GR, 2 HR, 2 CL, 3 UK, 1 CN, 1 AU, 17 DF) CH Lookin’ Out My Back Door (John Fogerty) [2:33] (8/7/70, 2 BB, 1 CB, 3 GR, 1 HR, 1 CL, 1 CN, 1 AU, 9 DF) CH Long As I Can See the Light (John Fogerty) (8/8/70) [3:31] (2 BB, 57 CB, 1 HR) CH I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong) [11:04] (1/24/76, 43 BB, 47 CB, 40 GR, 87 HR, 4 CL, 9 DF) CH Read more on the DMDB page for this album.

Pendulum (1970): Have You Ever Seen the Rain? (John Fogerty) [2:38] (1/29/71, 8 BB, 3 CB, 4 GR, 3 HR, 1 CL, 36 UK, 1 CN, 4 DF) CH Hey Tonight (John Fogerty) [2:43] (1/29/71, 8 BB, 3 CB, 4 GR, 3 HR, 3 CL, 24 DF) CH

Mardi Gras (1972): Sweet Hitch-Hiker (John Fogerty) [2:56] (7/17/71, 6 BB, 5 CB, 2 GR, 3 HR, 3 CL 36 UK, 1 CN) CH Someday Never Comes (John Fogerty) [4:00] (4/29/72, 25 BB, 25 CB, 31 GR, 27 HR, 16 CL) CH

Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits Creedence Clearwater Revival

Recorded: 1968-1972 Released: January 1976 Peak: 22 US, -- UK, -- CN, -- AU, 13 DF Sales (in millions): 10.0 US, -- UK, 12.10 world (includes US and UK) Genre: rock Rating: 4.777 out of 5.00 (average of 17 ratings)

Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

Tracks: (1) Susie Q (2) I Put a Spell on You (3) Proud Mary (4) Bad Moon Rising (5) Lodi (6) Green River (7) Commotion (8) Down on the Corner (9) Fortunate Son (10) Travelin’ Band (11) Who’ll Stop the Rain (12) Up Around the Bend (13) Run Through the Jungle (14) Lookin’ Out My Back Door (15) Long As I Can See the Light (16) I Heard It Through the Grapevine (17) Have You Ever Seen the Rain? (18) Hey Tonight (19) Sweet Hitch-Hiker (20) Someday Never Comes Total Running Time: 67:55 About the Album: Creedence Clearwater Revival were only around for five years, but they released seven albums and a slew of essential songs during that time. This collection ranks as one of the best compilations ever assembled, gathering up all the band’s hit singles in chronological order to make for a perfect entry point for casual fans. Chronicle has spent more than 12 years on the Billboard album chart.

Resources and Related Links: DMDB encyclopedia entry for Creedence Clearwater Revival Dave’s Music Database: Acts’ Profile Pages and Best-of Lists Wikipedia page for Chronicle First posted 4/15/2008; last updated 5/6/2024.