Contenders for the title of " first rock and roll record " include Goree Carter's " Rock Awhile " ( 1949 ); Jimmy Preston's " Rock the Joint " ( 1949 ), which was later covered by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1952 ; and " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( actually an alias for Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm ), recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in March 1951.

" He also cites Otis Rush, Ike Turner and Ray Charles, as R & B artists who employed this feel.

He is most popularly known for his 1960s work with his then wife Tina Turner in the Ike & Tina Turner revue.

It was there he met singer Anna Mae Bullock, whom he married and renamed Tina Turner, forming the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, which over the course of the sixties became a soul / rock crossover success.

With the Ike & Tina Revue he graduated to larger labels Blue Thumb and United Artists.

Ike & Tina Turner, 1972

It is credited to " Ike & Tina Turner ", but it is now well known that Ike Turner was paid $ 20, 000 to stay away from the sessions ; the backing track was in fact performed by the Wrecking Crew, and the backing vocals were provided by a chorus of 21 singers — Ikettes Janice Singleton and Diane Rutherford and most of the female singers on Spector's roster, including Ronnie Spector, Darlene Love and Cher.

Wyatt later said that on June 2, 1881 he offered the Wells, Fargo & Co. reward money and more to Ike Clanton if he would provide information leading to the capture or death of the stage robbers.

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Some left and achieved national recognition, such as Ike & Tina Turner and the jazz great Miles Davis, who was born in nearby Alton and grew up in East St. Louis.

The show included entertainers such as Frankie Lymon, The Supremes, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey, LaVern Baker, Harry Belafonte, James Brown, Godfrey Cambridge, Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Bill Cosby, Count Basie, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bo Diddley, Rocío Dúrcal, Duke Ellington, Lola Falana, The 5th Dimension, Ella Fitzgerald, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Dick Gregory, W. C. Handy, Lena Horne, The Jackson 5, Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Moms Mabley, Johnny Mathis, The Miracles ( later known as Smokey Robinson & the Miracles ), Melba Moore, The Platters, Leontyne Price, Richard Pryor, Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Nipsey Russell, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, The Temptations, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Tina Turner ( at the time known as " The Ike & Tina Turner Revue "), Leslie Uggams, William Warfield, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Flip Wilson, Jackie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, and Stevie Wonder.

Ike Turner | Ike & Tina Turner in 1972

Musicians such as Howlin ' Wolf, Willie Nix, Ike Turner, and B. B. King performed on Beale Street and in West Memphis, and recorded some of the classic electric blues, rhythm and blues and rock & roll records for labels such as Sun Records.

** Ike & Tina Turner for " Proud Mary "

Ike & Tina Turner's 1963 album It's Gonna Work out Fine featured a song titled " Mojo Queen ", with definite references to mojo, the magic charms used by hoodoo practitioners.

In 1974, Bolan played guitar for Ike & Tina Turner.

** Ike & Tina Turner for " Proud Mary "

Well known examples of this include Joe Cocker's version of The Beatles ' With a Little Help from My Friends, and Ike And Tina Turner's version of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Proud Mary.

For example, suppose that Ike and Tina's mothers are identical twins and that Ike and Tina are raised in isolation from one another in indistinguishable environments.

In the Ike / Tina example, one might agree that Ike's thoughts pertain to Ike's mother and that Tina's thoughts pertain to Tina's but insist that this is because Ike thinks of that woman as his mother and we can capture this by saying that he thinks of her as ' the mother of the speaker '.

Spector's Wall of Sound production technique also persisted after that time with his select recordings of the Beatles, the Ramones, Leonard Cohen, George Harrison, Dion and Ike and Tina Turner.

Anecdotal evidence suggest that racism was a key factor — in his book on the history of Australian radio, author and broadcaster Wayne Mac recounts that when a local Melbourne DJ of the 1960s played the new Ike and Tina Turner single " River Deep Mountain High " it was immediately pulled from the playlist by the station's program manager for being " too noisy and too black ".

Brian Wilson and his bandmates, following a set by Ike and Tina Turner, performed their first major live show at The Ritchie Valens Memorial Dance on New Year's Eve, 1961.

The former would eventually become the group's most-covered song, with some 100 cover versions by other artists to date, including a hit version in 1971 by Ike and Tina Turner.

He is perhaps best known for his roles as Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy, as Cowboy Curtis on the 1980s television show Pee-wee's Playhouse, and as singer-musician Ike Turner in the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got to Do With It.

* 1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records " Rocket 88 ", often cited as " the first rock and roll record ", at Sam Phillips ' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

Others, such as Robert Quine, lead guitarist of The Voidoids, have employed a wild, " gonzo " attack, a style that stretches back through The Velvet Underground to the 1950s recordings of Ike Turner.

Ike Turner recorded " Cubano Jump " ( 1954 ) an electric guitar instrumental, which is built around several 2-3 clave figures, adopted from the mambo.

Listen: " Cubano Jump " by Ike Turner ( 1954 ).

* November 5 – Ike Turner, African-American singer and songwriter ( d. 2007 )

Ike Wister Turner ( November 5, 1931 – December 12, 2007 ) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer.

Turner believed for many years that he was named Izear Luster Turner, Jr. after his father, until he discovered his name was registered as Ike Wister Turner while applying for his first passport.

Turner recorded numerous sessions for Stevens with various vocalists and musician lineups, of which seven singles were released ( these are collected on the Red Lightnin ' compilation " Hey Hey-The Legendary Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm "/ RL0047 ).

Her first professional recording with Ike Turner was singing background for him on Ike's record, " Box Top ".

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Boyle later testified he noticed Ike was armed and covered his gun for him, recalling that Ike told him "' As soon as the Earps and Doc Holliday showed themselves on the street, the ball would open — that they would have to fight '...

The song was also covered by Ike and Tina Turner ( produced by Phil Spector ), The McCoys, Dusty Springfield, Joe Stampley, C. J.

*" Rocket 88 " was recorded on March 5, 1951 by Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats-actually Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm-and covered later in the year by Bill Haley and the Saddlemen.

Boyle later testified he noticed Ike was armed and covered his gun for him, recalling that Ike told him "' As soon as the Earps and Doc Holliday showed themselves on the street, the ball would open — that they would have to fight '...

Ike & Tina Turner covered the song.

He, Ike Diogu, and James Harden are the only three Sun Devils to be named Pac-10 Player of the Year, and he was the fifth Sun Devil to be voted onto the All-Conference team twice.