R.I.P. Tina Turner

[gunhilltrain]

Probably she should get some credit for putting up with Ike Turner for a while. She didn't have a lot of acting roles, but she was memorable in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

 

[gunhilltrain]

There really is a Nutbush, TN, and Turner lived there when she was young.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Glad to see her second marriage worked out a lot better. He donated a kidney to her; that's love.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Simply the best.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Private Dancer. Don't get much more Lit than this.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

Goodbye Tina T
Though I never knew you at all
You managed to defend yourself
From Ike’s sadistic blows

Then you had a comeback
Where all you had was your big-star name
But with private dancer
You then were big again

And it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind
Where it was brought in from outside
So it could then burn again.

And I wouldn’t like to know you as I’m not really a fan
But it seems you were a better person
Than your previous old man.

Do-do, do-do, do-do, do-DOOO!

 

[R. Richard]

A survivor and a giant of a performer!

 

[gunhilltrain]

I never heard the Nutbush song before, but it's amazing how - I assume accurately - she describes it. It's worth looking up the lyrics and examining them closely.

It's northeast of Memphis, and Route 19 is now named the Tina Turner Highway.

You go the field on week days
And have a picnic on Labor Day
You go to town on Saturdays
But go to church every Sunday
They call it Nutbush
Oh, Nutbush

 

[ElectricBlue]

I never heard the Nutbush song before, but it's amazing how - I assume accurately - she describes it. It's worth looking up the lyrics and examining them closely.

It's northeast of Memphis, and Route 19 is now named the Tina Turner Highway.

You go the field on week days
And have a picnic on Labor Day
You go to town on Saturdays
But go to church every Sunday
They call it Nutbush
Oh, Nutbush

The popularity of the dance, apparently, is mostly an Australian thing. Tina didn't know about it until she was asked one day by an Oz reporter what she thought of it. She liked it - whether or not she actually performed the dance steps, I don't know.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I loved her music.

Correction, I love her music!

 

[Duleigh]

Just heard this Amazing Tina Turner fact from a radio station in Dallas Tx. (so it's got to be true)

In 1969, while staying at the Fort Worther Motel in Fort Worth, Texas, Jennings saw an advertisement in a newspaper promoting Tina Turner as a "good hearted woman loving two-timing men", a reference to Ike Turner. Jennings went to talk to Nelson, who was in a middle of a poker game, about writing a song based on that phrase. Joining the game, he and Nelson expanded the lyrics as Nelson's wife Connie Koepke wrote them down.

That's the origin of the Waylon and Willies megahit Good Hearted Woman. I love their rendition, but I love Tina Turners rendition just as much.

 

[gunhilltrain]

The popularity of the dance, apparently, is mostly an Australian thing. Tina didn't know about it until she was asked one day by an Oz reporter what she thought of it. She liked it - whether or not she actually performed the dance steps, I don't know.

I wasn't sure what you were talking about, but now I know. This is news to me.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/27/how-tina-turners-nutbush-became-the-unofficial-australian-anthem/

 

[Duleigh]

I wish Bob Seger and Tina had the chance to team up on Nutbush both were great on that tune

 

[gunhilltrain]

I wish Bob Seger and Tina had the chance to team up on Nutbush both were great on that tune

True, but she was the one who actually lived it. But hey, everybody covers everybody else's songs, and that's fine.

 

[Duleigh]

True, but she was the one who actually lived it. But hey, everybody covers everybody else's songs, and that's fine.

I'm just saying that Seger put energy and familiarity into Nutbush on the Live Bullet album that did Tina's version proud, it made me believe that Nutbush was in Michigan also.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

I like all of Tina Turns music with the exception of Proud Mary, you just can't get better than CCR's version. After all, John Forgerty wrote it. But other than that, she didn't do a song badly and she didn't do Proud Marry badly, Credence just did it better. That's my opinion and you disagree, but to me, my opinion carries more weight than yours!