With A Little Help From My Friends / Early One Morning is a double a-sided single, released with different picture covers in Europe. In contrast to the European release, it was promoted with the song Early One Morning in America, where it also charted on the Billboard R&B chart. With A Little Help From My Friends is a live track, but produced like a studio version. Ike & Tina promoted it on the American tv show „Midnight Special“ on February 02, 1973. Early One Morning was taken from the album Let Me Touch Your Mind.
Released in 1973 from United Artists Records on 7“ vinyl, Early One Morning reached #47 (R&B) in America.
A. With A Little Help From My Friends (Live) 3:17
Written by John Lennon, Paul McCartney / Produced by Ike Turner, Soko Richardson, Warren Dawson / Engineer: Ike Turner / Recorded Live in Europe / Engineered at Bolic Sound, Inglewood, California, November 1972
B. Early One Morning 3:38
Written by Roger Whittaker / Produced by Ike Turner, Soko Richardson, Warren Dawson
Engineer: Ike Turner / From the album "Let Me Touch Your Mind" UAS 29423 / Recorded and engineered at Bolic Sound, Inglewood, California, July 1972
"Early One Morning"
(their smash new single)
IKE & TINA Turner are back with one of their hottest singles to date. In the tradition of their classics, It's Gonna Work Out Fine and A Fool In Love, Early One Morning features the lkettes prominently with Tina’s sensual magnificence on a lyric line the finest this side of Proud Mary. (From their album, LET ME TOUCH YOUR MIND, recorded at Bolic Sound Studios, Inglewood, CA).