IKE & TINA: Song

I’ve Been Loving You Too Long

is a soul music ballad written and released from Otis Redding in 1965. Ike & Tina Turner covered it in 1969 for their album Outta Season and performed it live in their concerts, available on many live albums. It was also released twice as a single, first in 1969 and once again in 1971. The version from their live shows differs from the original, because they added an additional section with an explicit conversation between them. Tina handled the microphone in a raunchy way, while Ike made suggestive slurping noises. In Gimme Shelter, a concert film from The Rolling Stones, Ike & Tina performed this song at Madison Square Garden in New York, available on the album Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! from 2009. Tina Turner performed the song also live in her early solo concerts, available on the Wild Lady of Rock home video.

Writer: Otis Redding, J. Butler
Producer: Bob Krasnow, Tina Turner
Album: Outta Season (1969) / Live In Paris (1971) / What You Hear Is What You Get (1971) / The Best of the Rest (1986) / Live In '71 (2004) / Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! (2009) / On The Road (2013) / Playing Rough (2019)
Single: I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (1969 / '71)
Video: Gimme Shelter (1970) / Wild Lady of Rock (1984)
Charts: USA: #23 (R&B) / 68 (Pop)

  1. I've Been Loving You Too Long 3:55
  2. From the album 'Outta Season'
  3. I've Been Loving You Too Long (Live) 7:18
  4. From the album 'Live In Paris' with a concert from Olympia Theater on January 30, 1971
  5. I've Been Loving You Too Long (Live) 8:31
  6. From the album 'What You Hear Is What You Get' with a concert from the Carnegie Hall in New York City on April 1, 1971
  7. I've Been Loving You Too Long (Live) 6:52
  8. From the album 'Live In '71' with a concert from the Kurhaus in Scheveningen, Netherlands on February 11, 1971
  9. I've Been Loving You Too Long (Live) 5:40
  10. From the album 'Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!' with a concert from Madison Square Garden in New York in 1969
  11. I've Been Loving You Too Long (Live) 7:53
  12. From the album 'On The Road'
  13. I've Been Loving You Too Long (Live) 5:55
  14. From the album 'The Best of the Rest'
  15. I've Been Loving You Too Long (Live) 5:01
  16. From the album 'Playing Rough' with a concert at the Theater Carré in Amsterdam on April 22, 1979

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