The very first Ike & Tina Turner album was „The Soul of Ike & Tina Turner“ from 1961, including their debut single with „A Fool In Love“. After that, the duo released over twenty studio albums, eight live albums and a vast number of greatest hits collections, published simultaneously on over 15 different record companies. It was not until 1970, as the duo signed a long lasting recording contract with United Artists, with the release of their most successful album „Workin Together,“ which stayed 47 weeks in the Billboard charts. After Tina left Ike in 1976, it became extremely confusing, with an unmanageable number of sampler albums, reissues of old material, releases on compact disc and albums including previously unreleased material or alternative versions.