What's Love Got to Do with It (album)

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What's Love Got to Do with It
Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It.jpg
Soundtrack album by
ReleasedJune 15, 1993
Recorded
  • 1984
  • 1993
Studio Record Plant
Genre
Length
  • 57:32 (international version)
  • 51:52 (US version)
Label Parlophone
Tina Turner chronology
Simply the Best
(1991)
What's Love Got to Do with It
(1993)
The Collected Recordings: Sixties to Nineties
(1994)
Singles from
What's Love Got to Do with It
  1. "I Don't Wanna Fight"
    Released: April 23, 1993
  2. "Disco Inferno"
    Released: July 12, 1993
  3. "Why Must We Wait Until Tonight"
    Released: September 16, 1993
  4. "Proud Mary"
    Released: November 19, 1993
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Robert Christgau A− [2]
Entertainment Weekly B− [3]
Music Week Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Philadelphia Inquirer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]

What's Love Got to Do with It is the first soundtrack by American singer Tina Turner, released on June 15, 1993, by Parlophone. It served as the soundtrack album for the 1993 Tina Turner biographical film of the same name, which was released by Touchstone Pictures that same year. It mostly consists on re-recorded versions of her greatest hits during her period with the Ike and Tina Revue.

Contents

Overview

Most of the album is re-recorded songs from the Ike & Tina Turner period including their first successful single, "A Fool in Love". A total of five new tracks were recorded. Three all new tracks were also included—"I Don't Wanna Fight", a top-10 entry in both the US and UK, and her last major American chart success, [6] as well as "Why Must We Wait Until Tonight" and "Stay Awhile". The album also includes a new Turner version of the Trammps' disco classic "Disco Inferno", a song she had often performed live in concert during the late 1970s, but which she had never previously recorded in studio. It also includes a new Turner version of "You Know I Love You" which is not the B.B. King song but a slightly different, more blues rock song Turner wrote herself with her band mates, though she still credited the song to King on the soundtrack. Turner recalls singing the B.B. King ballad in her 1986 memoir, I, Tina . Two tracks from her 1984 breakthrough solo album Private Dancer are included as well—the title track to the film and "I Might Have Been Queen". The album hit number one on the UK Albums Chart and was certified platinum in various countries including the US, the UK, Switzerland and New Zealand. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

The US version of the album omits two tracks; "Shake a Tail Feather" and "Tina's Wish", the latter being Turner's version of "Make Me Over" from the 1973 album Nutbush City Limits .

Track listings

What's Love Got to Do with It track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Don't Wanna Fight" Lulu, Billy Lawrie, Steve DuBerry 6:09
2."Rock Me Baby" (Re-recorded 1993 version) Riley King, Joe Josea 3:59
3."Disco Inferno"Leroy Green, Ron Kersey 4:05
4."Why Must We Wait Until Tonight" Bryan Adams, Robert John Lange 5:55
5."Stay Awhile" Terry Britten, Graham Lyle 4:52
6."Nutbush City Limits" (Re-recorded 1993 version)Tina Turner3:19
7."(Darlin') You Know I Love You"King, Jules Taub 4:29
8."Proud Mary" (Re-recorded 1993 version) John Fogerty 5:27
9."A Fool in Love" (Re-recorded 1993 version) Ike Turner 2:56
10."It's Gonna Work Out Fine" (Re-recorded 1993 version)Sylvia McKinney, Rose McCoy 2:50
11."Shake a Tail Feather" (Re-recorded 1993 version)Verlie Rice, Otis Hayes, Andre Williams 2:32
12."I Might Have Been Queen" (Re-recorded 1993 version, from 1984 album Private Dancer) Jeannette Obstoj, Rupert Hine, Jamie West-Oram, Tina Turner4:20
13."What's Love Got to Do with It" (from 1984 album Private Dancer)Britten, Lyle3:46
14."Tina's Wish" (Re-recorded 1993 version)Tina Turner, Ike Turner3:08
Total length:57:32
US version
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Don't Wanna Fight"DuBerry, Lulu, Lawrie6:06
2."Rock Me Baby" (1993 version)King, Josea3:57
3."Disco Inferno"Green, Kersey4:03
4."Why Must We Wait Until Tonight"Adams, Lange5:53
5."Nutbush City Limits" (1993 version)Tina Turner3:19
6."(Darlin') You Know I Love You" (1993 version)King, Taub4:27
7."Proud Mary" (1993 version)Fogerty5:25
8."A Fool in Love" (1993 version)Ike Turner2:54
9."It's Gonna Work Out Fine" (1993 version)McKinney, McCoy2:49
10."Stay Awhile"Britten, Lyle4:50
11."I Might Have Been Queen" (1993 version, from 1984 album Private Dancer)Obstoj, Hine, West-Oram, Tina Turner*4:20
12."What's Love Got to Do with It" (from 1984 album Private Dancer)Britten, Lyle3:49
Total length:51:52

Personnel

Musicians

  • Tina Turner – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 12)
  • Steve DuBerry – keyboards (1), drum programming (1), backing vocals (1)
  • C.J. Vanston – keyboards (1, 2, 3, 5–9, 11, 14), drum programming (1, 5), strings (4)
  • David Paich – acoustic piano (4)
  • Robbie KingHammond B3 organ (4)
  • Steve McNamara – programming (4)
  • Rupert Hine – keyboards (12), bass (12), percussion programming (12), backing vocals (12)
  • Nick Glennie-Smith – keyboards (13)
  • Billy Livsey – keyboards (13)
  • Gene Black – guitars (1, 3, 5–9, 11, 14), lead guitar (2)
  • James Ralston – guitars (1, 2, 3, 5–11, 14), backing vocals (3)
  • Keith Scott – guitars (4)
  • Tim Pierce – guitar solo (5)
  • Jamie West-Oram – guitars (12)
  • Terry Britten – guitars (13), backing vocals (13)
  • Bob Feit – bass (2, 3, 6–11, 14)
  • Curt Bisquera – drums (1, 2, 3, 5–11, 14)
  • Trevor Morais – drums (12)
  • Graham Jarvis – drums (13)
  • Simon Morton – percussion (13)
  • Tim Cappello – saxophone (1, 2, 3, 6–9, 11, 14), backing vocals (1, 3), horn arrangements (5), bass vocals (8), featured vocals (10)
  • Lee Thornburg – trombone (1, 3, 6, 8, 11, 14), trumpet (1, 3, 6, 8, 11, 14)
  • Rick Braun – trumpet solo (4)
  • Aaron Zigman – string arrangements (1, 5)
  • Sharon Brown – backing vocals (2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 14)
  • Jackie Gouche – backing vocals (2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 14)
  • Jean McClain – backing vocals (2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 14)
  • The Tuck Back Twins (Bryan Adams and Mutt Lange) – backing vocals (4)
  • Laurence Fishburne – spoken vocals (8, 10)
  • Cy Curnin – backing vocals (12)
  • Tessa Niles – backing vocals (13)

Production

Studios

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for What's Love Got to Do with It
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Austria (IFPI Austria) [38] Gold25,000*
Canada (Music Canada) [39] Gold50,000^
France (SNEP) [40] Gold100,000*
Germany (BVMI) [41] Gold250,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [11] Platinum15,000^
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [42] Gold50,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [10] Platinum50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [9] Platinum300,000^
United States (RIAA) [8] Platinum1,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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