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Outta Season is a 1969 album by Ike & Tina Turner, released on Blue Thumb Records in the US and Liberty Records in the UK.[1] The album contains their signature live song "I've Been Loving You Too Long."

Outta Season

Studio album by

Ike & Tina Turner

Released

March 1969

Recorded

1968

Genre

Blues[1]
R&B[2]
soul[2]

Length

33:00

Label

Blue Thumb

Producer

Tina Turner
Bob Krasnow

Ike & Tina Turner chronology

So Fine
(1968)

Outta Season
(1969)

In Person
(1969)

Singles from Outta Season

"I've Been Loving You Too Long"
Released: April 1969
"Crazy 'Bout You Baby"
Released: July 1969

Content and release

Outta Season is a heavy blues album produced by Tina Turner and Bob Krasnow.[3] The controversial album cover features the Turners (Ike on the front and Tina on the back) in whiteface eating watermelon. The art direction was by Tom Wilkes and photography by Barry Feinstein.[4][5] As a sarcastic statement, Amos and Andy are credited for the design & photography on the album due to the history of the characters wearing blackface.[6]

The album contains the track "I Am a Motherless Child," which is based on the spiritual "City Called Heaven".[7] The first single, "I've Been Loving You Too Long," peaked at No. 68 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 23 on the Billboard R&B chart in April 1969.[8] The second single "Crazy 'Bout You Baby" was only released in the UK.[9]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

Cash Box (March 29, 1969)

The 'now' sound is blues, and the blues are now the sound of Ike and Tina Turner. This newly-recorded set features the vet R&B/Pop duo in a more contemporary framework than ever before, with increase emphasis on instrumental happenings. Material includes such blues standards as "Honest I Do," "My Babe," "Rock Me Baby," "Crazy 'Bout You Baby" and "Mean Old World" as well as several Ike or Tina originals and Otis Redding's "I've Been Loving You Too Long."[1]

Track listing

Side A
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I've Been Loving You Too Long"	Otis Redding, Jerry Butler	3:40
2.	"Mean Old World"	adapted by Ike Turner	2:20
3.	"3 O 'Clock in the Morning Blues"	B.B. King, Jules Taub	2:35
4.	"Five Long Years"	Eddie Boyd	3:20
5.	"Dust My Broom"	adapted by Ike Turner	2:30
6.	"Grumbling"	Ike Turner	2:35
7.	"I Am a Motherless Child"	Tina Turner	3:30

Side B
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Crazy 'Bout You Baby"	Sonny Boy Williamson	3:25
2.	"Reconsider Baby"	Lowell Fulson	:40
3.	"Honest I Do"	Ewart Abner, Jimmy Reed	2:20
4.	"Please Love Me"	B.B. King, Jules Taub	2:10
5.	"My Babe"	Willie Dixon	1:50
6.	"Rock Me Baby"	B.B. King, Joe Josea	2:45

Chart performance

Chart (1969)	Peak position
US Billboard Top LPs[10]	91
US Billboard R&B LPs[11]	43

References

"Cash Box Album Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box: 30. March 29, 1969.
"Outta Season - Ike & Tina Turner | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
Turner, Tina (1986). I, Tina. William Morrow and Company. p. 120.
"Album Cover Artist Tom Wilkes Dies Unexpectedly at Home in California". PRWeb. July 5, 2009.
O'Hagan, Sean (October 24, 2011). "Barry Feinstein obituary". The Guardian.
Wright, Joshua K. (March 1, 2017). "Reflections on Black Image in Amos 'n' Andy". Abernathy. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
Ramey, Lauri (2008). "Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry." New York City: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-34953633-7. p. 105.
"Ike & Tina, "I've Been Loving You Too Long" Chart Positions". Retrieved January 24, 2017.
"Ike & Tina Turner - Crazy 'Bout You Baby". Discogs. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
"Top LPs" (PDF). Billboard. May 10, 1969.
"Rhythm & Blues LPs" (PDF). Billboard. July 19, 1969.

Ike & Tina Turner

Ike Turner
Tina Turner

Kings of Rhythm
The Ikettes

Studio albums

The Soul of Ike & Tina Turner (1961)
Ike & Tina Turner's Kings of Rhythm Dance (1962)
Dynamite! (1962)
Don't Play Me Cheap (1963)
It's Gonna Work Out Fine (1963)
Get It – Get It (ca. 1966)
River Deep - Mountain High (1966)
So Fine (1968)
Outta Season (1969)
Cussin', Cryin' & Carryin' On (1969)
The Hunter (1969)
Come Together (1970)
Workin' Together (1970)
Her Man . . . His Woman (1971)
'Nuff Said (1971)
Feel Good (1972)
Let Me Touch Your Mind (1973)
Nutbush City Limits (1973)
The Gospel According to Ike & Tina (1974)
Sweet Rhode Island Red (1974)
Delilah's Power (1977)
Airwaves (1978)
The Edge (1980)

Live albums

Ike & Tina Turner Revue Live (1964)
Live! The Ike & Tina Turner Show (1965)
The Ike & Tina Turner Show - Vol. 2 (1967)
In Person (1969)
Ike & Tina Turner's Festival of Live Performances (1970)
What You Hear Is What You Get (1971)
Live In Paris (1971)
Live! The World of Ike & Tina (1973)

Compilations

The Greatest Hits of Ike & Tina Turner (1965)
The Soul of Ike & Tina (1966)
Souled Out (1970)
Greatest Hits (1976)
Get Back (1985)
Golden Empire (1985)
Proud Mary: The Best of Ike & Tina Turner (1991)
Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter (2002)
His Woman, Her Man: The Ike Turner Diaries (2004)
The Ike & Tina Turner Story: 1960–1975 (2007)

Soundtracks

Soul To Soul (1971)
Here's Johnny: Magic Moments from the Tonight Show (1974)

Singles

"A Fool in Love" (1960)
"I Idolize You" (1960)
"I'm Jealous" (1961)
"It's Gonna Work Out Fine" (1961)
"Poor Fool" (1961)
"Tra La La La La" (1962)
"You Should'a Treated Me Right" (1962)
"You Can't Miss Nothing That You Never Had" (1964)
"A Fool for a Fool" (1964)
"I Can't Believe What You Say (for Seeing What You Do)" (1964)
"Please, Please, Please" (1964)
"He's the One" (1964)
"Tell Her I'm Not Home" (1965)
"Somebody Needs You" (1965)
"Good Bye, So Long" (1965)
"I Don't Need" (1965)
"Two Is a Couple" (1965)
"Can't Chance a Break Up" (1965)
"Something's Got a Hold of Me" (1966)
"Dust My Broom" (1966)
"River Deep – Mountain High" (1966)
"I'll Never Need More Than This" (1967)
"A Love Like Yours" (1967)
"So Fine" (1968)
"I'm Gonna Do All I Can (to Do Right by My Man)" (1969)
"I've Been Loving You Too Long" (1969)
"I Wish It Would Rain" (1969)
"The Hunter" (1969)
"I Know" (1969)
"Bold Soul Sister" (1969)
"Come Together" (1970)
"I Want to Take You Higher" (1970)
"Respect" (1970)
"Workin' Together"
"Proud Mary" (1971)
"Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter" (1971)
"Ooh Poo Pah Doo" (1971)
"You Don't Love Me (Yes I Know)" (1971)
"I'm Yours (Use Me Anyway You Wanna)" (1971)
"Get Back" (1972)
"Up in Heah" (1972)
"Feel Good" (1972)
"She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" (1972)
"Let Me Touch Your Mind" (1972)
"With A Little Help From My Friends" (1973)
"Early One Morning" (1973)
"Nutbush City Limits" (1973)
"Sweet Rhode Island Red" (1974)
"Sexy Ida" (1974)
"Baby, Get It On" (1975)
"Shame, Shame, Shame" (1982)
"Living for the City" (1985)
"Shake a Hand" (1986)
"Raise Your Hand (U Got To)" (2005)

Video albums

The Best of MusikLaden Live (2004)
The Legends Ike & Tina Turner Live in '71 (2004)

Filmography

The Big T.N.T. Show (1966)
Gimme Shelter (1970)
It's Your Thing (1970)
Taking Off (1971)
Good Vibrations From Central Park (1971)
Soul To Soul (1971)
Ike & Tina On The Road: 1971–72 (2012)

Live performances

Concert tours	The Rolling Stones British Tour 1966 The Rolling Stones American Tour 1969
Other performances	Grand Gala du Disque (1969) Newport Pop Festival (1969) Seattle Pop Festival (1969) Newport Jazz Festival (1970) Schaefer Music Festival (1970) Soul Bowl (1970) Festival of Hope Rockfest (1972) Jazz Bilzen (1975)