Our family often spent Saturday nights in our finished basement, singing and dancing to 45s of Motown and R&B artists. One of my favorite songs was “Proud Mary” by the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. I had no idea who Creedence Clearwater Revival was at that time, but I knew Tina Turner. Sometimes I would don one of my mother’s wigs and a slip, and pretend to perform Turner’s wild and wonderful dance moves. She performed a shorter version of it on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1970. This was quite groundbreaking; if you remember Elvis Presley’s 1956 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, they had to film him from the waist up in order to cut out his gyrating hips and get past the morality censors.Read More
Simply The Best: Tina Turner Dies at 83
