Released in 1971, Ike and Tina’s “Proud Mary” rendition was the second single from their album Workin’ Together (1970). tour, Ike and Tina discovered first-hand the instant appeal their cover versions of songs such as “Proud Mary,” the Beatles’ “Come Together” and the Stones’ “Honky Tonk Women” had for audiences.
Tina and Ike’s rendition blew up Fogerty’s original arrangement in favor of a grittier, funkier version perfectly matched to Tina’s earthy then soaring vocals.Īs an opening act for the Rolling Stones in Europe and again for the band’s 1969 U.S. Ike and Tina began covering “Proud Mary” on stage, reimagining the song Tina had loved since first hearing it on the radio in 1969. Ike and Tina found success covering "Proud Mary" and other songs Ike and Tina Turner in 1975 Photo: David Redfern/Redferns Leaving a steady but low-earning job behind, the subject of “Proud Mary” bids farewell to the city and hitches a ride on a “riverboat queen” where the people “are happy to give” even “if you got no money.” The song portrays a new life available on the river the promise of like-minded camaraderie and the chance for rebirth as an individual whose life exists on the ever-moving river. It vibrated inside me.” Released in early 1969, the song peaked at No. “By the time I hit ‘Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river,’ I knew I had written my best song. I had the chord changes, the minor chord where it says, ‘Big wheel keep on turnin’/Proud Mary keep on burnin,’” Fogerty recalls in Bad Moon Rising: The Unofficial History of Creedence Clearwater Revival by Hank Bordowitz. “’Left a good job in the city’ and then several good lines came out of me immediately. In a celebratory mood, he began strumming the guitar and his blues-rock anthem was born. While many still only associate “Proud Mary” with Tina’s rasping growl and horn-packed 1970s arrangement, the song was actually written by Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty on the day he received his discharge papers from the army in 1967. READ MORE: Ike and Tina Turner's Tumultuous Relationship The song was written by the frontman for Creedence Clearwater Revival In the spoken introduction to their hit “Proud Mary,” Tina Turner promises audiences that at first, she and then-husband, Ike Turner, will take things “nice and easy” with the song, but promises the ending will be “rough.” A promise the singer delivered on time after time for decades, with the song becoming indelibly linked to the performer born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee, in 1939.
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