Artist: Ike & Tina Turner
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It's Gay Pride weekend in Seattle. This past Thursday Scarecrow Video sponsored screenings of rare queer film footage from the 1970s at a joint called Substation just down the street from where I live in Ballard. Along with "Always On Sunday" (a parody of the similarly-titled Jules Dassin film about a flouncy floozy played by Melina Mercouri) and "What Really Happened to Baby Jane" (a send-up of you-know-what), there was '70s footage of drag queens putting on a show! We saw Phyllis Diller, Judy Garland, Pearl Bailey, and Ethel Merman, to name a few. Best of all was Tina Turner, with her three Ikettes on 'backing vocal' duties. It was fabulous!
In fact, earlier that same day after learning how to drive one of these down in Federal Way, I picked up this 1974 French release of Ike & Tina's "Sexy Ida" at Rat City Records in White Center. You can read about Ike & Tina here.
In fact, earlier that same day after learning how to drive one of these down in Federal Way, I picked up this 1974 French release of Ike & Tina's "Sexy Ida" at Rat City Records in White Center. You can read about Ike & Tina here.
[ Tina Turner: born November 26, 1939 ]
[ Ike Turner: November 5, 1931 — December 12, 2007 ]
[ Rat City Records — White Center, WA ]
[ Ike Turner: November 5, 1931 — December 12, 2007 ]
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