I found this article while searching for the Mofi River Deep Mountain High GOLD CD. Does it exist? Or is it just something I read that never was released? I don't know. But then I found an article about Ike & Tina Turner's 6 CD Archive Series at the Independent's site:

from http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 13099.html

Story of the Song - River Deep, Mountain High, Ike & Tina Turner (1966)

By Robert Webb


Friday, 23 January 2009

Ike and Tina Turner's Archive Series, a six-CD round-up of studio takes and alternative cuts, goes behind the wall of sound on one of the pair's enduring classics.

Written in the spring of 1966, "River Deep, Mountain High" originated from the pen of husband-and-wife team Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and the producer Phil Spector. Each brought ideas to the table. Spector played guitar, Greenwich pounded the piano and Barry smacked percussion. "The three of us were like maniacs, singing away," Greenwich said. "All of a sudden we hit on something." Spector knew immediately who the song was for.

He called his usual ensemble of players and backers – four drummers, as many bassists, plus pianists and singers – and gathered them at Los Angeles's Gold Star studios. "I had no idea what the song was or who it was for," recalls singer Darlene Love in her autobiography. When she arrived, Spector was strumming "River Deep, Mountain High" and the studio was crammed with people, including his latest signing – Tina Turner. Spector had recruited the Turners, primarily for Tina's extraordinary voice, as a hit act to challenge The Beatles. Love hoped that the song was for her, but Spector and Turner had already spent two weeks honing the melody – an experience Turner would later liken to "carving furniture".

Picked up Nutbush City Limits by Ike and Tina at the dollar store about two years ago and I still listen to it incessantly.

Found it at a German site https://plattenladen.pop24.de/detailanz ... rid=594721

I see it's on the spv label, they've also released some Eric Burdon.

I bought the single in '75 or '76, I think, and played it on repeat.