Filed under: music | Tags: ellie greenwich, ike turner, obituaries, religion, tina turner
In eulogizing the late, great songwriter Ellie Greenwich last night, I came upon this completely insane video for Ike and Tina Turner’s River Deep, Mountain High. It is AMAZING. Kind of the most amazing thing ever, and I’m not really exaggerating. It is SO SO SO SO AMAZING.
The dancing! The shadows! The way everyone was filmed from about four inches away despite the dancing and the shadows! Ike! Tina! PP Arnold, the Ikette in the middle (who incidentally was also the first person to record The First Cut Is The Deepest)!
This clip reminded me a lot of Peter Adair’s The Holy Ghost People, a kind of beautiful 1967 documentary about snake-handling Pentecostals in rural West Virginia. It’s on Youtube, though I suggest watching on a larger screen if you can find it. (more…)
