Tina Turner's Lost Private Dancer Song Rediscovered

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[nickcarraway]

A song recorded for Tina Turner's blockbuster album Private Dancer, that was presumed lost, has been rediscovered and will receive its first play on BBC Radio 2 later.

Hot For You, Baby, was cut at Capitol Studios in Hollywood and originally intended to be an album track.

But it was ultimately jettisoned in favour of era-defining pop hits such What's Love Got To Do With It, Better Be Good To Me and the album's title track.

Presumed missing, the master tape was recently rediscovered as her record label compiled a 40th anniversary re-release of Private Dancer.

An up-tempo rocker, full of showboating guitar chords and an extremely 1980s cowbell, Hot For You, Baby is a prime example of Turner's raspy, physical style of soul.

The track will receive its first play on the Radio 2 Breakfast Show on Thursday, between 08:30 and 09:00 GMT.

[nickcarraway]

The Tina Turner version isn't posted anywhere, but supposedly this is the same song, in a version by someone else: Hot for You Baby by John Paul Young

Tina Turner was from the U.S., although she lived many years in Swizterland, so why do the pommies get this song first?

[gundog]

Cowbell!!

[Salamander]

She’ll always be Auntie Entity to me

/ain’t we a pair, raggedy man

[nickcarraway]

All the children say
We don’t need another hero

[Steven Scharf]

Tina Turner was from the U.S., although she lived many years in Swizterland, so why do the pommies get this song first?

Because she did not write it.

Composer: Johannes Hendricus Van den Berg
Composer: George Young

I just listened to this version and I see why it ended up on the cutting room floor.

[Gene Eric]

Jeff Beck did a nice job on Private Dancer

[Steven Scharf]

Based on John Paul Young’s other songs on this album, it appears the song was actually written in the early 1970s.

John Paul Young who sang the 1978 song, Love is in the Air Written and produced by the legendary George Young (big brother of Angus and Malcolm Young of AC/DC and ex-Easybeats/Flash & The Pan) and Harry Vanda (ex-Easybeats) who seems to have had a long relationship with John Paul Young.

[rktman]

Hmmmmm?

[Organic Panic]

Raggedy man...

[Tom Tetroxide]

“Tina Turner was from the U.S., although she lived many years in Swizterland, so why do the pommies get this song first?”

In the article you would found out that she recorded the song in the UK.

Quote:

“But she used her time wisely - recording all but one of Private Dancer’s songs in the UK with five different British production teams.”

[Rastus]

Who run Bartertown?

[Hot Tabasco]

Video recorded in 2009, she was still rocking at the age of 70. What an amazing woman.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTfYnRQgKgY

[NautiNurse]

I attended Tina’s Private Dancer tour concert just before Christmas. During her encore, Mick Jagger joined her onstage for Honky Tonk. Memorable!

[KingLudd]

” ... big brother of Angus and Malcolm Young of AC/DC ...”

I had no idea. Thanks for the history.

[ncdrumr]

Here it is:

Tina's version

[logi_cal869]

Good thing it wasn’t stored in a recording studio in Palisades. /s

[lapsus calami]

 

 

In reference to that, a whole lot of history was lost in that fire - not just from Hollywood, but various private collections that had been gathered up from all over the world for decades, stuff that's irreplaceable. I recall Mel Gibson saying he lost books from the 1600s.

 

 

[logi_cal869]

Indeed.

However, one wonders about the state of reality for people living in such an area with irreplaceable collectibles and who failed to invest in fireproof storage…

I guarantee that weeks from now some folks will pull wine collections from the ashes. Irony, the priorities..

[lapsus calami]

 

 

I think I'd chalk it up to human nature. They might like to have their stuff out, even on display to enjoy. They also probably thought nothing would ever happen, would get out of hand. Nawww, not THERE. The fire department would keep things handled as always, they'll never be under threat to have to stash their stuff safely away, or evacuate it. Surprise.

 

 

[logi_cal869]

...and the insurance companies were EVIL for being both realistic and not socialist...