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1960 single by Ike & Tina Turner

"A Fool in Love" is the debut single by Ike & Tina Turner. It was released on Sue Records in 1960.

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The song is Tina Turner's first release with the stage name "Tina Turner" although she had been singing with Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm since 1956.^[3] It was the first national hit record for bandleader Ike Turner since the number-one R&B hit "Rocket 88" in 1951, for which he did not receive proper credit.^[4]

"A Fool In Love" is one of the first R&B recordings to successfully cross over to the pop charts and became a million-seller.

Music journalist Kurt Loder deemed it "the blackest record to creep into the white pop charts since Ray Charles's gospel-styled 'What'd I Say.'"^[5]

Background

In 1956, Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm had a reputation as one of the liveliest bands in the St.

Louis and East St. Louis club scenes. Ann Bullock from Brownsville, Tennessee caught the band's act at the predominantly black East St. Louis club, Club Manhattan, with her sister A

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