Ike & Tina Turner – It’s Gonna Work Out Fine / Can You Forgive Me [1961; London American Recordings, London Records, Sue Records Inc.]

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Leading with a track from the duo’s second album, the A-side of this single lets Tina take the lead while Ike provides responses to her lines, with a trim guitar line and drums backing them up, along with a few extra female singers.  The B-side is an advance track from their 1963 album Dynamite!, and it shifts to fuller instrumentation and a duet from the Turners.  Both tracks move quickly, but the spirit with which they’re performed brings quite a punch to their short runs.