I Don't Need Explained

Cover:	Ike-Tina-Turner-I-Dont-Need.jpg
Type:	Single
Artist:	Ike & Tina Turner
Album:	The Soul of Ike & Tina
B-Side:	Gonna Have Fun
Released:	August 1965
Genre:	R&B
Length:	2:15
Label:	Modern Records
Prev Title:	Good Bye, So Long
Prev Year:	1965
Next Title:	Two Is a Couple
Next Year:	1965

"I Don't Need" is a song written by Ike Turner. It was released by R&B duo Ike & Tina Turner on Modern Records in 1965.^[1]

Release

"I Don't Need" was Ike & Tina Turner's second release on the newly revived Modern label.^[2] Tina Turner promoted the record on Shindig! in August 1965. The single reached No. 134 on Billboard's Bubbling Under The Hot 100.^[3] Turner performed the B-side "Gonna Have Fun" on Hollywood A Go-Go and Where the Action Is.^[4] "I Don't Need" and "Gonna Have Fun" later appeared on the compilation album The Soul of Ike & Tina (1966), which was released on Modern's follow-up label, Kent Records, and on The Kent Years (2000).

Chart performance

!Chart (1965)!Peak
position

US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100^[5]

134

References

1. August 14, 1965. Spotlight Singles: R&B Spotlights. Billboard. 16.
2. Book: Broven, John. Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers. University of Illinois Press. 2009. 978-0-252-03290-5. 303. en.
3. Web site: I Don't Need (song by Ike & Tina Turner). Music VF, US & UK hits charts. 2020-05-20.
4. News: October 6, 1965 . Thursday on Eight . 24 . Sun-Journal.
5. August 7, 1965. Bubbling Under The Hot 100. Billboard. 20.