{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{italic title}} {{Infobox album | name = Soul The Hits | type = Studio | artist = The Ikettes | cover = Ikettes-Soul-The-Hits.jpg | alt = | caption = Jessie Smith, Robbie Montgomery, and Venetta Fields pictured on the cover | released = January 23, 1966 | venue = | genre = R&B, soul, pop | length = | label = Modern Records | producer = | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = In Person | next_year = 1969 | misc = {{Singles | name = So Fine | type = studio | single1 = Camel Walk | single1date = December 1964 | single2 = Peaches 'N' Cream | single2date = February 1965 | single3 = (He's Gonna Be) Fine, Fine, Fine | single3date = May 1965 | single4 = I'm So Thankful | single4date = July 1965 | single5 = (Never More) Lonely For You | single5date = January 1966 | single6 = Not That I Recall | single6date = July 1966 }} }}
'''''Soul The Hits''''' is the debut album by American girl group the Ikettes, released on Modern Records in 1966.
== Background == In 1960, Ike Turner wrote "A Fool in Love" for singer Art Lassiter.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Takin' Back My Name: The Confessions of Ike Turner|last=Turner, Ike|publisher=Virgin|others=Cawthorne, Nigel|year=1999|isbn=1852278501|location=London|oclc=43321298}}</ref> When Lassiter failed to show up for the recording session at Technisonic Studios, Turner had Lassiter's backup singers, the Artettes (Robbie Montgomery, Frances Hodges, and Sandra Harding<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://spectropop.com/PatPowdrill/index.htm|title=Spectropop Presents Looking for Pat Powdrill|last=Nevill|first=Brian|website=spectropop.com}}</ref>) accompany Tina Turner on the recording. After the single became a hit, Ike Turner formed the Ike & Tina Turner Revue which included a trio of backing vocalist called the Ikettes.<ref name=":0" /> The first set of Ikettes to tour with the Revue were different from the trio on the recording. Hodges and Harding remained with Lassiter, and Montgomery was pregnant and unable to tour. Montgomery joined the Revue shortly after having her baby.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.stlmag.com/A-Conversation-With-Robbie-Montgomery/|title=A Conversation With Robbie Montgomery|last=Cooperman|first=Jeannette|date=February 26, 2010|website=St. Louis Magazine}}</ref> The lineup went through many changes, but by 1964, the consistent set of Ikettes were Robbie Montgomery, Jessie Smith and Venetta Fields who are pictured on the cover of ''Soul The Hits''.
== Singles == The album contains six previously released singles. The first single "Camel Walk" reached No. 107 on ''Billboard''<nowiki/>'s Bubbling Under The Hot 100.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=February 13, 1965|title=Bubbling Under The Hot 100|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1965/Billboard%201965-02-13.pdf|magazine=Billboard}}</ref> Their second single, "Peaches 'N' Cream" became the biggest hit for the Ikettes since "I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)" in 1961. It peaked at No. 36 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and No. 28 on the R&B chart.<ref name=":2">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/the-ikettes|title=The Ikettes Chart History|magazine=Billboard}}</ref> The follow-up "(He's Gonna Be) Fine, Fine, Fine" reached No. 125 on Bubbling Under The Hot 100.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=June 5, 1965|title=Bubbling Under The Hot 100|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1965/Billboard%201965-06-05.pdf|magazine=Billboard}}</ref> The next single, "I'm So Thankful," was an R&B hit (No. 74 Pop, No. 12 R&B).<ref name=":2" /> "(Never More) Lonely For You" reached No. 122 on Bubbling Under The Hot 100.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=February 5, 1966|title=Bubbling Under The Hot 100|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1966/Billboard%201966-02-05.pdf|magazine=Billboard}}</ref> By the time the last single, "Not That I Recall," was released in 1966, Montgomery, Smith, and Fields had left the Revue to form The Mirettes.<ref name=":1" />
== Reissues == In 2007, ''Soul The Hits'' was reissued on CD with 17 additional tracks by P-Vine Records (catalog no. PCD-93060).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Ikettes-Soul-The-Hits/release/9425790|title=The Ikettes – Soul The Hits|website=Discogs|date=2007 }}</ref>
== Track listing == {{Track listing | all_writing = | title1 = I'm So Thankful | length1 = | title2 = Da Do Ron Ron | length2 = | title3 = Camel Walk | length3 = | title4 = Can't Sit Down | length4 = | title5 = Lonely For You | length5 = | title6 = Not That I Recall | length6 = | title7 = | length7 = | title8 = | length8 = | title9 = | length9 = | length10 = | total_length = | headline = Side A | title10 = | writer1 = Marc Gordon, Frank Wilson | extra_column = Producer | writer2 = Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry | writer3 = Ike Turner | writer4 = Frank Wilson | writer5 = Ike Turner | writer6 = Ike Turner | extra1 = Marc Gordon, Frank Wilson | extra2 = | extra3 = Ike Turner | extra5 = Ike Turner | extra6 = Ike Turner }}{{Track listing | all_writing = | title1 = Peaches 'N' Cream | length1 = | title2 = Sally Go Round the Roses | length2 = | title3 = Don't Feel Sorry For Me | length3 = | title4 = He's Gonna Be Fine | length4 = | title5 = Nobody Loves Me | length5 = | title6 = It's Been So Long | length6 = | length7 = | length8 = | length9 = | length10 = | total_length = | headline = Side B | writer6 = Ike Turner | writer5 = Ike Turner | writer4 = Steve Venet, Tommy Boyce, Toni Wine | writer3 = Jimmy Beasley | writer1 = Steve Venet, Tommy Boyce | writer2 = Lona Stevens, Zelma Sanders | title7 = | title8 = | title9 = | title10 = | extra_column = Producer | extra5 = Ike Turner | extra6 = Ike Turner | extra1 = Steve Venet | extra3 = Marc Gordon, Frank Wilson | extra4 = Ike Turner, Steve Venet }}
== References == <references />{{The Ikettes}} {{Authority control}}
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