Boy, Could He Play
Tina reminds us that she was still a teenager and “used to boys in jeans and short-sleeved shirts.” However, she did admit that she was drawn to his voice. “Boy, could he play that music. The place just started rocking,” she reminisced about the first time she laid eyes on Ike. “I wanted to get up there and sing so bad.”
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But that would take another year. Tina and her sister continued to hit the club circuit and became frequent guests at Club Manhattan, where Ike and his band often played. During one of the band’s breaks, the band’s drummer, Eugene Washington, stood up and set the microphone in front of Tina.