I Don't Need

"I Don't Need"
"I Don't Need"
Single by Ike & Tina Turner
from the album The Soul of Ike & Tina
B-side	"Gonna Have Fun"
Released	August 1965
Genre	R&B
Length	2:15
Label	Modern Records
Songwriter(s)	Ike Turner
Ike & Tina Turner singles chronology

"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).

All tracks are written by Ike Turner

No.	Title	Length
1.	"I Don't Need"	2:25
2.	"Gonna Have Fun"	2:10


Chart (1965)	Peak position
US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100^[5]	134

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