Skating To The Tina Turner Songbook

[SkateGuard]

Some of the most fabulous songs from the Tina Turner songbook haven't really been touched at all by the skating world.

We've had a healthy dose of West Side Story, Queen medleys, Andrea Bocelli and all that fun stuff... but amazing songs like "I Don't Wanna Fight", "When The Heartache Is Over" and Tina's fabulous rendition of "Missing You" have sadly been overlooked.

Here's a FAR from comprehensive list of performances using/inspired by Tina's music.

The Best

Stars On Ice group #: https://youtu.be/GcGusCCjRZw
Nancy Kerrigan singing the song for "What's Love? A Tribute to Tina Turner" (2004): https://youtu.be/xub5RaYZ3h0

It's Only Love

Tessa Bonhomme and David Pelletier (BOTB): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO55zX-30CU

Goldeneye

Charlene von Saher: https://youtu.be/S4_2z8W1YdA
Maria Butyrskaya: https://youtu.be/Y5q61xQT_ss

I Can't Stand The Rain

Rosalynn Sumners: https://youtu.be/xlQe94mt_5g?t=2474

Proud Mary

Dancing On Ice cast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV1hzcdZY9E
Liz Manley: https://youtu.be/ile1yxeyDEA
Kaetlyn Osmond: https://youtu.be/JN6tnSzzvFY
Shae-Lynn Bourne and Kurt Browning: https://youtu.be/SLm5mOLgMQk
Olivia Smart and Adrian Diaz: https://youtu.be/Gx_2hCmVa5w

What's Love Got To Do With It

Carolanne Soucisse and Shane Firus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv1fW0Pnvmw
Performance to a cover version by Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPLkvr7nESw

Whole Lotta Love

Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtvMOSRPt_k
Jane Summersett and Todd Gilles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmBED25xILU

What are your favourites and what can you add?

 

[love skating]

Not a skating program, but for Dancing With The Stars Kristi Yamaguchi and Mark Ballas danced a jive to Nutbush City Limits...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyMlbS4djYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85wZWPliQvM (Better quality video - this is all of Kristi & Mark's dances together - so Nutbush City Limits comes on at the 17:30 mark)

Junior dance team Kristina Bland and Matthew Sperry's RD two seasons ago was to Proud Mary but I don't think there's a video online. Here's a pic from ice-dance.com

Kristina Bland & Matthew Sperry (Rhythm Dance) - Ice-Dance.com's Photography Section

photos.ice-dance.com

 

[briancoogaert]

Another Goldeneye :
Ben Khelifa & Zhu from Canada doing their Blues RD :

Chaima BEN KHELIFA / Everest ZHU CAN | ICE DANCE RHYTHM DANCE | Gdansk 2021 #JGPFigure

To license ISU footage: https://bit.ly/3M7bcaF Rhythm Dance Start List Link: Visit https://isu.org/JuniorGrandPrix for more information on the ISU Junior Gra...

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