An audio recording of Tina Turner performing a cover of the Bertie Higgins’ song Key Largo, live at Le Palace in Paris on March 29, 1982. As far as we know, this is the only existing recording of Tina performing this song. Unfortunately, the quality of the audio file is very bad, but still worth a listen, especially for the fans. The picture above is from that concert. Click below for the song and lyrics.
Lyrics
Wrapped around each other
Trying so hard to stay warm
That first cold winter together
Lying in each others arms
Watching those old movies
Falling in love so desperately
Honey, I was your hero
And you were my leading lady
We had it all
Just like Bogie and Bacall
Starring in our old late, late show
Sailing away to Key Largo
Here’s lookin’ at you kid
Missing all the things we did
We can find it once again, I know
Just like they did in Key Largo
Honey, can’t you remember
We played all the parts
That sweet scene of surrender
When you gave me your heart
Please say you will
Play it again
‘Cause I love you still
Baby, this can’t be the end
We had it all
(We had it all)
Just like Bogie and Bacall
Starring in our old late, late show
Sailing away to Key Largo
Here’s lookin’ at you kid
(Here’s lookin’ at you kid)
Missing all the things we did
We can find it once again, I know
Just like they did in Key Largo
We had it all
(We had it all)
Just like Bogie and Bacall
Starring in our old late, late show
Sailing away to Key Largo
wow never listen it before , i would like to have it .
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I LOVE this song! Thank you so much for posting this! And you’re right, I never heard it before, amazing!
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You’re welcome. Glad we could upload something ‘new’!
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QUE FANTÁSTICO!!! NUNCA LO ESCUCHE!!! ME ENCANTA!!! GRACIAS POR MANDARLO!!!
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I call you when I need you, my heart’s on fire, Give me everything I need, In your heart, I see the star of every night and every day
Good music tina. I love tina…………..
Les petits loups vous nous faîtes rêver avec ses thèmes différents sur Tina. Bon courage………. Obrigado
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Merci bien!
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beautiful song and great perfomed as usual thx guys and tina
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You’re welcome! Great performance indeed!
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The Nice’n rough concert should be available without any songs edited out. Wonder if the footage still exists.
This is the best post yet on your fantastic blog!
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Thanks a lot! I do think however that the Nice ‘N’ Rough concert available on video is almost a complete concert from that era, save maybe 2 or 3 songs. I think Tina would adjust her show quite often to include some songs that were hits at the moment, such as Key Largo. Also during this era she sang other ballads such as Help, Crazy In The Night and Rock ‘N’ Roll Widow.
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She missed the autocue in those years 🙂
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But then when she got an autocue, she only performed the same songs over and over again! 😉
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but her voice was the best during this period. check out her performance of “rock n roll widow” and “steel claw” on the tonight show in 1982…
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Yes, great performances!
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I (Ben) was planning to do something special for 2012, like a year retrospective in video & audio for the blog from 1982 which was i think a great year for TIna! I love the Johnny Carson performance!
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Muy bueno!!!! Es verdad nunca lo escuché, es nuevo para mí, Gracias sigan como hasta ahora,
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de nada en gracias!
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I can only say WOW! thank you, you beautiful boyz you!
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Thanks Michal, glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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well another great song and which one i never heard of it…it was nice and good era for tina at tht time..u doin great job in this blog appreciate tht cos most of rec. or other old ‘news’never been heard…same as i bought album 3disc sixies to nineties many years ago..lot of recording which tina might record probably was never out or even heard by fans…
thanks again for post 🙂
paul
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Thanks Paul, great era for Tina indeed and thanks for your compliments on our blog 🙂
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Can you please email Key Lago, as it appears that out of all your audio & video tracks, This seems to be 1 that realrecorder does not appear on
Thanks kindly
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Can you please email Key Lago, as it appears that out of all your audio & video tracks, This seems to be 1 that realrecorder does not appear on
Thanks kindly
🙂
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It appears that there is noway to delete previous messages.
I managed to get copy of this.
🙂
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Can’t believe I just stumbled on this now – almost a year later! It’s so rare to find a Tina song that I have never heard before! That just made my day!!! If there is any way you could email me the audio file of this, I would be so grateful! Would love to have it on my iPod so I could play it in the car with the windows down this summer!! Thanks in advance!
Mike – greenrein@aol.com
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Tina did record a song, called: We Had It All (written by: Donnie Frits — Troy Seals) as a single in 1979. On the other side “If This Is The Last Time” written by Dallas Frazier on the label Wagner Irda. I’ve never heard them, I just read the info somewhere on the net.
Is the We Had It All the same as this Key Largo song?
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It is a different song Tommy. You find it on records such as “Soul Deep”…”Tina goes country”….”Tina sings country” and probably on dozens of different editions of this record :-).
But Key Largo is a much nicer song, wish we had a nice version of it!
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Fantastic.I remember listening to this song on the radio back in the day.Love this version of it so much!
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Thanks Brent! Let’s hope we’ll find a version in better quality someday!
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I’ll add my thanks and congratulations on the gem of a find! I too remember this very lovely song on the radio, and am shocked to see Tina’s version. She sounds so beautiful and soulful. She has one of the most varied song catalogs of any artist ever – and should be in the Guinness Book of Records, as such.
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I was there
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