Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter (song)
| "Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter" | ||||
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| Single by Ike & Tina Turner | ||||
| from the album Workin' Together | ||||
| A-side | "Proud Mary" | |||
| Released | January 1971 | |||
| Recorded | 1970 | |||
| Genre | Funk | |||
| Length | 2:40 | |||
| Label | Liberty Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Alline Bullock | |||
| Producer(s) | Ike Turner | |||
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"Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter" is a song written by Alline Bullock, sister of Tina Turner. It was first released by Ike & Tina Turner on their 1970 album Workin' Together with Tina Turner and the Ikettes on vocals. Mosquita's was the original spelling of Mosquito's, but after jazz singer Nina Simone released her version in 1974, most subsequent releases of the song have used the latter spelling including Ike & Tina Turner reissues.
"Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter" was produced by Ike Turner and released as a B-side single to "Proud Mary" on Liberty Records in January 1971. This song is a scathing assessment of an unidentified man, opening with "you're nothin' but a dirty, dirty old man."
The song was used as the title for Ike & Tina Turner's 2002 compilation album Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter.