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River Deep – Mountain High is een single die werd geproduceerd door Phil Spector en geschreven door Phil Spector, Jeff Barry en Ellie Greenwich. Commercieel gezien was het nummer niet erg succesvol in de Verenigde Staten, maar in Engeland kwam het in de hitparade op nummer 3 te staan. Het werd in 1969 heruitgegeven en is sindsdien een van de meest kenmerkende songs van Tina Turner.

"River Deep – Mountain High" is a song by Ike & Tina Turner released on Philles Records as the title track to their 1966 studio album. Produced by Phil Spector and written by Spector, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. Rolling Stone ranked "River Deep – Mountain High" No. 33 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. NME ranked it No. 37 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame added it to the list of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

The single did not perform well upon its original release in the US, but it was successful in Europe. Spector claimed to be pleased with the response from the critics and his peers, but he then withdrew from the music industry for two years, beginning his personal decline. After a revival of the song from covers by Eric Burdon and the Animals and Deep Purple in 1968, the original version was reissued by A&M Records in 1969.