Teena Records

{{Short description|Record label}}

{{Infobox record label

| name = Teena Records

| founded = 1963

| genre = R&B, pop

| defunct =

| founder = Ike & Tina Turner

| status = Defunct

| location = Los Angeles, California

| distributor = CIRCA distributing firm

| country = United States

}}

Teena Records was a record label founded by R&B duo Ike & Tina Turner in 1963.{{Cite journal|date=February 16, 1963|title=CIRCA Handling I&T Turner's label|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Cash-Box/60s/1963/CB-1963-02-16.pdf|journal=Cash Box|pages=35}}{{Cite magazine|date=February 16, 1963|title=Music As Written: New York|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/60s/1963/Billboard%201963-02-16.pdf|magazine=Billboard|pages=14}} Ike Turner named the label after his wife Tina Turner. Records on Teena were distributed by CIRCA distributing firm. CIRCA (Consolidated International Record Company of America) was formed in 1962 to operate as a releasing company for independent labels by working with various distributors around the US.{{Cite magazine|date=March 24, 1962|title=Forming CIRCA Label for Canada|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/60s/1962/Billboard%201962-03-24.pdf|magazine=Billboard|pages=34}}

While the Ike & Tina Turner Revue were constantly on the road performing, Ike Turner found time to record the artist in his band. Turner used this label to release singles by vocalist within the Revue, notably the Ikettes.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/takinbackmynamec00turn|title=Takin' Back My Name: The Confessions of Ike Turner|last=Turner, Ike|date=1999|publisher=Virgin|others=Cawthorne, Nigel, 1951-|isbn=1852278501|location=London|oclc=43321298}} He wrote and produced all the songs on the label. The second single, "Prisoner in Love" by the Ikettes, was changed to "No Bail in This Jail" in order to avoid confusion with "Prisoner of Love" by James Brown.{{Cite journal|date=June 8, 1963|title=Change Teena Singles Title, Names New Distribs|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Cash-Box/60s/1963/CB-1963-06-08.pdf|journal=Cash Box|pages=29}} "No Bail In This Jail (Prisoner In Love)" reached #126 on Billboard's Bubbling Under The Hot 100.{{Cite magazine|date=May 11, 1963|title=Bubbling Under The Hot 100|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/60s/1963/Billboard%201963-05-11.pdf|magazine=Billboard|pages=24}}