Carlos Santana’s song “Game of Love” with Michelle Branch was a huge hit and even won the pair a Grammy. Still, for years, Santana wished that fans could have heard the original version — with Tina Turner as his duet partner.In October, the guitar god will get his wish.

Included on the release of “Ultimate Santana,” a greatest-hits disc, will be the “Game of Love” song — one version featuring Branch, and one featuring Turner.

“Queens come and go — there’s only one Tina Turner,” Santana told The Associated Press. “I love Michelle, and she did a great interpretation of it. It’s just that with all honor and respect to Michelle, there’s the girl and there’s the woman, and Michelle is unfolding into a woman. … but it takes time to go from a girl to a woman.”

The hit song was originally included on Santana’s 2002 disc, “Shaman,” the follow-up to his multi-Grammy, multiplatinum disc “Supernatural.” Santana had asked Turner to sing on the song and she obliged and recorded the vocals to the track.

But Santana says that executives at his record label at the time apparently weren’t interested in having Turner on the track. source

Wow, can you believe that? They didn’t want Tina. But were cool with Michelle?? Yikes