Pat Arnold (born Patrica Ann Cole, 3 October 1946, Los Angeles, California,), professionally known as P.P. Arnold, is an American born soul singer who enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and beyond. Life and career Birth to 1965 Born into a family of gospel singers, Arnold married early and had two children, working a series of menial jobs until the early 1960s, when Maxine Smith, an ex-girlfriend of her brother, contacted her with an offer. Maxine and her friend Gloria Scott had managed to arrange an audition for three girls to replace the original Ikettes, the dancer/singer troupe that provided vocal and dance accompaniment for the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. Smith and Scott had been stood up by a third girl, and desperate from someone to make up the trio, Smith contacted Arnold, whom she knew to be a singer. At the audition the three girls were offered the job on the

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