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Hi-Heel Sneakers

"Hi-Heel Sneakers"
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Single by Tommy Tucker
B-side "I Dont Want 'Cha (Watcha Gonna Do)"
Released 1964 (1964)
Format 7" 45 rpm record
Recorded Chicago, 1963
Genre Blues
Length 2:45
Label Checker (Cat. no.1067)
Writer(s) Robert Higginbotham (misspelled 'Higgenbotham' on label) a.k.a. Tommy Tucker
Tommy Tucker singles chronology
"Hi-Heel Sneakers"
(1964)
"Long Tall Shorty"
(1964)

"Hi-Heel Sneakers" (often also spelled "High Heel Sneakers") is a blues song written and recorded by Tommy Tucker in 1963. The song, an uptempo twelve-bar blues, "has a spare, lilting musical framework" with a strong vocal. Tommy Tucker's original recording hit number one on the Cash Box R&B Locations chart and number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100. Musicians on the recording included Brenda Jones on bass, Johnny Williams on drums, Weldon Young on guitar, and Tucker (a.k.a. Robert Higginbotham) on piano and organ.

Over 1000 artists have recorded "Hi-Heel Sneakers". These include Bill Haley & His Comets, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Ronnie Milsap, the Faces, Sting, Led Zeppelin, Carl Perkins (featured on Johnny Cash's 35th Anniversary album), Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, the Searchers (It's the Searchers album), the McCoys (Hang on Sloopy album), Sammy Davis Jr., Big Brother and the Holding Company,Jose Feliciano, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, Tom Jones, John Lee Hooker, the American Breed, Cleo Laine, Pharoah Sanders, Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, Phish, Ramsey Lewis, Laura Nyro and George Thorogood. Tucker's version also features on the John Lennon's Jukebox LP.


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