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"Hi-Heel Sneakers" (often also spelled "High Heel Sneakers") is a blues song written and recorded by Tommy Tucker in 1963. Blues writer Mary Katherine Aldin describes it as an uptempo twelve-bar blues, with "a spare, lilting musical framework", and a strong vocal. [2] The song's rhythmic approach has also been compared to that of Jimmy Reed. [3]
Tommy Tucker (born Robert Higginbotham; March 5, 1933 – January 22, 1982) [1] was an American blues singer-songwriter and pianist. He is best known for the 1964 hit song, "Hi-Heel Sneakers", that went to No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and peaked at No. 23 in the UK Singles Chart.
Richard Allen "Blue" Mitchell (March 13, 1930 – May 21, 1979) [1] was an American trumpeter and composer who worked in jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock and funk. He recorded albums as leader and sideman for Riverside , Mainstream Records , and Blue Note .
Down with It! is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell, recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue ... Hi-Heel Sneakers" (Robert Higginbotham) – 8:23 ...
The first song to became "popular" through a national advertising campaign was "My Grandfather's Clock" in 1876. [3] Mass production of piano in the late-19th century helped boost sheet music sales. [3] Toward the end of the century, during the Tin Pan Alley era, sheet music was sold by dozens and even hundreds of publishing companies.
Samuel N. Mitchell (1846–1905) was an American song lyricist and newspaperman who wrote lyrics for a number of popular songs in the 1870s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Songwriter
Years later he played the memorable harmonica solo in Johnny Rivers' version of the same song. Riley later started two other labels, Nita and Mojo. [2] In 1962, he moved to Los Angeles and worked as a session musician with Dean Martin, the Beach Boys, Herb Alpert, and Sammy Davis Jr., among others, and also recorded under various aliases. [2]
Lawrence, the youngest of six children, was born into a musical family in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [1] His father and two of his older three brothers were professional musicians who worked and recorded with Jack Teagarden, Elvis Presley, Ike and Tina Turner, Edgar Winter, The Righteous Brothers, Louis Bellson and others, and both of his sisters played ...