Showing posts with label Tommy Tucker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tommy Tucker. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Tommy Tucker - Hi Heel Sneakers

Album: Hi Heel Sneakers
Size: 118,9 MB
Time: 51:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1991
Styles: Blues, piano blues
Art: Full

1. Hi Heel Sneakers (4:00)
2. Blues Had A Baby (4:38)
3. Come Back Baby/What'd I Say (6:03)
4. Watch Out (3:30)
5. Hard Luck Blues (4:30)
6. A Married Man's A Fool (2:05)
7. Lawdy Miss Clawdy (2:51)
8. After Hours (5:26)
9. Alimony (5:13)
10. Annie Had A Baby (3:14)
11. It Hurts Me Too (3:45)
12. Sweet Little Angel (5:45)

Tommy Tucker (born Robert Higginbotham; March 5, 1933 – January 22, 1982) 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. Tucker was born Robert Higginbotham, to Leroy and Mary Higginbotham, the fifth of eleven children, in Springfield, Ohio, United States.

Tucker released "Hi-Heel Sneakers" in 1964, which was a hit both in the US and the UK. He released an album, also entitled Hi-Heel Sneakers, on Checker Records that same year. His follow-up single, "Long Tall Shorty", was less successful. Musicians that played on his albums and singles included Louisiana Red, Willie Dixon and Donny Hathaway. In the 1970s, he began releasing previously unissued material on the English label Red Lightnin'. This was combined with his work for Big Bear Records, featuring on their American Blues Legends '75 album and tour.

Tucker co-wrote a song with Atlantic Records founder executive Ahmet Ertegun, called "My Girl (I Really Love Her So)". Tucker left the music industry in the late 1960s, taking a position as a real estate agent in New Jersey. He also did freelance writing for a local newspaper in East Orange, New Jersey, writing of the plight and ignorance of black males in America, and the gullibility and exploitation of African Americans in general by the white-dominated media. Tucker died in 1982 at the age of 48 at College Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, from inhaling carbon tetrachloride while refinishing the hardwood floors of his home, though his death has been alternatively attributed to food poisoning. /Wikipedia

(Recorded at the Quartier Latin in Berlin, Germany, on November 21 and 22, 1977.)

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Various - American Blues Legends 75

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 49:33
Size: 113.5 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 1980/2001
Art: Front

[2:25] 1. Eddie 'Guitar' Burns - Biscuit Bakin' Mama
[4:20] 2. Eddie 'Guitar' Burns - Bury Me Back In The Usa
[3:41] 3. Billy Boy Arnold - I Wish You Would
[4:44] 4. Billy Boy Arnold - Sugar Mama
[4:40] 5. Tommy Tucker - Alimony
[5:10] 6. Tommy Tucker - Hard Luck Blues
[4:20] 7. Homesick James - If I Could Live My Life All Over Again
[2:55] 8. Homesick James - Baby Please Set A Date
[3:38] 9. Little Joe Blue - A Fool Is What You Want
[3:47] 10. Little Joe Blue - Five Long Years
[3:56] 11. Lonesome Jimmie Lee Robinson - Chicken Head
[3:06] 12. Lonesome Jimmie Lee Robinson - Mean Mistreater
[2:45] 13. American Blues Legends '75 - Got My Mojo Working

These were recorded live in London, May 5th & 6th 1975. Jon Lord did some piano playing on 2 tracks and Pete York is the drummer on all the tracks.

American Blues Legends 75