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Tommy Tucker (born
Robert Higginbotham,
5 March 1933 -
22 January 1982) was an
American blues singer and
pianist. He was born in
Springfield,
Ohio. He is best known for the 1964
hit song, "High Heel Sneakers", that went to number 11 on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Hi-Heel Sneakers
(His most famous song)
Other output and life and career
Tucker's follow-up release, "
Long Tall Shorty", was less successful. Nevertheless, famous musicians that have played on his
albums include Louisiana Red,
Willie Dixon and
Donny Hathaway.
Tucker
co-wrote a song with
Atlantic Records founder executive
Ahmet Ertegün, called "My Girl (I Really Love Her So)". Tucker left music 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, N.J. 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.
(External Link
) Tucker currently has four albums selling in
Europe and over the
Internet, through the Red Lightnin'
record label.
Tucker is also the father of an up and coming blues artist, Teeny Tucker (real name Regina Westbrook); and a cousin of his is
Joan Higginbotham, a
U.S. female
astronaut who launched in November 2006 on the
space shuttle,
Discovery.
He was also friends with
Davey Moore, the
featherweight who died following a
boxing contest with
Sugar Ramos; and
Johnny Lytle, the renowned
vibraphonist.
Death
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; his death has been alternately attributed to
food poisoning.
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