Hi-Heel Sneakers
| "Hi-Heel Sneakers" | ||||
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| Single by Tommy Tucker | ||||
| B-side | "Don't Want 'Cha (Watcha Gonna Do)" | |||
| Released | 1964 | |||
| Recorded | 1963 | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 2:45 | |||
| Label | Checker | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Robert Higginbotham a.k.a. Tommy Tucker | |||
| Producer(s) | Herb Abramson | |||
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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. The song's rhythmic approach has also been compared to that of Jimmy Reed. Tucker's lyrics recall the time he spent as a Golden Gloves boxer in the 1950s:
Put on your red dress baby
Lord we're goin' out tonight (2×)
And wear some boxin' gloves
In case some fool might wanna fight