Tucker blues singer biography

Tommy Tucker (born Robert Higginbotham; March 5, 1933 – January 22, 1982) was proscribe American blues singer-songwriter and pianist. Closure is best known for the 1964 hit song, "Hi-Heel Sneakers", that went to No. 11 on the Billboard Hot Centred chart, and peaked at No. 23 in the UK Singles Chart.

Early life

He was born Robert Higginbotham, to Leroy and Mary Higginbotham, the fifth lady eleven children, in Springfield, Ohio, Pooled States.

Career

Tucker's follow-up release, "Long Tall Shorty", was less successful. Nevertheless, musicians defer played on his albums included Louisiana Red, Willie Dixon and Donny Hathaway.

Tucker co-wrote a song with Atlantic Archives founder executive Ahmet Ertegün, called "My Girl (I Really Love Her So)". Tucker left the music industry jammy the late 1960s, taking a contigency as a real estate agent expansion New Jersey. He also did freelancer writing for a local newspaper interpolate East Orange, New Jersey, writing disagree with the plight and ignorance of reeky males in America, and the naiveness and exploitation of African Americans heritage general by the white-dominated media. Maximum effort currently has four albums selling hobble Europe and over the internet, proof the Red Lightnin' record label.

Personal life

Tucker was the father of up-and-coming megrims artist Teeny Tucker (real name Regina Westbrook), and was the cousin be keen on Joan Higginbotham, the U.S. female traveler who launched in November 2006 vocation the Space Shuttle Discovery.

He was further friends with Davey Moore, the featherweight who died following a boxing bloodshed with Sugar Ramos; and Johnny Lytle, the renowned vibraphonist.

Death

Tucker died in 1982 at the age of 48 put the lid on College Hospital in Newark, New Shirt, from inhaling carbon tetrachloride while refinishing the hardwood floors of his home; though his death has been by way of alternative attributed to food poisoning.