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High Heel Sneakers(Original RCA title. "Hi-Heel Sneakers" is the correct title now used on all releases.) |
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Written by: Robert Higginbotham (Tommy Tucker) Recorded: September 11, 1967, RCA Studio B, Nashville Released master is take 7. Single:w/ "Guitar Man", 47-9425, January 9, 1968 Also re-released as Gold Standard Series, 447-0663, 1970 Highest U.S. Charts Positions: #69 on Cash Box Top 100 1st LP release: Elvis Aron Presley - August 1980 |
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"Hi-Heel Sneakers" quickly became a rock standard after songwriter Tommy Tucker released his own version of the song in 1964. Jerry Lee Lewis covered it the same year, and three years later, Elvis recorded it in the same session that produced "Big Boss Man" and "Guitar Man". When I first heard his version, I was a little disappointed. He stays in the same low key throughout, whereas Jerry Lee switched up an octave and shouted his way through the final section! But Elvis' spin on it also works, just in a different way, growling it out in a low register rather than shouting. Charlie McCoy's harmonica and Elvis' informal scatting through the instrumentals give it a bluesy, gutsy feel. |
Other Spins(What did the critics and fans say?)With "High Heel Sneakers" (a hit in Britain for Tommy Tucker three years before), Presley's performance, to use the then-current jargon, is more "rocker" than "mod". The song does not stand up to this treatment, and although the atmosphere is subtle and erotic its cleverness means Presley has little chance to get going. Robert Matthew-Walker, Elvis Presley: A Study in Music, 1979 Elvis' update of a hit for Tommy Tucker, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Stevie Wonder; bluesier with a hand-clapping, driving bass sound, a Charlie McCoy harmonica and wailing, shouting vocals. Low-down but dated. The Complete Elvis, edited by Martin Torgoff, 1982 Check out other Elvis fans' opinions on the Elvis News page for High Heel Sneakers Check out other opinions at Rate Your Music "High Heel Sneakers" Links
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Put on your red dress baby 'cause we're going out tonight Put on your red dress baby 'cause we're going out tonight Well now wear some boxing gloves in case some fool might start a fight Put on your hi-heel sneakers, put your wig hat on your head Put on your hi-heel sneakers, slap that wig right on your head Well I'm pretty sure now baby, pretty soon you're gonna knock 'em dead |
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