Tommy Tucker

For the Memphis, TN, rock & roll singer, see Tommy Ray Tucker
American blues and rhythm & blues singer-songwriter and pianist. He was born in Springfield, Ohio, 5 March 1933, and died 22 January, 1982 in Newark, New Jersey. He made his first recordings in 1961 and is best known for the 1964 hit song "Hi-Heel Sneakers", that went to number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song's distinctive guitar part was played by Welton Young and bass by Brenda Lee Jones.