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07 Feb 18 - 06:45 PM (#3904287) Subject: Hi-Heel Sneakers From: GUEST,Jon Mescal Anybody know the third verse of "Hi-Heel Sneakers" -- the one only Tommy Tucker seems to sing? |
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07 Feb 18 - 07:21 PM (#3904289) Subject: RE: Hi-Heel Sneakers From: Jackaroodave This is what I find on youtube from listener 63karl: Third verse. Got my Old Crow liquor, got my paycheck in my hand, x2? Big John's bootleg whiskey cost much more than I can stand.? 2 years ago (edited)?18 This version (hope this link works, it's to the mobile site.) What a great song! |
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07 Feb 18 - 07:49 PM (#3904292) Subject: RE: Hi-Heel Sneakers From: keberoxu Almost there, Jackaroodave. Try this link. |
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07 Feb 18 - 11:40 PM (#3904308) Subject: ADDPOP: Hi-Heel Sneakers From: Joe Offer I'm posting lyrics from one of "those" Websites as a start, and we can edit in the additional verse once we put it together. "High Heel Sneakers" (Buddy Guy version - originally recorded by Tommy Tucker) HI-HEEL SNEAKERS (Robert Higginbotham) Put on your red dress baby, honey we're goin' out tonight. Put on your red dress baby, honey we're goin' out tonight. Want you to wear your boxin' gloves in case some fool might want to fight. Put on your high heel sneakers, throw that wig hat on your head. Put on your high heel sneakers, throw that wig hat on your head. Honey I know you're gonna get real high, honey I know you're gonna knock 'em dead. Want you to talk to me baby, mama and hold me tight, Keep on holdin me baby, until you hold me just right Put on your high-red dress mama, wear your wig-hat on your head I want you to hold your head kinda high because I know you're gonna knock 'em dead Put on your white boots baby, pull 'em up on your legs so high Put on your white boots baby, pull 'em up on your legs so high I want you to look real good, you better even hide your thigh Lord I want you to call my name this morning, call it sort of sweet and low And make me think little darling, Lord I'm on the third floor! Put on your high heel sneakers, wear that wig hat on your head I want you to raise your dress real high because I know you're gonna knock 'em dead Raise your window woman, raise it soft and slow See your man down there could be You may not don't know, anh-uh Girl I ain't going out that do' Oh, I see your man downstairs-- Look like your man, how do I know? Could be yo' man, how do I know? Put on your red dress baby, wear that wig hat on your head. Put on that red dress baby, wear that wig hat on your head. Want you to cock your forty five, in case some fool might want to fight. Oh I know you're gonna get real high, oh I know you're gonna knock 'em dead. I know you're gonna get real high, I know you're gonna knock 'em dead. Source: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/buddyguy/highheelsneakers.html (corrected by Joe Offer) Buddy Guy & Junior Wells recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuqpgIWNX9k Tommy Tucker YouTube recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bmbSC9c2ys Janis Joplin recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CR2Ha5brp4 And hey, there's a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Heel_Sneakers I always wondered what hi-heel sneakers might look like Google (click) has examples. |
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08 Feb 18 - 10:36 AM (#3904373) Subject: RE: Hi-Heel Sneakers From: Jackaroodave "I'm posting lyrics from one of "those" Websites as a start, and we can edit in the additional verse once we put it together." Joe, your source posts that version as the Buddy Guy version. It's quite different throughout from the youtube 4:04 version of the original performed by Tommy Tucker [Robert Higginbotham, the composer]--the one with the virtually unintelligible and never covered 3rd (and final) verse. I don't know how that information would go into the database, but such a popular, hard-to-decipher, easy-to-improvise-on song must have a plethora of other added and altered verses (maybe some added and performed by Tucker himself)--the folk process with a vengeance. It's like trying to chase down a 1920s blues, but with a much ampler recording history. (Thanks, keberoxu) |
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08 Feb 18 - 04:19 PM (#3904439) Subject: RE: Hi-Heel Sneakers From: Bonzo3legs Rolling Stones play Hi Heeled Sneakers on Saturday Club in April 1964! |
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08 Feb 18 - 04:56 PM (#3904446) Subject: RE: Hi-Heel Sneakers From: Bonzo3legs Hi-Heel Sneakers of course! |
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08 Feb 18 - 06:27 PM (#3904465) Subject: ADDPOP: Hi-Heel Sneakers From: Jackaroodave Here's the putative Tommy Tucker version with the Old Crow liquor 3rd verse, not the final, as a thought, but followed by a repriseof the 1st. Tommy Tucker - Hi Heeled Sneakers 1964 Version Lyrics HI-HEEL SNEAKERS (Robert Higginbotham) Put on your red dress, baby Lord, we're goin' out tonight Put on your red dress, baby Lord, we're goin' out tonight Better wear some boxin' gloves In case some fool might wanna fight Put on your high-heel sneakers Wear your wig-hat on your head Put on your high-heel sneakers Wear your wig-hat on your head I'm pretty sure now, baby Lord knows you know you're gonna knock 'em dead I've got my Old Crow liquor And my paycheck in my hand Got my Old Crow liquor I've got my paycheck in my hand Big John's bootleg whiskey cost much more than I can stand Put on your high-heel sneakers Wear your wig-hat on your head Put on your high-heel sneakers Wear your wig-hat on your head Though you're real high I'm pretty sure you're gonna knock 'em dead Here's the link, blickifier is hanging: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/tommy+tucker/hi+heeled+sneakers+1964+version_21110923.html (corrected by Joe Offer) Tommy Tucker recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bmbSC9c2ys |
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09 Feb 18 - 02:36 AM (#3904509) Subject: RE: Hi-Heel Sneakers From: Joe Offer Hi, Jackaroodave - I listened to the Tommy Tucker recording and made a few slight changes to the lyrics you posted (Old Crow liquor and my paycheck). I think that makes a pretty accurate transcription of the Tommy Tucker version. -Joe- OK, so we covered hi-heel sneakers. Now, I have to admit that I've always wondered what a wig-hat is. Is it just a wig, or is it augmented? |
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09 Feb 18 - 02:50 AM (#3904510) Subject: RE: Hi-Heel Sneakers From: Bonzo3legs I think that the Stones' British R & B version is much better than Tommy Tucker's. |
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09 Feb 18 - 03:34 AM (#3904518) Subject: RE: Hi-Heel Sneakers From: Joe Offer I think I learned this song from the Rolling Stones version. No doubt, it's a good 'un: |
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09 Feb 18 - 07:33 AM (#3904568) Subject: RE: Hi-Heel Sneakers From: Jackaroodave Here |
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09 Feb 18 - 07:43 AM (#3904571) Subject: RE: Hi-Heel Sneakers From: Jackaroodave Ahem, Here is the mobile link to dozens of covers. It's just a youtube search for "Hi heel sneakers" but if you keep clicking the "add more" link at the bottom of the page, you'll get more than .you'd ever want. I confess, Janis Joplin's live medley of Amazing Grace and H-HS didn't live up to my expctations. One comment on the Searchers' version said, "One of their best." I suspect that's true of a lot of the artists. It's a hard song to mess up, though it's an even harder one to do justice to. |