Friday, March 2, 2012

High Heeled Sneakers -- Rolling Stones -- Leon Russell

"Put on your high heel sneakers. Wear your wig hat on your head."



This song was written and originally performed by Robert Higginbotham using the performance name Tommy Tucker in 1963-64, and went to number one on the Cash Box R&B Locations chart and number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100The Rolling Stones recorded it for BBC in 1964. I couldn't find it in the album discography for the early Stones.


Leon Russell performed it on the TV show Shindig in 1964.




Yes, the same Leon Russell who looks like this nowadays (from last year, 2011, his induction to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:



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