High Heel Sneakers

I was listening to Jazz on the KCLU tonight and after a song was played they said it was called "High Heel Sneakers". Huh? That really lost me, as there are two things I associate with the phrase.

It's pretty likely that everyone knows Tommy Tucker's 'High Heel Sneakers' if they hear it (try here and here). Somewhat less well known are the crazy lyrics from the 'Alice Bowie' part of Earache My Eye from Cheech & Chong's Wedding Album (a great track, but always #2 behind Basketball Jones on Los Cochinos).

Wow! George Harrison was a part of Basketball Jones? I had no idea.

It turns out that Doug Lawrence has released a CD called High Heel Sneakers with a purely instrumental version of the Tommy Tucker hit.

As for the musical finale on Earache My Eye (I have to find the rest, it's all about confrontation between parents and children), it's done like a period piece (base, voice, base, voice and so on) which could be Cooper or countless others until the end where it gets really crazy...

My momma talkin' to me tryin' to tell me how to live
But I don't listen to her 'cause my head is like a sieve
My daddy, he disowned me 'cause I wear my sister's clothes
He caught me in the bathroom with a pair of pantyhose

My basketball coach, he done kicked me off the team
For wearin' high-heel sneakers and actin' like a queen

------ lead guitar ------

The world's comin' to an end, I don't even care
As long as I can have a limo and my orange hair
And it don't bother me if people think I'm "funny"
'Cause I'm a big rock star and I'm makin' lots of money
money, money, money, money, money, money
Ahhh! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...

I'm so bloody rich! Ha ha ha ha
I own apartment buildings and shopping centers! Ha ha ha ha
And I only know three chords! Ha ha ha ha