{"id":16663,"date":"2012-08-16T15:16:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T19:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=16663"},"modified":"2012-08-16T15:16:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T19:16:28","slug":"shoes-and-blues-sugar-pie-desanto-prefers-mules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/shoes-and-blues-sugar-pie-desanto-prefers-mules\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoes and Blues: Sugar Pie DeSanto Prefers Mules"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you read my story on wedge sneakers in the Huffington Post’s Stylelist section yesterday? If not …<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n

You’ll see that at the end, I refer to a 1964 blues song, “Hi-Heel Sneakers,” as I’ve done before when writing about wedge sneakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The song was written and first recorded by Tommy Tucker<\/a> (born Robert Higginbotham).<\/p>\n

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It’s been covered hundreds of times, so you may be more familiar with Stevie Wonder’s version …<\/p>\n

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… or the Rolling Stones’s version.<\/p>\n

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In the song, Tommy addresses the gal he’s going out with that night, encouraging her to put on her red dress, high-heel sneakers and “wig-hat.”<\/a> He also tells her to bring along a pair of boxing gloves in case there’s a fight. Best to be prepared for that sort of thing, I guess.<\/p>\n

What I didn’t know until my Huffington Post story ran was that a singer named Sugar Pie DeSanto answered Tommy Tucker’s song with one called “Slip-In Mules.” She says her red dress is at the cleaners, and that she’ll be wearing low-heel, slip-in mules. She sings:<\/p>\n

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“Ain’t wearing no high-heel sneaker
\nCause they hurt my toes so bad.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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She doesn’t say how she feels about wig-hats and boxing gloves. Take a listen.<\/p>\n

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I’ve got to thank a Huffington Post commenter who calls herself “notconvincedgranny” for bringing Sugar Pie’s song to my attention. I haven’t been so excited about a response song since the ’80s, when UTFO’s “Roxanne, Roxanne” started hip-hop’s Roxanne Wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Roxanne, Roxanne” accused a girl of being stuck-up<\/a> because she wasn’t interested in the rappers. I can’t believe she didn’t fall for their awesome outfits. Tight red pants were the hotness back then<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The first response was “Roxanne’s Revenge.”<\/p>\n

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That was followed by “The Real Roxanne<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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It didn’t stop there. Wikipedia has a list of additional Roxanne songs<\/a>. The Police’s “Roxanne” — about a prostitute — has nothing to do with this series. The Police’s song came out in 1978, years before the UTFO release.<\/p>\n

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As far as I know, Roxanne the prostitute never replied to The Police in musical fashion, but if I’m wrong, let me know in the comments!
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Did you read my story on wedge sneakers in the Huffington Post’s Stylelist section yesterday? If not … CLICK HERE. You’ll see that at the end, I refer to a 1964 blues song, “Hi-Heel Sneakers,” as I’ve done before when writing about wedge sneakers. The song was written and first recorded by Tommy Tucker (born…<\/p>\n

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