Annette Tucker
| Annette Tucker | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Genres | Hard Rock, Pop, Country |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter, Record producer, Arranger, Teacher |
Annette Tucker is a composer, lyricist, teacher, writer, arranger, and producer. Her songs have been recorded by Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sonny and Cher, Tom Jones, The Jackson Five, Maureen McGovern, Nana Mouskouri, Ricky Nelson, The Knickerbockers, The Electric Prunes, The Ventures, The American Breed, The Brady Bunch, Roy Rogers, and The Chocolate Watchband, and have been used in TV shows and movies. She has gold albums and has had many songs that have made the Top 40 and Easy Listening charts. Her biggest hit was “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)” by the Electric Prunes.
She had a number one hit in Italy called "Un ragazzo di" by I Corvi (1966); the song was later recorded by several other Italian artists. The original English-language version of the song was recorded by the Brogues and is called "I Ain’t No Miracle Worker"; this song has been covered by several other rock bands. [1]
Tucker was under exclusive contract to Jobete Publishing at Motown, Warner Brothers, Four Star Music, Shapiro Bernstein, and the late Don Costa. Sony/ATV owns a major part of her catalog at this time.
Tucker won first place in the American Jewish Song Festival for the lyrics she wrote for Aaron Kaplan’s music. The song was titled “We’re Coming Home”, and was chosen out of 1,000 songs that were submitted from all over the world. Her song “Feelin Kinda Sunday”, recorded by Frank and Nancy Sinatra, was selected for a State Farm commercial[2] on Fox's Sunday NFL Football games. “I Had Too Much To Dream" was used in the soundtrack for the movie “Men Who Stare at Goats". Ms. Tucker also wrote 6 songs for a documentary on Michele Legrand, to be released in 2012.
Tucker has held workshops for new songwriters, taught songwriting at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has lectured at several local colleges. She wrote a weekly reviewer's column for Songwriter Magazine, and read and reviewed scripts for the Papazian-Hersh entertainment company. She also wrote songs for commercials for Westfield shopping center and comedy songs for Premiere Radio. She has produced two pilots for syndication. including a children's musical for which she wrote the music and lyrics.
September 18, 2012, Universal released "Come and Get It Baby" by the Jackson Five. Ms. Tucker has two songs[3][4] in that album written with Kathy Wakefield.
In 2013 First Direct Bank used "Too Much To Dream" in their "Platypus" TV commercial. Ms. Tucker is currently writing lyrics for a Broadway show, and is teaching songwriting to new aspiring songwriters. With Aaron Kaplan, she wrote the song for the video "Got To Be You And Me", performed by the children's group "Heart to Heart".
In November of 2014 Tucker released the Christmas song "Who Put The Merry In Merry Christmas", with an accompanying video produced by Ron Cobert.