Annette Tucker
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Genres | Hard Rock, Pop, Country |
| Occupations | 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, 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 as well as used for TV shows and movies. She has gold albums and has had many songs that have made the top forty 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 “I Ain’t No Miracle Worker”.
Ms. 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.
Ms. 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 the State Farm Commercial 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.
Ms. Tucker has held workshops for new songwriters, taught songwriting at U.C.L.A, 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.
At the present time, in addition to writing songs for movies, Ms. Tucker is teaching songwriting and reviewing lyrics and music. She plays by ear and teaches songwriters how to master that craft. She also has a TV show that has been optioned, and is currently working on a project with Robert Stack's daughter Elizabeth Stack.
