 During his twenty-one years operating Mandrill Recording Studios, Tucker wrote and produced hundreds of “jingles” for advertisers, mainly for TV and radio.Many of these were in partnership with singer-songwriter, Steve Allen.He was awarded the prestigious Axis Award from the Advertising Institute of NZ in 1987 for craft excellence, and in 1992 he received the International Mobius Award on behalf of Mandrill Studios for their work on a radio commercial for Castle Parcels.