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Tanya Tucker: Delta Dawn
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Tanya Tucker was born in 1958. Her older sister La Costa was a singer ... but Tanya reached higher heights, starting with "Delta Dawn" in 1972. Though that song is not reviewed below, 10 others are.
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Tanya Denise Tucker (born October 10, 1958) is an American country music singer. She may be best remembered for her debut single and trademark song "Delta Dawn," which went to number 6 on the country charts. Tucker released the song at the age of 13; she became the youngest singer to have a major hit song on the Country charts. Since the song's release, Tucker had major hit songs for the next two decades, and into the 1990s. Her chart success has spanned well into the 2000s. She is known as "The Female Elvis"
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Tanya Denise Tucker (born October 10, 1958) is an American country music singer. She may be best remembered for her debut single and trademark song Delta Dawn. She has ... acted on television and in a few movies and wrote her autobiography Nickel Dreams.
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Tucker's father Beau, a strong Oklahoman, guided his little daughter through her first Nashville hit, 1974's "Delta Dawn" ("What's that flower you have on? Could it be a faded rose?"), the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and a greatest hits collection - all by station wagon and all by the time she was 15. He took great physical and verbal pains to steer her away from those who wanted to exploit her youthful exhuberance and turn her into sexpot chicken.
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Sherrill initially planned to have Tucker record "The Happiest Girl In the Whole USA," but she passed on the tune to Donna Fargo, choosing "Delta Dawn" — a song she heard Bette Midler sing on The Tonight Show — instead. Released in the spring of 1972, the song became a hit, peaking at number six on the country charts and scraping the bottom of the pop charts. At first, Columbia Records tried to downplay Tucker's age, but soon word leaked out and she became a sensation. [7] A year later, Australian singer Helen Reddy would score a #1 U.S. pop hit with her version of "Delta Dawn."
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Tucker, who will celebrate her 30th year as a BMI affiliate in January, was presented with a black leather jacket by BMI's Paul Corbin. Since her 1972 debut hit, "Delta Dawn," Tucker has scored with a steady string of hits: "What's Your Mama's Name?", "Blood Red And Goin' Down," "Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone)?", "Lizzie And The Rainman," "San Antonio Stroll," "Here's Some Love," "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love," "If It Don't Come Easy," "Strong Enough To Bend," "Down To My Last Teardrop," "(Without You) What Do I Do About Me," "Some Kind Of Trouble" and "It's A Little Too Late."
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