Tanya Tucker

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Tanya Tucker <tr style="text-align: center;"><td colspan="3">Image:Tanyatucker1997.jpg Promotional picture 1997. </td></tr>
Background information <tr><td>Birth name</td><td colspan="2">Tanya Denise Tucker</td></tr><tr><td>Born</td><td colspan="2">October 10 1958</td></tr><tr><td>Origin</td><td colspan="2">Seminole, Texas, United States</td></tr><tr><td>Genre(s)</td><td colspan="2">Country</td></tr><tr><td>Years active</td><td colspan="2">1972–present</td></tr><tr><td style="padding-right: 1em;">Label(s)</td><td colspan="2">Tuckertime Records/Capitol Records Tuckertime Records/Capitol Records (1997-present) Liberty Records (1992—1995) Capitol Records (1986—1991) Arista Records (1983) MCA Records (1975-1983) Columbia Records (1972-1975)</td></tr> <tr><td>Website</td><td colspan="2">Tanya Tucker Offical Website</td></tr>

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 also acted on television and in a few movies and wrote her autobiography Nickel Dreams.

1 Biography
2 Popular culture
3 Selected discography
4 Singles
5 External links

[edit] Biography

Tanya Tucker was born in Seminole, Texas, to Beau and Juanita Tucker. She grew up in Willcox, and Phoenix, Arizona, and started singing by the age of 6. She recorded her first hit, "Delta Dawn," at the age of 13. "Delta Dawn" went to number 6 on the country music charts. (Some time later, the song was a #1 U.S. pop hit for Helen Reddy.) By age 15, she had a Grammy nomination, a "Greatest Hits" package and had appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. At 14, she became the second female country music artist to have a number 1 country single as a teenager with the song "What's Your Mama's Name". At 21, she met singer Glen Campbell and had a year-long affair with him, during which she began battling cocaine and alcohol addiction.

Her other No. 1 hits include: "Blood Red and Goin' Down" (1973); "Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)" (1974); "Lizzie and the Rainman" and "San Antonio Stroll" (1975); "Here's Some Love" (1976); "Just Another Love" (1986); "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love" (a trio with Paul Davis and Paul Overstreet), "If It Don't Come Easy" and "Strong Enough to Bend" (1988); and "Two Sparrows in a Hurricane" (1992).

Tucker received the Top New Female Vocalist award from the Academy of Country Music in 1972 and the Female Vocalist of the Year award from the Country Music Association in 1991.

She has three children, Presley Tanita, Beau Grayson and Layla, and is an avid competitor in cutting horse competitions. Tanya has a brother, Donald, and an older sister, LaCosta Tucker, who had several hits on the country charts in the 70's and early 80's, and toured with Tanya in 1989.

Tanya Tucker starred in her own reality show, "Tuckerville", on The Learning Channel in 2005.

[edit] Popular culture

Gretchen Wilson makes reference to Tucker in her hit song "Redneck Woman."

[edit] Selected discography

[edit] Singles

Year	Song	US Country	Album
1972	Delta Dawn	#6	Delta Dawn
1972	Love's The Answer	#5	Delta Dawn
1973	What's Your Mama's Name	#1	What's Your Mama's Name
1973	Blood Red and Goin' Down	#1	What's Your Mama's Name
1974	Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone)	#1	Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone)
1974	The Man That Turned My Mama On	#4	Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone)
1975	I Believe The South Is Gonna Rise Again	#18	Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone)
1975	Lizzie And The Rainman	#1	Tanya Tucker
1975	Spring	#18	You Are So Beautiful
1975	San Antonio Stroll	#1	Tanya Tucker
1975	Greener Than The Grass (We Laid On)	#23	The Sound of Tanya Tucker
1976	Don't Believe My Heart Can Stand Another You	#4	Lovin' And Leavin'
1976	You've Got Me To Hold On To	#3	Lovin' And Leavin'
1976	Here's Some Love	#1	Here's Some Love
1977	Ridin' Rainbows	#12	Ridin' Rainbows
1977	It's A Cowboy Lovin' Night	#7	Ridin' Rainbows
1977	You Are So Beautiful	#40	You Are So Beautiful
1977	Dancing The Night Away	#16	Ridin' Rainbows
1978	Save Me	#86
1978	Texas (When I Die)	#5	T.N.T.
1979	I'm The Singer, You're The Song	#18	T.N.T.
1980	Pecos Promenade	#10	Smokey & The Bandit 2
1980	Dream Lover (Tanya Tucker & Glen Campbell)	#59	Dream Lovers
1981	Can I See You Tonight	#4	Dream Lovers
1981	Why Don't We Just Sleep On It Tonight (Tanya Tucker & Glen Campbell)	#85	It's The World Gone Crazy
1981	Love Knows We Tried	#40	Dream Lovers
1981	Should I Do It	#50	Should I Do It
1981	Rodeo Girls	#83	Should I Do It
1982	Feel Right	#10	Changes
1982	Cry	#77	Changes
1983	Changes	#41	Changes
1983	Baby I'm Yours	#22	Changes
1986	One Love At A Time	#3	Girls Like Me
1986	Just Another Love	#1 (1 wk)	Girls Like Me
1987	I'll Come Back As Another Woman	#2	Girls Like Me
1987	It's Only Over For You	#8	Girls Like Me
1987	Love Me Like You Used To	#2	Love Me Like You Used To
1988	I Won't Take Less Than Your Love	#1	Love Me Like You Used To
1988	If It Don't Come Easy	#1	Love Me Like You Used To
1988	Strong Enough To Bend	#1	Strong Enough To Bend
1989	Highway Robbery	#2	Strong Enough To Bend
1989	Call On Me	#4	Strong Enough To Bend
1989	Daddy and Home	#27	Strong Enough To Bend
1989	My Arms Stay Open All Night	#2	Greatest Hits
1990	Walking Shoes	#2	Tennessee Woman
1990	Don't Go Out With Him (With T. Graham Brown)	#3	Tennessee Woman
1991	It Won't Be Me	#6	Tennessee Woman
1991	Oh What It Did To Me	#12	Tennessee Woman
1991	Down To My Last Teardrop	#2	What Do I Do With Me
1992	(Without You) What Do I Do With Me	#2	What Do I Do With Me
1992	Some Kind Of Trouble	#3	What Do I Do With Me
1992	If Your Heart Ain't Busy Tonight	#4	What Do I Do With Me
1992	Two Sparrows In A Hurricane	#2	Can't Run From Yourself
1993	It's A Little Too Late	#2	Can't Run From Yourself
1993	Tell Me About It (with Delbert McClinton)	#4	Can't Run From Yourself
1993	Soon	#2	Soon
1993	Already Gone	#75	Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles
1994	We Don't Have To Do This	#11	Soon
1994	Hangin' On	#4	Soon
1994	You Just Watch Me	#20	Soon
1995	Between The Two Of Them	#27	Fire To Fire
1995	Find Out What's Happenin'	#40	Fire To Fire
1997	Little Things	#9	Complicated
1997	Ridin' Out The Heartache	#45	Complicated
2002	A Memory Like I'm Gonna Be	#34	Tanya
2003	Old Weakness (Coming On Strong)	#49	Tanya