A demo tape recorded by Tucker and sent to Nashville in found its way to Columbia Records producer Billy Sherrill. Sherrill liked what he heard and signed the youngster to a contract.
In , Helen Reddy had a number-one pop hit with her version of the song. Tucker celebrated her twentieth birthday in with the risque album cover of TNT, showing her wearing tight black leather pants with a microphone cord pulled up between her legs. This album had an edgier, sassier, and more rock-flavored sound than her previous efforts.
During the early and mids, Tucker experienced fewer chart successes as she seemed to struggle for a new musical footing and flirted with a pop career. She also flirted with and dated a series of famous male singers and actors. She came to be in the news more for her wild, hard-drinking, cocaine-fueled lifestyle than her music. The two broke up after Campbell met Kim Woollen, whom he married in and with whom he would remain married the rest of his life.
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Self - Singer. Self - Musical Guest. Self - Guest. Self - Center Square. Self - Country Music Singer. Self - Special Guest. Tucker has since proved that she was in no way a fluke or a short-lived child star. She has produced a long string of successful albums, several nominations for awards from the Country Music Association, and a list of hit songs that includes 's "What's Your Mama's Name? Tucker was born on October 10, , in Seminole, Texas, the youngest of three children.
Her father, Jesse "Bo" Tucker, was a heavy equipment operator, and the family moved often as he sought better work. Tanya's early childhood was spent primarily in Wilcox, Arizona, where the only radio station in town played nothing but country music. The Tuckers also went to the concerts of country stars such as Ernest Tubb and Mel Tillis, and Tanya's older sister LaCosta was praised in the family for her vocal abilities.
At the age of eight, Tanya told her father that she, too, wanted to be a country singer when she grew up. Bo Tucker took his youngest daughter's ambition very seriously after she began to sing songs for him, and by the time she was ten, Tanya had begun to sing in talent shows in Phoenix, Arizona, where the family had recently moved. Though she didn't win anything, the experience helped her learn how to perform before live audiences.
Even as early as this, Tucker cut demo tapes which her father took to Nashville, Tennessee, in hopes of impressing record producers, but when they learned that the singer Bo was trying to promote was his own daughter, most wrote Tanya off as just another child whose naturally biased parents thought she had talent.
Meanwhile, the Tuckers moved again, this time to Saint George, Utah, and there Tanya's mother, Juanita, took her daughter to audition for the film Jeremiah Johnson. Tanya did not win the bigger role she tried out for, but she was hired as a bit player. At about this time she also got one of her first big musical breaks, due to the dedication of her father.
He drove Tanya and the rest of the family all the way to Phoenix for the Arizona State Fair, on the chance that the featured performer, country singer Judy Lynn, could use Tanya in her show. Tanya sang for the fair's entertainment people, and she went on to sing at the fair itself.
After the Arizona State Fair, the Tuckers were unsure of the next step in the pursuit of Tanya's career. When Tanya was about 12 years old, the family decided to move to Las Vegas, figuring that it was a good city for an entertainer to get a start. Fuller liked what she heard, and brought the tapes to the attention of Billy Sherrill, executive producer of Columbia Records in Nashville. Sherrill flew out to talk to the Tuckers in Las Vegas. After Tanya sang for Sherrill in person, he signed her to a contract.
Before Tanya Tucker had turned 14, she had become a major country sensation. Though Australian singer Helen Reddy's version of "Delta Dawn" dominated the pop charts, Tucker's version beat out others by country artists Kitty Wells, Waylon Jennings, and Bobby Bare, to become by far the most popular with country audiences.
Two other songs on the Delta Dawn album scored hits for the fledgling country crooner: "Jamestown Ferry" and "Love Is the Answer" also did well on the country charts.
Tucker quickly followed these successes with her second album, What's Your Mama's Name? Another hit, "Blood Red and Going Down," portrays a husband hunting down his unfaithful wife and her lover and killing them.
Reviewers noted the adult nature of the young singer's records, including the title of her third hot-selling album, Would You Lay with Me in a Field of Stone?
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