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[BRD@66]

When I saw her at Austin Aquafest back in '88, she was wearing red leather pants just like those.

 

[deemus]

She was pretty hot back in the day.

 

[benenglish]

She was pretty hot back in the day.

Yes, she was. I confess that I have never known a time when I didn't hold lust in my heart for Tanya Tucker.

That said, her early career couldn't happen today. Back when she was 13-14 years old and pushing her first big single, Delta Dawn, she was still playing school assemblies...though she had moved up from playing high schools to colleges. Her management/handlers made sure she was briefed on who was the most senior staff member in attendance. At some point in the show, she'd seek out that man, plop down on his lap, and sing a song to him. Her body movements were not a lapdance but the grinding was never low-key enough to not be noticeable. I have heard more than one attendee from those events say that watching a little girl grinding on the lap of the dean was just gross.

But it helped her sell a lot of records, I suppose.

She was, in sum, one of the most over-sexualized-by-her-management singers of her age to ever hit it big in the USA. I sometimes am embarrassed to remember the way I used to think about her until I realize that, at the time, I was the same age.

I comfort myself with the knowledge that in 100 years no one will care about such tangential happenings.

Her music, though, will endure.

 

[Vaquero]

 

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[AlteisenMkII]

 

[deemus]

I miss 70’s country radio.

 

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[A1Oni]

 

[AlteisenMkII]

 

[single stack]

 

[TX OMFS]

Came here to be sure this was posted.

 

[Vaquero]

 

[A1Oni]

 

[deemus]

He walked on water.

 

[A1Oni]