BeatNonStop A Weblog by Chris Macias Bee pop music critic Music geek (n. myü-zik 'gEk) 1: A person who proudly wore KISS commemorative pajamas in third grade. 2: A person who owns multiple copies of the same album, still buys vinyl and has a room dedicated to 2,000 or so CDs and records. 3. A person who wrote a five-part series about traveling with a local band in their stinky van - and loved every minute of it. 4: Chris Macias, the Bee's pop music critic, serving Sacramento's music scene since 1999.

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May 29, 2007

The original "Delta Dawn"

Well, it looks like the wayward whales - a.k.a. Delta and Dawn - are going to make it to sea. Now I don't know about you, but whenever I hear about Delta and Dawn the lyrics from the song "Delta Dawn" start swimming in my head ("Delta Dawn, what's the flower you have on ...").

"Delta Dawn" is a country tune made popular in the early 1970s by Tanya Tucker and Helen Reddy, and though it has nothing to do with sea creatures or 40-ton mammals, the song seems oh-so special right now. The YouTube video above shows a 13-year-old Tanya Tucker performing "Delta Dawn," and given the celebratory spirit 'round these parts, we'll overlook that goatlike vibrato when she belts, "from days gone byyyy." Check it out ...

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