A highlight of Dalton’s career came in 1968-69 while recording with former Eccentrics, Rick Evans, Denny Zager & Dave Trupp. They ventured to “west Texas” to record “In the Year 2525, Exordium & Terminus”, released locally on Truth Records. It was a huge regional hit in Lincoln and Omaha, selling around 14000 copies in Nebraska alone. The single was noticed and picked up by RCA around a year after it was originally recorded, and under “Zager & Evans” it sold millions of records worldwide reaching #1 on Billboard and other trade magazines. An album, with Dalton on bass was recorded in Chicago including “In the Year 2525”.
Reached #1 07-12-69 on the Billboard Charts
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find........
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, or say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine, doing that for you
In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God's a comin' he ought to make it by then
Maybe he'll look around himself and say
``Guess it's time for the Judgement day''
In the year 8510
God's gonna shake his mighty head
He'll either say ``I'm pleased where man has been''
Or tear it down and start again
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wondering if man's gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing...
Now it's been 10,000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through the eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday...
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find.......
