Profile
Tammy Wynette
Country Music Singer/songwriter
Female
Born
May 5, 1942
Hometown
Itawamba County, ...
Died
Apr 6, 1998
Death Place
Nashville, Tennessee
Genres
Country music + N...
Performed With
Loretta Lynn + Ge...
Record Label
MCA Nashville Rec...
Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette, was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of the genre's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists. She was known as the First Lady of Country Music, and her best… Read More
Photos
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Romance
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Michael TomlinMarried 1976
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Don ChapelMarried 1967 - 1968
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Euple ByrdMarried 1959 - 1966
News + Updates
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Binky Philips: How A New York City Rock Kid Fell For George Jones And Tammy WynetteHuffington Post - Apr 27, 2013
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Listen: George Jones' Greatest Breakup BalladsHuffington Post - Apr 26, 2013
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Phil Ramone And Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Be Humble Day PlaylistHuffington Post - Feb 22, 2013
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Melissa Etheridge On New Cd: 'I'm Exploring Being 51'Huffington Post - Sep 05, 2012
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1942
Birth
Born on May 5, 1942.
1946
4 Years Old
In 1946, Mildred Pugh remarried, and her husband was Foy Lee, a farmer.
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TWENTIES
1963
21 Years Old
In 1963, she attended beauty school in Tupelo, Mississippi, where she learned to be a hairdresser.
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1965
23 Years Old
Wynette's baby developed spinal meningitis, and she tried to earn extra money by performing at night. In 1965, Wynette sang on the Country Boy Eddie Show on WBRC-TV in Birmingham, Alabama, and this led to performances with Porter Wagoner.
In 1966, Wynette moved with her three daughters from Birmingham to Nashville, where she attempted to get a recording contract.
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1967
25 Years Old
After "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad" was a success, "My Elusive Dreams", a duet with David Houston, became her first number one in the summer of 1967, followed by "I Don't Wanna Play House" later that year. "I Don't Wanna Play House" won Wynette a Grammy award in 1967 for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, one of two wins for Wynette in that category.
During 1968 and 1969, Wynette had five number one hits — "Take Me to Your World," "D-I-V-O-R-C-E", "Stand by Your Man" (all 1968), "Singing My Song," and "The Ways to Love a Man" (both 1969). "Stand by Your Man" was reportedly written in the Epic studio in just 15 minutes by Billy Sherrill and Wynette, and was released at a time when the women's rights movement was beginning to stir in the U.S. The message in the song stated that a woman should stay with her man, despite his faults and shortcomings.
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Wynette's marriage to the country singer George Jones in 1969, which ended in divorce in 1975, created a country music "couple", following the earlier success of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash.
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She earned a Gold record (awarded for albums selling in excess of 500,000 copies) for Tammy's Greatest Hits which was certified in 1970 by the RIAA.
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THIRTIES
In 1976, after having her public divorce from Jones the previous year, Wynette recorded, "'Til I Can Make It on My Own".
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1981
39 Years Old
In 1981, a TV movie about Wynette's life was aired called Stand by Your Man, which was based on her memoir of the same title.
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FORTIES
1982
40 Years Old
In 1982 she recorded a track with The Ray Conniff Singers, a rendition of "Delta Dawn", in order to be included in the Conniff's duets album "The Nashville Connection," but ultimately the track didn't enter.
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1986
44 Years Old
In 1986, she acted on the CBS TV soap opera Capitol, playing beautician/singer Darlene Stankowski.
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1987
45 Years Old
Wynette's 1987 album Higher Ground featured a neotraditional country sound and was both a critical and relative commercial success.
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1990
48 Years Old
In 1990, Heart Over Mind was released and showed that Wynette's popularity on radio was declining.
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FIFTIES
1995
53 Years Old
In 1995, she and George Jones recorded their first new duet album in fifteen years titled, One, which spawned a single of the same name.
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She recorded a cover version of The Beach Boys' "In My Room", a duet with Brian Wilson, for the group's 1996 comeback album Stars and Stripes Vol.1.
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In 1998, following Wynette's death, she was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, one of the highest honors of her career.
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