Tammy Wynette, also known as the "First Lady of Country Music" and the "Heroine of Heartbreak," was an icon, a trailblazer and a hitmaker. Throughout her illustrious career, she scored 20 No. 1 ...

Country singer Tammy Wynette was born in 1942 and died in 1998. At birth, she was given the name Virginia Wynette Pugh. When the singer moved to Nashville, Tennessee to start a music career, ...

Tammy Wynette was considered “the voice” long before those words became the name of a current hit reality show. The singer could impressively sound fragile one moment, then let it rip the next ...

Tammy Wynette: “’Til I Can Make It on My Own” Wynette co-wrote this 1976 hit, one of her greatest torch songs, with Sherrill and her soon-to-be fifth husband, the country songwriter George ...

Tammy Wynette—born in rural Itawamba County, Mississippi, as Virginia Wynette Pugh—was not herself standing for it, it should be noted.

Disputatious county music king and queen George Jones and Tammy Wynette get a double biopic on Showtime. Review: 'George & Tammy' is a cautionary love story with good songs - Los Angeles Times ...

Tammy sometimes threatened divorce in hope of scaring George straight, but ended up filing for real in 1975. From then on, they lived apart, even married others, but still recorded and toured ...

No arrests were ever made, and that is because it was allegedly a lie, according to Jackie Daly, Wynette’s other daughter. In her book, Tammy Wynette: A Daughter Recalls Her Mother’s Tragic Life And ...

Disco trailblazer Donna Summer, country-music queen Tammy Wynette, pioneering gangsta rap group N.W.A. and performance artist-turned-sonic-maverick Laurie Anderson are among the Recording Academy ...

Tammy Wynette had a crystal bowl of cotton. Wynette was born in Mississippi in 1942. When she was less than a year old, her father died from a brain tumor.

George & Tammy is excellent at picking out and recreating all of the most important steps in Jones and Wynette’s personal stories and careers, even if the timeline isn’t always exactly right. The show ...

Tammy Wynette and George Jones posing together and smiling in 1995. Jones and Wynette, who passed away in 2013 and 1998, respectively, stole hearts with their emotional energy and heartfelt ...