“There’s a tear in every word,” is how longtime record producer Billy Sherrill described Tammy Wynette’s singing. The legendary country star had 17 No. 1 hits, including “Stand By Your ...

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

On July 8, 1968, Tammy Wynette released her third studio album, D-I-V-O-R-C-E. Known for its title track — which was then in the middle of a three-week run at No. 1 atop the country charts ...

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 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 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 ...

NASHVILLE -- Tammy Wynette's professional name will be restored to her crypt because the person who owns the mausoleum space has agreed to the change, according to Wynette's daughter Jackie Daly.

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.