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Within just a few years of securing a record deal, Wynette had already transformed from an unknown into one of the leading ladies of country A year after releasing the massive D.I.V.O.R.C.E, she was back doing what she did best with the lovely The Ways to Love a Man. The song hung around the country charts for an impressive 15 weeks in total, peaki...

You and Me was written by Billy Sherrill and George Richey, with Richey later confessing that the song was inspired by his secret affection for Wynette. At the time, the singer was still dealing with the aftermath of her divorce from George Jones, but the song clearly did the trick: she and Richey became close friends, and within two years, they we...

As tasteofcountry.com notes, by the time Wynette released Your Love in 1987, she was already a legend worthy of Hall of Fame induction. Although her career had slowed down in the 80s (as it had for many artists who’d made their name in the 60s), the album High Ground helped propel her back into the spotlight with its starry list of collaborators, w...

Apartment No. 9 was written by Fern Foley, Fuzzy Owen and Johnny Paycheck and was originally a top 40 hit for Bobby Austin in 1966. Shortly after Austin released his version, Wynette came along with her own cut. It was her first professional recording, and the one that managed to spike the interest of record producer Billy Sherrill, At the time of ...

Wynette wrote Til I Can Make It on My Own along with George Richey and Billy Sherrill, shortly after the end of her rocky marriage to George Jones. Although she’d built her career singing about heartbreak and troubled relationships, here, she talks about moving forward, of looking forward to a new chapter and the day she’ll “look up and see the mor...

In I Don’t Wanna Play House, Wynette sings from the point of view of a young mother who, fresh from being left by her husband, overhears her daughter telling the little boy next door that she doesn’t want to play house as, after seeing what happened when her parents tried, she doesn’t think it can be much fun. Released just a few months after earni...

Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad was written by Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton and recorded in 1967 during sessions for what would eventually become Wynette’s debut album. The album was strong (All Musicdescribes it as ” one of the classic debuts in country music”) and so was the song, turning Wynette into a heroine with female fans with its empoweri...

No one can work a sad song like Tammy Wynette. She’d had enough complications in her own relationships to know how to sing about them, something she did to memorable effect on this hit from 1968. Written by Bobby Braddock and Curly Putnam, the song is narrated from the perspective of a young mother facing the end of her marriage. In an effort to sh...

In at number one on our list of the best Tammy Wynette songs of all time is Stand by Your Man. Co-written by Wynette and Billy Sherrill, the song became Wynette’s career-defining hit, topping the country charts for three weeks and taking the number one place on CMT’s list of the Top 100 Country Music Songs. In 2010, it was selected by the Library o...