Stand By Your Sound
Chet Atkins may have brought elements of pop music into country music in developing what became known as "The Nashville Sound," but it was Billy Sherrill, as director of A&R for the Nashville...
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Stand By Your Man
  Tammy Wynette had been turned down by virtually every Nashville label when Billy Sherrill signed her in 1966. Perhaps the fact that the Mississippi-reared singer was a 24-year-old divorcee with three children made her seem a risky investment--even a short term one. When she and Sherrill ended their artist-producer partnership some fifteen years later, they'd registered over three dozen Top 10 hits. Not a bad return. In '68, they created "Stand By Your Man," a song about forgiveness and strength in difficult relationships. Despite attacks by the budding feminist movement, it became a huge success, and the "First Lady of Country Music"'s lifelong theme. Wonder what another noted first lady thinks about it now.

(T. Wynette/B. Sherrill); Produced by Billy Sherrill; Tammy Wynette, vocal; Jerry Kennedy, lead guitar; Wayne Moss, Ray Edenton, guitars; Pete Drake, steel guitar; Bob Moore and/or Tommy Allsup, bass; Buddy Harman, drums; The Jordanaires, background vocals; Rec. July 28, 1968. Epic 10398 (mx. NCO 98850); Originally Released 1968