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In 1975, a Tammy Wynette greatest hits album was released in the UK. Two of the songs from this album ascended the British pop chart that year, with " Stand by Your Man " reaching the top of the chart in April and "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" climbing to a peak position of No. 12 in July [ 6 ]
Tammy Wynette signed a recording contract with Epic Records in 1966 and her success began to grow over the next several years. By 1968, Wynette was having a series of number one singles on the country music charts, including "My Elusive Dreams", "I Don't Wanna Play House" and "D-I-V-O-R-C-E". [2]
The song is a cover of Sheb Wooley's [4] parody of the Tammy Wynette song "D-I-V-O-R-C-E", [5] and Connolly's version to date has been his only No. 1 UK single, [3] though in the late 1970s he had a further two UK hits which parodied contemporary songs. He later dropped musical performances from his act.
In March 2012, the name on Wynette's tomb was changed from "Tammy Wynette" to "Virginia W. Richardson", her legal married name at the time of her death. [141] Wynette's daughters were angered by the name change. Through Facebook, they launched a petition to urge fans to help change the name of her tomb back to "Tammy Wynette". More than 3,000 ...
The family of Tammy Wynette’s fifth husband, George Richey, is not happy with the way he was portrayed in the Showtime miniseries George & Tammy. Richey’s widow, Sheila Slaughter Richey, and ...
As if mirroring their doomed marriage, a couple of the songs on Me and the First Lady hint at the cracks that had already appeared in the relationship of country music's first couple: "A Lovely Place To Cry" (co-written by Wynette with Earl Montgomery) and "The Great Divide" both contemplate fading love and the possibility of divorce.
A production crew films a scene for “George and Tammy,” a television series about country music stars George Jones and Tammy Wynette, played by Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain, far left ...
Showtime has been hit with a lawsuit over “George & Tammy” by the estate of country star Tammy Wynette’s fifth and last husband, George Richey. His heirs contend that the critically ...