Stand By Your Man

Tammy Wynette | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 16, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Columbia Nashville
• ASIN: B0000296J5
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #115,463 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Tammy Wynette's third album (released in early 1969) certainly doesn't mess with the image Wynette was solidifying with the title song, her fourth solo No. 1 country single. Virtually every tune is about a broken family, the biggest tearjerker in a whole set of 'em being "Don't Make Me Go to School," which tells the story from a fourth-grade child's point of view. On "There's Quite a Woman," one of two bonus tracks, Wynette worries about whether her daughter will be able to cut it as a mom and wife. For all its limited scope (and interest), the CD does recall how much of her early work managed a '40s and '50s pop feel, despite stone country songs and instrumentation. And Wynette's voice already has that irresistible throb, though it's not as expansive as it would become, and producer Billy Sherrill has to hide her shortcomings under bombastic production. --John Morthland

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Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid LP featuring career-defining hit single, May 15, 2001

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hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stand By Your Man (Audio CD)

An essential, upgraded, reissue representing potent, early work from Wynette's catalog. Sony has cleaned up the audio, added new liner notes and augmented the original disc with bonus tracks.

The title track from Wynette's third album proved to be her indelible signature, sketched previously in hits like "You're Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad" and "D-I-V-O-R-C-E." On the brink of her third marriage (a rocky affair with George Jones), Wynette sang her woeful tales with authority. From jilted wives to lonely, desperate children, her performances were drenched in emotion.

Buy it for the single and be surprised by the quality of the entire LP.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stand By This WOMAN!, July 24, 1998

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This review is from: Stand By Your Man (Audio CD)

STAND BY YOUR MAN is one of the best Tammy Wynette albums recorded. There is not a single weak track on the album. And Wynette's voice was never in better form. Starting with the chart topping title track, Wynette weaves an emotional tapestry of tears and love like no one had ever done before and no one since. Included you will find the heart break of being a single mother (JOEY), the pain of the children involved (DONT MAKE ME GO TO SCHOOL), the comittment of faith (FOREVER YOURS) and the apologetic heart (ITS MY WAY). This easily could have become a greatest hits package if more than the title track had been released as a single. STAND BY YOUR MAN has become an icon for Tammy Wynette as well as the musical period she rose from. It is a must for all country music lovers and for those, too, who want to experience a voice once called 'the Edit Piaf of Country Music'.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vintage sixties country from Tammy, May 31, 2003

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stand By Your Man (Audio CD)

This album yielded the biggest hit that Tammy ever had - indeed, it was one of the most successful country singles of the 20th century. Although this album and the single from it was released in 1968, it was in 1975 that Stand by your man went all the way to number one in the British pop charts. If you're even thinking of buying this album, you are likely to be familiar with this song already and you probably already have at least one compilation containing a selection of her classic songs.

This was actually Tammy's fourth album. The first three contained plenty of covers of famous songs, but you won't find any of those here. There are some songs about children - Joey, Cry cry again and Don't make me go to school - and several songs in which Tammy stands by her man, continuing the theme of the title track. One of these, Forever yours, was eventually covered (two or three years later) by the great but under-rated Dottie West and became a country hit for her. Tammy's version was not released as a single. Another song here, I'm only a woman, was also a hit when later covered by Dottie - it was not even included on the original album but was recorded at the same sessions. So there were two songs here that could have been hits for Tammy but weren't.

Of Tammy's original albums, this was certainly one of the best, although if you haven't got any of her music, you ought to consider one of the many compilations available.