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Tammy Wynette (May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998) was an American country singer and songwriter. She was known as the “First Lady of Country Music” and one of her best-known songs was “Stand by Your Man,” which was one of the biggest selling hit singles by a woman in the history of the music genre. Tammy Wynette was born Virginia Wynette Pugh near Tremont, Mississippi, the only child of William Hollis Pugh (died February 13, 1943) and Mildred Faye Russell (1922–1991). She was always called Wynette (pronounced Win-net), or Nettie, instead of Virginia.

Her father was a farmer and local musician. He died of a brain tumor when Wynette was nine months of age. Her mother worked in an office, as a substitute school teacher, as well as on the family farm. After the death of Hollis Pugh, she left Wynette in the care of her parents, Thomas Chester and Flora A. Russell, and moved to Memphis to work in a World War II defense plant. In 1946, she married Foy Lee, a farmer from Mississippi.

Wynette was raised on the Itawamba County farm of her maternal grandparents where she was born. The place was partly on the border with Alabama. She has often claimed that the state line ran right through their property. she jokingly said “my top half came from Alabama and my bottom half came from Mississippi” As a youngster, she worked in the fields picking cotton alongside the hired crews to get in the crop. She grew up with her aunt, Carolyn Russell, who was only five years older than she was. Wynette sang gospel tunes with her grandmother, learned to play the piano and the guitar.

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1		Stand By Your Man			837
2		D-I-V-O-R-C-E			167
3		Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad			162
4		I Don't Wanna Play House			99
5		'Til I Can Make It On My Own			45
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7		Help Me Make It Through The Night			33
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11		He Loves Me All The Way			23
12		The Ways To Love A Man			21
13		Stand By Your Man (Live)			19
14		Woman To Woman			18
15		Take Me To Your World			16

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