Wynette, Tammy

She left Byrd to pursue her singing career and, on a 1966 trip to Nashville, met the record-producer Billy Sherrill . He signed her to a recording contract and changed Wynette Byrd to Tammy Wynette. Her first hit, recorded in 1966, was “Apartment No. 9.” She recorded 16 consecutive No. 1 country hits through the 1960s, including the ballad “Stand by Your Man” (1968), co-written with Sherrill. It became the best-selling single by a woman in...