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Stand by your most famous Tremont native! That's exactly what members of this rural Itawamba County town plan to do.
Tammy Wynett's hometown is where plans are in the works to make her the star of their show.
Earl Montgomery, a local music enthusiast, is among those who are in Tremont to celebrate a new park to be named in Tammy Wynette's honor. Montgomery met her when she launched her career in Nashville.Read More
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One Country Music Hall of Famer paid tribute to another Saturday night as George Jones played a fundraiser in memory of his former wife and duet partner, the late Tammy Wynette.
Wynette was born near the small town of Tremont, Miss., where she began her transformation from local hairdresser to Nashville’s “First Lady of Country Music.” Her home county is planning a memorial park in Tremont as part of the Mississippi Country Music Trail, which recently added a historical marker telling Wynette’s story.Read More
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Fans, be sure to check out the "Tammy's Picks" playlist on Tammy's newly created iTunes Ping page. The playlist features some of Tammy's favorite songs by her favorite artists including Elton John, Melissa Etheridge, Kittie Wells, and Faith Hill! Be sure to follow Tammy's Ping page for more updates at itunes.apple.com.
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A one-of-a-kind Country Duos hits bundle from some the most influential country artists of all time - George Jones & Tammy Wynette, Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton, Johnny & June Carter Cash, Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson, and Brooks & Dunn. These big-name country artists are well-known for their superstar careers but many of their most successful songs were the result of duo harmony - which has always been an integral part of country music tradition.Read More
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It may have been the goal of clearing her parents' name that made Georgette Jones decide to write a book about her family life with country stars, she said, but that in the long run it became a way of becoming closer to her family.
"Initially, (writing the book) was to clear their name or let people know that the images from the media about their past were different," she said. "The media showed my mom as this tragic woman of divorce and my dad as the partying outlaw."Read More
Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man" as well as Edward Meeker's "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme are among the 25 latest recordings that will be preserved by the Library of Congress.
On Wednesday, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named 25 new additions to the ninth annual National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, ensuring that these cultural, artistic and historical recordings always will be available to the American public.Read More
When Tammy Wynette died in 1998, she was known as the First Lady of Country Music. She was born in 1942, as Virginia Wynette Pugh, in a rural county of Mississippi. By the time she was in her mid-20s, the hairdresser-turned-glittering-country-superstar was on her way to being the first artist in the genre to go platinum. Wynette had more than 20 No. 1 hits, though she's still most widely remembered for signature songs of the late 1960s and early '70s, such as "I Don't Wanna Play House" and "Stand By Your Man."Read More
NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 4, 2010-The entire collection of professional memorabilia documenting the stellar career of Tammy Wynette has arrived at the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum. The move was facilitated by George Richey, Wynette's widower, and Wanda Williams, after numerous discussions with the Museum.Read More
