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Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House (1968)

Where the lyrics of Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House take you, and where it was really made.

The album's two title songs reached number one at different times: one before the album was released, and the other after it.

Key places

Where the album was recorded (1968)

Recording site Nashville — The tracks were cut at Columbia Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, between June and October 1967 with producer Billy Sherrill. The map point is at city-center level. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House is a studio album by American country artist Tammy Wynette
• Released in January 1968 via Epic Records, containing 11 tracks
• It was the third studio album of Wynette's career
• The album mixes several new recordings with covers of previously recorded material
• Two of its new recordings were singles that both topped the American country chart
• The album itself reached the top five of the American country LP chart in 1968

Background

• Wynette had recently broken through as a country artist with the top five single "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad"
• She also had a number one duet with David Houston, "My Elusive Dreams"
• Epic had issued two studio albums of her material before this one, both in 1967
• Her earlier albums mostly contained covers of other songs

Recording

• Wynette recorded the tracks with producer Billy Sherrill between June and October 1967
• The tracks were cut at the Columbia Studios in Nashville, Tennessee
• Three songs were covers: "Jackson Ain't a Very Big Town", "Cry", and "Ode to Billie Joe"
• The other eight tracks were new recordings
• Sherrill and Glenn Sutton both penned three of the new songs: "I Don't Wanna Play House", "Take Me to Your World", and "Good"
• Other new songs included "It's My Way", "Broadminded", "The Phone Call", "Fuzzy Wuzzy Ego", and "(Or) Is It Love"

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Early life

• Born Virginia Wynette Pugh on May 5, 1942, in Itawamba County, Mississippi.
• Raised by her mother, stepfather and maternal grandparents; picked cotton on the family farm as a child.
• Married Euple Byrd at age 17; divorced in 1965.

Formation

• Moved to Nashville in 1966 and signed with Epic Records, produced by Billy Sherrill.
• Debut single "Apartment No. 9" (1966) reached number 44 on the US country chart.

Career

• Twenty singles topped the US country chart, including "Stand by Your Man" and "D-I-V-O-R-C-E".
• Joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1969 and won two Grammy Awards.
• Recorded numerous duets with George Jones before their divorce in 1975.
• Returned as a solo headliner and continued charting into the 1980s.
• Collaborated with KLF on "Justified and Ancient" (1991) and with Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton on Honky Tonk Angels (1993).
• Died April 6, 1998, in Nashville at age 55.

Legacy

• Estimated 30 million records sold worldwide; inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1998.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Billboard gave the album a positive response and called Wynette an "exceptional young artist"
• Billboard highlighted "Broadminded" and "Cry" and called them "good cuts"
• Several publications gave the album positive reviews after its release

Reappraisal

• Richie Unterberger of AllMusic rated the album four out of five stars
• Unterberger said the album was built around its two big hits and called it a strong outing from Wynette, produced sparely by Billy Sherrill

Records

• The album peaked at number three on the Billboard Country LP chart
• "I Don't Wanna Play House" was issued as a single in July 1967 and reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart by October 1967
• That single was Wynette's second number one, and her first as a solo artist
• "Take Me to Your World" was issued as a single in December 1967
• "Take Me to Your World" became Wynette's third number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, peaking in March 1968
• Both singles were Wynette's first to enter Canada's RPM country chart, and "Take Me to Your World" topped that chart while "I Don't Wanna Play House" reached number three

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Sherrill wanted Wynette to perform "Cry" as a spoken recitation, but she disagreed
• Engineer Lou Bradley said the album's dynamics came from Sherrill making the band follow Wynette's singing
• The album was first issued as a vinyl LP with six tracks on side A and five on side B
• In 1998 eOne and Koch Records re-released the album as a compact disc
• On June 2, 2017 the album was re-released digitally for download and streaming

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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