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Womanhood (1978)
Where the lyrics of Womanhood take you, and where it was really made.
Its second single, 'Womanhood', reached No. 3 on the Billboard country singles chart, well above the first single's No. 26 placing.
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Recorded at Columbia Studios, Nashville (1978)
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Album story
Overview
- Womanhood is a studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Tammy Wynette
- Released in July 1978 by Epic Records
- Lead vocals by Tammy Wynette
- Produced by Billy Sherrill
- Engineer: Lou Bradley
- String arrangement by Bill Justis
- Backing vocals by The Nashville Edition
- Album is a country music release, charting on the Billboard Country Albums chart
Recording
- Recorded at Columbia Studios in Nashville, Tennessee
- Engineer Lou Bradley worked on the album
- Bill Justis wrote the string arrangement
- The Nashville Edition sang backing vocals
Cover
- Photography by Norman Seef
- Cover design by Virginia Team
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
Tracklist
| 1 | Womanhood | 2:51 |
| 2 | That’s What Friends Are For | 2:45 |
| 3 | You Oughta Hear the Song | 2:55 |
| 4 | What’s a Couple More | 2:39 |
| 5 | The One Song I Never Could Write | 3:20 |
| 6 | I’d Like to See Jesus (On the Midnight Special) | 2:51 |
| 7 | Mem’ries | 2:50 |
| 8 | Standing Tall | 3:03 |
| 9 | Love Doesn’t Always Come (On the Night It’s Needed) | 2:27 |
| 10 | 50 Words or Less | 2:42 |
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
Records
- Billboard Country Albums chart: peak No. 14
- The album was released in July 1978 by Epic Records, and its chart result follows that release
- First single: 'I'd Like to See Jesus (On the Midnight Special)'
- First single peak: No. 26 on the Billboard Country Singles chart
- Second single: 'Womanhood'
- Second single peak: No. 3 on the Billboard Country Singles chart
- The album's highest single chart result is the No. 3 peak of 'Womanhood'
- Two singles from the album reached the Billboard Country Singles chart
- The album is a country music release by Tammy Wynette
- Chart results for the album and its singles are listed separately in the source
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
Trivia
- Womanhood was released in July 1978 by Epic Records
- Billy Sherrill produced the album and Lou Bradley engineered it
- The second single, 'Womanhood', peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Country Singles chart
- The first single, 'I'd Like to See Jesus (On the Midnight Special)', peaked at No. 26
- The album's sessions were recorded at Columbia Studios in Nashville
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
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