Music: The Sherrill Sound

The drugstore blonde with a guitar under her arm had been rebuffed by every other record company in Nashville. But when she appeared at the Columbia/Epic offices, Producer Billy Sherrill thought he heard something special-a tear in her voice. "Somethin' said, 'Don't turn this chick down,' " Sherrill recalled later. Thus it came about that he signed Tammy Wynette, supervised her first recording session and even wrote the song for it: Apartment Number Nine. The record reached the top 20 on the Billboard country charts. Tammy's next two, Your Good Girl's Gonna Go...

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