In 1968, Tammy Wynette and Billy Sherrill worked for a quarter of an hour on a song that would go on to define her career. "Stand By Your Man" reached number one on the Billboard Charts on December 3 of that year, according to American Songwriter.
As the Women’s Liberation movement surged in the late ’60s and early ’70s, the song drew criticism for its message. Sherrill noted, via NPR, that an ad placed in Billboard by Wynette’s label Epic Records only cemented that reaction.
"There was a full-page ad in the Billboard magazine taken out by Epic Records. 'Tammy Wynette's Answer to Women's Lib, Stand By Your Man, New Release,'" Sherrill said.
"I have five girls, and I would by no means write anything that would belittle my girls," Wynette explained. "I just thought it was a pretty love song when I wrote it, and I’d like for a man to say ‘stand by your woman.'”
Wide Open Country shared another one of Wynette's statements about the song, excerpted from her autobiography, Stand By Your Man. She wrote, "I don't see anything in that song that implies a woman is supposed to sit home and raise babies while a man goes out and raises hell. To me, it means: be supportive of your man; show him you love him, and you're proud of him, and be willing to forgive him if he doesn't always live up to your image of what he should be."
Tammy Wynette died in April 1998. She was 55.
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