DIVORCE

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DIVORCE
Tammy Wynette
publication 1968
Genre (s) Country music
Author (s) Bobby Braddock , Curly Putman
Label Epic Records
album DIVORCE
Cover versions
1969 Dolly Parton
1969 Liz Anderson
1998 Rosanne Cash

DIVORCE is a song by American country singer Tammy Wynette from 1968. The song was written by Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman , and was produced by Billy Sherrill for Epic Records . The song was the Year of a number one country hit in the United States and brought Wynette 1969 her second nomination to the Grammy Awards in the category best female country vocal performance one.

Text and music

DIVORCE portrays a woman's perspective on the impending breakdown of her marriage through a divorce and the attempt to keep this a secret from her four-year-old son. The text begins with the old parental trick of mothers and fathers spelling out words in their conversations that they hope their children cannot understand. In this case, the soon-to-be-divorced woman spells words such as "divorce", her son's name "Joe", "hell" ("hell") and "custody" to give the boy in front of her to protect the harsh realities of the world and the ultimate separation of mother and father:

"Our DIVORCE becomes final today
Me and little JOE will be goin 'away
I love you both and it will be pure HE double L for me
Oh, I wish that we could stop this DIVORCE."

The accompanying country music underlines the sung piece with 4/4 time . It starts with an intro of bass and a steel guitar and then forms a calm and therefore subtle accompaniment. To a continuously repeating chord progression carried by the bass and western guitar , melodic passages from steel guitar and western guitar are played alternately .

background

Tammy Wynette, 1975
Single label from Tammy Wynette's Singe DIVORCE , 1968

Tammy Wynette came to Nashville , Tennessee in 1966 to start a career as a country singer. She got a recording contract with the music label Epic Records , where she worked with producer Billy Sherrill . In 1967 she released her debut single Apartment Number 9 and the next single Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad , which appeared on the album of the same name, was so successful that it rose to position 3 on the Billboard Country Charts and received a Grammy Award for best in 1968 brought in female country vocal performance . A few more singles followed, as well as the second album My Elusive Dreams , which were also well received by the audience and accordingly some of the top positions in the country charts.

DIVORCE was written and composed by Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman , production was again carried out by Billy Sherrill. According to an interview with Rolling Stone , Braddock had previously written a song called I LOVE YOU (Do I Have to Spell It Out for You) , but he couldn't fit it because the music was too happy for the title. From this song, after a musical revision by Putman, the song DIVORCE appeared , which they could give Billy Sherrill for Tammy Wynette.

Publication and reception

The single was released in 1968 with the song Almost Persuaded on the B-side, the same year the album of the same name was released. Like its predecessors, this song became a country hit. In the Billboard Hot Country Singles and also in the Canadian RPM Country Tracks , it placed at number 1 and it was also able to place in the mainstream charts on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 63.

For DIVORCE , Tammy Wynette was nominated for the Grammy Award for the best female country vocal performance for the second time, but this time she lost to Jeannie C. Riley with the song Harper Valley PTA The successes of Tammy Wynette, next to that of DIVORCE especially that of Stand by your Man earned Tammy the nickname "First Lady of Country Music," and she became known for telling the stories of many other everyday women. According to a review of the tasteofcountry.com website, she was “her voice of inspiration”. The page writes about the song: "In 1968's" DIVORCE, "she made a hit out of a silly everyday thing that many parents actually do, which is spell out uncomfortable words in front of their children. The song struck a chord with families everywhere and stayed at No. 1 for three weeks. "(" With "DIVORCE" from 1968, she turned a silly everyday thing that many parents actually do, namely spelling uncomfortable words in front of their children, into a hit. The song struck a chord with families everywhere and stayed in first place for three weeks. ”) In the following years DIVORCE was repeatedly related to Wynette's life, which was marked by several divorces.

The song became a country music classic and is featured on numerous compilations. In 1970 it was part of the soundtrack of the film Five Easy Pieces along with other titles by Tammy Wynette , and in 2005 it was also used in the film Brokeback Mountain .

Cover versions

The song is a classic of country music and was therefore covered and reinterpreted by numerous country singers, especially in the late 1960s and early 1970s . The best known versions besides the original include versions by Kitty Wells , Dolly Parton , Liz Anderson , Wanda Jackson and Rosanne Cash .

The bands and performers who released the song in a cover version include: u. a.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Tammy Wynette on grammy.com; accessed on August 12, 2020.
  2. ↑ Stepgen L. Betts: Bobby Braddock Reflects on Iconic Work With George Jones, Blake Shelton on rollingstone.com, October 19, 2015; accessed on August 12, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c Annie Zaleski: 52 years ago: Tammy Wynette hits No. 1 with 'DIVORC-E' on theboot.com, June 28, 2020; accessed on August 12, 2020.
  4. ↑ Tammy Wynette - DIVORCE at Discogs ; accessed on August 12, 2020.
  5. ↑ Tammy Wynette - DIVORCE (album) at Discogs ; accessed on August 12, 2020.
  6. ↑ a b Top 10 Tammy Wynette songs on tasteofcountry.com; accessed on August 12, 2020.
  7. ↑ a b Tammy Wynette - DIVORCE on cover.info; accessed on August 11, 2020.