Stand By Your Man – Tammy Wynette (1969)

An Individual, limited edition, example of vinyl record silhouette art made from a genuine, original, 45rpm, 7” single of Stand By Your Man from 1969, by the American country star, Tammy Wynette. Released on the Epic record label, this vinyl single has been reworked into a silhouette of a man and a woman standing together and holding hands.

Stand by Your Man was co-written by Tammy Wynette and Billy Sherrill and originally recorded by Wynette. It proved to be the most successful record of Wynette’s career, and is one of the most recorded songs in the history of country music. Stand by Your Man elevated Wynette—then one of many somewhat successful female country recording artists—to superstar status. Derided by the Feminist movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wynette in later years defended the song, Stand by Your Man, as not a call for women to place themselves second to men, but rather a suggestion that women attempt to overlook their husbands’ shortcomings and faults if they truly love them (and in fact, the last line in the final verse says “after all, he’s just a man”).