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  • If what is hawked now as Country Music, had been the first I ever heard, I would chosen Opra for my music of choice rather than OPRE as in Grand Ole. Tammy's Apartment #9 and Stand By Your Man set the standards for the time. George Jones with or without Tammy, Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn and Porter and Dolly were the artests that set the bar and the nowdays Country cannot ever reach the bar.

  • i will always love you and miss you tammy!

  • Here I go pissing people off again..I know it's a Tammy Wynette song but the best version is MELISSA ETHERIDGE...so where is it...Sorry folks

  • @MrSirDel How can that be when its a country music song written by a country artist?

  • Tammy possesed the most emotional voice i 've ever heard. 

  • this is my shit when it comes to music

  • who really did write this song?

  • @ahhm, Bobby Austin & Johnny Paycheck.

  • I will forever LOVE Tammy Wynette she just simply reminds me of my dad.

  • I've seen a 45 of this song, and it's just Johnny Paycheck credited with writing. True? Who knows? But I can believe it. BTW, did you ever notice how the great songs are written in, like 20 minutes? And the ones that suck took hours or days as some poor tunesmith struggles to meet his/her contractual obligations?

  • Such a lovely song and beautifully sung thank you for sharing

  • I first began to listen to Tammy in 1968 when her Apartment # 9, Stand By Your Man and DIVORCE were at the top. She was the Queen then and her memories and songs still are tops. That era of Country music still had a story to relate and the modern Country is just grunting and singing off key intentionally. No story to tell anymore.

  • @Drydaddy I agree - well said. I'm a huge Jerry Reed fan and that is about the time he made it to the top, too, while still playing sessions for other big-name stars as he had been for years, and they were all legends, then, and so irresistible to listen to. Tammy had such a magnetic kind of hurt in her voice which makes you unable to stop listening, I find, and she was so real and so professional. Such a shame all these wonderful talents who were so real are now gone.

  • the best female country singer ever.

  • Johnny Paycheck-Bobby Austin were the songwriters. I Googled them, can't put links in here, unfortunately, but as the story goes, Bobby Austin released this single first, and it enjoyed some chart success before Tammy put out this timeless version. Johnny Paycheck was then named Donny Young. Sources were Wikipedia, Songwriters Hall Of Fame and R&B Hall Of Fame/Bobby Austin.

  • essas musicas sao muitos lindas e eu gosto de curtir musica cowtryn

  • This is the song from the Movie "Double Take"......isn't it?

  • Nobody will ever sing like you again. Such a legend so miffed I never got to see you. Love you!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Apartment #9 was Tammy's first single. It only went to #44, but has endured to become a country music classic. Songwriting credits go to PAYCHECK, FOLEY, OWEN, and yes that is Tammy doing her own harmony.

  • @morningsidemgt , Foley and Owen did not write this song, period!

  • @flashbell Song Title: Apartment #9, HFA Song Code: A68979, Publishers: Dream City Music and Owen Publications, Writers: Paycheck, Foley, Owen. If you have a beef with the songwriters listed, tell it to the publishers.

  • what an amazing voice wow

  • Tammy's voice just had this tone to it, this catch that was so beautiful and distinctive. Bless you, Tammy, for all the music you left for us.

  • Who sang vocal back-up to Tammy? She is fantastic!

  • @Ferrum2004 I think that's Tammy herself on another recording that she put down to harmonize with her lead vocal. Beautiful, isn't it?

  • Me and My dad sing this together in the car since i was young..<3

  • i used to listen to my dads tammy wynette albums when i was drunk and miserable, it was my lula-bye to sleep. some how hearing her voice made everything alright, now i just enjoy hearing it !!!!!!

  • Fab fab fab god bless you Tammy xxx

    

  • BOBBY AUSTIN HAD THE ORIGINAL RECORDING. HE WAS CO WRITER WITH PAYCHECK. Give him a listen

  • I remember when i was seventeen when still philippines ilove it

  • This was written by George Jones, not Johnny Paycheck.

  • @peggifrancis , Stop misleading viewers with your false statement. Paycheck wrote this song.

  • @flashbell

    You're right. I stand corrected!

  • @flashbell That'd be 'Mr. Paycheck' then, eh? Such disrespect.........

  • @Factnotfictionpeople , I don't understand your comment, please clarify.

  • @flashbell Usually - and in the United Kingdom in which I grew up, we address someone we don't know, by using their title first. Therefore it wouldn't be 'Wynette', it'd be Miss or Mrs. Wynette, or Miss. Tammy Wynette, perhaps. To use the name 'Paycheck' just on its own is not, to us, polite. Hope this clarifies my comment? :-) I suppose its just down to the different way in which we use the English language. Didn't mean to offend you, I should have put a :-) after my original comment. :-)

  • @peggifrancis PAYCHECK

    

  • @peggifrancis...From the early to mid-1960s, he also enjoyed some success as a songwriter for others, with his biggest songwriting hit being "Apartment #9", which served as Tammy Wynette's first chart hit in December 1967.

    So, he did write this song.

  • @peggifrancis Bobby Austin wrote most of it and Paycheck finished it

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  • One of my favorite Tammy songs. One mild subtlety I have always been drawn to in this song is the hypnotic tone and timing of the rhythm guitar. Somehow just really adds an element of lonesome behind Tammy's singing.

  • I don't care much for country but I love Tammy's song she is a great. singer..

  • I'm not much for country music, but just listening to this song now. Brings back memories of my grandparents (God rest their souls) and all my uncles singing this song, Gooosh, those were the good ol days.

  • all I can say is fantastic, fantastic

  • Next to Patsy our greatest country singer. Patsy and Tammy in a class of their own!!!!

  • @RImusclebear You are so right... They should be called the Queens of Country Music...

  • After hearing this song again I had to take a moment. Ms Swift, do you really think you' re country? Music row does. Shame on them. Money people. Sell their only child to Satan for a Buck. What people today take as country is a shame. Darius Rucker? Please!!! Zack Brown??? My head gets hot from his wool skull cap. Can we say gimmick? Get the point? Bullshit artist with limited talent. But, people buy it. If you are thirsty in the desert, you WILL drink the sand. I ain' t thirsty.

  • @starr522 you need help

  • @starr522you really need help

  • I love this song by Tammy, and I also love to hear her daughter Georgette sing the song. Both are equally wonderful. Tammy, you are still loved and missed. I am so glad your music still lives on .

  • Can somebody out there tell me who does the steel work on this great song?

  • @rkb1941 I think it was a Nashville studio musician named George Kendal! Incredible!!

  • @RImusclebear Incredible is an undersatement. I keep the record next to my player in my man cave and I put it on any chance I get just to here that intro. Thanks for the info.

  • @rkb1941 Not trying to dispute the other person who answered you, but I do believe it was Pete Drake doing the steel on this, as he did most of the steel on Tammy's records. One exception was DIVORCE, which featured the incredibly talented Lloyd Green on steel.

  • this is real country music. todays country artist need to find anothe name.

  • I grew up on rock music, but I long for music with true meaning. This is the good stuff. Keep it coming :)

  • CLASSIC Steel guitar right there Bubba!!! :)

  • This is REAL TRUE country, not the nonsense you hear these days. Those steel guitars sound fantastic. Tammy is a true testament to real country music.

  • Get A life "Channel policy" I like hearing all comments good or bad.. This is a beautifull song written by Johnny Paycheck and sung by the true Queen of country.. The emotions in Tammy's voice are the likes of which will never be reproduced..

  • @pduncan742 , Our channel policy doesn't prohibit bad comments. We don't allow profanity.

  • @pduncan742 I TOTALLY AGREE!!

  • @pduncan742 , You can hear all comments good or bad as long as they don't violate our channel policy.

  • now this is when country music was actually country music

  • I remeember seeing Tammy Wynette Pugh on the Country Boy Eddie tv show on WBRC from Birmingham Alabama back in the 60s

  • @MrCountrydj Back then, she was still Nettie Byrd. She was born Virginia Wynette "Nettie" Pugh.

  • Boy howdy, do ilike this performance. Heartache and emotion expressed so well. This is "real country".

  • The country voice of all time, pure country, pure talent, pure entertainment

  • The country voice of all time

  • she just don't sing the song she lives the song tammy takes you from where you sitting listening to her song, could be riding in your car, or listening to u tube...and she take you out of your seat thru the radio waves or whatever they call them today right to her side and she sings right to you and you look into her eyes and smile and when the song ends your ready to applaude with the rest of the audience then it happens and the song is over and your back in your seat again

    tammy we love you!!

  • Magic!

  • i love this song the thing with country is it;s so beautiful. today country music is good but it will neva be lyk it was country legends such as tammy wynette,dolly parton,shania twian,tanya tucker,lorette lynne ect ect ect there music is about how they grew up there life it has a meaning and listening to there songs and music makes u wonder i knw it does me i love listening to great country but with the country singers today there music dont feel real dont have meaning like these RIP tammy x

  • So utterly beautifull and I found it by accident---

  • I would like to see these modern Country girls beat this one!

  • Love This Song

  • if you can get it this whole album is incredible ,, do yourselves a favor and pick it up anyway you get your music

  • OH MY GOODNESS! WHAT A LOVELY SONG!! IT REMINDS ME OF MY CHILDHOOD FRIENDS-AMANTE 09214849000

  • RIGHT on winston got ya anint got an A but flatheads more into Ts but, i was

    told to pre pare for the future and this is it ... old man now their all gone now

    we are now next, I remember hearing her with my first girl i think in 1968 am

    radio 49 Ford I said thats going to be a hit song. want her and 49 Ford NOW

  • My fingers bled reading your post and my cell just had a baby country star. get over it

  • I learned to slow dance to this song.

  • So true,,, The old country was/is the best

  • called a beer joint

    

  • best song ever

  • Is that Floyd crammer on the piano ?? Man this tune takes me back to a nice place in my life. Thanks for posting it.

  • Nice feeling hearing this song again and recall my teens. Thanks so much for uploading this song.

  • amherst n s home

  • Wonderful!!!!

  • This song is the very definition of a classic - 34 years after its release, it's still great to listen to! Thanks for posting

  • Great song...Paycheck wrote some dandys

  • I like her type of voice....thanks

  • Yes, this is very true country by a true country singer. How well I remember this when it first came out. What lovely voice and a very lovely lady.

    I'll talk with again someday in heaven - I still love you so Tammy, I hope you can read this.

  • Folks, this TRUE country. Tammy's the greatest female country singer to EVER live.

  • Oh how I Love To Listen To Tammy Whynette, And The Country Stars Such As Jim reeves, Faron Young, Connie Smith, ETC. Im 15 Years Old But I Find That These Are The Best Songs. I DO NOT LIKE TODAYS MUSIC. Great Song Tammy!! :-)

  • Dating a sexy wife who is alone *lushfmlk.info*

  • I wish we had country music back again. I love the steel guitar and piano in this song. This woman was the best. I miss her songs.

  • Tammy suffered so...

  • OMG - except it's not lonely!!!

  • I'm a new convert to country...Tammy is awesome. Thanks for the song!

  • Beautiful 

  • Thats just pure country !!!

  • MyJustified said it all. Where has all this great music gone?

  • country music no longer sounds like this..shania,faith & all the rest,they killed it.

  • Queen of country x

  • This is the music I grew up on. It doesn't get any better than this!

  • Even though we see what has happened in Nashville, does no good to complain. The old music we so enjoyed is not coming back. Generational differences causes changes. Having said all of that what bothers me most is that they call this new pap "country music". those of us old enough to have witnessed the past greats find it hard to see what was created by these talented folk has devolved into looks and sales. O.K. sermon over. Flashbell U shouldn't allow preachers like me a forum lol

  • @Bojac3 I Can Say Bojac3 Knows What he is Talking About In The Music Field. My husband Was Connie Smith's Steel Player And He Also Played With a Lot Of Others, My How Our Country Music Has Changed, So You Keep Remindin People How Great It Was,I Really Don't Care For The (NEW) Country Music Either. But Theirs Nothing WE Can Do, A Song Is Not A Song Without That Steel...I Loved The Old Country Music..And I Knew A Lot Of Them, Uoh Tellin My Age..Lol..I'll Go Now....

  • Yes this is real country pure unadulturated deep home country, these days it has gone mainstream, nothing wrong that if it is kept purely with its roots original style, since the late 90s and 21st centuary has become quite manufactured and losing the essence of its authenticity. Thirty three years of a country fan and while like the latest artists it cannot beat this.

  • What a voice!!! What a song! Today's country singers ought to listen to stuff like this and then reconsider what rubbish they are putting out!

  • Sad song but very touching.

  • love this..has to be one of my favorite tracks by tammy.

  • as much as i love patsy, i have to admit tammy is the best......

  • still very much the queen of country in my mind

  • she,s a one in a millionXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  • the greatest female singer of all time and all genres....and it wouldn't take much for me to drop the "female".....the greatest singer of all time.

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  • @flashbell

    Dear Flashbell, I wish all posters of music had your policy re unsavoury remarks of all types.

    Cheers, Ian

  • @flashbell GET A LIFE LOL X

  • @foxy114 , Where?

  • @flashbell.... in apartment no.9 i love this song of Tammy...i love her she's great...

  • @honey1009able , yea, me too, but you know there is mystery about apt # 9 that will never be revealed.

  • @flashbell-will u reveal that mystery for us?ty

  • @honey1009able , Maybe, but wouldn't it be better left for the imagination?

  • @flashbell

    Why would anyone have anything bad to say about Tammy? She was a truly great voice that stood out from the crowd of "also sang" singers.

  • - another great song by the late great

    tammy wynette .

  • tnx don,jejeje maykan ta isalaka ka ti mamen 3 idiay apartment number 9,lol...i like it tnx

  • Beatifull song

  • the fire will always burn for tammy , she is in my eyes the only lady in country and western that is still got the honour of not selling out

  • love this song,just moved out of apt 9,kinda crazy,my daughter sings this song ,and all the greats that i was brought up listning to with my daddy who played guitar and wrote alot of songs in the 40a50s AND60s,70s,i MISS HIM SO MUCH..LOVE YA DADDY,STILL HAVE YOUR GRANDAUGHTER SINGING ALL THE OLD CLASSICS SHE DOES GREAT..YOU WOULD BE PROUD, i am...

  • liz anderson did not write this song, johnny paycheck and bobby austin wrote it and billy sherrill give it to Tammy to sing when he first met her.

  • It was written by Liz Anderson. Mother of Lynn. Paycheck did the song as have many but Liz wrote it.

  • olstuf33, If you are talking about the writer of this song, it was written by Johnny Paycheck and Bobby Austin.

  • @olstuf33 the song was written by Paycheck and Austin. Look on the single!

  • @olstuf33 I had the pleasure of recording with Johnny Paycheck on Little Darlin Records in 1969. He did write that song1 And Tammy did her usual great job of singing it!--Lee

  • shame on country. Taylor Swift and Darius Rucker? Is this a joke? Too bad, so sad, they don' t cut it. Everbody wants to be country without being country. Doesn' t work. Judge foryourself

  • no one can replace her...one of the greats

  • im 19 and even i love this music :) i grew up listening to it from my parents :P

  • I have drank with Tammy many times, but she wasnt there----Only the best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Hahaha!! Great comment, shortstroke3! Me, too.

  • Simply The Best!!!

  • Just to give credit where credit is due, this song was written by Bobby Austin and Johnny Paycheck. The story that was told at the time was that Paycheck added the "Loneliness surrounds me," line to what Bobby had written.  That's the story Bobby told anyway.

  • Tammy was so good (:

  • *sigh* You'll always be My Hero, Darling.

    btw: is anybody else dying to get their hands on that new biography coming out in March ??!! "Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen" They have it for pre-order already and the cover pic is my absolute fave picture of Tammy ever.

  • Simply The Best!!!

  • now this kind of music i can relate too. not like the kind they have today.

  • What a legend , and a great song R.I.P Tammy

  • Listen this is country, the likes of taylor swift and carrie are singing is pop music and is labelled as country, Tammy, Loretta, Jonny etc grew up picking cotton till their fingers blead and looked aqfter younger brothers and sisters, that was their childhood that is were the real country songs came from and from marriage breakups. Taylor etc grew up in shopping malls and cell phones.

    Tammy was the greatest and her voice was just out of this world, Country music is dying out with the legends.

  • Tammy was the greatest and her voice was just out of this world, Country music is dying out with the legends.

    Or are we just getting old...........? :-(

  • @MyJustified I agree totally,i tell my daughter this all the time,since she was very young,shes still yng,helll shes only a teenager,she sings all the old country greats like i taught her..im so glad she appreciates tammy,patsy.bobbie gentry etc...

  • @MyJustified Too right! There's no real country any more.

  • @MyJustified Taylor Swift grew up in a cell phone? Wow.

  • @MyJustified fully agreed...she is the Real McCoy! What a voice and the life that truly backed it up!

  • taylor is only young, tammy wynette is a legend but taylors voice has yet to mature ya never know how good she might get x

  • Have to be carfull with mhy response.after 5 shots of Jose and 6 Coors Lights. I think I have it. Please excuse if I offend. Taylor is young? Has not matured? lol She is what she is. She ai't no Tammy. Never will be. Enjoy it while you have it.

  • lol mEat your hearts outs litte girls. Thins is what country is.

  • God bless you Tammy,you were the greatest.

    RIP Tammy we your fans miss you and your songs will live forever in our hearts.

    thanks for posting flashbell.

  • I can relate to this today. We all get lonely sometimes.

    Best regards.

  • I can relate too...may be in apartment #9 this year after 28 yrs. with my husband.

  • Taylor is a sweet little talented girl. God bless her. But she ain' t country. Damn the business passing her off as that. I don' t like labels such asQueen of or King of.thats just a label.

    Ms Wynette is a talent that is beyound reproach. Hard to stand up to her. Life songs are sung by people that have lived life. GET IT? Ms Wynette, you will always be a bar that others only reach to achieve. Thank you so much for your memories

  • You are so right...I agree completely!

  • as well as the great Reba

  • Thanks for the posting. George jones said the first time he heard Tammy sing it he was driving and was so struck with awe that he had to pull over and listen.

  • The problem with AMERICA today is a person can't even go to an Old beer bar to shoot pool , smoke, and drink whilst playing A-11 to hear this tune! I have to settle listening to it in my garage busting knuckles on my '29 Ford with the air filled with exhaust, Cigar smoke, and Gentleman Jack to keep the fire burning for Tammy!!!

  • Don't you think you could in Butte Montana?

  • @WinstonsPapa would love to come and hang out with you... my parents got us kids hooked on country music back in the 70s.. my dad was a trucker and I would go with him in the truck back in the day when 8 track tapes were in style lol...and he had all the great country singers on 8 track...so a lot of these songs bring back amazing memories ! Happy Holidays WinstonsPapa :-)

  • @rhymeandreasoning I have plenty of 8 tracks with the likes of Tammy, Loretta, George jones etc... that I would love to share it with you, since my last 8 track player broke. ; )

  • This song reminds me of the time my one and only stood me up one evening.......I don't think I'd ever been so heartbroken before. I was just a sad girl living in Atlanta. :(

  • like in a dream

  • I'm ashamed to admit that I'm 54 years old and have never really listened to Tammy until recently. She has such a beautiful pure voice. Simply amazing! I could listen to this song all night long.

  • Well find the studio recording of Take Me to Your World, it will rise goose bumps!

  • how did the mailcarrier deliver your mail to that cave you were living in when she was making all those hits in the late sixties and throughout the seventies????

    it must of been very hard to get too...

  • was,nt she beautiful and a voice to match. you just don,t find singers like this today.

  • The first lady of Country..Period.

  • it seems like about all the good singers are either dead or retired. but if i can find their songs i buy them.

  • damn straight girl --- the crap that these so called "country" hos be singing today cant compare --- the two patsy's , kitty , early loretta and early dolly and of course the always great emmylou