The top country record this week in 1967 came from Tammy Wynette, born Virginia Wynette Pugh in Tremont, Mississippi, near Tupelo. She was an all-star basketball player in high school. Tammy got D-I-V-O-R-C-E-D, moved to Birmingham, Ala. and eventually Nashville with her three kids to pursue singing, but kept a cosmetology license which she renewed each year even after 20 #1 hits. Tammy said it was just in case the music career faltered and she needed a real job. That hair, though...
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