Stand by Your Man is a 1968 country song performed by Tammy Wynette and co-written by Wynette and producer Billy Sherrill. It was recorded in Nashville in 1968 and released as a single in September 1968, becoming Wynette's signature song and her biggest selling single. It topped the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and reached number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it also topped charts in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The song gave its title to Wynette's fifth studio album Stand by Your Man, released in January 1969 on Epic Records, which features mostly original material and was produced by Billy Sherrill. The tune is a Nashville Sound country ballad that urges a woman to stand by her man through difficulties, a message that sparked both popularity and controversy. The recording sessions took place March through August 1968 at Columbia Studio B in Nashville, and Wynette initially worried the song would hurt sales before Sherrill convinced her to release it.
