Billy Sherrill

An architect of the “countrypolitan” Nashville sound of the 1960s and ‘70s, producer Billy Sherrill also helped shaped the music with some of the biggest country hits of the period. His 1966 collaboration with Glenn Sutton, David Houston’s hit “Almost Persuaded,” topped the charts for nine weeks and won the Grammy for Best Country & Western Song. That year he also discovered Tammy Wynette, for whom he co-wrote her career-launching “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad” and signature hit “Stand By Your Man.” He later provided Charlie Rich’s signature hit with “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World.”

Key songs in the Sherrill catalog include “Stand By Your Man,” “The Most Beautiful Girl In The World,” “Almost Persuaded,” “My Elusive Dreams,” “Every Time You Touch Me (I Get High),” “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad” and “’Til I Can Make It on My Own.”

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