Billy Sherrill

An architect of the “countrypolitan” Nashville sound of the 1960s and ‘70s, producer Billy Sherrill also helped shaped music with some of the biggest country hits of the period. His 1966 collaboration with Glenn Sutton, David Houston’s hit “Almost Pursuaded,” 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 “Almost Persuaded,” “Every Time You Touch Me,” “The Most Beautiful Girl In The World,” “My Elusive Dreams” and “Stand By Your Man.”

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