Tammy Wynette: A Daughter Recalls Her Mother's Tragic Life and Death

by Jackie Daly, Tom Carter

The revealing story of one of America's greatest female stars of country music.

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction

296 pages, Hardcover

First published May 8, 2000

Reviews

[Michael Porter · Rating 5 out of 5]

TAMMY WYNETTE A DAUGHTER RECALLS

by

Jackie Daly and Tom Carter

This book read like a Murder Mystery. It’s Tammy Wynette’s daughter telling her story. At the beginning of the book Ms. Daly acknowledges that her mother had written an autobiography book, and she was only going to finish the story.

Now, I almost put the book down to read Tammy’s story first, but the book was too good. I had to kept reading.

Either I didn’t know, or I had forgotten that Tammy Wynette was the Country and Western version of Elizabeth Taylor -- She married a lot, I think it was five times. Tammy had had some surgeries during her early years and she was told to rest after each one to give the body at chance to rest. She didn’t do this, within 3 days she was back on the road again performing. By doing this she would end up with a large amount of scar tissue within her body, causing a great deal of pain. This would start her on the road of being a drug addict, she became a addicted to pain medication.

Tammy had married many times, the most famous one was when she was married to George Jones. They became the King and Queen of Country Music. I think she should have stayed married to George.

With her last husband, she married her enabler and this would end up causing her early departure. Tammy Wynette, (May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998)

She would be only 55 years of she would leave this earth, and I think she died because was given some lethal drugs, without any medical personnel. Only her husband was there, and he given her the lethal dose.

This was a very well written story by her daughter and the death of Tammy Wynette is now closed, but the questions still linger. Personally, I think she was accidentally murdered, which means her last husband should have been charged with manslaughter, and I think they had a case of medical malpractice, too, but none of that happened. Unless things change after the book was published, Tammy’s daughters gone nothing from her estate -- Nothing.

100 years from now, people will still know Tammy Wynette, because of a song she recorded: STAND BY YOUR MAN. The song is a classic, and we will still hear that song many many years to come.

Tammy Wynette is now a legend.

[Darla Ebert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although not a country music afictionado nevertheless as a little girl I would occasionally be subjected to it , notably in 5th grade when a girl got up in class and sang D-I-V-O-R-C-E in an emotionless voice. I remember being shocked and kind of affronted. However Tammy Wynette's life had been interesting and so I decided to give the book a read and discovered, previously unknown (to myself and to many others I am sure) that there were legitimate questions surrounding her death. The book gives firsthand information from one of Tammy's daughters. It reads like a (very sad) detective story. I had to remind myself that it is a true story.

[Nancy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting

[Lisa Burris · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this immediately after reading Daly's sister, Georgette Jones', memoir, The Three of Us: Growing up with George and Tammy. In my opinion, Jones' was the more well-written of the two. Daly's memoir, although briefly mentioning George Jones, is more revelatory about what it's like to be apart from your custodial parent for much of your life, as they are away on business. Still, like Georgette, whose book was written after Daly's, she pulls no punches. She reveals her mother's own trepidation about Wynette's last husband, George Richey. She also reveals little-known facts about Tammy Wynette's life, like what happened when she was "kidnapped" in the 1970s (it was a lie and a cover up of Richey's abuse) and Wynette's drug abuse that was so impervious that she had a stent put in to make it easier to inject drugs into her system. Overall, the book is interesting and offers insight I to the life and death of a musical ucon.

[Chy]

I went into this knowing next to nothing about Tammy Wynette and after reading about halfway through I still know nothing about Tammy Wynette.

And I'm not sure if that's due to the writing being vague and a bit all over the place or because this was the kind of book meant for people who were familiar with Tammy Wynette and her career and just wanted to read stories about her from her daughter.

Either way this one didn't work for me.

[TJ STEWART · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heartbreaking...

[Betty Stoneking · Rating 5 out of 5]

i you like country you have to read tammy wynette you will love this book.

[Jan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved reading the true story of Tammy Wynette. I was saddened to find out that she was addicted to drugs from all of her surgeries. So sad that her life ended so early.

[T.M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eye opening. Worth the read. Why didn't they give the daughter's the chance to do an autopsy after her death? Only George Richey knew and he himself is now dead.