Song title came from nowhere
This week in 1975: The United Nations censured Israel for anti-Arab acts in occupied territories; The Un i ted States lifted a 10-year embar - go against Pakistan; The U.S. Congress approved a $22.8 billion tax cut; and a singer from Mississippi had her 24th hit record.
According to some songwriters, the titles to some songs are simply “conjured up,” whatever that means.
And according to Norro Wilson, Tammy Wynette’s 1975 hit record “You Make Me Want to be a Mother” was certainly one of those tunes.
Norro commented, “that’s just another “conjured up” title. I don’t remember exactly who came up with that title, but I don’t think it was me so it must have been Billy Sherrill’s idea. But the idea behind that—it’s just a man thinking—or a man’s version of what he thinks a woman would say or how she would react to that idea. We’d just sit around and hear a title or someone would grab an idea out of thin air and then we’d just work around that.”
Tammy Wynette’s Epic Records single “You Make Me Want to be a Mother” entered the country music charts Feb. 15, 1975 and peaked at No. 4. It was her 24th charted song and was on the charts for 16 weeks.
Tammy Wynette was born Virginia Wynette Pugh in Mississippi in 1942. She joined The Grand Ole Opry in 1970 and was inducted into The Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1998.
She placed 73 songs on the country music charts between 1966 and 1998, including 20 No. 1s. She died in 1998.
Doug Davis & The Good Ole Boys will perform at 10 a.m. today at Alzheimer’s Alliance.
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