Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House

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Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 1968
RecordedJune – October 1967
Studio Columbia Studio B, Nashville
Genre
Label Epic
Producer Billy Sherrill
Tammy Wynette chronology
My Elusive Dreams
(1967)
Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House
(1968)
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
(1968)
Singles from Take Me to Tour World / I Don't Wanna Play House
  1. "I Don't Wanna Play House"
    Released: July 1967
  2. "Take Me to Your World"
    Released: December 1967
Professional ratings
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Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House is a studio album by American country artist Tammy Wynette. It was released in January 1968 via Epic Records and contained 11 tracks. It was the third studio album of Wynette's career. The album featured several new recordings as well as covers of previously-recorded material. Among the new recordings were two singles, which both topped the American country chart: "I Don't Wanna Play House" and "Take Me to Your World". The album itself reached the top five of the American country LP's chart in 1968. It received positive reviews from several publications following its release.

Contents

Background, content and recording

Tammy Wynette had recently broken through as a country music artist with the top five single, "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad", and a number one duet with David Houston, "My Elusive Dreams". Epic issued two studio albums of her material up to this point. Both were released in 1967 and her previous albums most contained covers of songs. [3] With producer Billy Sherrill, Wynette recorded the tracks for her third studio album between June and October 1967. The tracks were cut by Sherrill at the Columbia Studio, located in Nashville, Tennessee. [4] Engineer Lou Bradley recalled that the album's sound was built around the way Wynette sang the material. "I think the dynamics Billy [Sherrill] got evolved from Billy makin' the band play to Tammy. She'd sing the verses soft, and when she belted, he'd make the musicians play to that. That was just her way of singin," Bradley recalled. [5]

Her third album consisted of 11 tracks. [1] For this album, only three songs on the album were covers: Norma Jean's "Jackson Ain't a Very Big Town", Johnnie Ray's "Cry" and Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe". [4] Sherrill envisioned Wynette performing "Cry" as a spoken recitation, but she disagreed. [6] The remaining eight tracks were new recordings. Three of these songs were penned by both Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton: "I Don't Wanna Play House", "Take Me to Your World" and "Good". Other new songs included "It's My Way", "Broadminded", "The Phone Call", "Fuzzy Wuzzy Ego" and "(Or) Is It Love". [4]

Release and reception

Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House was originally released by Epic Records in January 1968. It was the third studio album in Wynette's career. It was first distributed as a vinyl LP, containing six tracks on "side A" and five tracks on "side B". [4] In 1998, eOne and Koch Records re-released the album as a compact disc. [7] On June 2, 2017 it was re-released digitally and was made available as a music download and for streaming. [8] [9] Following its original release, Billboard magazine gave the album a positive response, calling Wynette an "exceptional young artist". The magazine highlighted tracks such as "Broadminded" and "Cry", calling them "good cuts". [10] Years later, Richie Unterberger of AllMusic rated the album four out of five stars. "Built around the two big hits comprising the title, Take Me to Your World/I Don't Wanna Play House was a strong outing from Tammy Wynette, sensitively and sparely produced by Billy Sherrill," he said. [1]

Following its original release, the album peaked at number three on the Billboard Country LP's chart. [11] Two singles were included on the project that had been released one year prior. Its first was "I Don't Wanna Play House", which Epic issued in July 1967. [12] By October 1967, the single reached number one on the American Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. [13] It was Wynette's second number one single, but her first number one as a solo artist. [14] In December 1967, "Take Me to Your World" was issued as a single. [15] It became Wynette's third number one single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, peaking in the position in March 1968. [16] Both singles also became Wynette's first to enter Canada's RPM country chart. "Take Me to Your World" topped the chart while "I Don't Wanna Play House" reached number three. [17]

Track listings

Vinyl version

Side one [4]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Don't Wanna Play House"3:25
2."Jackson Ain't a Very Big Town"Vic McAlpin2:35
3."Broadminded"
2:12
4."Cry" Charles "Churchill" Kohlman 2:44
5."The Phone Call" Norris Wilson 1:55
6."It's My Way"
2:20
Side two [4]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Take Me to Your World"
  • Sherrill
  • Sutton
2:45
2."(Or) Is It Love"Ray Buzzeo2:28
3."Fuzzy Wuzzy Ego" Hank Mills 2:16
4."Good"
  • Sherrill
  • Sutton
2:21
5."Ode to Billie Joe" Bobbie Gentry 4:14

CD and digitial versions

Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House [7] [9]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Don't Wanna Play House"
  • Sherrill
  • Sutton
2:38
2."Jackson Ain't a Very Big Town"McAlpin2:39
3."Broadminded"
  • Payne
  • Williams
2:16
4."Cry"Kohlman2:49
5."The Phone Call"Wilson1:59
6."It's My Way"
  • Pierce
  • Walker
2:24
7."Take Me to Your World"
  • Sherrill
  • Sutton
2:50
8."(Or) Is It Love"Buzzeo2:33
9."Fuzzy Wuzzy Ego"Mills2:19
10."Good"
  • Sherrill
  • Sutton
2:25
11."Ode to Billie Joe"Gentry4:19

Personnel

All credits are adapted from the original liner notes of Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House [4] and the re-issued version of the album in 1998. [7]

Technical personnel

Chart performance

Chart (1968)Peak
position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [18] 3

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
North AmericaJanuary 1968VinylEpic Records [4]
February 17, 1998Compact disc
  • eOne
  • Koch Records
[7]
June 2, 2017
  • Music download
  • streaming
Sony Music [9] [8]

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References

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Unterberger, Richie. "Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House: Tammy Wynette: Songs, reviews, credits". AllMusic . Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  2. "Tammy Wynette – Take Me to Your World/I Don't Wanna Play House". AllMusic.
  3. McDonough, p. 123-125.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Wynette, Tammy (January 1968). "Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House (LP Liner Notes and Album Information)". Epic Records . BN-26353.
  5. McDonough, p. 125.
  6. McDonough, p. 131.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Wynette, Tammy (February 17, 1998). "Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House (CD Liner Notes and Album Information)". EOne/Koch Records. KOCCD-7944.
  8. 1 2 "Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House: Tammy Wynette: Digital release information". AllMusic . Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  9. 1 2 3 "Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House by Tammy Wynette". Apple Music . Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  10. "Album Reviews: Country". Billboard . Vol. 80, no. 4. January 27, 1968. p. 62. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  11. "Billboard Magazine - April 20,1968" (PDF). American Radio History. Billboard Magazine. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  12. Wynette, Tammy (July 1967). ""I Don't Wanna Play House"/"Soakin' Wet" (7" vinyl single)". Epic Records . 5-10211.
  13. "Billboard Magazine - October 14, 1967" (PDF). American Radio History. Billboard Magazine. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  14. Whitburn, Joel (2009). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 1079. ISBN   978-0-89820-177-2.
  15. Wynette, Tammy (December 1967). ""Take Me to Your World"/"Good" (7" vinyl single)". Epic Records . 5-10269.
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Books

  • McDonough, Jimmy (2010). Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN   9781101189955.