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Henry "Redd" Stewart - Country Music Pioneer
Country music performer, songwrier, recording artist, publisher and television entertainer for 60 years. The fiddle-playin', guitar-pickin' cowboy with the "voice as smooth as honey" blazed a glorious trail throughout the 1940's and 50's as a solo artist and lead singer/songwriter with Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys.
Most Memorable Achievements:
Wrote a smash hit for Ernest Tubb in the 1940's - 'A Soldiers Last Letter.' Co-wrote hits such as, 'Bonaparte's Retreat,' the enduring country classic, 'Tennessee Waltz.,' 'Slow Poke,' and 'You Belong to Me' topping the charts in the early 50's. He performed on the Grand Ole Opry for 10 years, and appeared in several of Gene Autry movies in the 1950's. 'The Tennessee Waltz' was named the State song of Tennessee.
He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1970.) Tennessee Waltz Parkway' opened in Ashland City, TN (his birth place) in his honor (2005)
Redd's New Videos . . . .
"Reflections of You" - written by Redd Stewart (1975)
"Prelude to a Broken Heart" - written by Redd Stewart/Pee Wee King (1957)
"Slow Poke" - written by Redd Stewart/Pee Wee King/Chilton Price (1951)
"Old Cowboy Joe" - written by Redd Stewart (1980)
'Tennessee Waltz' YouTube Talent - Weekly Feature
Each month a new "YouTube Talent" will be showcased here.
Tennessee Waltz - Caitlyn Brette ______________________________________________________
Nashville Music Garden Dedication - Tennessee Waltz Rose (October 2009)
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The Nashville Music Garden features flowers named after Country Music legends that have gone before, paving the way for Country Music today.
Pictured At Right: Billy escorting Patti Page to the stage, Bart Allmand, Randy Thomas ('Butterfly Kisses'), Claudette Orbison (Roy Orbison's wife), Jeff Cook (Alabama), Barbara Mandrell, Little Jimmy Dickens and Brenda Lee (More Pictures) __________________________________________________________________________
Redd's son, Billy jazz-style" version of
'Tennessee Waltz' & 'You Belong to Me"
Keeping Redd's Legacy Alive
Since Redd’s death in August 2003 a variety of honors and projects have been presented.
2004:
1. 'The Tennessee Waltz’ was awarded BMI’s 3,000,000 Airplay Award (equivalent to 17.1 years of continuous playing. This prestigious honor is shared with Barry Manilow’s, ‘I Write The Songs,” Frank Sinatra’s “ My Way”, Hank William’s, ‘Your Cheatin
Heart,” Elvis Presley’s ‘Love Me Tender” and Roger Miller’s, ‘King of the Road.”
2. Redd was inducted into Country Legends Hall of Fame and the Traditional Country Music Hall of Fame
3. ‘Tennessee Waltzing in the Kitchen Cookbook’ was published.
4. ‘I Remember’ album—re-mastered
5. Tribute web site launched in his honor
2005:
1. 'Tennessee Waltz Parkway' opened in his birthplace, Ashland City, TN in his honor.
2. His youngest son, Billy performed ‘The Tennessee Waltz’ at the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee at the same spot, same stage, same microphone that Redd, sang 'The Tennessee Waltz' for the last time..
3. 'Tennessee Waltz' miniature pink-blend rose was created by Whit Wells, world-renowned hybridizer
2006:
1. Popular movie ‘Shrek’ uses ‘You Belong to Me’ as the movie soundtrack.
2007:
1. Memorabilia placed in Country Music Hall of Fame (Redd's Epiphone guitar, Nudie suit, Manny Award, Gold Record, Original 'Tennessee Waltz' Manuscript, along with other awards he received through the years)
2009:
1. Nashville Music Garden—’Tennessee Waltz Rose’ added to the garden’s “celebrity roses” collection
2. Inducted into George D. Hay Society Hall of Honor
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