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Wynn Stewart was inducted into the Missouri Country Music Hall of Fame! www.mocountrymusic.com
The Hall of Fame Show was held on May 21, 2006 in Osage Beach, Missouri.

Wynn's daughter, Wren Stewart Tidwell, performed some of his hits.

The Hall of Fame Show will also be honoring Leon Raush, Porter Wagoner, Stan Hitchcock, Roy Queen, Smokey Smith, and Ferlin Husky

Special Performances by current hall of fame members:

Leona Williams

Dave Owens

Hello and welcome to the OFFICIAL Wynn Stewart website! I am so glad you found the site and hope that you will enjoy what I have put together. I am Wren Stewart Tidwell, the developer and webmaster of this website, as well as Wynn's daughter. I have created this website out of deep love and respect for my father and with the desire for everyone to realize the great impact he had on country music. I myself have learned a lot about him, by doing the research and meeting former musicians who worked with and knew him well.

Who is WYNN STEWART? Well maybe you remember his #1 country song, which was also the #1 song of the YEAR, in 1967, "It's Such a Pretty World Today" (listen to it here: ).

I hope you will tell a friend about this website. If you have a website, I hope you will add a link to it from yours. Just let me know and I'll return the favor. Don't forget to bookmark this website, because there's too much to see, read and hear in one day. Also, please sign the guestbook. Thank you.

"Wynn's sound was what influenced Buck and me both," Merle Haggard says, "and in a strange twist of fate, his band was the heart of the old Frizzell band -- Roy Nichols was part of the Lefty band, and he went to Wynn Stewart and ran into Ralph Mooney, who played the steel, and they were the basis of the modern West Coast sound."

Another quote from Merle: "I thought, 'You know what I'll do? I'll take a little bit of Lefty, a little bit of Elvis, a little Wynn Stewart, a little bit of Ernest Tubb and the other influences I had -- Jimmie Rodgers, Chuck Berry, Grady Martin and Roy Nichols, Bob Wills -- and just be honest with it, try to make somethin' out of what I was."

"Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Wynn Stewart, and Tommy Collins were a continuance of the West Coast's robust, independent-minded country music scene .... Buck's style of music and that of Haggard, Wynn Stewart and Collins, collectively known as the "Bakersfield Sound," helped define the country music of a generation."

"During the late '50s, Tommy Collins and Wynn Stewart were two of the pioneering Bakersfield artists to have hits, and both were influential on Merle Haggard's career, musically as well as professionally. For about a year and a half, in 1962 and 1963, Merle played bass with Wynn's band in Las Vegas. During this time, Haggard heard Wynn Stewart's song "Sing a Sad Song" and asked Wynn if he could record it. Wynn gave him the song and Merle recorded it. The record became Merle's first national hit, climbing to number 19 on the country charts in 1964."

"'Playboy' had always appealed to me. I just love Wynn's vocal style and his recording of it". (Dwight Yoakum speaking of a song recorded by Wynn Stewart, which is also on Dwight's latest CD.)

Wynn Stewart made the first recording of "You Took Her Off My Hands", written by Harlan Howard and Wynn. Patsy Cline also recorded it as "You Took Him Off My Hands".

Rodney Crowell had a #1 hit in the 80's with another former Wynn Stewart hit, "Above and Beyond the Call of Love".