Real name: Clifford Gilpin Snyder

Effective period / Period of releases: 1958 - 1975

American country singer, bassist, producer, publisher, talent manager, record label owner and Radio/TV personality.
A&R executive at Capitol Records since 1946. Co-founder of the publishing company Central Songs, Inc. alongside Tennessee Ernie Ford, that he also managed as artist between 1947 and 1957. Owner of Granite Records.

Born: March 1, 1917 in Stockton, California.
Died: January 17, 1998 of a heart attack at his house in Santa Clarita, California.
Son of Herman The Hermit. Father of Steve Stone and Curtis Stone.

Stone hosted a local country-western variety show in Los Angeles, "Hometown Jamboree," on which he discovered such artists as Merle Travis, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Molly Bee, Ferlin Husky, Stan Freberg and Les Paul and Mary Ford. The program aired on KTLA television in the late 1940s to early 1950s.

Stone received the Academy Of Country Music's Pioneer Award in early 1973 and received his Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1989. He was also awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio.