MAJOR AWARDS
- Academy of Country Music's
Pioneer Award, 1972
(Renamed "Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award" in 2007)
- Country Music Disc Jockey's
Hall of Fame, 1979
- Country Music Association's
Hall of Fame, 1989
- Star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame, 1989
- Walk of Western Stars, 1990
RADIO CREDITS
- "Lucky Stars"
- "Covered Wagon Jubilee"
- "King Cowboy Revue"
- "The Cowboy Church of the
Air"
- Cliffie Stone’s "Hometown
Jamboree" (number one on KXLA)
- The "Cliffie Stone Radio
Show" (KLAC)
- "Radio-Rodeo," "The Cowboy
Hit Parade"
- "Dinner Bell Roundup"
- "Country Junction"
- "The First Western Quiz
show"
- "Harmony Homestead"
- "Hollywood Barn Dance" (CBS
for 18 years)
- "Pot Luck Party" (CBS)
TELEVISION CREDITS
Cliffie either produced (and/or
executive produced) over 14,000 television and
radio
shows during his
sixty year career in the music industry. They include:
- "Hometown Jamboree"
- "Tennessee Ernie Ford Show"
(five years – NBC-TV and CBS radio)
- "Molly Bee Show"
- "Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch"
(one year)
- "Songs for a Lusty Land"
(Tennessee Ernie Ford)
- "Christmas Songs" with
Mel Torme
- "Cross Country"
- "Great American Gospel"
shows (Tennessee Ernie Ford)
Over the years, he worked
with mega-talented men such as Norman Lear,
Bud Yorkin, Jim Hobson, Milt
Hoffman, Joe Landis, Selwyn Tauber and
Danny Arnold.
He made countless appearances
on television shows which include:
- "Tennessee Ernie Ford Show"
- The "Lawrence Welk Show"
- "Merv Griffin"
- "2 on the Town"
- "Academy of Country Music
Awards Show" (NBC-TV)
- "Country Music Association’s
Awards Show" (CBS-TV)
- KTLA’s Morning Show
- The Nashville Network’s
(TNN) "Nashville Now" with Ralph Emery
- "Crook & Chase"
- "Prime Time Country"
- "Hee Haw"
- "Tennessee Ernie Ford’s
50th Anniversary Show"
DISCOGRAPHY
SINGLE RELEASES - "BILLBOARD"
CHARTS
- "Peepin’ Through The Keyhole
(Watching Jole Blon)"- Cliffie Stone & his Barn Dance Band
- "When My Blue Moon Turns
to Gold Again"
- "Silver Stars, Purple Sage,
Eyes of Blue" - Cliffie Stone & his Orchestra
- "Little Pink Mack"- Kay
Adams with the Cliffie Stone Group
ALBUMS-CAPITOL
RECORDS
- "Cool Cowboy"
- Cliffie Stone
- "The Party’s
On Me" - Cliffie Stone
- "The Cliffie Stone Singers
Present The Great Hank Williams Songs"
- "The Cliffie Stone Singers
Present The Original Country Sing-A-Long"
- "Cliffie Stone’s Waltzes"
- "Cliffie Stone & His
Square Dance Band"
- "El Ultimo Rodeo" - Cliffie
Stone
- "Dancing
With A Memory"
- Cliffie Stone (Showdown Records)
RECORD COMPANIES
Affiliations include:
- Capitol Records
- RCA Records
- Warner Bros. Records
- Beltone Records
- Granite Records
- Lariat Records
- ARA Records
- Newhall Records
- Showdown Records
ALBUM PRODUCTION CREDITS
His production efforts include
notable artists such as:
- Sons of the Pioneers
- Tennessee Ernie Ford
- Molly Bee
- Merle Travis
- Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
- Stan Freberg
- Tex Ritter
- Tommy Sands
- Stuart Hamblen
- Tex Williams
- Pat Buttram
- Kay Starr
- Riders of the Purple Sage
PUBLISHING COMPANIES
Affiliations Include:
- American Music (writer)
- Central Songs (owner)
- Beechwood Publishing
- Executive Director/Consultant
of Gene Autry’s Western Music Publishing Co., Inc.
and Ridgeway Music
- ATV Music Group (Beatles
catalog)
- Bayshore Music
- Old Mill Music
- Showdown Publishing Group
SONGWRITER INFO
Three of Ciffie's co-written
songs reached Billboard's top 5 country charts - 1946
- "Divorce Me C.O.D." - #1 (Merle
Travis)
- "No Vacancy" - #3 (Merle
Travis)
- "New Steel Guitar Rag" -
#5 (Bill Boyd and the Cowboy Ramblers)
- "Divorce Me C.O.D." - #5
in 1946 (The King Sisters)
- "Divorce Me C.O.D."- #4
in 1947 (Johnny Bond)
MUSIC PUBLISHING INFO
Includes the following publisher
- affiliated songs and BMI/ASCAP award-winning songs:
- "Only Daddy That’ll Walk
the Line" Waylon Jennings/Ivy Jimmy Bryant
- "Put Your Hand in the Hand"
Anne Murray/Gene MacLellan
- "Shot Gun Boogie" T. Ernie
Ford/Cliffie Stone
- "Silver Threads and Golden
Needles" Linda Ronstadt/Rhodes & Reynolds
- "Snowbird" Anne Murray/Gene
MacLellan
- "Together Again" Buck Owens/Buck
Owens
- "Try a Little Kindness"
Glen Campbell/Sapaugh & Austin
- "Teen Age Crush" Tommy
Sands/Joe & Audrey Allison
- "Five Hundred Miles" Bobby
Bare/Bare/Williams/H. West
- "Goin’ Steady" Faron Young/Faron
Young
- "Happy to Be Unhappy" Bobby
Bare/Bobby Bare
- "He’ll Have to Go" Jim
Reeves/Joe & Audrey Allison
- "Foolin’ Around" Buck Owens/B.
Owens & Harlan Howard
- "Loose Talk" Freddie Hart/F.
Hart & Ann Lucas
- "Wrong Time to Leave Me,
Lucille" Kenny Rogers/R.Bowling/H.Bynum
- "I’m Just An Old Chuck
of Coal" John Anderson/Billy Joe Shaver
- "Under the Influence of
Love" Buck Owens/Harlan Howard/Buck Owens
- "Under Your Spell Again"
Buck Owens/B.Owens/D. Rhodes
- "Do What You Do Do Well"
Ned Miller/Ned Miller
- "Maggie" Stan Freberg/Stan
Freberg
- "Mama, He’s Crazy" The
Judds/Kenny O’Dell
- "Girl’s Night Out" The
Judds/Brent Maher, Jeff Bullock
- "Bright Lights and Blonde
Haired Women" Eddie Kirk/Eddie Kirk
- "The Popcorn Song" Bob
Roubian with Cliffie Stone Band/Bob Roubian
- "The Gods Were Angry with
Me" Tex Ritter & Eddie Kirk/B. Mackintosh & Roma Wilkinson
- "May the Bird of Paradise
Fly UpYour Nose" Little Jimmy Dickens/Neal Merritt
- "John and Marsha" Stan
Freberg with Cliffie Stone Band/Stan Freberg, Cliffie Stone
- "New Steel Guitar Rag"
Bob Wills, Bill Boyd /Cliffie Stone, Merle Travis, L. McCalliuffe
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