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Here is part of the Hometown Jamboree gang in action. Left
to Right: Sammy Litener, Mary Ford, Gene Wals,h, Art Wenzel,
Sid Robbins and Cliffie Stone.

Top: Cliffie clowns during rehearsals
with Molly Bee. Bottom: Ernie Ford drops
in to say hello while Cliffie, ,Herman
the Hermit and Eddie Kirk look on.

THE STONE

C UFFIE STO E is probably the
only entertainer in show business
who also performs as a business
manager. Cliffie, who started as. strictly
an entertainer (he first appeared as
"Stonehead" with Stuart Hamblen in
Three old friends play hoS't at a record s~op ope,ning 1934), is now personal manager for
are Merle Travis, Eddie Kirk and Cliffie.
Tennessee Ernie Ford and for Molly
Bee. Though he could have a stable
full of clients, he prefers keeping his
management business to . a minimum,
which allows him time to be an enter-
tainer. Cliffie is seen every Saturday,
over television station K T L A , Los
Angeles, with his hour-long "Hometown
Jamboree" and Monday through Friday
over radio station KXLA. He has been
on radio for the past 12 years and on
TV for seven years. Cliffie also is a
Capitol Records recording artist.
Cliffie's introduction to personal man-
agement came about in a strange way.
He first heard Tennessee Ernie Ford at
KXLA and induced Ford to join his
"gang" on weekend dance dates around
During a break in a Capitol recordin.g session, Ken
Nelson, Cliffie Stone and Bob Ru'bian discuss changes Southern California. Cliffie, who had
in the musical score. been head of Capitol's country music
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