[1] After relocating to New York, Stapp came to the attention of WSM (AM) back in Nashville, who made him their programme manager.
After World War II, Stapp joined forces with Lou Cowan to create Tree International Publishing.
Stapp co-wrote, with Harry Stone, the popular song "Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy" (1950).
The following year, two of Tree Publishing's songwriters, Mae Boren Axton and Tommy Durden, co-wrote "Heartbreak Hotel".
[1] Stapp died in 1980, but was posthumously inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989.