(Bob) Stone (1944–2009) was a Canadian music entrepreneur who worked as an independent label owner, record promoter, producer, cover designer and publisher.
These included the first Spencer Davis Group album,[7] as well as artists such as Millie Small, Jackie Edwards, Traffic and Spooky Tooth.
[12] This year also saw the release of the first two Kensington Market (band) 45 singles on Stone Records[13] and marked the start of a budget line of country LPs.
Assisted by Stone's opening of a studio in Halifax, Audat focussed on Maritime talent releasing titles by Ryan's Fancy, Ron Hynes, The Fogartys and fiddler Lee Cremo.
[22] Stone had unique distribution and packaging ideas,[23] and independent acts and small labels would approach World to have records made for them.
This included the band Rough Trade with their first "Direct to Disc" album, as well as Nash the Slash (Bedside Companion); The Scorpions Lonesome Crow (on Bomb Records), and Hagood Hardy.
Later in his career, Stone operated Newcastle Graphics Factory, a printing and design business he had originally set up to service World Records clients.