[3] An earlier date for the company's foundation is indicated by a Billboard report in 1946 which stated that it was planning to expand "in connection with its 30th anniversary as a phonograph record manufacturer".

[2][5] The two companies operated as one for a short time, producing records under the Asch-Stinson label, by Lead Belly, Josh White, Sonny Terry, Burl Ives, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Coleman Hawkins and Mary Lou Williams among others, before the arrangement ended in 1946.

[3][1][5] Asch then set up the Disc record label, a precursor of Folkways, while Harris - who took sole charge after Prosky retired through ill health[6]- maintained control of the Stinson company.

[9] The Stinson label also continued to release new recordings by many major folk, blues and jazz musicians during the 1950s and early 1960s, including Pete Seeger, Ewan MacColl, Cisco Houston, Muggsy Spanier, The Duke of Iron, Carlos Montoya, Sidney Bechet, and Bob Gibson, as well as some recordings made under the agreement with Asch.

[1] A collection of master discs of Woody Guthrie recordings from the mid-1940s, originally held by Robert Harris' widow, was rediscovered in 2007, and reissued on CD as a box set, My Dusty Road.