- In 1986, she signed a history making recording contract as the first foreign Female Performer with the Republic of China Record Company.
- Inducted into the Country Music Hands of Fame (1984).
- By November 1956 she had joined his touring performance troupe, the Reg Lindsay Show, and stayed for 18 months.
- In her early teens Stone entered and won a local talent contest and was noticed by an attendee, Reg Lindsay.
- In January 2014 she was made Australia Day Ambassador for regional celebrations in Laurieton, Wauchope and Port Macquarie.
- Her third single, 'I'll Step Down'/ 'Mommy and Daddy Were Twistin'' (February 1962), took her into the Sydney Top 10 for the first time when it peaked at #5 during March.
- In 2007 Stone performed a duet with Scottish singer-songwriter Isla Grant on the track "What's a Girl to Do?" for Grant's album, Down Memory Lane.
- It was her seventh single, however, that became Stone's most popular release of the 1960s. The heart-wrenching ballad '4,003,221 Tears from Now'/'Hello Faithless' (April 1964) peaked at #8 in Sydney and #7 in Melbourne. The 'I Cried' EP (June 1964), plus the singles 'Break My Heartache'/'Lonely People Do Foolish Things' (September), 'Hard to Say Goodnight'/'Too Much' (December) and 'In My Neighbourhood'/'This is My Prayer' (October 1965) were not so successful.
- During the early 1960s, she became a regular on television pop show Bandstand, alongside the likes of Col Joye, Bryan Davies, Lucky Starr, Noeleen Batley, Patsy Ann Noble, The Allen Brothers, The Delltones, The De Kroo Brothers, Laurel Lea, Jimmy Hannan and Sandy Scott. Stone's duets with Col Joye were a popular feature of the show.
- From a young age she sang country music at home and her parents bought her a guitar, which she learned to play.
- In 1963 she recorded "It Takes a Lot (To Make Me Cry)" on which the Bee Gees (Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb) sing backup vocals.
- She began touring with Joye and the Joyboys, and then signed a deal with Festival Records.
- On the Queen's Birthday Honours List of June 2006, Stone was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia, with the citation, "For service to the community as an entertainer at fundraising events for a range of charitable organisations, and as a singer.".
- Stone returned to the national chart with her version of the country standard 'Silver Wings And Golden Rings'/'We Need You' (her first release for Polydor), which reached #21 in February. 'Silver Wings and Golden Rings' had been lifted from Stone's album A Part of Me, which also produced the single ABBA's 'Hasta Manana'/'Runaway' (#14 in May).
- From the late 1960s and into the early 1970s Stone "consolidated on her early pop successes with regular appearances on the club and country music circuits.".
- Throughout the late 1960s/early 1970s, Stone consolidated on her early pop successes with regular appearances on the club and country music circuits.
- In 1977, Stone travelled to the UK where she had signed with recording and management company Power Exchange (which also handled Kamahl's affairs).
- In January 1992 Stone was diagnosed with throat cancer, at the same time as her fellow Bandstand regular, Peter Allen. Both Stone and Allen were operated on the same day by the same surgeon. In June Stone was still in recovery when she learned of Allen's death, she recalled that after the operation "He came into my room to see me because he was going back to the States and I just wanted to give him a big hug - he looked so ill.".
- Stone's first two singles for Festival, 'You're Driving Me Crazy'/'It Takes a Lot To Make Me Cry' (June 1961) and 'Danger! Heartbreak Ahead'/'You're Driving Me Mad' (August), were minor hits.
- On 25 February 1966, Stone married fellow musician, Leo de Kroo. The de Kroo brothers, Leo and Doug, were a duo who also appeared on Bandstand and other pop music shows. The marriage ended in divorce five years later, Stone reflected, "I blamed myself when it ended, then I realized something its taken a long time to learn - singing is my life... I don't have a social life - there simply isn't time - but I don't get lonely; I have my family.".
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