“I was building a little distributing company in about 1950 somthin’ after I recorded Ray Charles. And Syd Nathan from King Records had a brother down here who was a big doctor. Syd used to come down to Miami so much he practically lived here. He found out I was Henry Stone the record guy and we started to hang out, and he said to me one day, “Y’know you’re wasting your time with distribution. You should get into the manufacturing bidness with me. I have a little label called DeLuxe thats dormant right now. We’ll reactivate the label, you get 50% of the label, and we’ll get into manufacturing.”
I thought it was great idea. Cause that’s what I always wanted to do. That was my passion. To make records.”
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From 1946 to 2014, Henry Stone ruled the Florida music industry with an iron fist, a brick of cash, and a warehouse full of vinyl. HSM is the last of over one hundred record labels he personally founded. This record label includes works from every decade in his sixty-five year career right up until today. Licensing available for film, samples, advertising, movies, video games, and more. Family owned and operated.