Fats Domino R.I.P. – Henry Stone Helped Make Him Famous In Florida
Fats Domino is a musical genius. May his everlasting funk rock in perpetuity. His pioneering rock n rollin boogie woogie rhythm n blues have helped make American music the leading force in global pop culture. Were it not for his monumental recorded output through Lew Chudd’s Imperial Records, and the network of indie distributors around the […]
Dr. Dorothy Jenkins Fields Reviews Henry Stone “Inside The Music Biz” Book!
Check out the great new review for “Inside The Music Biz” with Henry Stone and Jacob Katel in the Miami Herald!!
Tom Petty R.I.P.
Harry Nilsson used to tell John Lennon all the time, “Everything is really what it isn’t, isn’t it? It is.” So that’s how Tom Petty made a hit song that says, “Tired of this song again….” And people love it on repeat. Genius writer. Forget Mozart. Tom Petty made classics. Three and four hundred years […]
Ken Terry on TK Records: “New Artists Have Always Been The Lifeblood of TK”
Campaign To Transform TK Into Album Label Succeeds by Ken Terry NEW YORK – In one 90-day period this year , TK albums by Peter Brown , KC and the Sunshine Band, Betty Wright, and Foxy all went gold. This was no accident: TK, which had its first hits with singles, has finally become a full-fledged album […]
Timmy Thomas at Books&Books (In Pictures)
The first time Timmy Thomas gave a concert in South Africa, the racist government there was in full effect, Nelson Mandela was in prison, and based on the color of his skin, one of the officials that Thomas dealt with actually had to be home by 9p.m. That was the evil awful law against anyone […]
Thirty Distributors Ran The Independent Records Business, Says Henry Stone
“Usually the guy that owned the record label would contact me. I was the distributor here in Florida. I was one of thirty or so independent distributors around the country. I was one of em. I was the only one here in Florida. Every once in a while somebody would try to start up, and […]
Bill Cosford On TK Records: “Surging On The Pop Charts” (Miami Herald 1975)
Bill Cosford has his own building at the University of Miami, the Bill Cosford Cinema. But decades before it was built, he was a newspaper writer at the Miami Herald. Check out this great article he wrote on TK Records and the original “Miami Sound” on August 24, 1975. The “Miami Sound” is a force […]
Here’s How The Independent Record Business in L.A. Started
“During the time of the Second World War, records were made of shellac, but shellac came from India, so during The War we couldn’t get it in the U.S. They couldn’t bring the stuff in on the ships. There was no record business. After The War, shipping resumed, and that’s when the independent business in […]