Dateline: May 21, 2013
Henry Stone Music
Digs Into The Archives
For Fifteen Great 1970s Classics
Totally Remastered for Digital
May 212013
Little Beaver
May 032013
Little Beaver – Joey
$12.98
TRACKLISTING
1. Joey
2. Give A Helping Hand
3. I’m Losin The Feelin
4. What The Blues Is
5. That’s How It Is
6. Katie Pearl
7. Two Steps From The Blues
Featuring The Master Guitar Man and Vocalist
Little Beaver delivers more amazing music with “Joey”
Remastered just for you!
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May 022013
Little Beaver – Beaver Fever
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TRACKLIST
1. Thank You For My Life
2. Don’t Get Tired Of Me
3. I Feel Like Crying
4. Party Times
5. Groove On
6. Katie Pearl
The master of funk jazz guitar, Little Beaver brings his unique, soulful, smooth funky style for your listening pleasure.
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Feb 252013
On February 19th, TK Records Greats Came Together at the Legendary Audiovision Studios to Film for the Upcoming Henry Stone Documentary
The gathering of some of the greatest artists in history was captured by Jake Katel of the Miami Miami New Times. Many of the greats were in attendance, including George McCrae, Timmy Thomas, Latimore, Little Beaver, Chocolate Perry, Clarence Reid, Willy Clarke, Steve Alaimo, Joe Stone, and of course, the man himself, Henry Stone. The award-winning director of the film, Mark Moormann, was there with the whole Beacon Films crew.
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Feb 202012
Little Beaver – When Was the Last Time
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TRACKLISTING
1. Listen to My Heartbeat
2. We Three
3. I Like the Way You Do Your Thing
4. I Really Love You Babe
5. Concrete Jungle
6. Pretty Little Girl
7. When Was the Last Time
Little Beaver – A True Artist’s Artist
Little Beaver, a true artist’s artist, comes together with the best of the Miami sound musicians of the 1970s to deliver this beautifully crafted album, “When Was the Last Time”. Next-level guitar dancing around smooth, complex melodies with a soulful rhythm section brings these great grooves all the way home!
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Feb 022012
Jun 152011
$12.98
TRACKLISTING
1. Betty Wright – Clean Up Woman 
Sample
2. Jimmy Bo Horne – Spank Sample
3. Little Beaver – Party Down Sample
4. Gwen McCrae – Rockin’ Chair Sample
5. Steve Alaimo & Betty Wright – The Smoke Is Gone Sample
6. Latimore – Let’s Straighten It Out Sample
7. Peter Brown – Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me Sample
8. The Charms – Hearts Of Stone Sample
9. Timmy Thomas – Why Can’t We Live Together Sample
10. Foxy – Get Off Sample
11. T-Connection – Do What You Wanna Do Sample
12. Clarence Reid – Nobody But You Babe Sample
13. Wilson Pickett – The Best Part Of A Man Sample
14. Miami f/ Robert Moore – Party Freaks Sample
15. James Brown – Rapp Payback Sample
* WHO IS HENRY STONE?
Henry Stone is noted as one of the handful of individuals that started the independent movement in the music business. His involvement was key in bringing the music industry to the world. Henry Stone, dubbed the Godfather of Florida & Miami Soul, R&B, Blues, & Dance, has been an instrumental part of the music industry in Miami and throughout the world as both an independent record label owner and distributor. Stone found his niche after WW II by selling records from the trunk of his car.
In the early 1950s he was one of the first to record Ray Charles. He found and recorded James Brown as early as 1955. Also in 1955 he had his first million selling record with the Charms singing “Hearts of Stone”. In the 1960s Stone became the largest independent record distributor in the Southeast, distributing for Atlantic, Warner Bros., Motown, Stax and many more. At the time these were all independent record labels. Stone started the Miami Music craze in the late 1960s with million sellers from artists like Beginning of the End “Funky Nassau”, Clarence Reid “Nobody But You Babe”, Betty Wright “Clean Up Woman” and others. Stone’s biggest label, TK Records, was founded in the 1970s and charted 23 gold and platinum records worldwide. He discovered KC & The Sunshine Band and other million sellers including George McCrae, Gwen McCrae, Latimore, Timmy Thomas, Peter Brown and many more.
Hidden Treasures is a collection of some of the Legendary Henry Stone’s favorite songs from his labels 1950 – 1980. Vol. 1.
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May 252011
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TRACKLISTING
1. Dance With Me ~ Peter Brown
2. Party Boys ~ Foxy
3. Panic ~ French Kiss
4. Do It ~ Lonnie Smith
5. Dance to the Drummer’s Beat ~ Herman Kelly Sample
6. Souvenirs ~ Voyage
7. For the Love of Money ~ The Armada Orchestra
8. Groove On ~ Little Beaver Sample
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Mar 242011
Little Beaver’s unique guitar style has been appreciated by the top musicians in the US. The late and legendary bass guitar player Jaco Pastorius used to hang out in Henry Stone’s tiny upstairs 8-track studio in Hialeah, Florida to study Little Beaver’s great guitar riffs. Available on the Katie Pearl CD.
Mar 172011
$15.98
TRACKLISTING
1. Rockin’ Chair (with a little taste of Latimore)
2. Rock Your Baby Sample
3. What You Won’t Do For Love Sample
4. Jazz Freak
5. Please Don’t Go Sample
6. Let’s Straighten It Out (performed with Latimore) Sample
7. Keep It Comin’ Love (performed with KC) Sample
8. Why Can’t We Live Together (performed with Timmy Thomas) Sample
9. 90% Of Me Is You Sample
10. Clean Up Woman
11. Party Down
12. Misty Blue Sample
13. Honey Honey (performed with David Hudson)
14. You Gotta Love Me Like I Love Me (performed with KC)
15. Rockin’ Chair
AWARDS:
Jus Blues Magazine Best Blues & Soul Woman & Song Of The Year Award “Let’s Straighten It Out”
Picked Best Of 2006 By Soul-Patrol.com!
“TK Records wasn’t just a record label, it represented a sound, a sound so exciting and unique that it emerged as one of the most powerful forces in music, with artists whose recording, performing, writing, arranging, and production talents have commanded worldwide attention for four decades.
That is why fans from around the globe will hail this special album as both a tribute to one of the music industry’s most celebrated record labels, and as an essential reminder that great music performed by great musicians and artists not only stands the test of time, but can excite the spotlight all over again.”
Janet Oseroff“Gwen McCrae does more than rock your chair, she’ll rock your soul!”
Bob Patten“Gwen gives us soul and devotion in this project. Feel Gwen again and be forever touched! TK feels like home for Gwen!”
Glenn Rivera
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Mar 112011
$12.98
TRACKLISTING
1) Disco Fever Sample
2) You Do Me Good
3) Gotta Have The Funk Funk
4) Precious Little Baby
5) Girls Sample
6) The Thange
7) Surrender Your Love
8) The Rest Of Your Life
9) Florida Fantasy Sample
Becen Padron met Henry Stone in the summer of 1970 and was signed to Stone’s label shortly thereafter. Becen’s group appeared as one of the opening acts at the James Brown concert in the summer of 1970 at the Miami Jai Alai Fronton. Becen was thrilled to have a personal introduction by Stone to James Brown, who is one of Becen’s all-time musical heroes.
Becen toured from 1970 to 1975, performing with artists such as: Black Sabbath with Ozzie Osbourne, Phil Collins, Ted Nugent, Little Beaver, Billy Preston and Badfinger (of the Beatles fame), Iron Butterfly, The Allman Brothers, Genesis, Buddy Miles (of Jimi Hendrix fame), Peter Frampton, The Bee Gees, Ike and Tina Turner, Alan King, The Eagles, Average White Band, Jaco Pastorious (the world’s greatest bass player), Graham Nash (of Crosby, Stills and Nash fame), Freddie King, and Chaka Khan.
Upon his return to Miami in the summer of 1975, Becen presented a fresh project to Henry Stone. At this point in time, Stone was dominating the music scene with the Miami sound and the up and coming Disco revolution. It was Stone’s impetuous appetite for new music and sounds that encouraged the work on Becens’s album. After the album was complete and mixed, Stone decided that the sound was a little ahead of its time and should wait a while before releasing the album.
The completed album was shelved and over time it seemed to have fallen through the cracks until Stone rediscovered the album thirty-two years later, came to the rescue and decided to release the album in its original form.
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Mar 102011
$12.98
TRACKLISTING
1. Mashed Potato Popcorn; Freddie and the Kinfolk
2. Funky In The Hole; The Blowflys
3. Same Old Beat; Freddie Scott
4. I Weep; B. B. Brown
5. Bahama Soul Stew; Funky Nassau Sample
6. They Don’t Know; Mona Lisa
7. Notorious; Miami
8. Funkadelic Sound; Little Beaver Sample
9. Groove On; Famous Chromes
10. Never Loved A Woman, Instrumental; Sam Early & The Rising Sun
11. Screwdriver; Johnny K
12. Mr. Hot Stuff; The Hot Stuffs
13. Miami Funk; The Funky Bunch
> Freddie and The Kinfolk – Mashed Potato Popcorn
Freddie Scott led a group called The Kinfolk which released three singles on the Dade Label in 1968-69. Scott’s superb drumming kept him in constant demand. He backed countless soul bands. In 1974, he became the drummer for the R&B/Funk band Miami.
> The Blowflys – Funky In The Hole
The Blowflys were a group that was put together by the singers, songwriters, and producers Clarence Reid and Willie Clarke. Studio background singers and musicians made up this group.
> Freddie Scott – Same Old Beat
Scott was born in Jacksonville January 15th, 1939. At age 9, he began taking drum lessons. In 1958, Miami soul singer Davey “Dizzy” Jones brought Scott to Miami and introduced him to famed Miami record promoter and producer Henry Stone. In 1965, Scott was signed to Stone’s nationally distributed Dade and Scott labels and he recorded the single “Same Old Beat”
> B. B. Brown – I Weep
B. B. Brown came down from Ft. Lauderdale to the Miami studios. While crying in his beer he cut “I Weep.”
> Funky Nassau – Bahama Soul Stew
This group consisted of Arnold Albury on keyboards, Ivan Orlando playing drums, Charles Hepburn on lead vocals and bass guitar, and Simeon Taylor on guitar. They were famous for their colorful costumes made of tapestry that reflected their Bahamian style.
> Mona Lisa – They Don’t Know
Mona Lisa, in the mid-60s, came into my studio from Fort Lauderdale. We cut a few sides and later released them, but in the 60s they were just a little too funky. However, this track is perfect for the Miami Funk CD.
> Miami – Notorious
One of the earliest Florida dance acts to ride the first wave of the Miami sound was a soul/funk/dance band called “Miami”. On the Drive label, the group Miami, consisted of Robert Moore singing lead vocals, Warren “Roach” Thompson on guitar, Andrew “Wolf” Curran on guitar, Willie Jackson playing bass guitar, James Allen Johnson on bass, Bobby Williams on keyboard, Freddie Scott on the drums, and Jesus Gonzales beating the Congas. The group was produced by Willie Clarke and Clarence Reid.
> Little Beaver – Funkadelic Sound
On the Cat label, real name Willie George Hale, teamed up with Willie Clarke and together they wrote countless songs for T.K. artists. Beaver’s legendary bass and twelve string guitar riffs helped catapult Betty Wright’s Clean Up Woman to gold record status. This song, “Funkadelic Sound,” with Little Beaver, was Jaco Pastorious’ first ever recording session and it was engineered by Willie Clarke.
> Famous Chromes – Groove On
The Famous Chromes were out of Ft. Lauderdale and were discovered by Joe Fisher, the world-famous radio disc jockey also out of Ft. Lauderdale.
> Sam Early – Never Loved A Woman
Sam Early was born in Savannah, Georgia on April 4, 1935. He performed at the Cotton Club on Miami Beach in 1958 and soon after made Miami his home. He performed with The Cab Calloway Review and began working as a singer/songwriter for Davey “Dizzy” Jones who brought Early’s talents to the attention of famed Miami record producer Henry Stone where he recorded on Stone’s Marlin and Dade labels. In 1970 he recorded “Never Loved A Woman” on Stone’s Cat label.
> Johnny K – Screwdriver
He hails from Tampa, Florida. This song is a follow-up to his “I’m Afraid Of The Dark” on the Miami Funk Vol. 1 CD. Screwdriver is also penned by Clarence Reid and Willie Clarke, famed Miami songwriters and producers.
> The Hot Stuffs – Mr. Hot Stuff
Written by Miami’s Clarence Reid and Willie Clarke, this was a little studio group that was put together and called Hot Stuff. It was cut in Stone’s old Miami studio.
> The Funky Bunch – Miami Funk
Miami Funk, picked from the Henry Stone archives, sets a great funky groove. The Funky Bunch consisted of Clarence Reid, Willie Clarke, “Chocolate” Perry and other studio musicians.
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