Butterball from WMBM Hosts Little Willie John and Dizzy Jones at The Birdland Fiesta
The year was 1963. The location was Miami; Overtown to be specific, at the Birdland Fiesta, a club in the historic Mary Elizabeth Hotel. Little Willie John and Dizzy Jones were headlining another epic battle of hit songs in a three night stand to start the year off right. There were two shows nightly, and […]
“Congratulations Henry Stone, One Of The Pioneers of The Record Industry,” Says London Records (1976)
Check out this epic excerpt from Cashbox Magazine. It contains paid message ads from some of the top record industry insiders to Henry Stone for his successful distributorship and of course platinum record labels. They read: “Congratulations Henry Stone, one of the pioneers of the record industry. From all your friends at London Records & […]
Henry Stone’s Tone Distributors: “Largest Independent Disk Distributor in Florida”
MIAMI BEACH, FL – Stone Distribs Hail First Anniversary Stone Distributors Inc., this city, this past week celebrated their 1st anniversary as local disk distributors. The firm, organized a year ago by Henry Stone with a start of three record lines, is now the largest independent disk distributor in Florida. Stone now carries more […]
Henry Stone Opens New Distribution Firm – Stone Distributors, Florida Independent Record Distributorship
Henry Stone Opens New Distrib Firm MIAMI, FLA. – Henry Stone, well known in the disk business, this past week announced the formation of his firm, Stone Distributing, Inc., with headquarters in this city. Stone, formerly associated with Pan-American Distributors in Jacksonville and Miami, announced that he had already set up a roster of […]
Milton Butterball Smith “Keep Miami Cool” Campaign for Underprivileged Kids
Milton “Butterball” Smith was one of America’s 13 Original R&B DJ’s as noted by Jack The Rapper (Joseph Deighton Gibson Jr.) and worked on various radio stations in South Florida. His pioneering work in broadcast coincided with the careers of many famous people and he was influential nationally. Here is an article from Cash Box […]
TK International To Be Marketed Via RCA – Cashbox (1974)
T.K. lnt’I To Be Marketed Via RCA NEW YORK – In a move that strengthens its r&b catalog overseas RCA Records has acquired international rights to T. K. Productions product. Announcement was jointly made last week by T. K. Productions president Henry Stone and Robert Summer , the division vice president of RCA Records . […]
Florida Record Distributors – Tone Distributors – Record World (1977)
FLORIDA DISTRIBUTORS Tone Dislributors , Inc. 495 S.E. 10th Court Hialeah, Florida 33010 (305) 888-1685 Henry Stone/Owner Lynda Stone/General Manager Bunky Wilson/Promotion Director Abraxis, Alarm, All Platinum, Alston, Amazon, Amherst, Annuit Coeptis, Apa, APO, Artemis, Banana Tree, Bareback, Blue Candle, Blues Spectrum, Bold, BRC, Brownstone, Brunswick, Cadet, Calla, Cat, Checker, Chimneyville, Cherub, Chess, Contempo, Crossover, […]
TK’s Gospel Roots Are Shining – Record World (1978)
