REVIEWS OF THIS WEEK’S SINGLES THE PICK OF THE NEW RELEASES SPOTLIGHT WINNERS OF THE WEEK NAT KENDRICK & THE SWANS (DO THE MASHED) POTATOES (PARTS I & II) – The medium-beater features twangy guitar over rhythm support on side…
April 29, 1967, BILLBOARD Atl. Handles Dade’s ‘Got News For You’ MIAMI – Dade Records’ “Girl, I Got News For You,” by Benny Latimore, is being distributed nationally by Atlantic Records. Brad Shapiro produced the single for the Florida label…
BILLBOARD – December 14, 1959 Nat Kendrick & The Swans – “(Do The) Mashed Potatoes (Parts I and II)” Sherlyn-Pent, BMI “The medium-beater features twangy guitar over rhythm support on side one. Side two, which appears the stronger, spots a…
One need not look much further than the vintage pages of Billboard Magazine for proof positive of Henry Stone’s definitive contributions to soul music. He recorded thirteen or more of the highest charting soul genre artists in 1975. These…
Atlantic Documents Its R&B History Elaborate New Reissue Series Traces 27 Years of Hits BY NELSON GEORGE Billboard Magazine – November 30, 1985 NEW YORK “Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974,” a set of seven double albums that will also be…
Biggest New Hit Instrumental: The Goat,” Freddy & Kinfolk. Dade. Over 12,000 in Chicago. Giant in Miami. Breaking in Philadelphia. Hit!
Deejay Nickie Lee of WAME, Miami, was cut by Henry Stone on Dade label on a fantastically funny thing called “The 10 Commandments of Man.” It broke quickly in Miami, and Atlantic has it…
Dade Records is a foundational label in the Soul Music category. Incorporated in the middle 1950’s, Henry Stone cut sides for Dade everywhere from Bobby Dukoff’s supermarket freezer turned studio to the earliest version of Criteria (now The Hit Factory)….
“Gold Hit Records Adorn Walls of Miami’s Tone Distributors” – Miami Herald (1969)
October 19, 2020
Ed Cook, Butterball, Gospel Blind Boy, and Sam Gyson on Miami Radio
October 19, 2020
UK Disco Top 40 – Record Mirror (1977)
October 16, 2020
George McCrae Sings “Rock Your Baby” – Miami Herald
October 14, 2020
Happy TK Records Day!
October 12, 2020