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 […]
T.K. Records In The Hamilton Radio Quarterly Report – December 1976
Radio Quarterly Report: October – December, 1976 T.K. RECORDS 495 S.E. 10th COURT HIALEAH, FLORIDA 33010 (305) 888 -1685 LPs RELEASED THIS QUARTER: 8 SINGLES: 15 No. ON ROSTER: 25 EMPLOYEES: 12 PROMO MEN: 6 PRESIDENT: Henry Stone NATL PROMO: GM – Howard Smiley Dir. R&B George Chavous Natl Sec – Moe Preskell A&R: Steve […]
Henry Stone In Music Retailer 1976: “TK Productions, The Independent’s Independent”
Tone Distributors In Miami and Jacksonville (The Cash Box 1961)
Tone Distributors had a reputation in the industry for being the top hustler in the distribution biz. How else would a company in a 2% market be able to sell 10-15% of the indie r&b records in the country? Hard work, and trans shippin’. No surprise then that James Brown was such a fan of […]
Henry Stone Opens Stone Distributors (The Cash Box 1949)
Check out this article that was originally printed in The Cash Box magazine in 1949. The Cash Box was a leading trade publication alongside Billboard, and Record World, and covered the nation’s hottest trends in coin operated amusement products like Skee Ball and especially juke boxes. They also published authoritative sales and radio research charts. […]
“B.B. King Recorded a Little Beaver Song,” Says Henry Stone
“I recorded B.B. King down here in Miami in 1984. He’s a terrific guy, personally, yaknow? So my opportunity came up to record him for Universal Records. It wasn’t my label of course, but I did the session. He cut a Little Beaver song called “Katie Pearl.” It was never released. I don’t know why. I […]
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 […]
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 […]