Henry Stone Music

Castor, Urbaniak Ink With TK Subsidiaries

The signing of Jimmy Castor to TK’s Drive label and Michael Urbaniak to TK’s Wolf label, in addition to new releases by Joe Thomas, Latimore, Gregg Diamond, and Beautiful Bend highlight TK’s plans for July. Castor’s debut single for Drive is called “Bertha Butt Encounters Vader” while Urbaniak is completing his debut LP for Wolf […]

TK Reports Active Period

TK REPORTS ACTIVE PERIOD NEW YORK – Henry Stone, President of TK Productions, and Steve Alaimo, Director of A&R, have announced that TK has reached its most active period in chart records, sales, and artist development to date. The company currently has six singles on the national r&b charts with Latimore’s “Let’s Straighten It Out” […]

Henry Stone’s Top 9 Gold and Platinum Records of the Early 70’s

1971 – BETTY WRIGHT – CLEAN UP WOMAN WRITERS: CLARNCE REID, WILLIE CLARKE PRODUCERS: CLARENCE REID, WILLIE CLARKE LABEL: ALSTON SALES: GOLD 1972 – TIMMY THOMAS – WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER WRITERS: TIMMY THOMAS PRODUCERS: TIMMY THOMAS LABEL: GLADES SALES: GOLD 1974 – LATIMORE – LET’S STRIAGHTEN IT OUT WRIERS: LATIMORE PRODUCERS: STEVE ALAIMO […]

Tito Puente, Richie Puente, FOXY, and Dash Records

  CASH BOX – JULY 7, 1979 LATIN BEAT “Tito Puente, the “father of salsa,” recently received the first gold record in his 30 year career. But he was beaten to the gold plateau by another Puente….his son Richie, whose recording career goes back less than three years. Richie Puente is a co-founder of the […]

TK Jazz Campaign: Marlin Records, Wolf Records, and LRC Records – Cashbox (1978)

‘Sampler’ Heralds TK Jazz Campaign by Alan Sutton LOS ANGELES – TK Productions last week began mailing 5,500 copies of ”The TK Jazz Sampler” to radio stations, distributors and retailers, in a move to emphasize a major thrust behind its jazz roster and artists. The sampler contains album jackets from each of TK’s three jazz […]