Mahalia Jackson at Booker T Washington High School – Miami Times (1950)
Henry Stone was a friend to the gospel community, buying and selling gospel records from independent labels around the U.S. by the hundreds and thousands, and even hundreds of thousands. He sold to record stores, supplied DJ’s and program directors with their own copies, put out ads in newspapers, and promoted through trade publications, […]
Miami R&B Full Page Ad for Radio Station WMBM (1953)
“Saturday, January 17, 1953. Miami Times. Miami, FL. Page Thirteen. The all new WMBM. 800 on every dial. Now featuring boogie, blues, spirituals, the nation’s top disc jockeys: Jockey Jack, Ed Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Swing, The Bronze Voice, and many others. All new and different programming. WMBM will broadcast the daily feature race from […]
Little Willie John and Dizzy Jones at The Birdland Fiesta in The Mary Elizabeth Hotel
Even today in 2018, Tree Top is still doing his thing, which is performing live with his guitar all over Miami. Check out this newspaper advertisement from a 1963 issue of the Miami Times newspaper.
TK International and KC and The Sunshine Band at Madison Square Garden (1976)
TK INTERNATIONAL COMES TOGETHER – TK International recently held a special series of meetings at the Americana Hotel in New York in cooperation with RCA International, the company’s distributor in markets outside the US, various RCA affiliates and members of the press, radio and television media were flown in from twenty countries around the world. The four-day event included […]
Clarence Reid on Atco Records in Record World Magazine (1969)
Atco Records is a classic record label for over 6,000 recordings. The label started out as a subsidiary of Atlantic Records. As you can see from the above ad, Clarence Reid, Arthur Conley, and The Bee Gees had releases on Atco. Reid’s “Nobody But You Babe,” produced by Brad Shapiro and Steve Alaimo, was […]
Steve Alaimo in Record World 1967
Steve Alaimo was Vice President of TK Records. He produced the Allman Bros before they were the Allman Bros, and wrote their song “Melissa.” He engineered, he a&r’d. In the studio, he did it all. But before all that, he was onothe other side of the microphone, as an artist on the verge of international […]
Henry Stone’s Tone Distributors w/ Command Records and Probe Records – Cash Box (1969)
Being a large scale record distributor in the 1960’s meant eating a lot of free steak and lobsters, and listening to independent labels present their catalogs and upcoming releases. Let’s just say, Henry Stone ate a lot of free steak dinners. And drank a lot of free drinks too. Here’s an example from a 1969 […]