Martin and Glazer – Til We Two Are One – Jimmy Thorpe – DeLuxe Records
Little Sam Davis – Goin’ To New Orleans – DeLuxe Records
New Elder Anderson Johnson Book Features Henry Stone
Henry Stone met Elder Anderson Johnson on a street corner in Overtown in the early 1950’s and recorded him for his Glory and DeLuxe labels. Little did he know that Rev. Johnson would spend forty years on the open road playing gospel music, then become a religious painter collected in homes and museums around the […]
Top 10 DeLuxe Records
One day in 1955, Syd Nathan called Henry Stone in Miami and said, “Drive up to Macon and check on this guy with the “Please, Please, Please” and sign him to DeLuxe.” Nathan had called his other cronie Ralph Bass and told him the same thing, except Bass was in Alabama when he got the […]
Top 10 Rockin’ Records
10. Willie Baker – Goin’ Back Home Today Label: Rockin’ Records Style: Blues Genre: Blues Year: 1953 9. Little Sam Davis – She’s So Good To Me Label: Rockin’ Records Style: Blues Genre: Blues Year: 1953 8. John Lee Booker (BKA John Lee Hooker) – Blue Monday Label: Rockin’ master, […]
Otis Williams and The Charms – Henry Stone’s First Million Selling Record “Hearts of Stone”
In 1953 or 54′, Henry Stone heard a group of youngsters doo-wopping on a street corner in Cincinnati, signed them to a DeLuxe Records contract, found the right song for them to cover, and put them on tape at the King Records studios in the heart of the Queen City. He named the group Otis […]
John Lee Hooker aka John Lee Booker Recorded for DeLuxe Records – Billboard (1954)
The great John Lee Hooker enjoyed recording for Henry Stone’s DeLuxe label as John Lee Booker for immediate cash considerations. Thus were born the 78rpm classics, “Real, Real Gone,” and “My Baby Don’t Love Me.” Check out the reviews of these cuts in Billboard, back then known as “The Amusement Industry’s Leading Newsweekly.”
Flashback Friday: Henry Stone Recalls The Hit Records of January 15th, 1949
Henry Stone’s brain was sharper than a French guillotine. Even at the age of 91, he could go back 65 years in his mind’s eye and recall detailed minutiae from the hit records of January 15th, 1949. During one interview in 2011 I pulled out an ad for a tiny shop called The Record Box […]