George McCrae Wins Rolling Stone Music Award 1974 – Best Single Of The Year
The 1974 Rolling Stone Music Awards – Best Single of The Year, “Rock Your Baby,” George McCrae. T.K. Productions – 495 S.E. 10th Court – Hialeah, Florida 33010 – (305) 888-1685
George and Gwen McCrae “First Family of Soul” – Miami Herald (1975)
Benny Latimore In The Miami Herald: “Newest Prodigy From TK Productions” (1974)
Article by John Huddy, Entertainment Editor for The Miami Herald – November 4th, 1974 For more than a decade, a bright young rhythm-and-blues singer worked his way from one noisy discotheque to another. Time passed quickly and suddenly Benny Latimore was 30 years old. Then 32, Then 34. “But you never give up hoping, you […]
The Miami Herald on Henry Stone: “Studio In Corner of Warehouse a Runaway Success” (1974)
ARTICLE SUMMARY: 6-D THE MIAMI HERALD Thurs., Oct. 3, 1974 BY JOHN HUDDY Records Flying For Independent Hialeah-Producer Two years ago, Henry Stone saw it coming. The owner of Tone Distributors, a sprawling, independent record-distribution firm tucked away off SE 10th Court in Hialeah, realized that maverick record firms faced hard times, not only because […]
Bill Cosford On TK Records: “Surging On The Pop Charts” (Miami Herald 1975)
Bill Cosford has his own building at the University of Miami, the Bill Cosford Cinema. But decades before it was built, he was a newspaper writer at the Miami Herald. Check out this great article he wrote on TK Records and the original “Miami Sound” on August 24, 1975. The “Miami Sound” is a force […]
Miami Moves Up As Soul Center – Billboard Magazine 1974
Great article here by Art Kapper in a year end issue of Billboard Magazine, 1974. Henry Stone’s T.K. Productions was entering its most prolific phase; and spurred on by a series of platinum albums, the company went on to move over a hundred million physical units around the world. Take a look at this article […]
Henry Stone and George McCrae Featured on PBS Songs of Summer
Great article about Henry Stone, TK records, George McCrae and “Rock Your Baby” by Mark Anthony Neal on PBS.org for the American Experience Songs of The Summer series. So much epic information in there and of course an honor to see the Miami sound highlighted by a scholar on a national platform. So a big […]
Howard Johnson from Niteflyte: “I Always Wanted To Be On TK Records”
“I actually grew up in Miami; and I was in a band called L.U.V. that snuck into the T.K. studios one night and recorded. Fred Thomas was a Hialeah policeman who wanted to be our manager and he brought us to a guy named Red to record. Red was a heavyset black guy, fair skinneded, […]