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“Latimore’s Act Sensational” – The Miami Hurricane (1976)
©The Miami Hurricane – Latimore’s Act ‘Sensational’ Tuesday, November 16, 1976 By ALAN KRATISH Entertainment Writer “The billboard outside the ~newly refurbished Checkmate Lounge reads “The Sensational Latimore and Company.” That’s an adjective that’~ been wasted too many times on mediocre acts. But not this time . Sensational really is the best word to describe […]
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 […]
Ken Terry on TK Records: “New Artists Have Always Been The Lifeblood of TK”
Campaign To Transform TK Into Album Label Succeeds by Ken Terry NEW YORK – In one 90-day period this year , TK albums by Peter Brown , KC and the Sunshine Band, Betty Wright, and Foxy all went gold. This was no accident: TK, which had its first hits with singles, has finally become a full-fledged album […]
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 […]
Latimore Is In The Blues Hall Of Fame
Latimore’s music has gone around the world millions of times over, affecting the musical consciousness of many countries and their societies, shifting culture, and generating waves of positivity all over humanity. And now he has been officially recognized for it by the Blues Foundation with a prestigious lifetime achievement award into the Blues Hall Of Fame. Last […]
Get To Know Latimore, Soul and Blues Music Pioneer
Not many people make it out from little towns like Charleston, Tennessee and get onto the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots, but keyboard playing singer/songwriter Benny Latimore did just that, and made a lot of great music throughout the seven decades between. Born way back in 1939, he moved to Miami in […]