These 10 Cat Records LP’s Will Soul Your Whole Existence
10. Little Beaver – Black Rhapsody 9. Gwen McCrae – Gwen McCrae 8. George & Gwen McCrae – Together 7. Raw Soul Express – Raw Soul Express 6. Trama – Trama 5. Willie “Beaver” Hale – Beaver Fever 4. […]
T.K. Productions, The Independent’s Independent – Cash Box (1975)
T.K. Productions: Henry Stone set it up as the umbrella corporation for over 15 of his own labels that are still bought and sold all over the world. In 1975, Stone was building an unprecedented run on the pop charts that still holds records today. This Cash Box advertisement from 1975 thanks, “KC and The […]
T.K. Productions – The Independent’s Independent
Willie Hale “Blues For Mama” – Dash Records (1974)
“B.B. King Recorded a Little Beaver Song,” Says Henry Stone
“I recorded B.B. King down here in Miami in 1984. He’s a terrific guy, personally, yaknow? So my opportunity came up to record him for Universal Records. It wasn’t my label of course, but I did the session. He cut a Little Beaver song called “Katie Pearl.” It was never released. I don’t know why. I […]
Top 10 Henry Stone Drum Machine Records
You know his soul. You Know his funk. His gospel, and his blues. But what you may not know of Henry Stone is all the drum machines he’s used. From multi-million sellers to underground classics, Henry Stone encouraged every artist he worked with to be creative using every tool available to make hits. Here are […]
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 […]
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, […]