Timmy Thomas Sells A Million On Henry Stone’s TK Distribution Network
In 1972, Timmy Thomas’s “Why Can’t We Live Together” hit the radio, and in 1973 it took off and sold over a million. The label was Glades Records, and Henry Stone was The President. All over the country he put to work over twenty five years of contacts in the music business to press up, […]
T.K. Productions – The Independent’s Independent
Henry Stone: “Miami Is The Funk Capital of The World”
The soul of true funk is a force so powerful that its musical stops have more rhythm than any other genre’s musical sounds. From break to bridge to hook, and every so-called off-beat in between, Miami is the funk capital of the world. That was true in 1974, and it’s still true today. James Brown […]
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 […]
Timmy Thomas at Books&Books (In Pictures)
The first time Timmy Thomas gave a concert in South Africa, the racist government there was in full effect, Nelson Mandela was in prison, and based on the color of his skin, one of the officials that Thomas dealt with actually had to be home by 9p.m. That was the evil awful law against anyone […]
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 […]
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 […]
Urban Crisis – Spread Love Around (Video)
Funky band outta Evanston, Illinois that T.K. national promotions man Fred Rector brought to the Glades label after they played at the Watts Festival in L.A. Fred told them they would be bigger than KC and The Sunshine Band, Timmy Thomas, and T-Connection. They signed a record deal, and came on down to Hialeah and […]