Tone Distributors In Miami and Jacksonville (The Cash Box 1961)
Tone Distributors had a reputation in the industry for being the top hustler in the distribution biz. How else would a company in a 2% market be able to sell 10-15% of the indie r&b records in the country? Hard work, and trans shippin’. No surprise then that James Brown was such a fan of […]
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’s Tone Distributors Starts TV Show, Expands Studio – BILLBOARD 1969
Tone Distributors in Billboard Magazine, 1969 – Click here for PDF
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 […]
Be a Part of Music History with Henry Stone
Be a Part of Music History with Henry Stone Hello to all our fans and friends, Attention, any and all visitors to the old TK Productions, Tone Distributors and TK Studios in Hialeah, Florida. People from around the world made the trip to visit us in the 1970’s to see where this music that was […]
#FromTheArchives Butterball’s World Famous Barbecues
Who remembers Butterball’s world famous barbecues out back of Tone Distributors? For those of you who don’t remember, you might be asking, how can a back lot barbecue be famous? Oh yes, indeed they were! When visiting Miami, artists and record people from all over the world would stop by the Tone offices just for […]
Miami Funk Volume 1
Early 70s Funk!
Miami Music at its best!