March 5, 201510 yr A few years ago whilst in philadelphia and visiting Valley Shiveley's store Val packed my records up and gave me some fantastic dvds . A documentary/interview with Henry Stone being one of them in some kind of cinema with a small audience scattered around the seating asking questions etc...can't remember just how good it is really I'll have to re-visit it.Also got good dvds of the dells being interviewed. ..gonna have to watch this one though I hope he'd mention Charles Johnson but I aint holding my breath.. Dave L
March 7, 201510 yr There is also an interesting book for a couple of quid on amazon by Henry about payola and record dealing business, well worth a read. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stone-Cold-Truth-Payola-Music-ebook/dp/B00C7FJ8VS/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425721756&sr=1-4&keywords=henry+stone
March 8, 201510 yr Looks really interesting , Henry also distributed Motown records down Miami way ....
March 8, 201510 yr Looks really interesting , Henry also distributed Motown records down Miami way .... the book gives a really good insight into all aspects of the business including distributionn, much of it very underhand. One wonders how they compiled charts and what charts were compiled how correct were they.
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