About Emstone Music Publishing and Mitchell Stone

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Many years after the Orlando triumph, when Mitchell Stone delved more deeply into songwriting and music promotion, Emstone Music Publishing was born. And Mitch's
adaptation of the Tom West way of looking at music - "the more variety, the better" - has prevailed.

In the words of Stone interviewee, singer/songwriter Eddie Rabbitt, when asked how he'd acquired a taste for country music while growing up in a pop-music stronghold
of the Northeast: "There's good and bad in everything, including music. If you don't give all kinds of music a chance, you're really cheating yourself."

Since its inception, Emstone Music Publishing has pitched music of the adult contemporary, rock, pop, country, R&B, blues, country rock, and Christmas genres.
Emstone Music Publishing's universal music outreach may be the reason that in 12 years the company has made greater progress than some lifelong publishers.

Today, the door remains open as we welcome the material of all songwriters, no matter what their writing style may be. But before you submit a demo to Emstone
Music Publishing, remember that we only sign writers whose works display a spark of songwriting genius; anything less just isn't suitable to compete in today's
music-industry environment. So if you've written the words and music for songs that are good enough to be aired on commercial radio, and have a fully produced demo
of those songs, you're invited to submit your CD to Emstone Music Publishing. To do so, visit our Demo Submissions page.

Tom West (1948-1987)

Mitchell Stone, circa 1977

Mitchell Stone today, as seen through the lens
of ace photographer Madeline "Mady" Stone

About Emstone Music Publishing and Mitchell Stone

Longtime radio disc jockey Mitchell Stone founded Emstone Music
Publishing in 1997. Mitch's illustrious broadcasting career included stints
at major radio stations in two of the world's foremost music capitals,
Orlando and Nashville.

Mitch cut his teeth in the business when he joined Program Director Tom
West's on-air staff at WBJW-105FM Radio in Orlando in 1975. The
station, which was owned by Atlanta-based Rounsaville Broadcasting,
was nicknamed BJ105 as a tribute to Betty Jean Rounsaville, the wife of
CEO Robert Rounsaville.

In those days, the station was an unknown fledgling FM rocker,
floundering at the bottom of Central Florida's radio ratings. Under West's
music tutelage and programming expertise, Mitch took over the coveted
6-10 a.m. morning-drive slot in the station's weekday broadcast lineup
and promptly led BJ105 in its battle to become the first FM rocker ever to
top the Central Florida ratings wars. West's time-tested liberal
programming philosophies and Mitch's daily raucous start to Orlando's
broadcast day made BJ105 - which had emerged as a powerhouse
rock-music monster - Rounsaville's flagship station.

Mitch spent three years there. As the sponsor station for Walt Disney
World, BJ105's reign as Florida's top-rated broadcast outlet would last for
several more years. To this day, the station's legacy remains a legendary
success story in the radio industry.