About Emstone Music Publishing and Mitchell Stone

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 a Stone interviewee, the late 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, and if you don't give all kinds of music a chance, you're really
cheating yourself."

Since its inception, Emstone Music Publishing has pitched all kinds of music including that of the adult contemporary, rock, pop, country, R&B, country rock,
blues, and Christmas genres. Emstone Music Publishing's universal music outreach may be the reason that in only 13 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 you
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 songwriter and 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 company 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 soon led BJ105 in its drive to become the first
FM rocker ever to top the Central Florida ratings wars. West's
time-tested liberal programming philosophies and Mitch's raucous
start to the Orlando broadcast day quickly made BJ105 - which had
emerged as a powerhouse rock-music monster - Rounsaville's
flagship radio 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.

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