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| About Emstone Music Publishing & Mitchell Stone |
| Longtime radio disc jockey Mitchell Stone founded Emstone Music Publishing in 1997. Prior to that, Mitch's illustrious career in broadcasting 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 1983. 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 liberal 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 led BJ105 in its battle to become the first FM rocker ever to top the Central Florida ratings wars. West's time-tested programming philosophies and Mitch's daily raucous start to Orlando's broadcast day made BJ105 - which had emerged as a powerhouse rock 'n' roll monster - Rounsaville's flagship station. Mitch spent eight 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. Many years after the Orlando triumph, when Mitchell Stone got 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 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 11 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. 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 CD of those songs - you're invited to submit your efforts to Emstone Music Publishing. To do so, visit our Demo Submissions page. |
| Above: Bob Dylan rocks the house at Florida's Fort Lauderdale Stadium, 5/26/05 (left). The Beach Boys' songwriting genius Brian Wilson performs at Mizner Park Amphitheatre in Palm Beach, Florida, 10/20/04 (right). Photography by Mitchell Stone |
Left:
Mitchell Stone goes backstage
to join the leader of the
Charlie Daniels Band
after yet another
stupendous gig
by the CDB.
Mitchell Stone goes backstage
to join the leader of the
Charlie Daniels Band
after yet another
stupendous gig
by the CDB.
| Below: The legendary George Jones in concert in Fort Worth, Texas on June 18, 2004. Photography by Mitchell Stone |
| The No Tears album by Cole Seaver and Tammie Darlene on CountryStock Records - entirely recorded, mixed, and mastered in Nashville - boasts two cuts from the Emstone catalog. |
| No Tears contains Emstone songs "www.history" written by Dallas's Tim Eatman, and "Recall My Heart" - words and music by Dan Jury. Hear cuts from No Tears and buy the album at cdbaby.com |
| Cole Seaver and Tammie Darlene |
| On The Best Of Talented Kids album, Gypsy performs "I Love What I've Got" (© Emstone Music Publishing), written by Paul and Heather Turner. |
| "Some things are too terrible to be true!" -from the song "Honest With Me" on Bob Dylan's Love And Theft, an album released on September 11, 2001 GOD BLESS AMERICA |
| Above: In New York, Mitchell Stone congratulates Broadway star and American Idol, J Records artist Fantasia Barrino on her 23rd birthday, June 30, 2007 |
| Ringo Starr, backed by drummer Sheila E, leads his All-Starr Band at their sound check prior to an appearance on NBC-TV's Today Show in New York on August 3, 2001. Photography by Mitchell Stone |
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| Mitchell Stone today, as seen through the lens of ace photographer Mady Stone |
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| Tom West (1948-1987) |
| Mitchell Stone, circa 1983 |
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| WRITERS: WE'RE AUDITIONING UNRELEASED CHRISTMAS SONGS FOR A POSSIBLE 2008 COMPILATION ALBUM. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS. |
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