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Another Funky Nassau cover added to my string of Pearls In the early 1970s, Stone had a strong studio team of musicians, writers and producers/arrangers, including Willie Clarke, Willie “Little Beaver“ Hale, and Clarence Reid. He expanded his roster of labels and artists, starting with the Alston label. Alston was first distributed through Atlantic before the merger with the Warner conglomerate and had hits such as Betty Wright’s “Clean Up Woman“ (#6 pop and #2 R&B in 1971), and Beginning Of The End’s “Funky Nassau“ (#15 pop and #7 R&B in 1971). Stone reactivated the Glades label with Timmy Thomas’ million selling “Why Can’t We Live Together“ in 1972 (#3 pop and #1 R&B), the first nationally distributed record by the TK Corporation, and Latimore’s “Let’s Straighten It Out“ (#31 pop and #1 R&B in 1974). But Stone’s greatest worldwide triumph came during the mid-seventies after he founded TK Records from a set of wa