The two were properly introduced one day in 1977 while Miller was selling items at a record show; they chatted about music and he sold Linna a copy of "You Must Be a Witch", a single by The Lollipop Shoppe.
[2] In 1986, the couple published an article in Kicks about West Virginia guitarist Hasil Adkins, for which the response was so intense that Linna and Miller decided to form a record label to reissue his music.
Notable artists released on Norton are Tommy James, Doug Sahm, Gene Vincent, Kim Fowley, Reigning Sound, King Coleman, Esquerita, Charlie Feathers, Flat Duo Jets, Ron Haydock, Flamin' Groovies co-founder Roy Loney, Terry Manning, Rudy Ray Moore, Ronnie Self, Jack Starr, Gene Summers, The Teenbeats, King Uszniewicz, Gino Washington, Andre Williams, and Link Wray.
Volume two in the series has more of Fuller's music in a selection of "never before issued live mayhem from Texas teen clubs, shopping centers, bowling alleys circa 1962-64 plus insane home recordings.
Norton Records stages events in the New York area, such as their 2005 New Year's Eve Rock N' Roll Show & Dance at Union Pool in Brooklyn, which was headlined by Linna and Miller's band the A-Bones (named for a 1964 song by The Trashmen) and emceed by The Mighty Hannibal.
The Great Lost Photographs of Eddie Rocco collects many unpublished 1950s and 1960s pictures including shots of Esquerita, Ruth Brown, The Treniers, and Roy Orbison.
Founded in 1931, Charlton produced a series of popular music magazines, which provided beat-happy boppers of all ethnicities with information on R&B musicians, songwriters, and disc jockeys...
In spite of its reputation for mass-producing pulp fiction and comic books, Charlton Publications, writes Miriam Linna, "has long gone unlauded for pioneering true racial integration in mass market magazines at a time when other teen periodicals remained safely segregated."
The bands which performed included Black Lips, The 5.6.7.8's, The Alarm Clocks, Andre Williams, Dave "Baby" Cortez, The Mighty Hannibal, Mick Collins, The Great Gaylord, The Reigning Sound, Jackie and the Cedrics, Question Mark and the Mysterians, The Sonics, Bloodshot Bill, Figures of Light, and many others.
Norton's Red Hook, Brooklyn warehouse and mail order operation was heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012, and the label lost most of its back catalog.