Ahmet Ertegun

[Steve Savicki]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/12/people.ertegun.reut/index.html

Whether it vintage cassettes or CDs, I have lots of material from Atlantic. This is sad indeed.

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So for those that can remember, what are some of your favorite Atlantic Records recordings?
I presume Zeppelin is the first to come to mind in the world of Roth 'n Roll.

[fryingdutchman]

Call again when he dies...

[ThrillsNSpills]

In related news, Mutt Lange caught a cold.

[bueno bob]

WHERE'S THE FUCKIN' BRANIGAN LINK?!?!?!?

:mad:

[bantonelli]

Originally posted by ThrillsNSpills
In related news, Mutt Lange caught a cold.

Uncle Fester makes me laugh out loud!

[bueno bob]

Oh well, this'll have to fuckin' do for now...

http://steve-savicki.livejournal.com/

:D

[Steve Savicki]

Originally posted by bueno bob
WHERE'S THE FUCKIN' BRANIGAN LINK?!?!?!?
Links - can't have one website's link without the other... and an exciting pair at that:

http://www.aimoo.com/forum/postview.cfm?id=386834&CategoryID=85431&startcat=1&ThreadID=2703969

vs. http://p202.ezboard.com/flaurabranigandiscussionboard21154frm2.showMessage ?topicID=1467.topic .
I laughed this morning.

[Wawazat]

I feel better now

[ThrillsNSpills]

http://cadillac-kato.up.seesaa.net/image/96B391E815.jpg

[Hardrock69]

He died!!
:(

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Dec14/0,4670,ObitAhmetErtegun,00.html


Music Pioneer Ahmet Ertegun Dies at 83

Thursday, December 14, 2006

By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, AP Music Writer

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NEW YORK — Ahmet Ertegun, who helped define American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of the Rolling Stones, died Thursday at 83, his spokesman said.

Ertegun remained connected to the music scene until his last days _ it was at an Oct. 29 concert by the Rolling Stones at the Beacon Theatre in New York where Ertegun fell, suffered a head injury and was hospitalized. He later slipped into a coma.

"He was in a coma and expired today with his family at his bedside," said Dr. Howard A. Riina, Ertegun's neurosurgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Ertegun will be buried in a private ceremony in his native Turkey, said Bob Kaus, a spokesman for Ertegun and Atlantic Records. A memorial service will be conducted in New York after New Year's.

Ertegun, a Turkish ambassador's son, started collecting records for fun, but would later became one of the music industry's most powerful figures with Atlantic, which he founded in 1947.

The label first made its name with rhythm and blues by Charles and Big Joe Turner, but later diversified, making Franklin the Queen of Soul as well as carrying the banner of British rock (with the Rolling Stones, Cream, Led Zeppelin) and American pop (with Sonny and Cher, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and others).

Today, the company, part of Warner Music Group, is the home to artists including Kid Rock, James Blunt, T.I., and Missy Elliott.

Ertegun's love of music began with jazz, back when he and his late brother Nesuhi (an esteemed producer of such jazz acts as Charles Mingus and Ornette Coleman) used to hang around with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington in the clubs of Washington, D.C.

"My father was a diplomat who was ambassador to Switzerland, France and England before he became ambassador to the United States, and we lived in all those countries and we always had music in the house, and a lot of it was a kind of popular music, and we heard a lot of jazz," Ertegun recalled in an interview with The Associated Press. "By the time we came to Washington, we were collecting records and we amassed a collection of some 25,000 blues and jazz records."

Ertegun parlayed his love of music into a career when he founded Atlantic with partner Herb Abramson and a $10,000 loan. When the label first started, it made its name with blues-edged recordings by acts such as Ruth Brown.

Despite his privileged background, which included attending prep school and socializing with Washington's elite, Ertegun was able to mix with all kinds of people _ an attribute that made him not just a marketer of black music, but a part of it, said Jerry Wexler.

"The transition between these two worlds is one of Ahmet's most distinguishing characteristics," Wexler said.

Black music was the backbone of the label for years _ it was Atlantic, under Wexler's production genius, that helped make Franklin the top black female singer of her day.

"We had some pop music _ we had Bobby Darin ... and we developed other pop artists such as Sonny and Cher and Bette Midler and so on," said Ertegun. "But we had been most effective that set a style as purveyors of African-American music. And we were the kings of that until the arrival of Motown Records, which was long after we started."

But once music tastes changed, Ertegun switched gears and helped bring on the British invasion in the '60s.

"If Atlantic had restricted itself to R&B music, I have no doubt that it would be extinct today," Wexler said.

Instead, it became even bigger.

In later years, Ertegun signed Midler, Roberta Flack and ABBA. He had a gift for being able to pick out what would be a commercial smash, said the late producer Arif Mardin, who remembered one session where he was working with the Bee Gees on an album _ but was unsure of what he had produced.

"Then Ahmet came and listened to it, and said, `You've got hits here, you've got dance hits,'" Mardin once told the AP. "I was involved in such a way that I didn't see the forest for the trees. ... He was like the steadying influence."

One strength of the company was Ertegun's close relationships with many of the artists _ relationships that continued even after they left his label. Midler still called for advice, and he visited Franklin's home when he dropped into Detroit.

His friendships extended to the younger generation, too, including Kid Rock and Lil' Kim.

Besides his love of music, Ertegun was also known for his love of art, and socializing. It was not uncommon to find him at a party with his wife, Mica, hanging out until all hours with friends.

Although he was slowed by triple-bypass surgery in 2001, he still went into his office almost daily to listen for his next hit.

Finding those hits were among the most wonderful moments in his life, he said.

"I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging ... you know you have a multimillion-seller hit _ and what you're working on suddenly has magic," he said. "That's the biggest."

[Steve Savicki]

May we remember him when we listen to an Atlantic Records album.

[bueno bob]

Oh, I agree. He'll be the first person I think of any time I put on a band that was signed with Atlantic.

Isn't it a shame that old people die? The nerve!

And thank you for the Branigan links.

[EAT MY ASSHOLE]

My favorite story about him (and I have several, the man was an absolute industry legend) is how the great Otis Redding would call him "Omelet". Otis would give this effusive "OMELET!!! MY MAN!!! How YA DOIN'?" in crowded rooms and whatnot, embarrassing the hell out of Ahmet (Ahmet was a diplomat after all), but he never corrected Otis.

He mistook it as Otis being ignorant when all along Otis just thought it was funny.

(There may be more dignified ways to remember the man at this moment, but what they hell...)

[EAT MY ASSHOLE]

Come to think of it, both he and Keith Richards recently sufered brain related injuries due to falls. And Ahmet's injury occurred during a Stones show.

Coincidence?

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by EAT MY ASSHOLE
Come to think of it, both he and Keith Richards recently sufered brain related injuries due to falls. And Ahmet's injury occurred during a Stones show.

Coincidence?

Cheeseburgers are fattening, it's true, but very tasty as a once-in-a-while treat. I highly recommend Jack in the Box and Wendys for the best cheeseburgers that money can buy.

[EAT MY ASSHOLE]

Originally posted by bueno bob
I highly recommend Jack in the Box and Wendys for the best cheeseburgers that money can buy.

Yeah, I'd like to jack your box, there, Bobby boy.

[Coyote]

Originally posted by Hardrock69
He died!!
:(

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Dec14/0,4670,ObitAhmetErtegun,00.html


Music Pioneer Ahmet Ertegun Dies at 83

R.I.P. :(

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by EAT MY ASSHOLE
Yeah, I'd like to jack your box, there, Bobby boy.

Can we go to Wendys after?

:confused:

[Mr Badguy]

This is a sad loss.

Back in the day, artists used to go to him with their ideas as he was the absolute boss of Atlantic and never listened to marketing men or corporate suits, he used his ears as a fan of music to decide if he thought something was good rather than looking at the company balance sheet.

Without Ertegun, may of the records we enjoy today would be very different or not even made.

[Diamondjimi]

They don't make 'em like this guy anymore. A legend . Hey , ya know the guy was top notch if Frank Zappa names his son after him...

R.I.P. Ahmet !

[EAT MY ASSHOLE]

Oh, Ok. I can never deny the sweetest bottom in the world anythng.

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by EAT MY ASSHOLE
Oh, Ok. I can never deny the sweetest bottom in the world anythng.

This could be in the running for thread of the year.

[EAT MY ASSHOLE]

Originally posted by bueno bob
This could be in the running for thread of the year.

You think? I agee. There's no finer way to remember Ahmet Ertegun than to honor your fine ass.