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Ahmet Ertegun (/ ˈ ɑː m ɛ t ˈ ɛər t ə ɡ ən / AH-met AIR-tə-gən; Turkish: Ahmet Zahrettin Sebuhi Ertegün, pronounced [ahˈmet eɾteˈɟyn]; July 31, 1923 – December 14, 2006) was a Turkish-American businessman, songwriter, record executive and philanthropist. Ertegun was the co-founder and president of Atlantic Records.
Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson.Over the course of its first two decades, starting from the release of its first recordings in January 1948, [3] Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most important American labels, specializing in jazz, R&B, and soul by Aretha Franklin ...
Jan Roeg says late music executive Ahmet Ertegun sexually assaulted her several times starting in the 1980s and alleges Atlantic Records covered it up. Nearly 16 years after his death, Atlantic ...
In August, the group adopted the name Blue Mountain Eagle, which the musicians had taken from a newspaper in Grant County, Oregon during their time with Dewey Martin. After Ahmet Ertegun personally signed them to Atlantic Records, the band recorded its lone album live in one session at Wally Heider's studios in Los Angeles in December 1969.
Abramson left Atlantic Records in December 1958, selling his stake in the company to ex-wife Miriam Bienstock, (who married music publisher Freddy Bienstock) and Nesuhi Ertegun. [5] Ahmet Ertegun became president of the company. Abramson started new record labels including Triumph, [6] Blaze, and Festival. [7] His most successful post-Atlantic ...
Ertegun was born in Romania in 1926, but was forced to flee the country due to political turmoil unleashed by WWII. She met her second husband, Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun in the ...
Out of 187 acts, he picked just one: a group out of Jacksonville, Florida, called Lynyrd Skynyrd. ... and he’d been handpicked by Atlantic Records heavyweights Nesuhi and Ahmet Ertegun to run ...
Bang Records was created by Bert Berns in 1965 together with his partners from Atlantic Records: Ahmet Ertegun, Nesuhi Ertegun and Jerry Wexler. [2] The first letters of their names (Bert, Ahmet, Nesuhi, Gerald) formed the label's name.