Transcript: The Amazing Ears of the Late Ahmet Ertegun

STEVE INSKEEP
Morning Edition (NPR)
12-15-2006
The Amazing Ears of the Late Ahmet Ertegun

Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time 10:00-11:00 AM


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STEVE INSKEEP, host:

A pioneer of the music has died. Ahmet Ertegun was the founder of Atlantic Records. He had been in a coma since a fall at a Rolling Stones concert this fall and he died on Wednesday at the age of 83.

When you take some of the music that Ertegun brought to the public's attention and play it, song after song, you listen in wonder. Here's NPR's Felix Contreras.

FELIX CONTRERAS: In the music business, people with an acute ability to sense something in music that others do not are said to have great ears. Ahmet Ertegun had some of ...

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