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Article: AHMET ERTEGUN ; Founder of Atlantic Records whose signings included Ray Charles, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2006
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Ahmet Ertegon was the most important figure in the record
industry of the 20th century. When he started Atlantic Records in
1947 with a $10,000 loan from his dentist, Vahdi Sabit, and $2,500
from his partner Herb Abramson, the three of them had no idea that
the label would shape popular music over the next six decades.
In the Fifties and early Sixties, Atlantic became the leading US
independent label for jazz and rhythm 'n'blues, recording Ruth
Brown, Ray Charles, LaVern Baker, the Drifters, John Coltrane,
Charlie Mingus, Ornette Coleman and Roland Kirk, before achieving
mainstream success with Bobby Darin, Nino Tempo and April Stevens.
Then, having bought out Abramson's share of the ...