1, Pop No. 2009 to 2011 - Mirage Tribute Bands is formed. The label was originally formed as an outlet for blues and deep Southern soul; its first single, Otis Clay's version of "She's About A Mover", was an R&B hit. "Security") in 1982 to wide acclaim, and Gabriel scored a minor US hit with the single "Shock The Monkey". But in September 1955 Miriam Abramson traveled to the UK and signed a distribution deal with Decca. Abramson had worked as a part-time A&R manager/producer for Al Green at the jazz label National Records, signing Big Joe Turner and Billy Eckstine. Passengers on the new route will travel aboard Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft configured . He was funny, he was amusingbut he wasn't nice." In 1967, Atlantic became a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, now the Warner Music Group, and expanded into rock and pop music with releases by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Led Zeppelin, and Yes. But that changed after the sale to Warner. In January 1970, Ahmet Ertegun was successful in his executive battle against Warner Bros. Records President Mike Maitland to keep Atlantic Records autonomous and as a result, Maitland was fired by Kinney president Steve Ross. MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. Sill recommended Spector to Leiber and Stoller, who assigned him to produce "Corrine, Corrina" by Ray Peterson and "Pretty Little Angel Eyes" by Curtis Lee. By Murray Stassen. [85], The building was owned by the family of Sheldon Vogel, the chief financial officer of Atlantic at the time. At his urging, Greenberg visited the UK six or seven times every year in search of acts to sign to the label.[72]. [16] Early releases included music by Sidney Bechet, Barney Bigard, The Cardinals, The Clovers, Frank Culley, The Delta Rhythm Boys, Erroll Garner, Dizzy Gillespie, Tiny Grimes, Al Hibbler, Earl Hines, Johnny Hodges, Jackie & Roy, Lead Belly, Meade Lux Lewis, Professor Longhair, Shelly Manne, Howard McGhee, Mabel Mercer, James Moody, Joe Morris, Art Pepper, Django Reinhardt, Pete Rugolo, Pee Wee Russell, Bobby Short, Sylvia Syms, Billy Taylor, Sonny Terry, Big Joe Turner, Jimmy Yancey, Sarah Vaughan, Mal Waldron, and Mary Lou Williams. Atlantic Business Interiors. Reissue producers and archivists subsequently located some tapes that were at first presumed 'lost', but which had survived because they had evidently been removed from the New Jersey archive years earlier and not returned. [2], In 2006, the label denied "Weird Al" Yankovic permission to release "You're Pitiful", a parody of James Blunt's "You're Beautiful", despite Blunt's approval. Abramson's then wife Miriam ran Atlantic's publishing company and handled most of the office work. [31] Ertegun and Wexler realized many R&B recordings by black musicians were being covered by white performers, often with greater chart success. Variety is a part of Penske Media Corporation. Later that year The Clovers' "One Mint Julep" reached No. Big Joe Turner's April 1954 song "Shake, Rattle and Roll" was a No. The position is responsible for all policy and procedures relating to student records, manages the key student records systems of the college, including those for student . Label President Ahmet Ertegun still had no desire to sell, but the balance of power had changed since the abortive takeover attempt of 1962; Atlantic's original investor Dr Vahdi Sabit and minority stockholder Miriam Bienstock had both been bought out in September 1964[51] and the other remaining partner, Nesuhi Ertegun, was eventually convinced to side with Wexler. [26] Billboard said Atlantic's "fresh sound" and the quality of its recordings, arrangements, and musicians was a great advance from standard R&B records. [17] Atlantic's fortunes rose rapidly: 187 songs were recorded in 1949, more than three times the amount from the previous two years, and received overtures for a manufacturing and distribution deal with Columbia, which would pay Atlantic a 3% royalty on every copy sold. [28], Atlantic entered the LP market early: its first was This Is My Beloved (March 1949), a 10" album of poetry by Walter Benton that was narrated by John Dall with music by Vernon Duke. [55], In 1960, Atlantic's Memphis distributor Buster Williams contacted Wexler and told him he was pressing large quantities of "Cause I Love You", a duet between Carla Thomas and her father Rufus which was released by the small label Satellite. "Beyond the Sea" became Darin's fourth consecutive Top 10 hit in the US and UK. Atlantic offered $25,000 which, Ertegun later noted, "was all the money we had then. 1 again in MarchApril 1952 with "5-10-15 Hours". After several lineup changes during 196970, the band settled into its "classic" incarnation, with guitarist Steve Howe and keyboard player Rick Wakeman, who both joined during 1971. [60] He brought Atlantic musicians to Memphis to record. "Dream Lover" reached No. Ertegun asked about artists' royalties, which he paid, and this surprised Columbia executives, who did not, and the deal was scuttled. Atlantic Group is representing a privately held investment firm serving some of the world's most influential families and organizations. Abramson also produced "Magic Records", children's records with four grooves on each side, each groove containing a different story, so the story played would be determined by the groove in which the stylus happened to land. 1994 - Greenberg is elected to the Board of Directors of Westwood One, the world's #1 supplier of talk, sports, radio, news, and shows all over the world. [54] Ray Charles returned to Atlantic in 1977. Juliette Jones of Atlantic Records is a self-proclaimed "accidental executive.". Vice President, A&R. Phone Email. Previously, Irene was an A&R Administration at RCA Records and also held positions at SONY. Within the first two weeks, The Box went from 33 million to 60 million streams. In 1974 the former photographer, record store manager and music critic joined Atlantic's New York publicity department. After hearing the song's sparsely-arranged opening section, Ertegun said: "Where's the backbeat, man? . Although Leiber considered dropping the matter, Stoller pressed Atlantic for payment. Kalodner was overseeing the recording of Collins' solo album while Atlantic were vacillating about signing the band and Collins, but it was at this point that Kalodner was abruptly dismissed from Atlantic, although he was almost immediately recruited to head the A&R division at the newly formed Geffen Records. 8), "Chain of Fools" (Soul No. In 1978, Atlantic finally broke the leading UK progressive group Genesis as a major act in the US. [5] Ahmet ostensibly stayed in Washington to undertake post-graduate music studies at Georgetown University but immersed himself in the Washington music scene and entered the record business, which was enjoying a resurgence after wartime restrictions on the shellac used in manufacture. 2 in the US and No. The demo tapes of the songs that eventually became their debut album (including the song "Feels Like The First Time") were famously rejected by almost every major label, including Atlantic although their tenacious manager Bud Prager later revealed that, in retaliation for a previous bad deal, he deliberately didn't approach CBS ("They had screwed me out of a lot of money, so I figured I would screw them out of Foreigner. A few people had tagged him and I reached out to ask if he would be so kind to let me interview him. In the 1980s she sued Atlantic for unpaid royalties; although Atlantic, which prided itself on treating artists fairly, had stopped paying royalties to some musicians. Our costs began at the production levelthe pressing, and distribution, and promotion, and advertising. But when Ertegun offered him another chance, the result was "Splish Splash", which Darin had written in 12 minutes. Abramson's wife Miriam ran the label's publishing company, Progressive Music, and did most office duties until 1949 when Atlantic hired its first employee, bookkeeper Francine Wakschal, who remained with the label for the next 49 years. Ertegun also insisted on changes to the song that became Collins' debut single. Jan 15 2023. Ertegun denied this was intentional. In 1951, Atlantic was one of the first independent labels to press records in the 45rpm single format. Spector became one of the most successful record producers of the 1960s. This concert, which was almost 13 hours in length, featured performances by a large number of their artists and included reunions of some rock legends like Led Zeppelin and Crosby, Stills, and Nash (being David Crosby's first full band performance since being released from prison). Michael Kyser has been named the first-ever President of Black Music for the Atlantic Records Group. Hot on the heels of the huge success of CSNY and Led Zeppelin, British band Yes rapidly established themselves as one of the leading groups in the burgeoning progressive rock genre, and their success also played a significant part in establishing the primacy of the long-playing album as the major sales format for rock music in the 1970s. The band recorded for Atlantic Records, Roulette Records, United Artists, and DCP Record labels. Atlantic Records is part of the Media & Internet industry, and located in New York, United States. [19] After Brown left the label in 1961, her career declined, and she worked as a cleaner and bus driver to support her children. Initially, Atlantic and Atco operated entirely separately from the group's other labels, Warner Bros. Records and Reprise Records, and management did not interfere with the music division, since the ailing movie division was losing money, while the Warner recording division was booming by mid-1968 Warner's recording and publishing interests were generating 74% of the group's total profits.[63][64]. 1K followers 500+ connections. In July 1954, Wexler and Ertegun wrote a prescient article for Cash Box devoted to what they called "cat music"; the same month, Atlantic had its first major "crossover" hit on the Billboard pop chart when the "Sh-Boom" by The Chords reached No. At that time, Wexler was Vice President of Atlantic Records, and was the producer of Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Dr. John, and many others. By this time creative tensions within The Hollies were coming to a head, and Nash had already decided to leave the group. [5] Joel Dorn became Nesuhi's assistant after his successful production of Hubert Laws' album The Laws of Jazz.[37][38]. However, she is quick to share credit not just with the companys leaders and her teams over the years, but also for the guidance she received along the way. The kids won't know where it is you've got to put extra drums on it." In the wake of the takeover, Jerry Wexler's influence in the company rapidly diminished; by his own admission, he and Ertegun had run Atlantic as "utmost despots" but in the new corporate structure, he found himself unwilling to accept the delegation of responsibility that his executive role dictated. Ertegun knew Stick's younger brother Brownie McGhee, with whom Stick happened to be staying, so he contacted the McGhee brothers and re-recorded the song. In 1944, brothers Nesuhi and Ahmet Ertegun remained in the United States when their mother and sister returned to Turkey after the death of their father Munir Ertegun, Turkey's first ambassador to the U.S. 2 on the pop chart. Vice President of A&R at Atlantic Records Los Angeles, California, United States. Keefa Black. The result was seven consecutive singles that made both the US Pop and Soul Top 10: "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" (Soul No. Wexler disliked him. Wexler's protg Jerry L. Greenberg replaced him and played a role in Atlantic's success during the 1970s. [1]. Atlantic Records has named Keith "Keefa" Parker Vice President of A&R. Based in Los Angeles, Parker most recently served as an executive producer on Roddy Ricch's breakthrough album . Satellite was renamed Stax after the owners, Stewart and Axton. At this same time, Genesis' contract with Atlantic was up for renewal, and Collins was yet to sign as a solo artist. When Abramson returned from military service in 1955, he realized that he had been replaced by Wexler as Ahmet's partner. So we immediately targeted pop radio, which wasnt as open to playing hip-hop artists out of the gate. "[34], Ahmet's older brother Nesuhi was hired in January 1955. Although many in the industry reportedly discouraged him from going solo,[78] Collins was strongly supported by Ertegun, who encouraged him to record an album after hearing the R&B-flavoured demo tapes Collins had recorded in his garage. "[34] But they were outbid by RCA's offer of $45,000. Songwriter Bert Berns hated Spector's arrangement and thought it ruined the song, so Berns re-recorded it with The Isley Brothers and it became a hit. In 1975 Kalodner moved to the A&R department, rose rapidly through the ranks, and in 1976 he was promoted to become Atlantic's first West Coast director of A&R. [5], Atlantic's New York studio was the first in America to install multitrack recording machines, developed by the Ampex company. In addition to establishing Cotillion, Atlantic began expanding its own roster to include rock, soul/rock, progressive rock, British bands and singer songwriters. The highly respected executive, who celebrates her 20 th anniversary with the label this year, was most recently Atlantic's General Manager/Executive Vice President of Black Music A&R. In her new post, Gaba will work alongside Co-President, Black Music Mike Kyser. He soon stopped when RCA signed Elvis Presley. In October 1967 Atlantic was sold to Warner Bros.-Seven Arts for US$17.5 million, although all the partners later agreed that it was a poor deal that greatly undervalued Atlantic's true worth. By 1958, relations between Abramson and his partners had broken down; in December 1958 a $300,000 buy-out was arranged; his stock was split between Nesuhi Ertegun and Abramson's ex-wife Miriam, who had in the meantime remarried to music publisher Freddy Bienstock (later the owner of the Carlin Music / Chappell Music publishing empire). The announcement was made today by Atlantic Chairman/COO Julie . Wexler told Ertegun if he refused, the deal would be done without him. 1964 - Greenberg joined Seaboard Distributors in Hartford, CT, as a record promoter, where he promoted records to radio stations for such labels as Atlantic Records, Chess Records, Liberty Records, Mercury Records, Phillips, Roulette Records, and many others. Although the extended length of much of their material made it somewhat difficult to promote the band with single releases, their live prowess gained them an avid following and their albums were hugely successful their third LP The Yes Album (1971), which featured the debut of new guitarist Steve Howe, became their first big hit, reaching #4 in the UK and just scraping onto the chart in the US at #40. When released in February 1949,[5] it became Atlantic's first hit, selling 400,000 copies, and reached No. "Mack the Knife" (1959) went to No. Despite the huge success Atlantic was enjoying with its own artists and through its deal with Stax, by 1967 Jerry Wexler was seriously concerned about the disintegration of the old order of independent record companies and, fearing for the label's future, he began agitating for it to be sold to a larger company. Jeff Levin started at Atlantic in 2010 and has since A&R'd a wide range of artists across the Warner . 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