Atlantic was incorporated in October 1947 and was run by Abramson (president) and Ertegun (vice-president in charge of A&R, production, and promotion). The trio's unique vocal chemistry was instantly apparent, so when Nash quit the Hollies in August 1968 and relocated to Los Angeles, the three immediately formed a trio, Crosby, Stills & Nash. First and foremost is the music itself, and then the strategy created to expose it.. In addition, Mirage opened a subsidiary office in Jamaica with Stacy Greenberg as General Manager and an office in Las Vegas, NV. [5] Stewart and Wexler hired Al Bell, a disk jockey at a radio station in Washington D.C., to take over promotion of Stax releases. 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. Brown received a voluntary payment of $20,000 and founded the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1988 with a donation of $1.5 million from Ertegun. [90] The parody was released online for free on June 7. Along the way, Ganis has had a front-row seat to the history of modern music. 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 soul/country & western crossover predated Ray Charles' similar venture by more than 6 months. [41] Miriam recalled, "I would deal with people there who were not really comfortable with women in business, sowe would do business very quickly and get it over with."[42]. "Mack the Knife" (1959) went to No. 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. Gerald was the third person Mottola hired on his team and let him form his own label as President of WTG Records. 1972 - Within five years, Greenberg held two titles; Vice President of Radio Promotion, and Vice President of Artists and Repertoire for Atlantic Records. [86], Although master tapes of the material in Atlantic's released back catalog survived due to being stored in New York, the fire destroyed or damaged an estimated 5,0006,000 reels of tape, including virtually all of the company's unreleased master tapes, alternative takes, rehearsal tapes and session multi-tracks recorded between 1948 and 1969. The first restaurant opened in June 2005 in Las Vegas, across from the Hard Rock Hotel. He was funny, he was amusingbut he wasn't nice." "Dream Lover" reached No. Acceding to Ertegun's demand, Collins took the unusual step of overdubbing extra drums on the finished master tape, and he later commented, "He (Ertegun) was quite right. Atlantic was one of the first labels to record in stereo; many of the tapes that were lost were stereo 'alternates' recorded in the late 1940s and 1950s (which Atlantic routinely taped simultaneously with the mono versions until the 1960s) as well as almost all of the 8-track multitrack masters recorded by Tom Dowd in the 1950s and 1960s. [21], In 1952 Atlantic signed Ray Charles, whose hits included "I Got a Woman", "What'd I Say", and "Hallelujah I Love Her So". . He founded Jubilee in 1946 but had no interest in its most successful musicians. [14], Ertegun and Abramson spent much of the late 1940s and early 1950s scouring nightclubs in search of talent. [91], In 2007, the label celebrated its 60th anniversary with the May 2 PBS broadcast of the American Masters documentary Atlantic Records: The House that Ahmet Built and the simultaneous Starbucks CD release of Atlantic 60th Anniversary: R&B Classics Chosen By Ahmet Ertegun. 2 in the US and No. 1 in the UK and became a multi-million seller. After hearing the song's sparsely-arranged opening section, Ertegun said: "Where's the backbeat, man? Atlantic offered $25,000 which, Ertegun later noted, "was all the money we had then. So significant was Brown's success to Atlantic that the label became known colloquially as "The House That Ruth Built". 1969 - When Atlantic's parent company, Warner Bros-Seven Arts was sold to Kinney Services (Predecessor to Warner Communications in 1969, Greenberg was announced General Manager of Atlantic Records. Harry Anger and Arnie Geller mentored me during my Polydor days, but ultimately it was Doug Morris who really taught me the business, she says of the longtime Atlantic president who became the only person to be CEO of all three major label groups. "So Long", her first record for the label, was recorded with Eddie Condon's band on May 25, 1949. At this same time, Genesis' contract with Atlantic was up for renewal, and Collins was yet to sign as a solo artist. 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. Even then, Kalodner was turned down by twenty-six producers before he found someone willing to take on the project. [26], Nesuhi was also in charge of LP production. Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. 1, Pop No. [5], Atlantic's New York studio was the first in America to install multitrack recording machines, developed by the Ampex company. Although Ertegun had been forced into accepting the sale, he turned the situation to his advantage. But when Ertegun offered him another chance, the result was "Splish Splash", which Darin had written in 12 minutes. By this time creative tensions within The Hollies were coming to a head, and Nash had already decided to leave the group. According to Greenberg, Ertegun had long seen the UK as a source of untapped talent. Atlantic archivists have since rediscovered other 'lost' material including unreleased masters, alternative takes and rehearsal tapes by Ray Charles, Van "Piano Man" Walls, Ornette Coleman, Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz. He had recommended moving the company's multitracks and unreleased recordings to the building after Ertegun had complained about the aforementioned tapes taking up too much space in the company's Manhattan offices in New York. [26] He had been living in Los Angeles for several years and had intermittent contact with his younger brother. Sam Riback has been working as a Vice President of A and R at Atlantic Records for 21 years. Two of Atlantic Records' most accomplished A&R execs, Brandon Davis and Jeff Levin, have been promoted to Executive Vice Presidents and Co-Heads of Pop A&R for the company. [20], Joe Morris, one of the label's earliest signings, scored a hit with his October 1950 song "Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere", the first Atlantic record issued in 45rpm format, which the company began pressing in January 1951. "Queen of the Hop" made the Top 10 on both the US pop and R&B charts and charted in the UK. 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. 2013 to Present - Greenberg forms new EDM label with partners from Ibiza, Spain. [5] Wexler and Ertegun formed a close partnership which, in collaboration with Tom Dowd, produced thirty R&B hits. 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. 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Ertegun composed songs under the alias "A. Nugetre", including Big Joe Turner's hit "Chains of Love", recording them in booths in Times Square, then giving them to an arranger or session musician. He initially worked for Atlantic on a freelance basis, but within a few years he had been hired as the label's full-time staff engineer. During his short time at Atlantic, Spector produced music for LaVern Baker, Ruth Brown, Jean DuShon, and Billy Storm. Cotillion was also responsible for launching the career of Luther Vandross, who recorded for the label as part of the trio Luther. [31] He moved to Germany, where he served in the Army Dental Corps,[30] although he retained his post as president of Atlantic on full pay. Within the first two weeks, The Box went from 33 million to 60 million streams. He became Vice President of A&R at Atlantic, while continuing to oversee Big Beat. [92], That year also saw Atlantic reach a milestone for major record labels. [1]. MTB presented Bring Back the Music every Wednesday night at the Hilton Hotel (now Westgate) in Las Vegas. "[34] But they were outbid by RCA's offer of $45,000. Wexler lost his temper and threw Geffen out of his office, but Geffen called Ahmet Ertegun the next day, and Ertegun persuaded Geffen to convince Clive Davis at Columbia to let Atlantic sign Crosby, Stills & Nash.[5]. In 1990 he and Ertegun disputed the content of Charles's contract, which caused a rift. Poco achieved moderate success for Epic, but Crosby, Stills & Nash's self-titled debut album (released in May 1969) became a huge and enduring hit, reaching #6 on the Billboard album chart, spawning two US Top 40 singles, becoming a multi-platinum seller and eventually earning a place in the Rolling Stone list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. [18], On the recommendation of broadcaster Willis Conover, Ertegun and Abramson visited Ruth Brown at the Crystal Caverns club in Washington and invited her to audition for Atlantic. Although the group didn't use this version, it guided them in their subsequent production. Ertegun was directly involved in the recording of the band's 1978 album And Then There Were Three, personally remixing the album's projected first single "Follow You, Follow Me". [39] The roles of the other executives with Abramson's departure were Wexler as executive vice-president and general manager, Nesuhi Ertegun as executive vice-president in charge of the LP department and Miriam Bienstock as vice-president and also president of Atlantic's music publishing arm Progressive Music with Wexler as executive vice-president and the Ertegun brothers vice-president of Progressive. 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. In September 1947, he sold his share in Jubilee to his partner, Jerry Blaine, and invested $2,500 in Atlantic. [81] They released his fourth solo album (a.k.a. [70] Other releases that year include albums by Aretha Franklin (Soul '69), Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin), Don Covay (House of Blue Lights), Boz Scaggs (Boz Scaggs), Roberta Flack (First Take), Wilson Pickett (Hey Jude), Mott the Hoople (Mott the Hoople), and Black Pearl (Black Pearl).[70]. 1633 Broadway Fl 10, New York, New York, 10019, United States. In 1966 Atlantic signed a licensing deal with Polydor which included the band Cream, whose debut album was released by Atco in 1966. Abramson's departure opened the way for Ahmet Ertegun to take over as president of the label. 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By 1979 Genesis drummer/singer Phil Collins was considering branching out into a solo career. 2003-04 - Mirage Music Entertainment has been reactivated with a distribution deal through Sony Music. The union action forced Atlantic to use almost all its capital to cut and stockpile enough recordings to last through the ban, which was expected to continue for at least a year. Army. Darin moved to Los Angeles and signed with Capitol. 1 again in MarchApril 1952 with "5-10-15 Hours". The sale of Atlantic Records activated a clause in the distribution agreement with Stax Records calling for renegotiation of the distribution deal and at this point, the Stax partners discovered that the deal gave Atlantic ownership of all the Stax recordings Atlantic distributed. MusiCares services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies and each case is treated with integrity and confidentially. 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). Blog http . Jerry L. Greenberg is an American music executive, who at 32, was the youngest president of any major record company in the recording industry and received that title in 1974 as President of Atlantic Records . Ahmet Ertegun had first seen them perform in the Midwest on one of their early American tours, and it was on this occasion that he also became an ardent fan of their drummer/vocalist, Phil Collins. Websites. He had more hits than George Martin and Phil Spector combined. Jones was an accounting major at Maryland University who planned to be a doctor . 2007 - Jerry Greenberg joins the board of MusiCares established in 1989 by The Recording Academy. [3] [4] In seven years, Greenberg went from personal assistant to president of the label. The band recorded for Atlantic Records, Roulette Records, United Artists, and DCP Records as Jerry Green and The Passengers. Stereo versions of Ray Charles "What'd I Say" and "Night Time is the Right Time" were included on the Atlantic anthology The Birth of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm & Blues Recordings, 19521959. Atlantic's early stereo recordings included "Lover's Question" by Clyde McPhatter, "What Am I Living For" by Chuck Willis, "I Cried a Tear" by LaVern Baker, "Splish Splash" by Bobby Darin, "Yakety Yak" by the Coasters and "What'd I Say" by Ray Charles. 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, "Please. Columbia tried to market her as a jazz singer. [33] LaVern Baker had a No. Angered by his unceremonious ejection from Atlantic, he alerted Geffen to Collins' availability, but to his chagrin, neither Geffen nor any other US label showed interest; He then alerted Virgin Records boss Richard Branson, who immediately contacted Collins' manager Tony Stratton Smith and signed Collins to Virgin in the UK as a solo act. The Harlemaires. Greenberg also has one granddaughter, Eden, Rainbow Bar & Grill Press Mention Ertegun and Wexler knew of the group's leader, Jimmy Page, through The Yardbirds, and their favorable opinion was reinforced by Dusty Springfield, who recommended Atlantic sign the band. After Crosby and Stills sang Stills' new composition "You Don't Have To Cry" that evening, Nash asked them to repeat it, and chimed in with an impromptu third harmony part. During his tenure at United Artists Music, he was executive producer for the soundtrack to the movie 'Karate Kid 2,' which went gold. Bobby Darin's "Splish, Splash" was the first song to be recorded on an 8-track recorder. [29] In 1951, Atlantic was one of the first independent labels to press records in the 45rpm single format. An after-hours jam by members of the Stax house band resulted in "Green Onions". From this point, and notwithstanding the impact of the punk/new wave movement in the late 1970s, the band enjoyed an extraordinary run of successbeginning with their fourth album Fragile, each of the eleven albums they released between 1971 and 1991 (including the lavishly packaged live triple-album Yessongs) made the Top 20 in the US and the UK, and the double-LP Tales of Topographic Oceans (1973) and Going For The One (1977) both reached #1 in the UK. in large type (which spawned copycat vandalism). By the age of eighteen years, Greenberg already had his own record label, called Green-Sea Records. Greenberg was asked to stay on and produce movie soundtracks, and in turn, ended up working with such greats as Mel Brooks on the soundtrack for the 1987 comedy, 'Spaceballs.'. In addition to signing acts Jerry has worked with some of the greatest artists in music including, AC/DC, Aretha Franklin, Bad Company, Bee Gees, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Dr. John, Dusty Springfield, Eagles, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Yes, and Michael Jackson. Barry, Thomas (September 9, 1969). Collins later commented, "We didn't use his version, but we knew what he was getting at. [32] He was appointed vice-president and purchased 13% of the company's stock. His death was confirmed by the coroner's office, Pacific Attorney Group. As Executive Vice President of the label since 2013, she has been the driving force behind radio hits by Meek Mill, Cardi B, Bruno Mars, Lil Uzi Vert and Gucci Mane to name a few. [50], Leiber and Stoller worked briefly for United Artists, then started Red Bird with George Goldner. During the compilation of the Rhino-Atlantic John Coltrane boxed set, producer Joel Dorn located supposedly destroyed outtakes from Coltrane's seminal 1959 album Giant Steps, plus other tapes including Bobby Darin's original Atco demo of "Dream Lover" (with Fred Neil playing guitar). He was also alienated from the "rockoid" white acts that were quickly becoming the label's most profitable commodities and dispirited by the rapidly waning fortunes of the black acts he had championed, such as Ben E. King and Solomon Burke. When interviewed in 1990 for Ertegun's biography, Wexler declined to discuss the matter, but Ertegun claimed these negotiations were a plan to buy him out. [43] After a slow start, Atco had considerable success with Bobby Darin. Union College. He also signed a platinum rock group from England, The Escape Club, and served as executive producer of the soundtrack to the hit motion picture, Coming to America, starring Eddie Murphy. He saw something more in there that wasn't coming out before. Spector became one of the most successful record producers of the 1960s. 1988 - Greenberg was asked to return to Atlantic Records as President of Atco Records, which was Atlantic's other label based in California. Wexler sent Tom Dowd to upgrade Stax's recording equipment and facilities. Atlantic Group is representing a privately held investment firm serving some of the world's most influential families and organizations. Although Leiber considered dropping the matter, Stoller pressed Atlantic for payment. In 1968 the label issued History of Rhythm and Blues, Volume 4 in stereo. 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 . The overall enormity of this song changed that. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Nov 2016 - Present6 years 5 months. [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. 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. 2 after spending almost six months on the Billboard R&B chart although McGhee himself earned just $10 for the session. I'm signing you today". MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. Over the course of 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, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Ruth Brown and Otis Redding. Clark will be based in NYC. 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. Atlantic Business Interiors. 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. The announcement was made today by Atlantic Chairman/COO Julie . Location. The ideal candidate will develop new . In 2004, Atlantic and its sister label Elektra were merged into the Atlantic Records Group. 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. In 1962 folk music was booming and the label came very close to signing Peter, Paul & Mary; although Wexler and Ertegun pursued them vigorously the deal fell through at the last minute and they later discovered music publisher Artie Mogull had introduced their manager Albert Grossman to Warner Bros. executive Herman Starr, who had made the trio an irresistible offer that gave them complete creative control over the recording and packaging of their music.[61]. Wexler oversaw production himself at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Wexler dismissed developments in pop music, dubbing the musicians "the rockoids". In January of 1996, she was named Executive Vice President. In 1951, Atlantic was one of the first independent labels to press records in the 45rpm single format. But joy also comes in birthing the babies who we continue to build and develop you never know whos going to become our next superstar!. Leiber, Stoller, Goldner, and Wexler suggested their plan to Ertegun at a lunch meeting at the Plaza Hotel in New York. Price previously served as senior vice president of Business and Legal Affairs at 10K Projects, an independent record label. [49], Atlantic tolerated Spector but with diminishing returns. [9] When interviewed in 2009, she attributed her reputation to the company's chronic cash-flow shortage: " most of the problems we had with artists were that they wanted advances, and that was very difficult for us we were undercapitalized for a long time. Since they jointly held more stock, Ahmet was obliged to agree to the sale. After buying Elektra Records and its sister label Nonesuch Records in 1970, Kinney combined the operations of all of its record labels under a new holding company, WEA, and also known as Warner Music Group. 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