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    Ahmet Ertegun (/ˈɑːmɛt ˈɛərtəɡən/ AH-met AIR-tə-gən; Turkish: Ahmet Zahrettin Sebuhi Ertegün, pronounced [ahˈmet eɾteˈɟyn]; July 31, 1923 – December 14...
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  • The Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert was a benefit concert held in memory of music executive Ahmet Ertegun at the O2 Arena in London on 10 December 2007...
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    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...
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  • moving to Canada. She eventually settled in New York after marrying Ahmet Ertegun, the founder and chairman of Atlantic Records, in 1960. In 1967, she...
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    Roll Hall of Fame Foundation was established on April 20, 1983, by Ahmet Ertegun, founder and chairman of Atlantic Records. After a long search for the...
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    and Portuguese ancestry. He is said to be named after music executive Ahmet Ertegun (co-founder and president of Atlantic Records), whom his father greatly...
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    family, including his younger brother Ahmet, moved to Washington, D.C., in 1935 with their father Munir Ertegun, who was appointed the Turkish Ambassador...
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    chooses the early influences. In 2008, this category was renamed the "Ahmet Ertegun Award". Established in 2000 as "Sidemen", the category "honors those...
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    early years. Ertegun married Emine Hayrünnisa Rüstem in 1917 and the couple had three children, two of whom were Nesuhi and Ahmet Ertegun, the brothers...
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    Blaine. Abramson and his wife Miriam were close friends with jazz fan Ahmet Ertegun, who recognized Abramson's talent. He approached Abramson with a label...
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    for a record deal for young Jackson Browne, Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun suggested that Geffen start his own record label. Geffen co-founded...
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    Moonlighting, Miles Dalby in the film Risky Business, and record producer Ahmet Ertegun in the film Ray as well as for playing the role of Metatron on the TV...
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    audition with the Beatles' Apple Records. However, back in California, Ahmet Ertegun, who had been a fan of Buffalo Springfield and was disappointed by that...
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    collaborated and participated in one-off concerts, including the 2007 Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert in London, with Bonham's son Jason Bonham on drums....
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  • partners from Atlantic Records: Ahmet Ertegun, Nesuhi Ertegun and Jerry Wexler. The first letters of their names (Bert, Ahmet, Nesuhi, Gerald) formed the...
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    potential performance was to be November 2007 in London as a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun. The band decided against it and this was confirmed by Bruce in a letter...
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    posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Ahmet Ertegun Award. Cornelius was born on Chicago's South Side on September 27, 1936...
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  • Atlantic Records Ahmet Ertegün Nesuhi Ertegün Münir Ertegün, Turkish politician and diplomat and father of Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegün This page lists people...
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    grow through donations and museum purchases. The museum acquired the Ahmet Ertegun collection in 1999, which contains about 300 works of Modernist art...
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    surviving three members of Led Zeppelin on several occasions, including the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert at O2 arena in London in December 2007. He has also...
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  • Mess Around (category Songs written by Ahmet Ertegun)
    The "Mess Around" is a song written by Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder and then-vice-president of Atlantic Records, under the pseudonym of A. Nugetre, or "Nuggy"...
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  • His best-known composition as Calhoun was "Shake, Rattle and Roll". Ahmet Ertegun once stated that "Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock 'n'...
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  • Cream checked into Atlantic Studios in New York City with label owner Ahmet Ertegun to record a cover of "Lawdy Mama". Cream's American label, ATCO, was...
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    (1952), which reached No. 8. Swing Time folded the following year, and Ahmet Ertegun signed Charles to Atlantic. In addition to being a musician, Charles...
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  • The Honeydrippers: Volume One (category Albums produced by Ahmet Ertegun)
    Records president Ahmet Ertegun wanted to record an album of his favourite songs from the 1950s. Plant was chosen because Ertegun had seen his pick-up...
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  • introduced to heroin. Ray is discovered by Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records and records his first hit with Ertegun's Yamilksa song "Mess Around". In Houston...
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    formed Crosby, Stills & Nash wanted to sign with Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun worked out a deal with Clive Davis whereby Richie Furay's new band Poco...
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  • [citation needed] Shuman was named one of the 2010 recipients of the Ahmet Ertegun Award from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He joined his early collaborator...
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  • Mike Ricciardella of The Illusion. They recorded for Ahmet Ertegun's Atlantic Records, and Ertegun personally produced their first LP. 1973: Room to Grow...
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  • for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and received that institution's Ahmet Ertegun Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2020. Born in New York City, Landau...
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