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...Blinded at six by glaucoma, schooled in classical, gospel and every form of popular music, he came to Atlantic Records in 1953, when the company?s boss, Ahmet Ertegun, bought Charles? Swingtime Records contract for $2,500. Ray brought with him a pioneering blend of gospel melodies, rhythm-and-blues raunch, a suavely swingin? piano groove ? la Nat Cole and the imposing sound of a big band behind him (though typically he worked with only six sidemen). Oh, and an epochal vocal style that would make him the 20th century?s dominant and longest-lived emissary of soul music...
...singer said he credits the success of his career to advice he received from Ahmet Ertegun, a producer at Stills’ first record company, Atlantic Records: “Walk slowly and you’ll bump into a genius...
...could use up all the space here (and in the rest of this issue) simply listing the musicians--black and white, jazz and R. and B., rock and beyond--whom Ertegun discovered and set free as prime mover of Atlantic Records. Just as impressive is the tale of a son of the Turkish ambassador to the U.S. who fell in love with black music and co-founded a label that helped Ray Charles, Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin redefine American pop. The terrific photos in this handsome, 8-lb. tome induce a vivid synesthesia: looking at Ertegun's artists...
...hits one note no matter what the chord change. When Wexler first heard this bizarre melange, he was more than disappointed - he was furious. "It sounds like three stations playing at the time coming through on one very bad car radio," he fumed, insisting that the number be junked. Ertegun overruled him, and "There Goes My Baby" was a top-five...
...album has a half-dozen Beatles-worthy tunes on it, and "To Love Somebody" has stood the test of time as a magnificent Australo-American R&B wailer. But the late ?60s can?t compete for my affections with the decade before it, when record after record from the Ertegun empire spoke to me, sang to me. Maybe it?s an age thing: Atlantic, me, Leiber and Stoller: we?re only kids once. And Atlanta provided the electrolytes in my young blood...