Cotillion's catalog quickly expanded to include progressive rock, folk-rock, gospel, jazz and comedy. Passengers on the new route will travel aboard Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft configured . 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.'. The announcement was made today by Atlantic Chairman/COO Julie . 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. His agent David Geffen went to Wexler to ask for Stills to be released from his Atlantic contract because Geffen wanted Stills' new group to sign with Columbia. [48] When Spector criticized Bobby Darin's songwriting, Darin had him thrown out of the house. [52], Atlantic was doing so well in early 1959 that some scheduled releases were held back, and the company enjoyed two successive months of gross sales of over $1 million that summer, thanks to hits by The Coasters, The Drifters, LaVern Baker, Ray Charles, Bobby Darin, and Clyde McPhatter. Stacy Simons Santos Contact Me Posted on 1 March, 2023, 09:05 AM EST. [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. MTB presented Bring Back the Music every Wednesday night at the Hilton Hotel (now Westgate) in Las Vegas. Since they jointly held more stock, Ahmet was obliged to agree to the sale. 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. The band recorded for Atlantic Records, Roulette Records, United Artists, and DCP Record labels. Moving up the promo ranks, she was appointed Vice President of National Promotion in 1988 and Senior Vice President two years later. Jerry Greenberg signed the group to Atlantic in the US in 1973 on Ertegun's advice, but although they were very successful in Europe, Genesis remained at best a "cult" act in America for most of the Seventies. Darin moved to Los Angeles and signed with Capitol. 7). 2005 - Jerry & Bob Greenberg form the Rainbow Bar & Grill Expansion Group. Wexler had hired Greenberg and acted as his mentor, teaching him the daily operations of the record business. [26] In this system, recordings were made using two microphones, spaced at approximately the distance between the human ears, and the left and right channels were recorded as two separate, parallel grooves. 1, Pop No. [2] Craig Kallman is the chairman of Atlantic. [85], The building was owned by the family of Sheldon Vogel, the chief financial officer of Atlantic at the time. By the age of eighteen years, Greenberg already had his own record label, called Green-Sea Records. white) audience. Atlantic signed the band to an exclusive five-year contract, one of the "most substantial" in the label's history[74] Zeppelin recorded for Atlantic from 1968 to 1973. [92], That year also saw Atlantic reach a milestone for major record labels. . 1 in both the US and the UK, sold over 2 million copies, and won the 1960 Grammy Award for Record of the Year. In September 1964, the Ertegun brothers and Wexler were in the process of buying out the company's other two shareholders, Sabit and Bienstock,[51] and it was proposed that Leiber and Stoller buy Sabit's shares. By 1979 Genesis drummer/singer Phil Collins was considering branching out into a solo career. By contrast, Wexler was disenchanted by Atlantic's move into rock; he left in 1975. In 1976, the label started focusing on disco and R&B. As part of the negotiations, Collins and his bandmates wanted their own 'vanity' label, Duke Records, but according to Kalodner, and despite Ertegun's personal interest, the group's demands, and their relatively modest performance in the US made Atlantic executives ambivalent about the deal. It was groundbreaking., And although she may have blazed a trail as a female executive in the male-dominated world of promotion, for her its all about team success over individual success, in service of the artists. "The Record Man: Ahmet Ertegun, Founder of Atlantic Records", "Warner Music Slashes Jobs, Ousts Bigwigs", "Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun dies", "Rock & Roll Founding Father Ahmet Ertegun Dies at 83", "Atlantic Puts 256 Stories on a Pair Of 10-In. But when Ertegun offered him another chance, the result was "Splish Splash", which Darin had written in 12 minutes. 2007 - Jerry Greenberg joins the board of MusiCares established in 1989 by The Recording Academy. Later that year The Clovers' "One Mint Julep" reached No. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority announced Tuesday that Norse Atlantic Airways will commence new, low-price, nonstop service between London's Gatwick International Airport (LGW) and Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) on June 1, 2023. In 1968 Peter Grant flew to New York with tapes of the debut album by British rock band Led Zeppelin. [10][11][12] In the early fifties, Atlantic moved from the Hotel Jefferson to offices at 301 West 54th St and then to 356 West 56th St. Atlantic's first recordings were issued in late January 1948 and included "That Old Black Magic" by Tiny Grimes and "The Spider" by Joe Morris. Leiber and Stoller backed down, but the relationship ended anyway. His recordings for Atlantic and Stax influenced pop music. 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. Within the first two weeks, The Box went from 33 million to 60 million streams. 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. The audit revealed Leiber and Stoller had been underpaid by $18,000. [5], Atlantic's New York studio was the first in America to install multitrack recording machines, developed by the Ampex company. Atlantic City, NJ. They licensed the name from America's No. [57] The deal marked the start of a successful eight-year association between the two labels, giving Stax access to Atlantic's promotions and distribution. 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. All Rights Reserved. Yes signed with Atlantic in 1969, around the same time Squire was breaking in with the label that would name him president by 1974, making him (at 32) the youngest to pull off the feat. In 1974 the former photographer, record store manager and music critic joined Atlantic's New York publicity department. [5][47], Record producer Phil Spector moved to New York to work with Leiber and Stoller. Jerry Wexler spent a majority of his time in Florida, which left Greenberg plenty of time to spend with Ahmet Ertegun, who was President of Atlantic at that time. In 1953, after learning that singer Clyde McPhatter had been fired from Billy Ward and His Dominoes and was forming The Drifters, Ertegun signed the group. [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. "With the new EDM music scene emerging, a new music label from Ibiza and LA is a perfect fit," said Greenberg. 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. They are seeking a Vice President Employee Engagement and . 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. MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. 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. The soul/country & western crossover predated Ray Charles' similar venture by more than 6 months. [31] Ertegun and Wexler realized many R&B recordings by black musicians were being covered by white performers, often with greater chart success. 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. Columbia tried to market her as a jazz singer. [26], Nesuhi was also in charge of LP production. In 1956 he started the '8000' popular series (selling for $3.98) for the label's few R&B albums, reserving the 1200 series for jazz. In its tenth anniversary feature on Atlantic, Billboard noted, " a very big R&B record might achieve 250,000 sales, but from this point on (195354), the industry began to see million sellers, one after the other, in the R&B field". He gained executive control of the label and influenced the Warner group. [26], Beginning in 1954, Atlantic created or acquired several subsidiary labels, the first being Cat Records. 1 R&B hit, but it only reached No. [50], Leiber and Stoller worked briefly for United Artists, then started Red Bird with George Goldner. Jones was an accounting major at Maryland University who planned to be a doctor . 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. Ryan Brady, a VP at Atlantic Records and a host of the Take It Away podcast, has died in a car accident at the age of 34. 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 . Over the next five years Stax and its subsidiary Volt provided Atlantic with many hits, such as "Respect" by Otis Redding, "Knock on Wood" by Eddie Floyd, "Hold On, I'm Comin'" by Sam and Dave, and "Mustang Sally" by Wilson Pickett. In September 1947, he sold his share in Jubilee to his partner, Jerry Blaine, and invested $2,500 in Atlantic. In the years that followed, Foreigner became one of Atlantic's biggest successes, and one of the biggest-selling groups in history, scoring a string of international hits and selling more than 80 million albums worldwide, including 37.5 million albums in the US alone. So we immediately targeted pop radio, which wasnt as open to playing hip-hop artists out of the gate. Irene received a Bachelor of Science degree from Saint John's University. They had hits with "Chapel of Love" by The Dixie Cups and "Leader of the Pack" by The Shangri-Las, but Red Bird's finances were precarious. The first restaurant opened in June 2005 in Las Vegas, across from the Hard Rock Hotel. Darin returned to Atlantic in 1965. Jerry Wexler said, "we're gonna put her back in church. [87], A country music division, which was founded in the 1980s, was closed in 2001. 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. Bill Haley & His Comets's version reached No. Atlantic Records. In April of that year, Miriam (Abramson) Bienstock reported to Billboard that Atlantic was selling 75% of its singles as 45s. 1 in the UK and became a multi-million seller. [65] Atlantic continues to hold the rights to Stax recordings it distributed in the 1960s. Stills and Crosby had been friends since the early 1960s; Nash had first met Crosby in the mid-1960s when The Byrds toured the UK, and he renewed the friendship when The Hollies toured the US in mid-1968. [44] In 1965, Atlantic formed a budget label called Clarion Records. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. [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. 2 in the US and No. Wexler's success for Atlantic was the result of going outside jazz to sign acts who combined jazz, blues, and rhythm and blues, such as Ray Charles, Joe Turner, and Aretha Franklin. 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. [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. 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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