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precious-things-digest   Saturday, December 16 2006   Volume 11 : Number 083



                               Today's Subjects:
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  [pt] R.I.P.: Ahmet Ertegun       [handal@r2d2.reverse.net (Richard Handal)]

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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:57:42 -0500 (EST)
From: handal@r2d2.reverse.net (Richard Handal)
Subject: [pt] R.I.P.: Ahmet Ertegun

Hello:

I'm sure plenty will be said all over the place during the next days
about this tremendous loss, but I wanted to note the passing of one of
the GREATS in the history of the record business, Ahmet Ertegun. Stream
this NPR story if you're able.

   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6628391

   Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Records Legend, Dies
   by Michele Norris
   All Things Considered, December 14, 2006

Also, read:

   http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/arts/music/15ertegun.html

   Ahmet Ertegun, Music Executive, Dies at 83
   By TIM WEINER
   Published: December 15, 2006

   Ahmet Ertegun, the music magnate who founded Atlantic Records and
   shaped the careers of John Coltrane, Ray Charles, the Rolling Stones,
   Led Zeppelin and many others, died yesterday in Manhattan.  [ . . . ]

Ertegun is thanked in the notes of A Piano and probably also in other
release notes, but I haven't checked. Tori once told an interesting
anecdote, which mentioned a canceled trip alluded to in the astonishing
book included with A Piano.

   http://everythingtori.com/go/galleries/view/395/1/394/press

   "Live at the Shaw Theatre"
   November 2003
   With Lucy O'Brien

   Tori: I was going to go to Romania and visit Vlad the Impaler.

   L: as you do.

   TA: as you do!!  I was really drawn to that place.  Plus, Ahmet
   Ertegun, who was the big kingpin in the industry, basically he could
   fuck your life up--if he wanted.  He was the guy that made Atlantic
   Records what is was.  (to audience) You know who I am talking about?
   (they do) Good!  But anyway, we got on very well in that kind of way
   that you do, and he said, "Well my wife is Romanian and you could go
   with a professor to see that historical time."  So this song starts
   coming back to me, then I started to write this whole other thing,
   and we were going to go to Turkey afterwards, as you do, you know
   following Vlad's footsteps and then stay at Ahmet's palace.  Then
   something happened.  The truth, I started bleeding and couldn't stop.
   I said, "Jesus, Husband, I don't think I am going to get to go see
   Vlad the Impaler" and he said, "Darling, I think you have already
   been impaled."

More stories are already out, and many more to come, I'm sure.

   http://news.google.com/?ncl=1111919437&hl=en

Having heard nothing but high praise for Ertegun over several decades, I
feel this loss. Try to imagine music today without even 10% of the acts
he nurtured. The music world would be a different place.

Richard Handal, H.G.

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