Burke became a consistent big seller through the mid-1960s and scored hits on Atlantic into 1968. By the mid-1950s Atlantic had an informal agreement with the French label Barclay, and the two companies regularly exchanged titles, usually jazz recordings. 2 after spending almost six months on the Billboard R&B chart although McGhee himself earned just $10 for the session. Atlantic Records President of Promotion Andrea Ganis Looks Back, and Ahead, at Her Legendary Career By Jem Aswad Courtesy of andrea ganis Few music industry vets approach the level of royalty. According to the International Herald Tribune, "More than half of its music sales in the United States are now from digital products like downloads on iTunes and ring tones for cellphones", doing so "without seeing as steep of a decline in compact disc sales as the rest of the industry."[93]. After the contract expired, they founded their label Swan Song and signed a distribution deal with Atlantic after being turned down by other labels. By this time creative tensions within The Hollies were coming to a head, and Nash had already decided to leave the group. Republic Records is a division of Universal Music Group and home to multiple platinum award winning artists. A subsidiary label, Atco, was established in 1955 to keep Abramson involved. Pictured (l-r): Michael Kyser, Atlantic 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.'. 2), "Since You've Been Gone" (Soul No. [88], Time Warner sold Warner Music Group to a group of investors for $2.6 billion in late 2003. With Chairman Jerry Weintraub leaving the company abruptly, the new management team didn't want to continue having a recording company. [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. The mid-1960s British Invasion led Atlantic to change its British distributor. "Queen of the Hop" made the Top 10 on both the US pop and R&B charts and charted in the UK. By 1979 Genesis drummer/singer Phil Collins was considering branching out into a solo career. Leiber, Stoller, Goldner, and Wexler suggested their plan to Ertegun at a lunch meeting at the Plaza Hotel in New York. In February 1953, Herb Abramson was drafted into the U.S. Websites. 7). 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. Stacy Simons Santos Contact Me Posted on 1 March, 2023, 09:05 AM EST. Following his departure, Ertegunwho had previously taken little interest in Atlantic's business affairstook decisive control of the label[66] and quickly became a major force in the expanding Warner music group. Ganis began her career as an assistant at Polydor Records and quickly became the first female on the companys national promotion staff. [82][83][84] The four-story warehouse, located at 199 Broadway, was the former location of Vogel's Department Store, before it closed down in March 1975. [26], Nesuhi was also in charge of LP production. 1 in both the US and the UK, sold over 2 million copies, and won the 1960 Grammy Award for Record of the Year. A few weeks later Brown's "Teardrops from My Eyes" became its first million-selling record. The new Warner owners refused to relinquish ownership of the Stax masters, so the distribution deal ended in May 1968. Staff engineer Tom Dowd recalled, "Tokyo Rose was the kindest name some people had for her"[8] and Doc Pomus described her as "an extraordinarily vitriolic woman". Bill Haley & His Comets's version reached No. 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. [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. 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The Atlantic Council, 2 p.m.:Looking North: Security in the Arctic Center for Strategic and International Studies, 4 p.m.: Discussion with outgoing Australian Ambassador to the U.S. ARTHUR . At this same time, Genesis' contract with Atlantic was up for renewal, and Collins was yet to sign as a solo artist. In the wake of the takeover, Jerry Wexler's influence in the company rapidly diminished; by his own admission, he and Ertegun had run Atlantic as "utmost despots" but in the new corporate structure, he found himself unwilling to accept the delegation of responsibility that his executive role dictated. His death was confirmed by the coroner's office, Pacific Attorney Group. Some acts on the Atlantic roster in this period were British (including Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Yes, Bad Company and Phil Collins) and this was largely due to Ertegun. In September 1947, he sold his share in Jubilee to his partner, Jerry Blaine, and invested $2,500 in Atlantic. Both became hits, and Atlantic hired him as a staff producer. 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. It was granted informally, but their accountant insisted on a written contract and an audit of Atlantic's accounts. For much of its early history, Jerry Wexler had been managers of the label,[73] while Ertegun had concentrated on A&R and had less interest in the business side. Playing them back required a turntable with a special tone-arm fitted with dual needles; it was not until around 1958 that the single stylus microgroove system (in which the two stereo channels were cut into either side of a single groove) became the industry standard. Vice President of Radio Promotion and Artists and Repertoire, WTG (Walter (Yetnikoff), Tommy (Motolla), Gerald (Greenberg) Records, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, reliable, independent, third-party sources, Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry_L._Greenberg&oldid=1119634965, Articles lacking reliable references from April 2014, BLP articles lacking sources from April 2014, Articles with multiple maintenance issues, Articles with dead external links from April 2017, Articles with permanently dead external links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 2 November 2022, at 16:23. No further albums were issued as the label lasted less than a year. 2013 to Present - Greenberg forms new EDM label with partners from Ibiza, Spain. In April of that year, Miriam (Abramson) Bienstock reported to Billboard that Atlantic was selling 75% of its singles as 45s. Brown recorded more than eighty songs for Atlantic, becoming its bestselling, most prolific musician of the period. [26] He had been living in Los Angeles for several years and had intermittent contact with his younger brother. But the Ertegun brothers held the majority of stock while Wexler controlled about 20 percent. He learned his trade at Trey Records, a label in California owned by Lester Sill and Lee Hazlewood and distributed by Atlantic. He was named Atlantic Senior Vice President of A&R in 2020. [13] In its early years, Atlantic concentrated on modern jazz[11][14][3] although it released some country and western and spoken word recordings. Look Smart Article[permanent dead link] 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. 1, Pop No. 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. A few people had tagged him and I reached out to ask if he would be so kind to let me interview him. Leiber and Stoller told Ertegun they had no intention of buying him out, but Ertegun was aggravated by Goldner's attitude and was convinced Wexler was conspiring with them. Sadi Koylan. [5], Although Leiber and Stoller wrote many popular songs for Atlantic, their relationship with the label was deteriorating in 1962. 1989 - Tommy Mottola, who took over Sony Music, offered Greenberg a label in California. 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 . Miriam Bienstock called him "a pain in the neck". Darin moved to Los Angeles and signed with Capitol. [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. 3 in September 1952, and "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean" with Connie Kay on drums reached No. Atlantic missed an important signing in 1955 when Sun owner Sam Phillips sold Elvis Presley's recording contract in a bidding war between labels. Abramson did not get along with either Wexler or Nesuhi Ertegun, and he had returned from military service with a German girlfriend, which precipitated his divorce from Miriam, a minor stockholder and Atlantic's business and publishing manager. 2009 to 2011 - Mirage Tribute Bands is formed. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 2, Pop No. Their single "Money Honey" became the biggest R&B hit of the year. Wexler dismissed developments in pop music, dubbing the musicians "the rockoids". 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. Initially, Atlantic and Atco operated entirely separately from the group's other labels, Warner Bros. Records and Reprise Records, and management did not interfere with the music division, since the ailing movie division was losing money, while the Warner recording division was booming by mid-1968 Warner's recording and publishing interests were generating 74% of the group's total profits.[63][64]. Blog http . After several lineup changes during 196970, the band settled into its "classic" incarnation, with guitarist Steve Howe and keyboard player Rick Wakeman, who both joined during 1971. He gained executive control of the label and influenced the Warner group. Atlantic Records. By contrast, Wexler was disenchanted by Atlantic's move into rock; he left in 1975. Atlantic Business Interiors. From Ertegun he learned how to treat musicians.[73]. Despite all the resistance, Kalodner's belief in Foreigner was totally vindicated by the group's massive success their 1976 debut single "Feels Like The First Time" reached #4 on the Billboard singles chart, their self-titled debut album sold more than 4 million copies, and the subsequent singles from the album kept the group in the US charts continuously for more than a year. Ertegun knew Stick's younger brother Brownie McGhee, with whom Stick happened to be staying, so he contacted the McGhee brothers and re-recorded the song. [48] When Spector criticized Bobby Darin's songwriting, Darin had him thrown out of the house. 1, Pop No. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. December 2, 2014, 12:34 PM. The soul/country & western crossover predated Ray Charles' similar venture by more than 6 months. Atlantic Records. ")[76] Prager persisted with Atlantic, even though their A&R department and label President Jerry Greenberg repeatedly rejected Foreigner; it was Kalodner's dogged belief in the group (and a live audition) that finally convinced Greenberg to allow Kalodner to sign them and take them on as his personal project. Mar Brown, Atlantic Records' senior vice president of urban radio promotion, passed away suddenly last night due to a heart attack, a representative for the label tells Billboard. Wexler ultimately decided to leave New York and move to Florida. [49], Atlantic tolerated Spector but with diminishing returns. [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. Wexler exploded and replied the payment would mean the end of their relationship with the label. The band recorded for Atlantic Records, Roulette Records, United Artists, and DCP Records as Jerry Green and The Passengers. 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. After surprisingly failing their audition for Apple Records, thanks to Ertegun's intervention and intense negotiations with David Geffen, who represented Crosby and Nash, as well as Stills,[75] they ultimately signed with Atlantic, who gave them virtually complete freedom to record their first album. 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. Websites. 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. [2] Craig Kallman is the chairman of Atlantic. "Security") in 1982 to wide acclaim, and Gabriel scored a minor US hit with the single "Shock The Monkey". "So Long", her first record for the label, was recorded with Eddie Condon's band on May 25, 1949. 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. [5], Atlantic's New York studio was the first in America to install multitrack recording machines, developed by the Ampex company. Darin returned to Atlantic in 1965. "[7] The label's office in the Ritz Hotel in Manhattan proved too expensive, so they moved to a room in the Hotel Jefferson. [85], The building was owned by the family of Sheldon Vogel, the chief financial officer of Atlantic at the time. [14], Ertegun and Abramson spent much of the late 1940s and early 1950s scouring nightclubs in search of talent. [65] Atlantic continues to hold the rights to Stax recordings it distributed in the 1960s. 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). 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. Promotion is an art that morphs in tandem with the trends of radio as well as the broader currents of culture, she says, but ultimately the tenets are the same. Much of Atlantic's renewed success as a rock label in the late 1970s can be attributed to the efforts of renowned A&R manager John Kalodner. 1957 - Gerald L. Greenberg from New Haven, CT formed his own band. 1, Pop No. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 1). "[58], The deal to distribute Satellite's "Last Night" by The Mar-Keys on the Satellite label marked the first time Atlantic began marketing outside tracks on a non-Atlantic label. [27] By the late 1950s stereo LPs and turntables were being introduced. white) audience. "Yakety Yak" became Atlantic's first No. Currently serving as Vice President of A&R at Atlantic Records in New York. [92], That year also saw Atlantic reach a milestone for major record labels. Jeff Levin started at Atlantic in 2010 and has since A&R'd a wide range of artists across the Warner . [40], Atlantic played a major role in popularizing the genre that Jerry Wexler dubbed rhythm & blues, and it profited handsomely. Our costs began at the production levelthe pressing, and distribution, and promotion, and advertising. Location. The market for these records exploded during late 1953 and early 1954 as R&B hits crossed over to the mainstream (i.e. But when Ahmet learned that Nesuhi had been offered a partnership in Atlantic's rival Imperial Records, he and Wexler convinced Nesuhi to join Atlantic instead. By the age of eighteen, Greenberg already had his own record label, called Green-Sea Records. During the previous year, 78s had outsold 45s by a ratio of two to one.[30]. 1 on the R&B chart and No. 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. Ertegun started lifelong grudges against Leiber and Stoller, and his relationship with Wexler was damaged. 5[30] (although The Crew-Cuts' version went to No. 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. 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. "I thought we were going to die", Wexler recalled. Atlantic Records is part of the Media & Internet industry, and located in New York, United States. In 1974 the former photographer, record store manager and music critic joined Atlantic's New York publicity department. But when Ertegun offered him another chance, the result was "Splish Splash", which Darin had written in 12 minutes. Barry, Thomas (September 9, 1969). The Rainbow Bar & Grill in Las Vegas recreates the Hollywood location with red leather booths and rock-n-roll memorabilia adorning the walls. 1980 - Jerry Greenberg becomes a consultant to Atlantic while forming his own label with his brother, Bob Greenberg, called Mirage Music; Jerry remained on the East Coast, Bob on the West Coast. "[79], Although his close friendship with Ertegun helped Collins launch his solo career, the fact that he eventually signed to Atlantic in the US was apparently as much by luck as by design. [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. Variety is a part of Penske Media Corporation. So we immediately targeted pop radio, which wasnt as open to playing hip-hop artists out of the gate. 2003-04 - Mirage Music Entertainment has been reactivated with a distribution deal through Sony Music. Two members of The Robins formed The Coasters and recorded hits for Atlantic, such as "Down in Mexico" and "Young Blood". 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. He was funny, he was amusingbut he wasn't nice." But in September 1955 Miriam Abramson traveled to the UK and signed a distribution deal with Decca. Atlantic Records was founded in September 1947 in New York City and incorporated in October 1947 with Abramson as president, Etregun vice-president in charge A&R, production and promotion. 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The irony was further compounded by the fact that Gabriel scored a US #1 hit with the R&B-influenced single "Sledgehammer", which featured the legendary Memphis Horns, and which Gabriel later described as "my chance to sing like Otis Redding. [60] He brought Atlantic musicians to Memphis to record. [56] The deal included a $5000 payment against a five-year option on all other records. 1967 - Jerry Wexler asked Greenberg to become his personal assistant at Atlantic Records. Greenberg served as President and CEO of MJJ Music from 1993 to 2000. Its position was greatly improved by its distribution deal with Stax. He later recorded two more parodies, "White & Nerdy", and "Do I Creep You Out", both released September 26 to replace it. Aaron Bay-Schuck. Although Leiber considered dropping the matter, Stoller pressed Atlantic for payment. Even then, Kalodner was turned down by twenty-six producers before he found someone willing to take on the project. 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