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"What'd I say?" : the Atlantic story : 50 years of music
- Title
- "What'd I say?" : the Atlantic story : 50 years of music / Ahmet Ertegun with Greil Marcus ... [and others ; compiled and edited by C. Perry Richardson].
- Publication
- New York : Welcome Rain Publishers, 2001.
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| Text | Request in advance | ML427.A85 W45 2001g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 565 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color); 37 cm
- Summary
- "When Ertegun founded Atlantic Records in 1947 with $10,000 borrowed from his dentist, the 24-year-old native of Turkey was living in segregated America, which did not realize the beauty of its own cacophony. Spanning six decades, this coffee-table history goes a little deeper than most. Ertegun's anecdotes are intermingled with those of his business associates and recording artists.
- Atlantic's roster includes Ray Charles, Clyde McPhatter, the Drifters, Big Joe Turner, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, Mabel Mercer, Bobby Darin, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Sam and Dave, Dusty Springfield, Led Zeppelin, Tori Amos and so on. There are nine essays by some of the most respected music journalists. Each nicely crystallizes the label's enormous contributions to R&B, jazz, rock 'n' roll, pop and soul."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Sound recording industry > United States
- Popular music > United States > History and criticism
- Rock musicians > United States > Biography > Pictorial works
- Ertegun, Ahmet M
- African American musicians > Biography > Pictorial works
- Jazz musicians > United States > Biography > Pictorial works
- Atlantic Recording Corporation
- Singers > United States > Biography > Pictorial works
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 565) and index.
- Contents
- Essays. Atlantic Records 1947-54 / by Greil Marcus -- The jazz heritage of Atlantic Records / by Nat Hentoff -- The second taste 1954-1962 / by Lenny Kaye -- Southern soul / by Robert Gordon -- The move into rock / by Robert Christgau -- Lost in music, Atlantic's disco years / by Vince Aletti -- The great age of excess 1972-1986 / by David Fricke -- Jazz / by Will Friedwald -- The soul in the machine 1986-2000 / by Barney Hoskins.
- ISBN
- 1566490480
- OCLC
- ocm47234086
- SCSB-4151263
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries