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    Ahmet Ertegun (/ˈɑːmɛt ˈɛərtəɡən/ AH-met AIR-tə-gən; Turkish: Ahmet Zahrettin Sebuhi Ertegün, pronounced [ahˈmet eɾteˈɟyn]; July 31, 1923 – December 14...
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  • The Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert was a benefit concert held in memory of music executive Ahmet Ertegün at the O2 Arena in London on 10 December 2007...
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    Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over the course of two decades, starting from the...
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    Roll Hall of Fame Foundation was established on April 20, 1983, by Ahmet Ertegun, founder and chairman of Atlantic Records. After a long search for the...
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    revealing the Hall's full criteria. In 2008, this category was renamed the "Ahmet Ertegun Award". Established in 2000 as "Sidemen", the category "honors those...
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    and Portuguese ancestry. He is said to be named after music executive Ahmet Ertegun (co-founder and president of Atlantic Records), whom his father greatly...
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  • moving to Canada. She eventually settled in New York after marrying Ahmet Ertegun, the founder and chairman of Atlantic Records, in 1960. In 1967, she...
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    early years. Ertegun married Emine Hayrünnisa Rüstem in 1917 and the couple had three children, two of whom were Nesuhi and Ahmet Ertegun, the brothers...
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    Moonlighting, Miles Dalby in the film Risky Business, and record producer Ahmet Ertegun in the film Ray as well as for playing the role of Metatron on the TV...
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    for a record deal for young Jackson Browne, Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun suggested that Geffen start his own record label. Geffen co-founded...
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    family, including his younger brother Ahmet, moved to Washington, D.C., in 1935 with their father Munir Ertegun, who was appointed the Turkish Ambassador...
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    surviving three members of Led Zeppelin on several occasions, including the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert at O2 arena in London in December 2007. He has also...
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    participated in one-off concerts. The most successful of these was the 2007 Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert in London, with Bonham's son Jason Bonham on drums....
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    audition with the Beatles' Apple Records. However, back in California, Ahmet Ertegun, who had been a fan of Buffalo Springfield and was disappointed by that...
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    Blaine. Abramson and his wife Miriam were close friends with jazz fan Ahmet Ertegun, who recognized Abramson's talent. He approached Abramson with a label...
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  • Atlantic Records Ahmet Ertegün Nesuhi Ertegün Münir Ertegün, Turkish politician and diplomat and father of Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegün This page lists people...
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    grow through donations and museum purchases. The museum acquired the Ahmet Ertegun collection in 1999, which contains about 300 works of Modernist art...
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  • Ahmad (redirect from Ahmet)
    (born 1948), Turkish bodybuilder Ahmet Burak Erdoğan (born 1979), son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Ahmet Ertegun (1923–2006), Turkish American...
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  • introduced to heroin. Ray is discovered by Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records and records his first hit with Ertegun's song "Mess Around". In Houston, Ray falls...
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    potential performance was to be November 2007 in London as a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun. The band decided against it and this was confirmed by Bruce in a letter...
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    2023, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Ahmet Ertegun Award. Cornelius was born on Chicago's South Side on September 27, 1936...
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  • Mess Around (category Songs written by Ahmet Ertegun)
    "Mess Around" is a song written by Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder and then-vice-president of Atlantic Records, under the pseudonym of A. Nugetre, or "Nuggy"...
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  • partners from Atlantic Records: Ahmet Ertegun, Nesuhi Ertegun and Jerry Wexler. The first letters of their names (Bert, Ahmet, Nesuhi, Gerald) formed the...
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    Simon Early influences Harry Belafonte Elizabeth Cotten Non-performers (Ahmet Ertegun Award) Allen Grubman Jimmy Iovine Sylvia Robinson Award for Musical...
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    formed Crosby, Stills & Nash wanted to sign with Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun worked out a deal with Clive Davis whereby Richie Furay's new band Poco...
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    (1952), which reached No. 8. Swing Time folded the following year, and Ahmet Ertegun signed Charles to Atlantic. In addition to being a musician, Charles...
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  • case they did not like it, including his wife and Atlantic president Ahmet Ertegun; Dunne was the only other person that heard the album. Anderson named...
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  • sold the copyright to Ahmet Ertegun in 1950 for $50.00 (referencing Doc Pomus and his family).[citation needed] Since Ertegun owned the copyright from...
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  • song came about when he presented it to the record company executive Ahmet Ertegun (who signed Buffalo Springfield to the Atlantic Records-owned ATCO label)...
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    Darin's personality.[citation needed] Guided by Atlantic's star-maker Ahmet Ertegun, Darin's career finally took off in 1958 when he recorded "Splish Splash"...
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