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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters

Ahmet Ertegun

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.
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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
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My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk.
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Cutting Day Father Prayed Relationship Religious Throughout Time
The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
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Car First Hear Singing
Everybody at Atlantic knew that we had a winner in this young lady, and she came through with great hits that will be remembered for many years to come.
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Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
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Everyone Felt Ray Way
I’ve been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging.
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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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At a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.
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Brave Cutting Father Foolhardy Head People Time
Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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Black Imitation Music Soul Two White
Ataturk saw where history was going. He really did in Turkey what we are all hoping somebody will do in [Islamic] countries where fundamentalists thrive, that they get somebody today that has the vision that Ataturk had in 1915.
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I consider Laura to be one of my best signings, and I am proud to have had such a great singer in my career in the record business. We miss her dearly.
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Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
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There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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