I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
AHMET ERTEGUNThe main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution.
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People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches – like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin – were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.
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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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My first wife was a theater person.
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The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
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You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn’t have the other $20,000.
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I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it’d kill me.
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The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution.
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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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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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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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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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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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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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