With the 's came many changes for Ahmet, Atlantic Records, and the rest of the world. Ahmet met Ioana Maria Banu, known as Mica by her friends, and the two fell desperately in love and were married in April, The popularity of soul music surged with the dawning of the civil rights movement and Atlantic got busy releasing music recorded by Wexler and Dowd with iconic artists like Otis Redding , Percy Sledge , Solomon Burke , Wilson Pickett , and Aretha Franklin.
Ahmet, meanwhile, continued pursuing pop acts for Atlantic Records, soon signing Sonny and Cher and rock act Buffalo Springfield. Fortunately for Ahmet, Warner requested that he, Wexler and Nesuhi still be involved in the company and Ahmet was able to negotiate a new deal on their behalf. In , after a dramatic and intense courtship, Ahmet signed The Rolling Stones to Atlantic Records following the band's commitment to Decca. Jerry Wexler left Atlantic Records in with his protege Jerry Greenberg taking over his responsibilities.
Wexler's departure devastated Ahmet who had considered Wexler to be one of his closest friends and business partners. In , Ahmet received an honorary doctorate in music from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and was awarded the Grammy Trustees Award for lifetime achievements in By the mid 's Ahmet began to ease up on his official involvement at Atlantic Records. Atlantic was one of the first independent labels to make recordings in stereo: Dowd used a portable stereo recorder which ran simultaneously with the studio's existing mono recorder.
In according to Billboard Atlantic was the first label to issue commercial LPs recorded in the experimental stereo system called binaural recording. In this system, recordings were made using two microphones, spaced at approximately the distance between the human ears, and the left and right channels were recorded as two separate, parallel grooves. Playing them back required a turntable with a special tone-arm fitted with dual needles; it was not until around 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.
By the late s stereo LPs and turntables were being introduced. Although these were primarily 45rpm mono singles for much of the s Dowd stockpiled his "parallel" stereo takes for future release. In the label issued History of Rhythm and Blues, Volume 4 in stereo. Atlantic's New York studio was the first in America to install multitrack recording machines, developed by the Ampex company. Bobby Darin's "Splish, Splash" was the first song to be recorded on an 8-track recorder.
It was not until the mids that multitrack recorders became the norm in English studios and EMI's Abbey Road Studios did not install 8-track facilities until In , Atlantic was one of the first independent labels to press records in the 45rpm single format.
By the 45 had surpassed the 78 in sales for singles. During the previous year, 78s had outsold 45s by a ratio of two to one. In February , Herb Abramson was drafted into the U. He moved to Germany, where he served in the Army Dental Corps, although he retained his post as president of Atlantic on full pay. Ertegun hired Billboard reporter Jerry Wexler in June Wexler's success for Atlantic was the result of going outside jazz to sign acts who combined jazz, blues, and rhythm and blues, such as Ray Charles, Joe Turner, and Aretha Franklin.
LaVern Baker had a No. In July , Wexler and Ertegun wrote a prescient article for Cash Box devoted to what they called "cat music"; the same month, Atlantic had its first major "crossover" hit on the Billboard pop chart when the "Sh-Boom" by The Chords reached No.
Atlantic missed an important signing in when Sun owner Sam Phillips sold Elvis Presley's recording contract in a bidding war between labels. Ahmet's older brother Nesuhi was hired in January He had been living in Los Angeles for several years and had intermittent contact with his younger brother. 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 Atlantic was America's second-largest independent jazz label. Nesuhi was also in charge of LP production. He was credited with improving the production, packaging, and originality of Atlantic's LPs. When Abramson returned from military service in , he realized that he had been replaced by Wexler as Ahmet's partner.
After hearing the song's sparsely-arranged opening section, Ertegun said: "Where's the backbeat, man? The kids won't know where it is - you've got to put extra drums on it.
Although his close friendship with Ertegun helped Collins launch his solo career, the fact that he eventually signed to Atlantic in the USA was apparently as much by luck as by design. By early , when Collins was recording his solo album, the record industry was suffering greatly from the impact of the worldwide economic recession, and many labels were beginning to cull their rosters and drop acts that weren't providing major returns.
At this same time, Genesis' contract with Atlantic was up for renewal, and Collins was yet to sign as a solo artist.
As part of the negotiations, Collins and his bandmates wanted their own 'vanity' label, Duke Records, but according to Kalodner, and despite of Ertegun's personal interest, the group's demands, and their relatively modest performance in the USA made Atlantic executives ambivalent about the deal.
Angered by his unceremonious ejection from Atlantic, he alerted Geffen to Collins' availability, but to his chagrin, neither Geffen nor any other US label showed interest; He then alerted Virgin Records boss Richard Branson , who immediately contacted Collins' manager Tony Stratton Smith and signed Collins to Virgin in the UK as a solo act.
Ultimately, Atlantic resigned Genesis and signed up Collins to a solo contract, and when it was released later that year, Collins' debut solo single became a huge hit, Aided by its music video, which was given heavy exposure on the newly launched MTV cable music TV channel, " In The Air Tonight ", topped the charts in many countries including the USA, and his album Face Value sold more than five million copies.
Collins went on to enjoy colossal solo success in parallel with his continuing career in Genesis, and he is now recognised as one of the most successful recording artists in history, with solo sales of more than million albums.
Although much maligned by rock critics and the tabloid press, Collins has earned the remarkable distinction of being one of only three performers alongside Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson who have sold over million albums worldwide both as solo artists and separately as principal members of a band.
Kalodner had also signed Collins' former bandmate Peter Gabriel , and Atlantic released the first two of Gabriel's four self-titled solo albums in America. The first album also known as "Car" was moderately successful, spawning the UK hit single " Solsbury Hill " but his second album a.
Kalodner had heard some early recordings Gabriel was making for his next album, and reportedly loved the two very commercial tracks he was played, but when the final master was delivered, the two 'commercial' tracks were missing, and Kalodner was incensed by what he felt was a very 'eccentric' and uncommercial album. In one of the rare missteps in his career, Kalodner advised Ertegun and Greenberg that they should reject the album and that they should consider dropping Gabriel from the label.
Surprisingly, his advice was accepted and on Ertegun's personal approval, Gabriel's contract with Atlantic was terminated. Gabriel's third solo album a. Much of this was due to Kalodner, who later admitted that, as soon as Gabriel was dropped from Atlantic, he realised he had made a mistake. In order to make amends to Gabriel, he alerted both CBS and Geffen to the fact that Gabriel was available, and after a bidding war, Gabriel signed with Geffen.
Atlantic's regret was undoubtedly heightened when Gabriel achieved huge international success with his fifth album So , which reached 1 in the UK and 2 in the USA and sold more than 5 million copies in the USA. Atlantic and the world suffered a catastrophic loss in February when a fire destroyed most of its tape archive, which had been stored in a non-air-conditioned warehouse in Long Branch, New Jersey.
Although master tapes of the material in Atlantic's released back catalog fortunately survived due to being stored in New York, the fire destroyed or damaged an estimated reels of tape, including virtually all of the company's unreleased master tapes, alternate takes, rehearsal tapes and session multi-tracks recorded between and Atlantic was one of the first labels to record in stereo; many of the tapes that were lost were stereo 'alternates' recorded in the late s and s which Atlantic routinely taped simultaneously with the mono versions until the s as well as almost all of the 8-track multitrack masters recorded by Tom Dowd in the s and s.
According to Billboard journalist Bill Holland, news of the fire was kept quiet, and one Atlantic staffer who spoke to Holland reported that he did not find out about it until a year later. Fortunately, reissue producers and archivists subsequently located some tapes that were at first presumed 'lost', but which had survived because they had evidently been removed from the New Jersey archive years earlier and not returned. During the compilation of the Rhino-Atlantic John Coltrane boxed set, producer Joel Dorn located supposedly destroyed outtakes from Coltrane's seminal album Giant Steps , plus other treasures including Bobby Darin 's original Atco demo of " Dream Lover " with Fred Neil playing guitar.
Atlantic archivists have since rediscovered other 'lost' material including unreleased masters, alternate takes and rehearsal tapes by Ray Charles, Van "Piano Man" Walls , Ornette Coleman , Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz.
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.
Atlantic said that it was too early in Blunt's career, and that they did not want Blunt to become a one-hit wonder. Yankovic, afterward, began wearing T-shirts reading "Atlantic Records sucks" while performing live. Warner Communications merged with Time Inc. Interscope released notable gangsta rap titles — many in conjunction with Death Row Records. Pressure from activist groups opposed to gangsta rap, however, later led to parent company Time Warner's decision to sell Atlantic's stake in the label to MCA in A country music division, which was founded in the s, was closed in Records ' Nashville division.
The deal closed in early , consolidating Elektra Records and Atlantic into one label operated in the eastern United States. That year also saw Atlantic reach a milestone for major record labels : "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.
See also: Atlantic Records discography. Classic Atlantic logo used on singles; made the official logo in until Atlantic Records logo used from to ; revived in Atlantic Records.
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April 23, November 23, Vanilla Fudge. Jerry Wexler filled in and joined Atlantic as a partner, though Abramson retained the title of president. When Abramson returned from the Army in , he found Atlantic a changed company. His failing marriage to Miriam would end in divorce.
Abramson returned home from Germany with a pregnant girlfriend who became his second wife. Abramson ran the label on his own. He found success with The Coasters but was unable to get a hit with Bobby Darin. Abramson left Atlantic Records in December , selling his stake in the company to ex-wife Miriam Bienstock, who married music publisher Freddy Bienstock and Nesuhi Ertegun.
Ahmet Ertegun became president of the company. Abramson would start new record labels including Triumph, Blaze, and Festival. His most successful post-Atlantic recording was producing Hi-Heel Sneakers by Tommy Tucker released on Checker Records still able to compete in the industry as an independent label.
Abramson developed a method of cutting concentric grooves for a record, so a different recording could be heard depending on which groove the tonearm landed on. After leaving Atlantic, Abramson sold the patent to Mattel which used the process to develop the Chatty Cathy talking doll. Jackson, Linda and the Vistas, Mr. He moved A-1 Sound to 76th Street on the ground floor of a hotel off Broadway. The Godz recorded their first 3 albums at the West 56th Street studio in , and , and their 4th album at 76th Street in A-1 Sound was managed by his third wife, Barbara, who was with him to the end.
He died in Henderson, Nevada, in , seven days before his 83rd birthday. A new subsidiary label, Atco Records, was established in as an effort to keep Abramson involved. Johnny Houston and The Glowtones. Darin returned to Atlantic in
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