{"id":240,"date":"2006-12-14T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=240"},"modified":"2010-03-22T16:01:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:01:58","slug":"ahmet-ertegun-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2006\/12\/14\/ahmet-ertegun-r-i-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmet Ertegun &#8211; R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:180%;color:#993399;\"><strong>Ahmet Ertegun<br \/><\/strong><\/span><em><span style=\"color:#cc33cc;\">July 31, 1923 &#8211; December 14, 2006<br \/><\/span><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soulwalking.co.uk\/\u00c2\u00a5Artist%20GIF%20Images\/Ahmet-Ertegun-8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soulwalking.co.uk\/%A5Artist%20GIF%20Images\/Ahmet-Ertegun-8.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><strong>In 1947, <span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Ahmet Ertegun<\/span> and his partner Herb Abramson raised $10,000 and started <span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Atlantic Records<\/span> to showcase music that was generally being ignored by the majors; R&B; and Jazz. Atlantic would contribute greatly to the rise of Rock n&#8217; Roll by signing and popularizing artists such as Ray Charles, Big Joe Turner, LaVern Baker, Ruth Brown, Chuck Willis, The Coasters, The Drifters and The Clovers.<\/p>\n<p>Matt The Cat will air an interview he did with this true Rock n&#8217; Roll pioneer as well as play the records that made Atlantic Records the most import record label in history. Hear Ahmet&#8217;s demo of the song, &#8220;Mess Around&#8221;, which he recorded in order to get Ray Charles to record it and many more rarities, <span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Friday Night at 7pm EST &#8211; 4pm PST on XM&#8217;s 50s on 5.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmet ErtegunJuly 31, 1923 &#8211; December 14, 2006In 1947, Ahmet Ertegun and his partner Herb Abramson raised $10,000 and started Atlantic Records to showcase music that was generally being ignored by the majors; R&#038;B; and Jazz. Atlantic would contribute greatly to the rise of Rock n&#8217; Roll by signing and popularizing artists such as Ray [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-i-p"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}