Nesuhi Ertegun was a Turkish-American record producer and executive of Atlantic Records and WEA International.
Nesuhi Ertegun
Nesuhi Ertegun (right) and his brother Ahmet Ertegun in the record room at the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C. (around 1940)
Ertegun's first credit on a record appeared in December 1942 on Jazz Man Records, a label he later purchased
Ertegun founded his first label, Crescent Records, with the express purpose of recording Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band (August 1944)
Atlantic Recording Corporation is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over the course of two decades, starting from the release of its first recordings in January 1948, Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most important American labels, specializing in jazz, R&B, and soul by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Ruth Brown and Otis Redding. Its position was greatly improved by its distribution deal with Stax. In 1967, Atlantic became a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, now the Warner Music Group, and expanded into rock and pop music with releases by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Led Zeppelin, and Yes.
"Weird Al" Yankovic edits Atlantic Records' Wikipedia page to read "YOU SUCK!" in the music video for the song "White & Nerdy"
