Ahmet Eretgun Research Paper

When listening to the radio we often we usually hear the latest songs that are the most popular or newest hit. We think of the artist and how good he or she is and when their song will be available to download so we can jam out. What we do not realize is how that song came to be. Not the song originally, but the artist and how they got their music out to the public. Some people may know that when getting a song out you may have to go to a record company and see if you are star worthy. One of the most famous record companies out there that helped hundreds of artist today is know as Atlantic Records which was founded by the great Ahmet Eretgun. Ahmet Eretgun was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1923. His father was the ambassador of Turkey and so Eretgun traveled much of his childhood. He traveled to many European countries before his father came to the United States. Eretgun interest for music came to him at a young age when traveling the country with this family and seeing different kinds of artist. Some of the artist he saw in London was, Caleb Colloway and Duke Ellington. So when now living in American Eretgun became a regular at …show more content…
To Eretgun this was one of the best rock and roll bands, besides The Rolling Stones, that Atlantic Records has had. At this time though no one in the world had heard of this British band. Eretgun was so determined that they were the next big things that he had them rushed to his studio to record immediately. "During the Zeppelin years, Ahmet Eretgun was a major foundation of solidarity and accord. For us he WAS Atlantic Records and remained a close friend and conspirator - this performance stands alone as our tribute to the work and the life of our long standing friend," said Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin during the tribute concert for Eretgun. If it were not for Eretgun influence and push for Led Zeppelin we would not have known one of the greatest rock bands in