ABC-Paramount Records, 115, 133–36, 169, 190
Abramson, Barbara Heaton, 44, 45, 46, 108, 112, 115–17, 119
Abramson, Herb, 30, 42–49, 98, 99, 108–9, 240
Atlantic Records buyout of, 118–19
difficult final years at Atlantic Records of, 104–10, 113–19, 121–22, 133
as founding partner of Atlantic Records, xi, 42, 44–49, 51–54, 56–70, 73–76, 82–89, 92–93, 303
illness and death of, 118–19
military service of, 43–44, 88–89, 104, 107–9, 119, 133
record labels founded by, 118
Abramson, Miriam Kahan, see Bienstock, Miriam Kahan Abramson
Addams, Charles, 79
African Americans:
AE’s relations with, 24, 25–26, 28, 30–32, 40, 247–50
in military service, 55
northern migration of, 20–21
see also racism; segregation; slavery
Ain’t She Sweet, 152
Allen, Woody, 285
Allman Brothers, 270
All Things Must Pass, 141
Altamount concert, 225
American Bandstand, 120–22, 129, 134, 146
American Federation of Musicians, 44–45
American Revolution, 197
American Turkish Society, 299
Anderson, Ivie, 13
Anderson, Marion, 27
Anderson, Pamela, 331–34, 346, 350
Andrea Doria, 153
Animals, 183
Anthology Film Archives, xvi
anti-Americanism, 17
anti-Semitism, 2, 17, 22, 25, 43, 275
Apollo Records, 51
Apollo Theater, 24, 59, 62, 75, 76, 85, 90, 98, 268
Arc Music, 96
Aristocrat Records, 52
Armenian Genocide, 17–19
Armstrong, Louis, xvii, 10, 14, 23, 26, 63, 124, 271, 345
Army, U.S., 43–44, 54, 55, 84, 88–89, 91, 107, 119
Ashley, Ted, 214, 256, 259, 279
Atco Records, 109–10, 114, 118, 121, 123, 125, 153, 167, 179, 187, 211, 232, 305, 312
Atlantic Foundation, 300
Atlantic Recording Corporation, 46, 53, 72, 109
Atlantic Records, 31, 41, 44–49
AE as founder of, xix, 1–3, 42, 44–89, 91–119, 122–26, 130–41, 146–62, 167–80, 188–95
departure of artists from, 82, 131–36, 168, 174, 188, 251
distributors of, 53, 55, 57, 87, 88, 162, 276
first 331/3 RPM of, 54
first recording of, 47
fortieth anniversary concert of, 299, 303–8
Mafia and, 158–62
offices and studios of, 48, 51, 52, 55, 82, 98, 118, 138, 148
partners in, xi, xvii, 42, 45–48, 91–98, 131
promotional practices of, 125–28, 130–31
publishing arm of, 76, 89, 96, 104, 152, 161
purchase and merger offers for, 116–17, 156–58, 188–95
Rolling Stones signed by, 229–33
subsidiary labels of, 104, 105–6, 109–10, 114, 118, 121, 123, 125
twenty-fifth anniversary of, 276–77
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built, 344–45
“A-You’re Adorable,” 61
“Baby Don’t Go,” 166–67, 168–69
“Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand,” 74
Baker, Ginger, 210, 212–13, 215–16
Baker, Josephine, 10
Baker, Mickey “Guitar,” 100
Balakian, Peter, 18
“Ballad of Tom Joad, The” (Guthrie), 25
Banu, Georghe, 142–43
Banu, Natalia Gologan, 142–43
Barclay, Eddie, 236–37
Barlow, William, 127–28
Basie, Count, 26, 99, 112, 128, 135, 245
“Bawitdaba,” 329
BBC, 14
Beach Boys, 165
Beatles, xviii, 13, 117, 141, 149–52, 158, 180, 211, 224–25, 243, 307
Beckenbauer, Franz, 285–86
Begle, Howell, 294–303
Bennett, Tony, 89
Benton, Walter, 53–54
Berns, Bert, 139, 151, 160–62, 216, 301
Best Sellers chart, 56
Beyond the Sea, 342
Bienstock, Miriam Kahan Abramson, 43–44, 49–51, 63, 80–84, 87–88, 116, 135, 164, 275
at Atlantic Records, 51, 53, 60, 66, 74, 87, 91, 104, 107–9, 117, 126, 139, 155, 190, 209, 340
Big Beat, 121
Big Tree Records, 312
Bihari brothers, 51
Billboard, 64–65, 89, 91, 135, 137, 201, 298
“The Atlantic Records Story, 1948–1958” in, 125–26
Billy Ward and the Dominoes, xv, 132
“Black and Tan Fantasy,” 13, 271
black roots music, 44, 92, 149, 233, 248
Blackwell, Chris, 136, 208–9, 213, 215, 217–18, 226–27
Blaine, Jerry, 44, 60, 86, 128
Blanche Calloway Associates, 64–65
Blind Faith, 214–15
Blood, Sweat & Tears, 192, 228
Bloomberg, Michael, xvii
Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues (Deffaa), 65
blues, 24, 31, 44, 56, 58, 63, 67–70, 75, 77, 98–99, 180, 240–41
Chicago, 40
electric, 219
Kansas City, 26
Texas, 40
twelve-bar, 56
Blue Thumb Records, 129, 159, 226
Blunt, James, 344–45
“Bo Diddley,” 97
Bodrum, AE’s summer home in, 277, 278, 306, 324–25, 330, 353–54
Bonham, John, 216, 217, 220–21, 304, 307
Bono, Sonny, 164–70, 172–75, 262–63
bootleg records, 56, 57, 161, 162, 311
Brillstein, Bernie, 279–80
British Invasion, 149–52, 208–22
Bronfman, Edgar, Jr., 319–20, 338
Brown, Ruth, 58–66, 75, 79, 230, 294–99, 301–3, 305
Browne, Jackson, 253–55
Brubeck Dave, 84
Bryn Mawr, 35
Buckley, William F., 278
Buffalo Springfield, 181
Buffalo Springfield, xviii, 165, 167–87, 190, 197, 200, 204–5
Buffalo Springfield Again, 187
“Bugle Call Rag,” 13
Bunk Johnson and His Orchestra, 42
Burke, Solomon, xvii, xix, 266, 301
Burning Tigris, The: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response (Balakian), 18
Bush, George W., 278
Cajun music, 69
California Courier, The, 19
Calloway, Blanche, 60–62, 64–66
Calloway, Dorothy, 303
Canada, 142, 144–45, 147, 148, 177, 239
Capitol Records, 61, 140, 150, 152
Capote, Truman, 243
Cardinals, 86
“From Spirituals to Swing” concerts at, 98
Carol II, King of Romania, 142, 143
Cavett, Dick, 243
CBS Records, 251, 270, 281–82, 312
Chantly, Frances, xv, 336, 348, 351
“Chapel of Love,” 155–56
Chaplin, Charlie, 9–10
Charles, Ray, 73–75, 82, 101–3, 105, 123, 131–36, 230, 305, 340–41
AE’s relationship with, 74–75, 77–78, 102, 131, 135–36, 213
Atlantic Records loss of, 131–36, 140, 188
Checker, Chubby, 146
Cher, 164–70, 172–75, 262–63, 325
Chess, Leonard, 52, 74, 94–98, 226, 230
Chess, Marshall, 94–96, 127–28, 226, 229, 238, 242
Chess Records, 52, 74, 94–98, 118, 129, 188–89, 226, 229, 300
Chevy Chase Club, 25
Chicago, Ill., 31, 37, 52, 93–98
Chinaglia, Giorgio, 285–86
Chords, 105
Cincinnati Records, 55
Civil War, U.S., 21
Clapton, Eric, xvii, xix, 210, 212–13, 305
Clark, Bob, 40–41
Clark, Gene, 197
Clark, Sam, 133–34
Clarkson, Lana, 141
Cleveland, Ohio, 290–92
Clift, Montgomery, 53–54
Clinton, Bill, 348
Coasters, 110, 125, 138, 153, 154, 155, 304
“Cold, Cold Heart,” 89
Cold War, 60
Collins, Judy, 196
Columbia Records, 89, 192, 199, 202, 208, 209, 227–28, 253, 257, 259
Como, Perry, 61
compact discs (CDs), 317, 337–38
Concours d’Elegance, 10
Condon, Eddie, 63
Conyers, John, 298
Corey, Professor Irwin, 128
Crazy World of Arthur Brown, 2
Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds (Kinzer), 3
Crew Cuts, 105–6
Crosby, David, xviii, 197–99, 201–4, 207–8, 271, 274, 304
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, 205–7, 233, 235, 253, 254
Crosby, Stills & Nash, xviii, 185–86, 196–204, 207–8, 215, 254, 305
Crowley, Aleister, 220
“Cry to Me,” xix
Cummings, Mildred, 39–40, 61, 63
Darin, Bobby, xviii, 113–14, 120–25, 135, 139–40, 165, 168, 224, 342
Daughters of the American Revolution, 27
Davis, Clive, 192, 194, 200–203, 216–17, 227–29, 253, 270
Davis, Dickie, 178–79
Davis, Eddie “Lockjaw,” 59
Day, Doris, 61
Decca Records, 56–57, 100, 113, 123, 224, 227
“race music” department of, 55
Dee, Sandra, 139–40
Deffaa, Chip, 65
Def Jam Records, 338–40
Déjà Vu, 205
DeParis, Sidney, 30
DeParis, Wilbur, 100
Depression, Great, 15, 37, 69, 92, 199
Devil Without a Cause, 328
Dickins, Rob, 318–19
Diddley, Bo, 97
Diller, Barry, 275
Divine Miss M, The, 334
“Dock of the Bay,” 184
Donahue, Tom “Big Daddy,” 129
Donnet, Jacqueline, 79
“Don’t You Know I Love You,” 86–87
Doors, 183
doo-wop, 137
Dowd, Tom, 83–85, 87, 106, 122, 132, 154, 196, 204, 207, 212–13, 216, 262–63
“Down by the Riverside,” xix
“Dream Lover,” 124
Drifters, 105, 132, 138, 154, 155, 301, 304
“Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee,” xvii, 55–57
Duke, Vernon, 53–54
Dylan, Bob, 68, 197, 244, 257–59, 266
Eastman, Lee, 156–57
Elektra-Asylum Records, 256–57, 259–60
Elektra Records, 29, 206, 227, 253, 276, 290, 294, 310
Elizabeth II, Queen of England, 12
Ellington, Duke, 12–14, 23, 60, 85, 271
Elliot, Cass, 198
Ellis, Wilbert “Big Chief,” 56
Emmett, Jay, 278–79, 282, 283–84
Epic Records, 199
Eralp, Orhan, 38
Ertegun, Ahmet, 18–19
alien immigration status of, 71–72
art collection of, 277, 303, 322–24
childhood and adolescence of, 4, 7–16, 20–32, 34–36, 42, 283, 326
conservative politics of, 278
constant travel of, 7, 10, 15–16, 66–70, 72, 354
documentary film on, xvi, 344–45
education of, 10, 15, 22–23, 24–25, 26–27, 28–29, 35, 37, 38, 50, 71–72
as father figure, xvii, xviii, 58, 138, 140, 187, 209, 222
field trips of, 66–70, 86, 93–98, 106, 240
fifty years in record business celebrated by, 321
final illness and death of, xvi, 19, 349–52
first marriage and divorce of, 78–82, 131
fluent language skills of, xvii, 8, 10, 23, 25, 29, 30, 106, 344
girlfriends of, 38–39, 50–51, 67, 110–11, 142
health concerns of, 317–18, 334–36, 345–46
income of, 53, 73, 79, 81, 125
Islamic tradition and, 7, 10, 22, 353–54
leftist intellectual background of, 25, 26
lust for hits as addiction of, 57, 93, 98
memorial tribute to, xv–xix
nonstop nightlife of, 81–82, 88, 110–12, 139, 142, 145–46, 288, 324
patent development company run by, 52, 73
physical appearance and style of, 27–28, 49–50, 110, 163, 164, 187, 252, 255, 269, 270, 277, 331, 333, 348
practical jokes of, 116, 139, 198, 211, 276
public image of, 231, 234, 244–45
record collection of, 26, 38, 45, 81
second marriage of, 145–46
smoking and drinking of, xviii, 1, 26, 28, 94, 223, 230, 326, 335
social standing of, 11–12, 34–35, 40, 49–50, 97, 163–64, 245, 277–78
songwriting of, 76–77, 86–87, 92, 99, 105, 129, 132–33, 301
sports interests of, 176, 283–86
start of, in record business, 39–42
storytelling of, 1–2, 20, 163, 171–72, 214–16, 238–39, 255, 306
stroke and heart surgery of, 334–35
Turkish burial of, 352–54
Turkish heritage of, 1, 2–7, 10–11, 18–19, 325
unique personality of, 30, 31, 38, 92–93, 203, 222, 233, 245, 255
wealth and philanthropy of, 18, 73, 193, 195, 254, 276–78
womanizing of, xvi, 241, 325–27
Ertegun, Hayrunnisa Rustem (mother), 5–12, 14–16, 29–30, 34–35, 353
widowhood of, 38, 50, 71, 80, 145
Ertegun, Ioana Maria Banu “Mica” (second wife), xvi, 137, 142–49, 151, 163, 170, 192, 232–33, 242–45, 269–71, 275, 277, 330, 352–54
on AE, xviii, 144–45, 159, 191, 236–37, 318, 323, 327, 332, 334–36, 341, 345, 349–50
Ertegun, Marili Mordern, 39
Ertegun, Mehmet Munir (father), 4–12, 22, 25, 244, 353
AE’s relationship with, 26, 29
diplomatic career of, 4–8, 10–12, 14–18, 32–36, 77, 97, 110
illness and death of, 35–36, 37–38, 44, 45, 131
Ertegun, Nesuhi (brother), xvii, 4, 7–11, 34, 58, 78, 92, 242, 257
AE’s relationship with, 9, 14, 24–25, 26, 27, 29–30, 32, 39, 48–49, 72, 95, 106, 191, 310–12, 343
at Atlantic Records, 104, 106–9, 119, 125–26, 135, 169, 175, 184, 188–91, 194, 212, 267
Crescent Records founded by, 48, 53
illness and death of, 311–12
jazz concerts presented by, 32, 43, 98
jazz knowledge of, 27, 29–30, 106–7, 194
marriages of, 29, 39, 106, 311
sports interests of, 29, 283–86
Ertegun, Rustem, 311
Ertegun, Selma (sister), 25, 35, 36, 38, 39, 41, 50, 145
AE’s correspondence with, 52–53, 71, 81
childhood and adolescence of, 7–10, 12, 15–16, 18, 21–22, 27, 39, 45–46
Turkish Foreign Ministry job of, 80–81
European Union (EU), 19
Evans, Suzan Hochberg, 266, 288–91
Everett, Edward Hamlin, 21
Excello Records, 229
Exile on Main Street, 238–39, 245
Fabian, 134
Fanning, Shawn, 336–37
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 130, 189, 327
Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 129–30
“Find the Cost of Freedom,” 206
Fine, Jason, 330–31
“Fire,” 2
Firmani, Eddie, 286
Fitzgerald, Ella, 60
“5–10–15 Hours,” 64
Fleetwood Mac, 312
Fleming, Ian, 170
Flom, Jason, 186, 237, 328–30, 336, 340
Ford, Gerald, 278
Forty Days of Musa Dagh, The (Werfel), 16–18, 34
“For What It’s Worth,” 182–83
4 way Street, 235
Francis, Panama, 122
Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, 156
Franklin, Aretha, 188, 190, 192, 194, 305, 331, 336, 339, 344
Freed, Alan, 114–15, 121, 129–30, 291, 295
Freeman, Bud, 288
Friedman, Barry, 177–78
Fuchs, Michael, 319–20
Furay, Richie, 176–78, 180, 202
Gabin, Jean, 10
Gable, Clark, 34
Gabor, Zsa Zsa, 244
Gaiety Burlesque Theater, 24
Gallipoli, Battle of, 2
Geffen, David, xvii–xviii, 2, 140, 199–207, 231–33, 242, 252–64, 273–75, 282, 315, 321, 325, 337
on AE, 200–201, 231, 252, 254, 261, 274, 325, 327
Gelb, Arthur, 147
Genius of Ray Charles, The, 135
Genovese family, 161
Georgetown University, 35, 38, 71
George V, King of England, 12, 13
“Georgia,” 344
Germany, Nazi, 33, 35, 143, 284
Goats Head Soup, 245–46
Goksel, Selma, 34
Goldenson, Leonard, 133
Gold Star Studios, 164, 165, 179
“Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,” 31
Goodman, Benny, 96
gospel music, 40, 42, 44, 67, 74, 101, 102, 131
Gottlieb, Delia, 30, 49–50, 78, 108
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 43
Graceland, 291
Graham, Bill, 206, 220, 269–70
Grant, Peter, 217–22
Grateful Dead, 257
Grecianu, Stephen, 143–44, 147
Greenberg, Jerry, 227, 231–32, 242, 260–61, 263–64, 271, 279–81, 283, 308, 312–13, 343
Greene, Charlie, 165–76, 178–79, 181–87, 210
Guthrie, Woody, 25
Hackford, Taylor, xv, xvii, 340–41, 347
Hammond, John, 41, 62, 98, 287, 291
Hampton, Gladys, 42
Harlem Records, 55
Harvard University, 27, 128, 268–69
Law School of, 33
Hays Office, 17
“Helplessly Hoping,” xviii
Hendrix, Jimi, 183, 204–5, 217
Hentoff, Nat, 106–7
Here Is My Heart (film), 22
Hersch, Stuart, 318–19
Hertzberg, Hendrik, 269
“Hey Jude,” 307
Higginbotham, J. C., 32
hippie culture, 127
Hirschfield, Alan J., 191–94, 281
Hockney, David, 324
Holly, Buddy, 113, 123, 197, 291
Hollywood, Calif., 34, 58, 78, 140
Holm, Jan (first wife), 78–82
Holt, Georgia, 165, 166, 171–72
Holzman, Jac, 29, 206, 216, 227–28, 256, 259, 317, 321
Hootie and the Blowfish, 328
Hope, Bob, 93
Horowitz, David, 259, 265, 276, 278–80, 317
“Hound Dog,” 153
House of Representatives, U.S., 174
Interstate Commerce Committee of, 128–31
Legislative Oversight Committee hearings in, 128–31
payola hearings in, 128–31
quiz show hearings in, 128–29
“House That Jack Built, The,” 129
Hughes, Jenni Trent, 80, 277, 322, 325–26
Hull, Cordell, 18
Hutton, Barbara, 34
“I Can’t Get No Satisfaction,” 224
Ickes, Harold L., 27
“I Got a Woman,” 101–3, 105, 123, 132
“I Got You Babe,” 169–70
Iliad, The (Homer), 29
independent record companies, 51–52, 55, 57, 76–77, 89, 162
Industrial Improvements company, 52
Interstate Commerce Committee of, House of Representatives, U.S., 128–31
Iraq War, 278
Islam, 33
Island Records, 136, 209, 227, 339
Istanbul, 4–7, 8, 17, 21, 352–54
Istanbul University, 4
iTunes, 337–38
Jackson, Jesse, 248–50, 298, 300
Jackson, Willis “Gator Tail,” 64
Jagger, Bianca, 236–38, 242, 262, 306
Jagger, Jade, 238
Jagger, Mick, xv, xviii, 223–42, 245–51, 262, 272, 286, 293, 334, 349
AE’s love of, 1, 14, 23–24, 26, 27, 28, 30–32, 39–40, 323–24
jargon of, 31
Jazz at Lincoln Center, xvi
Jazz Hall of Fame, xvii
Jazzman Record Shop, 39
Jerusalem, 3
Jobs, Steve, 337
Joey Dee & the Starliters, 146–47
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, 291
Jones, John Paul, 217
Jones, Pat, 110–11
Joplin, Janis, 192
Joyce, James, 26
Jubilee Records, 42, 44, 45, 60, 86
Jung, Carl, 73
Kallman, Craig, 336, 340, 346–48
Karp, Andy, 327–28
Kaufman, Jean, 120–21
Kaufman, Murray “The K,” 120, 121, 123, 211
Kaus, Bob, 345–46
see also Ataturk, Kemal
Kempner, Nan, 191–92
Kempner, Tommy, 191–92
Kenton, Stan, 41
KFWB, 172
Kid Rock, xvii, xix, 327–35, 343–44, 346, 348, 350, 352–53
Kincaid, Jamaica, 272–73
King, Ben E., xvii, 138, 155, 266, 301, 304, 344
King Records, 51, 74, 129, 146
Kirshner, Don, 113
Kissinger, Henry, xi, xvii, 284, 286, 297–99, 305–7
KMPX, 129
Kramer, Stanley, 43
Krasnow, Bob, 129, 159, 226, 290, 294, 310
KRLA, 172
LaFlamme, David, 202
Landeau, Erith, 330, 346, 350–52, 354
Landon School, 22–23, 24–25, 26–27
Last Time Around, 187
Lauderdale, Jack, 74–75
Lava Records, 327–29
Lazar, Shelley, 349–50
Led Zeppelin, xviii, 186, 217–22, 224, 227, 304, 307, 336
Lee, Tommy, 331
Le Gallienne, Eva, 54
Leiber, Jerry, 137–38, 153–58, 160, 301
Leland, Mickey, 298–300
Let It Be, 141
Levy, Morris, 65, 112, 114, 115, 128, 147, 159, 162, 301
Lewis, John, 107
“The Children of Bob Dylan” in, 173
Linkletter, Art, 199
London, 11–14, 23, 180, 199, 208–10, 213–14, 352
London Palladium, 12–14, 23, 60, 271
London Peace Conference of 1921, 6
London Records, 223
Longhair, Professor, 68–70, 94, 240
“Long Time Coming,” 203
López, Ramón, 310
Los Angeles, Calif., 39, 48–49
“Love Is Strange,” 166
“Love Me Do,” 151
“Lovey Dovey,” 105
Lowenstein, Rupert, 227–29, 233–34, 242, 246, 251, 349
Lucchese, Tommy, 161
Luther, Martin, 3
MAC, II, 271
McCartney, Linda Eastman, 156
McCartney, Paul, 132, 156, 206
McGhee, Brownie, 56
McGrath, Earl, 211
McGuinn, Jim, 197–98
“Mack the Knife,” 124–25
McPhatter, Clyde, 105, 110, 132–33
McTell, Blind Willie, 67–68, 69–70
Madison Square Garden, 51, 214, 225, 242–43, 299, 303–8
Mafia, 82, 128, 147, 158–62, 347
Magritte, René, 323
Mallarmé, Stephen, 10
“Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean,” 64
March of Time, The, 63
Marcus, Greil, 100–101
“Mardi Gras in New Orleans,” 70
Margaret Rose, Princess of England, 12, 324
marijuana, 26, 31, 101, 108, 127, 203, 236, 244
Marsala, Joe, 32
Marsalis, Wynton, xvi–xvii, xix
Marsh, Dave, 64–65, 287, 299–303, 335
Marshall, Paul G., 116–17, 123, 128, 129–30, 139, 150–51, 158–61, 189–90
Marxism, 90
Mattel Corporation, 118
Mayer, Louis B., 199, 203, 260
Mecca, 4
Mesner, Eddie and Leo, 51–52, 97
“Mess Around,” 73, 77, 102, 131
Messina, Jim, 202
Metallica, 294
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 17–18, 34, 199, 260
Mezzrow, Mezz, 30, 31, 91, 138
MGM Records, 132–33
Michael, King of Romania, 143
Midler, Bette, xvii, xviii, 262, 305, 333–34
Millinder, Lucky, 59
Mills Brothers, 10
Mirage Records, 281
Mirren, Helen, xvi
Miss Leila, 325
Missouri, USS, 36
Miss Rhythm (Brown and Yule), 61–62, 65
Mitchell, Joni, 199, 204, 215, 254–55, 274
M. Munir Ertegun Turkish Studies Foundation, 18
Modern Records, 51
Monterey Pop Festival, 192, 197, 211
Montreux Jazz Festival, 343–44
Moon, Keith, 217
Moonstruck, 174
Morgado, Bob, 298, 299, 309–12, 314–16, 318–21
Morgan, Russ, 63
Morris, Doug, 252, 275, 283, 287, 294, 305, 312–13, 328, 336, 338–39, 343, 348
Morton, Jelly Roll, 288
Motion Picture Production Code, 17
Motown Records, 189
“Mr. Tambourine Man,” 197
Munir, Mehmet, see Ertegun, Mehmet Munir
Muppets, The, 279–80
Murray, Jean, 121
Murray, Wallace, 17
Music Man (Wade and Picardie), 160
Naftalin, Mark, 204–5
Naples Museum of Art, 323
Napster, 337
Nash, Graham, xviii, 187, 196–99, 201–3, 206–8, 271, 274, 304
National Committee on American Foreign Policy, 299
National Records, 37, 44, 84, 85, 98
National Review, 278
“Needles and Pins,” 164
New Orleans, La., 48, 55, 56, 68–70, 93–94, 240–41, 287, 291
Newport Jazz Festival, 347
New School for Social Research, 72
News from Atlantic, 104–5
New York, City College of (CCNY), 43, 84, 90
New York, N.Y., 16
Harlem, 25–26, 31, 42, 59, 90, 147
New York Daily News, 285
profile of AE in, 231, 268–69, 272–74
New York Jets, 283
New York Journal-American, 110
New York Post, 268
“Page Six” of, xvi
New York Times, 147, 244, 263, 273, 286, 311, 333
New York University (NYU), 43, 44, 90
New York World’s Fair of 1939, 30
Nicks, Stevie, xviii, 312, 343
Nitzsche, Jack, 186–87
Nixon, Richard, 80
Nobs, Claude, 343–44
Odyssey, The (Homer), 29
Oetegen, Fredrick, 83
“Oh, Didn’t He Ramble,” xvii
“Ohio,” 205–6
Okeh Records, 85
“Old Black Magic,” 50
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 170–72, 183, 243, 269, 291
“Open the Door, Richard,” 44
Ory, Kid, 48
Ostin, Mo, 2, 166–67, 187, 216–17, 258, 263, 266, 276, 278, 310–12, 316, 334
Armenian Genocide by, 17–19
Oz, Mehmet, 335
Page, Oren “Hot Lips,” 26
Pallenberg, Anita, 234, 236–38
Palmer, Bruce, 165, 177, 183–84, 202
Paramount Pictures, 22
Paris, 8, 10, 26, 33, 144, 276, 354
payola scandal of 1960, 128–31, 192
PBS American Masters series, xvi, 344–45
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, 33
Pei, I. M., 291–92
Pendergast, “Boss” Tom, 98
Peppermint Lounge, 142, 146–48, 149, 159
Petit Lycée Janson de Sailly, 10
Philles Records, 140
Phillips, Dewey, 106
Phillips, Sam, 100, 106, 287, 291
Picardie, Justine, 160
Pickett, Wilson, 190, 192, 196, 210, 211, 232, 249–50, 306–7
“Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie,” 77
Planet Waves, 257
Plant, Robert, 216, 217, 219, 221–22, 287, 343–44
Plantation Club, 25–26
Pomus, Doc, 48, 83, 108, 297–98, 300–301
popular music, 41, 61, 98, 124
Porter, Cole, 85
Posner, Mel, 260–61
Power, Tyrone, 54
Presley, Elvis, 85, 100, 106, 113, 121, 126, 147, 153, 203, 291
Princeton University, Near Eastern Studies Department of, 18
Progressive Music, 76, 89, 96, 104, 152
prostitution, 127–28
Puritanism, 33
Quality Records, 42
“Queen of the Hop,” 122
radio deejays, 50, 52, 93, 95–96, 101, 120, 126–31, 149, 172, 257
annual conventions of, 127–28, 130–31
payola demanded by, 114–15, 129–31, 192
ragtime, 69
Rainey, Ma, 63
R&B charts, 64, 87, 91, 100, 105, 138, 153, 154
Rathbun, Walter “Bunny,” 78–79
Ray, Johnnie, 89
RCA Victor, 67, 113, 127, 129–30
Reagan, Ronald, 278
Really the Blues (Mezzrow and Wolfe), 31
Recording Industry Association of America, 337
Redding, Otis, 184, 189, 192, 249, 304, 307, 341
Renoir, Jean, 10
Reprise Records, 166, 187, 192, 214
Rex, SS, 15–16
Rhone, Sylvia, 315
rhythm and blues (R&B), 50, 51, 59–60, 64, 84, 91, 98–103, 105–6, 122, 288
Rhythm & Blues Foundation, 64, 299, 300–304
Richards, Keith, xv, xviii, 141, 224, 226, 228–30, 234–38, 240, 247, 293, 348–51
RICO act, 296–98
“Ring Dem Bells,” 13
“River Deep-Mountain High,” 141
Roberts, Elliot, 199–200, 205, 207, 254
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, xviii, 266, 288–94, 302, 334, 335
Ahmet Ertegun Archive at, 27–28
Ahmet Ertegun Award of, 293
first honorees of, 290–91
Rockefeller, David, 299
Rockefeller, Nelson, 284
rock ’n’ roll, 77, 85–86, 103, 113, 120–25, 136, 149, 153, 176–87
“Rock ’n’ Roll,” xviii
Rock ’n’ Roll Party, The, 114
Rohatyn, Felix, 310
Rolling Stone, xv, 31, 141, 213, 240, 289, 330–31, 332
Rolling Stones, xviii, 3, 141, 151, 165, 223–251, 272, 348–50
Rolling Stones Records, 229, 247
Rolontz, Bob, 201–2
Romania, 142–44
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 54
Rooney, Mickey, 171
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 27, 33, 36
Rose, Charlie, 340–41
Rose, Jane, 348–51
Ross, Steve, 2, 214–15, 229, 254–59, 261, 263, 278–85, 294, 298, 305, 309–10, 313–17, 321
Roulette Records, 65, 112, 128, 147, 156, 159
Rubell, Steve, 271–72
Rudge, Peter, 225–26, 231, 239, 241–42, 245, 248, 251
Rumsfeld, Donald, 278
Sabit, Vahdi, as Atlantic Records partner, 45–47, 52, 53, 73, 190
St. Albans School, 22
St. John’s College, 28–29, 35, 41, 256
Sam Donahue Orchestra, 50
Sander, Ellen, 45, 204, 206, 220
Santo Domingo, Julio Mario, 111, 145, 335
Sassounian, Harut, 19
“Satchelmouth Swing,” 26
Savoy Ballroom, 90
Savoy Records, 51
Schönberg, Arnold, 13
Schrager, Ian, 272
“Sea of Love,” 221
Sears, Xenas, 101
segregation, 20–21, 23, 27, 78
Selective Service Act, 70–71
“Send Me Someone to Love,” xvii
“Seven Days,” 133
“Shake, Rattle and Roll,” 64, 100–101, 102–3, 105, 152, 267
Shakespeare, William, 54
Shaw, Milt, 133–34
Shawn, William, 272
“Sh-Boom,” 105–6
“Shreveport Stomp,” 288
Sill, Lester, 137–38, 140, 153
Silverman, Max “Waxie Maxie,” 23, 42, 49, 61, 86, 312
Simon, Veronique, 325, 332–33, 345
Simon and Garfunkel, 228
Sinatra, Frank, 82, 114, 134, 166, 193–94
Singleton, Zutty, 32
“Sioux City Sue,” 44
Smith, Joe, 2, 127, 257–59, 265, 276, 278, 319–20
Smith, Patti, xvi
Smith, Pinetop, 77
“Smokey Joe’s Cafe,” 153
Sobol, Louis, 110
Some Girls, 246–48
“Some of These Days,” 13
Sonny and Cher, 163, 164–70, 172–75, 178, 181, 183, 185, 280
Spacey, Kevin, 342
Spanish Civil War, 25
“Spanish Harlem,” 138
Spector, Phil, 137–41, 151, 154–55, 164–65, 167, 203, 213
“Spider, The,” 50
“Splish Splash,” 120–25
Springfield, Dusty, 216–18
Springsteen, Bruce, 290, 293, 334
“Stairway to Heaven,” 221
“Stand by Me,” 301
Star Records, 70
State Department, U.S., 17–18, 33
Steele, Tommy, 218
Stein, Seymour, 89, 156–57, 289, 291
Steinbeck, John, 25
Steinberg, Susan, 344–45
Stewart, Jim, 189
Sticky Fingers, 234–35
Stigwood, Robert, 2, 198, 210–16, 233, 246, 280
Stills, Stephen, xviii–xix, 176–87, 196–208, 231, 233–34, 304
Stockholm, 153
Stoller, Mike, 137–38, 152, 153–58, 160, 301
Stone, Brian, 165–76, 178–79, 181–87, 210
Stone, Jessie, 64, 75–77, 85–87, 92, 99–100
“Stormy Weather,” 13
“Strange Brew,” 212
“Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” 196–97
Sullivan, Ed, 149
“Sunshine of Your Love,” 212
Sutton, Percy, 248
Taylor, Sam “The Man,” 100
“Teardrops from My Eyes,” 64
teenage dance shows, 120–22
Ten-East Music, 178–79
“There Goes My Baby,” 154
This Is My Beloved (Benton), 53–54
Threepenny Opera, The (Weill and Brecht), 124
Time Warner, 315, 316, 322, 338
“Tipitina,” 70
“To Know Him Is to Love Him,” 137
Top Ten chart, 59, 105, 122, 125, 132, 182, 183, 219, 255, 313
Tosches, Nick, 100
Totten, George, Jr., 21
“Treasure of Love,” 133
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 6
Treaty of Lausanne, 4
Treaty of Sèvres, 3–4
Trotsky, Leon, 90
Trow, George, 231, 233–34, 268–69, 271–74
Truman, Harry S., 36
Trump, Donald, 352
Tucker, Sophie, 13
Turkey, Republic of, 3–8, 10–11, 14–19, 21, 35–36, 38, 50, 77, 80, 145, 151, 190, 277, 299, 320, 352–54
Armenian Genocide denied by, 17–19
Foreign Affairs Office of, 17
1980 military coup in, 306
Turkish army, 2
Turkish Parliament, 18
Turner, Ike, 141
Turner, Joe, 32, 75, 76, 90, 94, 96, 98–100, 105, 267, 297–98, 300
Turner’s Arena, 59
Twist, 146–47
“Twist and Shout,” 139, 151, 160
200 Motels, 342
Ulysses (Joyce), 26
United Artists, 116–17, 132, 155
United Artists Records, 281
United Nations (UN), 38, 142, 144
Universal Music, 320
Universal Studios, 79
Urban II, Pope, 3
Van Walls, Harry “Piano Man,” 76, 87
Vaughan, Sarah, 44, 59, 60, 63
Vee-Jay Records, 150, 151, 188
Viera, Meredith, 297
Vietnam War, 295
Vogel, Sheldon, 216, 271, 280–81, 287, 314
Voice of America, 60
Voinovich, George, 290
Voltaire, 3
von Papen, Franz, 33
Vreeland, Diana, 163–64, 171, 269, 272
Wade, Dorothy, 160
Wakschal, Francine, 51, 295, 296
Waller, Fats, 26
Warhol, Andy, 234, 242, 243, 272
Waring, Richard, 54
Warner Brothers Records, 127, 132, 166, 187, 257, 266, 276, 310, 312, 318, 319, 334
Warner Brothers-Seven Arts, 191–95, 214
Warner Communications, 255, 264–65, 276, 278, 282, 284–86, 309–10, 313–17
Warner Music Group, 276, 281–83, 294, 298–99, 310, 316–17, 320, 338–39
Warner Music International, 310
Warner U.S. Music Group, 318–20
Waronker, Lenny, 178
Washington, D.C., 12, 14, 20–24, 26–28, 33–36, 59–60
black neighborhoods of, 20–21, 23–24, 40
segregation in, 20–21, 23, 27, 30–32
Turkish embassy in, 21–22, 25, 30–32, 34–36, 38, 50, 91, 283
Washington, Dina, 59
Washington, George, 197
Washington, Harold, 290
Washington, Sister Ernestine, 42
“Swing Session” column in, 30
Waters, Muddy, xviii, 96, 97, 244–45
WBLS, 248
Webster, Ben, 39
Weill, Kurt, 124
Wein, George, 347
Wein, Joyce, 347
Weintraub, Jerry, 281
Weiss, Richard, 124
Welsh, Walter S., 71–72
Wenner, Jann, xv, xviii, 141, 213, 289, 291–93, 332, 350–54
Werfel, Franz, 16–18
West, Kanye, 339
Wexler, Anita, 162
Wexler, Arthur, 90
Wexler, Elsa Spitz, 89–91
on AE, xi, xvii, 92, 97, 265–66, 308
AE’s relationship with, 92–94, 98, 148–49, 152, 154, 158, 260–61, 264–67, 276, 305, 307–8
background and education of, 89–91, 97
failure of, to sign Beatles, 151–52
as partner in Atlantic Records, xi, xvii, 91–98, 100–107, 109, 115–19, 122–26, 131–36, 138–39, 151–62, 176, 178, 185–86, 188–95, 249–53, 257–62, 264–67, 270
Wexler, Shirley Kampf, 91
WFIL television, 120
“Whatcha Gonna Do,” 133
“What’d I Say,” 131–32
Wheels of Fire, 212–13
Whiskey A Go Go, 177–78
Whiteman, Paul, 10
Who, The, 2, 211, 217, 219, 305
“Whole Lotta Love,” 221
WIBG, 129
Widows Club, xviii
Wilentz, Sean, 67
William J. Clinton Foundation, 348
William Morris Agency, 199–200
Williams, Hank, 89
Williams, J. Mayo, 55–56
Willis, Chuck, 122–23
Williston, Carol, 39
Williston, Tom, 39
Wilson, Brian, 165
Wilson, Derby, 13
Winwood, Stevie, 204, 210–14, 343, 344
WLIB, 248
Wolcott, James, 275
Wolfe, Bernard, 31
Wolfe, Tom, xvi, 140, 146–47, 163
Woodlawn Cemetery, 347–48
Woods, Noreen, 151, 249–50, 289, 326
Woodstock Festival, 117, 204, 225
World War II:
fall of Paris in, 33
Japanese surrender in, 36
Pearl Harbor attack in, 33
Wright, Claudia, 299
Wyman, Bill, 234, 238, 240, 245
Yale University, 78, 127, 257, 263
Yenge, Madame, 9
Yetnikoff, Walter, 251, 281–83, 312
Young, Neil, xviii–xix, 176–81, 197, 199, 205–8, 305, 352
Young, Scott, 177
Young Rascals, 188
Youngstein, Max, 116–17
Young Turks, 17
Yule, Andrew, 61
Zappa, Frank, 342
Zipkin, Jerry, 305