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| Atlantic
was formed in 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson in New York City.
Atco
and Cotillion were subsidiary labels
and Clarion was a budget label.
From the beginning, Atlantic was different from other independent record companies. Their financier/dentist did not put pressure on them for immediate return on his investment, so Herb and Ahmet were free to make decisions based on their own good musical judgment. They did not cheat performers, as many of the other independent labels did. They gained a reputation for being honest, and that reputation as much as anything was the foundation for the success of the company. In 1967, the three owners of Atlantic; Ahmet, Jerry and Nesuhi were approached by Warner Seven Arts Corporation about selling Atlantic. Atlantic/Atco Records, along with Warner Brothers/Reprise Records, were to be operated as separate record companies under the ownership umbrella of the Warner-Seven Arts Corporation. Under Warner-Seven Arts, Atlantic and Warner-Reprise operated independently until Warner-Seven Arts itself was purchased by the Kinney Corporation (which later became Warner Communications) in 1969. Kinney was a conglomerate made up of parking lots, office cleaning companies, rental cars, magazine distribution and funeral parlors that was seeking to branch out into the entertainment business. |
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Also, at the same time, the various pressing plants would have their labels
printed up at different sources, and invariably the perimeter print would
be different from one to the other. This lasted until the end of 1968 at
which point the company established a set perimeter print standard and
all plants fell in line - except one: LY.
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Ref 104B
