“Ahmet and I”: Julio Mario Santo Domingo.
“Welcome home”: Confidential Author Interview.
“In those days”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, April 22, 2003, AE Archive.
“Aston Martin”: Gross, “The Real Sultan of Swing.”
“I think I was”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, April 22, 2003, AE Archive.
“I made a”: Ibid.
“and a band”: Gross, “The Real Sultan of Swing.”
“Of course”: Ibid.
“No future history”: Herb Abramson, Cash Box, July 28, 1956.
“shout incessantly”: Jackson, Big Beat Heat.
“The baksheesh”: Wexler and Ritz, Rhythm and the Blues.
“good enough”: Jackson, Big Beat Heat.
“doing dives”: Abramson.
“a beautiful $80”: Ibid.
“with this beguiling”: Ibid.
“was missing”: Ibid.
“the boys down”: Ibid.
“Principals of Atlantic”: Memorandum from Paul G. Marshall, Marshall & Ziffer, February 11, 1958, AE Archive.
“take place”: Ibid.
“Mr. Youngstein”: Ibid.
“I am”: Marshall.
“Max Youngstein”: Ibid.
“Herb always”: Abramson.
“Jerry was”: Marshall.
“the United Artists”: Ibid.
“Herb didn’t”: Abramson.
“It was”: Ibid.
“Let me tell”: Jerry Wexler, Author Interview.
“Herb insisted”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“I had”: Ibid.
“Herb tried to”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, March 14, 2003, AE Archive.
“was not for”: Ibid.
“lost all his money”: Ibid.
“I sometimes look”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“Herb was”: Letter from Jerry Wexler to Barbara Abramson.
EIGHT: SPLISH SPLASH
“better material”: www.bobbydarin.net.
“shooting the”: Clark and Robinson, Rock, Roll and Remember.
“Bobby Darin”: AE, Unidentified video interview, AE Archive.
“Can you”: Jerry Wexler, Author Interview.
“creating a”: AE, Unidentified video interview, AE Archive.
“he needed”: Ibid.
“a little”: Ibid.
“because that”: Ibid.
“eights”: www.bobbydarin.net.
“When I cut”: Darin and Paetro, Dream Lovers.
“I thought”: Jerry Wexler, Author Interview.
“It was”: AE, “What’d I Say.”
“Bobby Darin”: Marshall.
“took a very”: Ibid.
“I wish”: Ibid.
“Well, maybe”: AE, Unidentified video interview, AE Archive.
“I know”: Ibid.
“a teen idol”: Darin and Paetro, Dream Lovers.
“What are”: Ibid.
“he was going”: Clark and Robinson, Rock, Roll and Remember.
“As we were”: Ibid.
“Two records”: Wexler and Ritz, Rhythm and the Blues.
“Each sold”: Ibid.
“during one”: Billboard, 1/13/58.
“Atlantic’s ‘Money’”: Ibid.
“We started”: Ibid.
“alive and healthy”: Ibid.
“Our pleasant”: Ibid.
“FOR DEEJAYS”: Dannen, Hit Men.
“a lavish”: Barlow, Voice Over.
“around-the-clock”: Ibid.
“play money”: Time, 1/8/59.
“liquid refreshments”: Ibid.
“I was”: Smith, Author Interview.
“They were”: Chess.
“one of”: Barlow, Voice Over.
“I remember”: Chess.
“Ahmet hired”: Marshall.
“in the mob”: Ibid.
“a great breakfast”: Ibid.
“Remember”: Ibid.
“media frenzy”: Barlow, Voice Over.
“When I”: Krasnow.
“Tom Donahue”: Ibid.
“When I read”: Marshall.
“Therefore the”: Ibid.
“a very”: Ibid.
“the crime”: Ibid.
“people had”: Ibid.
“never talk”: Ibid.
“In the”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, January 30, 2003, AE Archive.
“Immediately a”: Lydon, Ray Charles.
“the grunts”: Ibid.
“dance-craze”: Ibid.
“unwanted choruses”: Ibid.
“they had”: Ibid.
“the dance”: Ibid.
“the life”: Ibid.
chills: Ibid.
“a fortune”: Ibid.
“the label’s”: Ibid.
“a singer”: AE, “What’d I Say.”
“stuck in”: Lydon, Ray Charles.
“soulless corporation”: Ibid.
“exceptional”: Ibid.
“emotionally”: Ibid.
“We felt”: Evans, Ray Charles.
“the guy”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, January 30, 2003, AE Archive.
“I would”: Lydon, Ray Charles.
“Seventy-five cents”: Ibid.
“Afterwards”: Evans, Ray Charles.
“I worked”: Paul Wexler.
“He was”: Babitz.
NINE: LOVE AND MARRIAGE
“I fell in love”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, March 14, 2003, AE Archive.
“find his way”: Mick Brown, Tearing Down the Wall of Sound.
“a natural gift”: Ibid.
“terrific fear”: Leiber and Stoller with Ritz, Hound Dog.
“was frightened”: Ibid.
“I’d never”: Mick Brown, Tearing Down the Wall of Sound.
“one hundred”: Ibid.
“a natural hit”: Wexler and Ritz, Rhythm and the Blues.
“going to come”: Mick Brown, Tearing Down the Wall of Sound.
“I don’t know”: Marshall.
“Phil went”: Ibid.
“We got”: Ibid.
“Let me”: AE, “What’d I Say.”
“That’s terrific”: Mick Brown, Tearing Down the Wall of Sound.
“fabulous”: Ibid.
“Are you”: Ibid.
“some new”: AE, “What’d I Say.”
“That’s the”: Ibid.
“succumbed to”: Ibid.
“Ahmet loved”: Wenner, Author Interview.
“Even in those”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, January 30, 2003, AE Archive.
“Ahmet brought”: Richards, Author Interview.
“a natural”: Bennetts, “Devil in a Bespoke Suit.”
“so sad”: Mica Ertegun.
“At the end”: Poole, “Lush Life.”
“the little”: Mica Ertegun.
“very caring”: Ibid.
“very busy”: Ibid.
“pathological”: Turda, “To End the Degeneration of a Nation.”
“Of course”: Mica Ertegun.
“was shoved”: Ibid.
“the Dolder”: Ibid.
“we wouldn’t”: Ibid.
“tried to”: Ibid.
“I put”: Ibid.
“very rich”: Ibid.
“some money”: Ibid.
“We had”: Ibid.
“it was”: Ibid.
“I was”: Ibid.
“If you”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, March 14, 2003, AE Archive.
“nearly split”: Mica Ertegun.
“Ahmet adored”: Ibid.
“was against”: Ibid.
“I do not”: Undated letter from Mica Ertegun to AE, AE Archive.
“Mica is”: Gross, “The Real Sultan of Swing.”
“We began”: AE, Colu
mbia University Oral History Research Office, March 14, 2003, AE Archive.
“he was”: Bennetts, “Devil in a Bespoke Suit.”
“I really”: Pigozzi.
“a dance floor”: Wolfe, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.
“laying fives”: Ibid.
“a few socialites”: Ibid.
“sailors, leather-jacketed”: Gelb, “Habitues of Meyer Davis Land Dance the Twist.”
“fund-raising”: Ibid.
“a hundred”: Wolfe, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.
“and I remember”: Mica Ertegun.
“Café society”: Gelb, “Habitues of Meyer Davis Land Dance the Twist.”
“a dance crowd”: AE, “What’d I Say.”
“had never”: Ibid.
“She did”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, March 14, 2003, AE Archive.
“When Jerry”: Ibid.
“begun moving”: Wexler and Ritz, Rhythm and the Blues.
“the business”: Ibid.
TEN: THE OAK ROOM
“If you didn’t”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“Ahmet and I”: Marshall.
“began laughing”: Ibid.
“The first”: Ibid.
“if someone”: Ibid.
“A couple”: Ibid.
“I was not”: Jerry Wexler, Author Interview.
“In the”: Stoller, RS staff interview.
“automatically started”: AE, “What’d I Say.”
“hit a”: Ibid.
“Smash!”: Leiber, RS staff interview.
“At that”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“Mr. Lust”: Ibid.
“Mr. Disorderly”: Wexler and Ritz, Rhythm and the Blues.
“relaxed and friendly”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“Fine”: Ibid.
“the big falling”: Ibid.
“took offense”: Ibid.
“George was”: Stein.
“his destructive”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“out of”: Leiber and Stoller with Ritz, Hound Dog.
“Red Bird was”: Ibid.
“who would”: Ibid.
“Can you”: Stein.
“Who needs”: Leiber and Stoller with Ritz, Hound Dog.
“We’re hardly”: Ibid.
“With the”: Ibid.
“it was”: Ibid.
“I didn’t”: Ibid.
“Him and”: Ibid.
“Can you”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“There was”: Ibid.
“truly upset”: Mica Ertegun.
“That was”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“mishandled”: Ibid.
“There are”: Ibid.
“It is”: Leiber and Stoller with Ritz, Hound Dog.
“The Mafia”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“Morris looked”: Marshall.
“He invited”: Mica Ertegun.
“I brought”: Krasnow.
“silent partners”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“a favor”: Ibid.
“We were”: Ibid.
“Bert knew”: Marshall.
“amateur”: Ibid.
“they had”: Ibid.
“enormous respect”: Ibid.
“of any”: Ibid.
“I didn’t”: Ibid.
“set up”: Author Interview.
“some mobsters”: Ibid.
“orchestrated”: Ibid.
“obsession with”: Wexler and Ritz, Rhythm and the Blues.
“The breach”: Marshall.
“When the”: Author interview with anonymous.
“I know”: Douglass.
“I think”: Mica Ertegun.
ELEVEN: I GOT YOU BABE
“After Sonny”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, March 14, 2003, AE Archive.
“Dedicated to”: George Frazier, “The Art of Wearing Clothes.”
“buys ready-made”: Ibid.
“somehow came”: Ibid.
“he promptly”: Ibid.
“Ahmet and”: Bienstock.
“the man”: Richards, Author Interview.
“There were”: Stone.
“Greene and Stone wore”: Goodman, The Mansion on the Hill.
“Greene and Stone were”: McDonough, Shakey.
“around Manhattan”: Goodman, The Mansion on the Hill.
“short and”: Stone.
“living with”: Ibid.
“wrote this”: Ibid.
“just wanted”: Ibid.
“We play”: Ibid.
“were five”: Ibid.
“with the radio”: AE, Unidentified video interview, AE Archive.
“How can”: Ibid.
“and he”: Ibid.
“young man”: Ibid.
“came up”: Stone.
“We said”: Ibid.
“No problem”: Ibid.
“Doesn’t bother”: Ibid.
“So we”: Ibid.
“Ahmet had”: Ibid.
“Charlie and”: Ibid.
“had great”: Ibid.
“He said”: Ibid.
“the greatest act”: Ibid.
“Only two”: Ibid.
“We told”: Ibid.
“They saw”: Ibid.
“Ahmet, Jerry”: Ibid.
“a giant party”: Ibid.
“play at this”: Ibid.
“It was”: Stone.
“rather Shakespearean”: Altham, “Sonny and Cher Get Even.”
“My dear”: Schmidt, “Cher’s Fashion History.”
“And the”: Ibid.
“very tall”: AE, “What’d I Say.”
“looked as”: Ibid.
“Oh”: Ibid.
“I’ll only”: Ibid.
“the only”: Ibid.
“a good”: Ibid.
“a cross”: Ibid.
“You know”: Ibid.
“Listen”: Ibid.
“I was”: Ibid.
“What are”: Ibid.
“Yes, you”: Ibid.
“Who is”: Ibid.
“And in”: Stone.
“unless it”: Ibid.
“had people”: Ibid.
“Sonny became”: Ibid.
“There was”: Ibid.
“an $18,500”: McDonough, Shakey.
“Sonny was”: Stone.
“locked up”: Ibid.
“Ahmet was”: Ibid.
“Ahmet, I’ve”: Ibid.
“We went”: Ibid.
“to make”: Ibid.
“something like”: Ibid.
“in various”: Hirschfield.
“‘I’m raising’”: Stone.
TWELVE: HEY, WHAT’S THAT SOUND
“When Ahmet”: McDonough, Shakey.
“We talked”: Stone.
“very special”: AE, “What’d I Say.”
“A nice”: McDonough, Shakey.
“could sing”: Ibid.
“music business”: Ibid.
“best band”: Goodman.
“We were”: Priore, Riot on Sunset Strip.
“Overwhelmed by”: McDonough, Shakey.
“they quickly”: Ibid.
“outrageously stoned”: Goodman.
“They said”: Stone.
“I’ll never”: AE, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Speech for Neil Young, AE Archive.
“Neil Young”: Stone.
a royalty statement: Long, “A Brief History of Buffalo Springfield.”
“At one”: AE, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Speech for Neil Young, AE Archives.
“What they did”: AE, Unidentified video interview, AE Archive.
“When the”: Stone.
“Stephen’s poetry”: McDonough, Shakey.
“a great musician”: Ibid.
“wanted to”: Ibid.
“You’re ruining”: Goodman.
“full
of”: McDonough, Shakey.
“They were”: Stone.
“a musician’s”: McDonough, Shakey.
“knows music”: Ibid.
“Ahmet always”: Ibid.
“The Sunset”: Priore, Riot on Sunset Strip.
“ingesting hallucinogens”: Ibid.
“Hey, I just”: Stone.
“So we”: Ibid.
“Yes, you do”: McDonough, Shakey.
“The guys”: Stone.
“No, man”: Ibid.
“captured the”: McDonough, Shakey.
Jackie Kennedy: Reeves, http://streetsyoucrossed.blogspot.com/2007/10/lets-swim-to-moon-uh-huh.html.
bikers who: Ibid.
“When they”: McDonough, Shakey.
“Dewey Martin”: Stone.
“Otis was so”: Medious.
“Nescafe”: Rebennack.
“that he liked”: Werbin, “The Big M Is Taking Care of Business.”
“kinda like”: McDonough, Shakey.
“Otis Redding”: Stone.
“I never”: McDonough, Shakey.
“Ahmet used”: Stone.
“They were”: Ibid.
“Greene and Stone”: McDonough, Shakey.
“called Wexler”: Stone.
“ ‘Listen, I’ll’ ”: Ibid.
“Charlie and I”: Ibid.
“didn’t want”: Ibid.
“It was”: Flom.
“ ‘This record’ ”: Ibid.
“Ahmet had”: Stone.
“You will”: McDonough, Shakey.
“They had”: AE, Unidentified video interview, AE Archive.
“Stephen and”: Nash.
“I had”: McDonough, Shakey.
THIRTEEN: SELLING OUT
“We were”: AE, “What’d I Say.”
“something of”: Wexler and Ritz, Rhythm and the Blues.
“What the”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, January 30, 2003, AE Archive.
“It was”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“I didn’t”: Bienstock.
“between two”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, March 14, 2003, AE Archive.
“I represented”: Marshall.
“I had”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“Wexler was”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, May 1, 2003, AE Archive.
“In the”: Mica Ertegun.
“could have”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, May 1, 2003, AE Archive.
“whose wife”: Hirschfield.
“to meet”: Ibid.
“very anxious”: Ibid.
“mainly regarding”: Ibid.
“the white”: Ibid.
“It was”: Ibid.
“had every”: Ibid.
“Some of”: Ibid.
“been paying”: Ibid.
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