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Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built | 
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| Director: Susan Steinberg (ii)
Actors: Ahmet Ertegun, Bette Midler, Jerry Wexler, Aretha Franklin, Nesuhi Erteguen
Studio: Rhino / Wea
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
Buy New: $13.23
You Save: $6.75 (34%)
New (35) Used (11) from $11.65
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 11576
Format: Color, Compilation, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 128892
UPC: 603497998944
EAN: 0603497998944
ASIN: B000PSJDQ4
Theatrical Release Date: May 2, 2007
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
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Description
Atlantic Records: The House that Ahmet Built follows Ertegun's remarkable career and its impact on the evolution of the world's most popular musical genre while offering an insider's look at the recording industry. Featuring rare and private clips, performances, and studio sessions from Atlantic recording artists, this DVD is a music fan's paradise.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 THE MOST ACCURATE REVIEW ON THIS DVD June 10, 2008
While the talent discoveries of executive music industry luminaries such as Berry Gordy and Clive Davis have been celebrated in the media and lionized in pop music history, Ahmet is perhaps the greatest (in terms of significant artists signed) A&R man the industry has ever known.
Discovering John Mingus, John Coltrane, Wynton Marsalis, the Clovers, the Coasters, the Drifters, Ben E. King, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Bobby Darin, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Roberta Flack, Eric Clapton, Chic, and Kid Rock. He was also instrumental in galvanizing the careers of Booker T. and the MGs, Aretha Franklin, Phil Collins, and Bette Midler - to name a few.
His story, primarily told by Ahmet himself with the help of many of the aforementioned artists, chronlogically documents his life using excerpts of archived footage. It poignantly takes you from the beginning of his journey as the son of a Turkish amabassador, to entrepreneurial owner of his own thriving independent label, to revamped executive at Time Warner owned Atlantic.
Ahmet, who created the Rhythm & Blues Foundation, is the only industry veteran to publicly acknowledge and properly credit black music, in addition to instigating the first financial reparations to black artists for misleading industry practices. He becomes more endearing and engaging the longer this DVD plays on. His should be remembered for how he used his talent to cultivate talent, follow his dreams with tenacity, and inspire others to do the same.
Buy this well-produced DVD of a music lover and music business legend today!
 Ahmet and Jerry screwed Stax out of their masters! Yippee! April 18, 2008
Interesting, yet incomplete biography on Atlantic's history, but it needs to be noted that the distribution arrangement that Stax entered with Atlantic has a very dark side to it that is played down. Ertegun and Wexler destroyed Stax with a shady distribution contract that robbed Stax of their masters and left the label with nothing in their catalog! Stax later recovered by sheer force of will. Watch 'Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story' to balance out the 'Ahmet story'.
Disappointing February 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What is there is excellent, but I gave it 3 stars because of what they left out. What happened to all the great jazz that Atlantic put out? You'd hardly know that the label was a major force in jazz from the DVD. I mean Mingus, Coltrane, Ornette and a whole bunch more ... How can you ignore these people??
I hope this will be redone properly one day.
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built November 14, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
What an amazing man he was. This was more than I expected it to be. It was very well done, entertaining and informative. I would recommend it to anyone interested in music.
What a show of respect August 30, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
for me to order a DVD of a show I have already seen w/o commercials, no less, it has to be extra-ordinary.
And nothing ordinary about it I might add post haste
A fun, somewhat behind the scenes look at the house that Ahmet did in fact build.
But for me, its the look on the faces and the quietness of the rock superstars, the reverence without arrogance that is paid to Ahmet that compells me to make the purchase
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