Nesuhi Ertegun

[Jazz Kat]

Okay, I ordered the movie Ray, because I have been wanting to check this sucker out. It was a very enjoyable movie, BTW. The best movie I've seen in a while. Okay, there's a lot of scene's and story line involving Ray's deal with Atlantic Records. As we all know, Nesuhi produced pretty much all of the jazz Atlantic stuff in the 50's and 60's. When the producer of Atlantic Records, (in the movie) goes to Ray's apartment to ask him to get signed, he says his name is Ahmed Ertegun. Not Nesuhi Ertegun, can someone explain this?

[RDK]

brothers

[Jazz Kat]

Is that a question?

[Chuck Nessa]

And his name is Ahmet.

[Jazz Kat]

i just found that out on google. They did a good job making him look like the real person; in the movie.

[JSngry]

All things being relative, Neshui was to Ahmet what Francis Wolff was to Albert Lion, sorta, kinda.

I agree that Curtis Armstrong looked quite a bit like Ahmet, but although I don't know for sure, I have a very hard time believing that he sounded anything like him. I couldn't shake the image of Herbert Viola going to a costume party. Not that I let it bug me, though.

[Free For All]

I agree that Curtis Armstrong looked quite a bit like Ahmet

I'm sorry, he'll always be "Booger" to me.

[JSngry]

And Herbert Viola to me.

[sidewinder]

Albert Lion

[JSngry]

I was just lyon.

BUSTED!

[couw]

Albert Lion

he must have been thinking of Keiko Shorter....

[Jazz Kat]

I had to think about that one. lol, "hmm, what's Alfred for short..?"

[JSngry]

Albert Lion was Alfred's British second cousin twice removed and thrice returned.

[Chuck Nessa]

Twice removed and thrice returned sounds like a Buddah release. (old record retail joke).

[Jazz Kat]

Albert Lion was Alfred's British second cousin twice removed and thrice returned.

Yeah, I got one of those somewhere.

[JSngry]

Twice removed and thrice returned sounds like a Buddah release. (old record retail joke).

How many cutout holes can an album have before you have to give it away? (old bottom feeder's joke)

[Chuck Nessa]

Twice removed and thrice returned sounds like a Buddah release. (old record retail joke).

How many cutout holes can an album have before you have to give it away? (old bottom feeder's joke)

Reminds me of a story from my retail days.

I had opened a new store in Bloomington IN for a chain called Discount Records (this was 1968). I had given the local Capitol salesman the largest order ever placed with their local office (in Ohio). A month later he called to say his boss wanted to have dinner with me and could we meet. I said ok and we met on the appointed date and had a wonderful meal and suitable beverages. At the end of the meal the "boss" asked about the quality of service from the salesman and I said "He's great! I really like the advance copies he delivers, with the holes in the corner, so I can hang them on the peg-board behind the counter. I don't mind paying cash for these records since it gives me an advantage over the competition".

Took these boys a while to regain their composure.

[JSngry]

That's nasty.

[Jazz Kat]

All these record jokes remind me of something Dean Martin said on his show in 1966. He was singing with his pianist, and he said "Now you may not of heard this man before. He had a 12 inch record, but with it, an 18 inch whole!"

[Jazzmoose]

I agree that Curtis Armstrong looked quite a bit like Ahmet

I'm sorry, he'll always be "Booger" to me.

Holy shit; I didn't even notice...