Chasing the Winter Blues Away! Part One of Three...

Part one of a three part series on Atlantic Blues...some great tracks seldom heard anywhere. Lets chase the February Winter blues away...

Shouting Out the Blues...Big Joe Turner

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Words, and Quiet...in Ahmet's House Tonight

Tonight, let's play with the power of the songs with no words...I'm setting up a whole show with only one song having lyrics. It's always an experiment here in this great house. Let's see how this goes...why not? What does the great Atlantic catalog say when it doesn't "say" anything at all?

Silent as...

Song Titles:

Mood for a Day---Yes
Wednesday Prayer Meeting---Mingus Big Band
Green Onions---Booker T and the MG's
My Favorite Things---John Coltrane Quartet
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed---Allman Brothers Band
Sweet Sixteen Bars---Ray Charles
Unquiet Sleep for the Sleepers---Genesis
Words---Bee Gees

As always, the podcast is available here Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch!

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

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Independence...

On this Fourth of July weekend in the US, I'm thinking about freedom and independence. In art, in music, freedom is essential. Perhaps what Ahmet and Atlantic did best, and more, was to create the atmosphere where artistic freedom could live and breath. For that, we are thankful on this day...in Ahmet's House.

Song List:

What'd I Say---Ray Charles
Think!---Aretha Franklin
Anyday---Derek and the Dominos
House of Freedom---Anderson and Wakeman
Equinox---John Coltrane
Purple Sky---Kid Rock
But Not For Me---Willie Nelson
Longing for You---Norah Jones
Promised Land---Robert Plant
Find the Cost of Freedom---Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young


As always, the podcast is available here Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch!

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

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Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

Remembering, Respecting...Ahmet Ertegun

It is the eve before the day of the anniversary of Ahmet's passing...a solemn day, but tears are not enough any longer. We must honor, and preserve the memories, this legacy. Compelled to do so...Tony presents Ahmet's House this Sunday. Let us enjoy...this great House!

Song List:

The Ray---Ray Charles
Black Dog---Led Zeppelin (live)
Layla---Eric Clapton and Wynton Marsalis (live)
Flip, Flop and Fly---Big Joe Turner
Blues Legacy---John Coltrane and Milt Jackson
Everybody Needs  Somebody to Love---Blues Brothers
It's a Long Way to the  Top---AC/DC
There's No You---Ray Charles

As always, the podcast is available here Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch!

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In Memoriam: Miriam Bienstock

Tonight's show is dedicated to "the money man" of Atlantic records...who in 1947 was an unusual  woman of business...fierce, tenacious...Miriam Abramson Bienstock. Miriam passed just a few days ago, and for keeping the young company solvent we owe her deeply. Nothing after the first few years would have happened...thank you dear Miriam. We mourn your passing among family and many friends. 

Ahmet, Miriam and Jerry

Song List:

Winter---The Rolling Stones
Ice Man Blues---Big Joe Turner
Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year---Wynton Marsalis
Piano Improvisation into Worried Life Blues---Ray Charles
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out---Derek and the Dominos (live)
Since I've Been Loving You---Led Zeppelin (live)
A Love Supreme, Pts. I and III---John Coltrane
Ain't No Way---Aretha Franklin
Starship Trooper---Yes
Since You've Been Gone---Aretha Franklin
Move Around---Manassas
The Weight---Aretha Franklin
You Keep Me Hangin' On---Vanilla Fudge
Green Onions---Booker T and the MG's
Candy---The Astors
Some Kind of Wonderful---Soul Brothers Six
I Ain't Got Nobody---Mae Barnes
Brazil---Goldie Hawkins
On the Sunny Side of the Street---Mae Barnes


As always, the podcast is available here Here by about 10PM ET Sunday. Thank you, Baruch!

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

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Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci