Dorothy Carvello

Dorothy Carvello began her career in 1987 as a secretary to Ahmet Ertegun, the legendary Atlantic Records founder, and went on to become the label’s first female A&R executive. She worked for many of the biggest names in music—Morris, Azoff, Galante, Buziak, and Ienner—at Atlantic, Giant, RCA, Relativity and Columbia. Her memoir, Anything for a Hit, was published in September 2018 by Chicago Review Press.

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