The Golden Microphone (Turkish: Altın Mikrofon) was a music contest annually held between 1965 and 1968 in Turkey. It was organized by the newspaper Hürriyet. In 1960s, most of the Turkish popular music melodies were either songs from western Europe with Turkish lyrics or traditional Turkish folk melodies played with western instruments.[1] The goal of the contest was to encourage the development of popular Turkish music either by new compositions or by using domestic sources. More formally, Hürriyet announced the goal of the contest as "Redirecting Turkish music using technique and style of western music as well as the instruments of western music".[2]
Winners
edit| Year | Rank | Group | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 1st | Yıldırım Gürses | Gençliğe Veda |
| 2nd | Mavi Işıklar | Helvacı | |
| 3rd | Silüetler | Kaşık Havası | |
| 1966 | 1st | Silüetler | Lorke Lorke |
| 2nd | Mavi Işıklar | Çayır Çimen Geze Geze | |
| 3rd | Selçuk Alagöz | Ararım | |
| 1967 | 1st | Mavi Çocuklar | Develi Daylar |
| 2nd | Cem Karaca | Emrah | |
| 3rd | Rana Alagöz | Konya Kabağı | |
| 1968 | 1st | TPAO Batman | Meşelidir Enginde Dağlar |
| 2nd | Haramiler | Arpa Buğday Daneler | |
| 3rd | Moğollar | Ilgaz |
Later years
editAltın Mikrofon was a milestone in Turkish music. Although Hürriyet gave up organizing the contest after 1968, two other newspapers tried to continue: Günaydın in 1972 and Saklambaç in 1979. But these later contests unlike the earlier contests, didn't attracted much attention and they too gave up. The results of these were as follows:
| Year | Rank | Group | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 1st | Edip Akbayram | Kükredi Çimenler |
| 2nd | Salim Dündar | Bir dost bulamadım | |
| 3rd | Ömer Aysan | Mış mış | |
| 1979 | 1st | Ünal Büyükgönenç | Dışarda Kar yağıyor |
References
edit- ^ Tolga Akyıldız (19 October 2002). "Altın Mikrofon'dan bugüne" [Gold Microphone to present]. Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 31 May 2019.
- ^ "Altın Mikrofon yarışmaları tarihçesi 1965 - 1968" [History of Gold Microphone competitions 1965 - 1968] (in Turkish). 2013. p. 3. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
- ^ Naim Dilmener. "Altin Mikrofon, the cradle of Anatolian pop". Euro Pop Music. Archived from the original on 29 December 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
- ^ Nuh Dogan, ed. (2018). "Dede Korkut". The Journal of International Turkish Language & Literature Research. 7 (17). ISSN 1015-2091.
External links
edit- 1967 winner Archived 2016-03-15 at the Wayback Machine
- 1968 winner Archived 2013-01-11 at the Wayback Machine