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1st Annual Grammy Awards

Index 1st Annual Grammy Awards

The 1st Annual Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959. [1]

78 relations: Alan Jay Lerner, American Broadcasting Company, André Previn, Barbara Cook, Beverly Hills, California, Billy May, Carolyn Leigh, Catch a Falling Star, Come Fly with Me (Frank Sinatra album), Count Basie, Cy Coleman, David Burns (actor), Domenico Modugno, Duets with the Spanish Guitar, Eddie Cooley, Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book, Franco Migliacci, Frank Sinatra, Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely, Frederick Loewe, Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Album for Children, Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording, Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical, Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo, Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus, Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra – for Dancing, Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra, Grammy Award for Best R&B Song, Grammy Award for Best Recording Package, Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television, Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male, Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Henry Mancini, Keely Smith, Laurindo Almeida, Lee Pockriss, Los Angeles, Louis Prima, ..., Meredith Willson, Mort Sahl, Nelson Riddle, New York City, Otis Blackwell, Paul Vance, Peggy Lee, Perry Como, Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky), Robert Preston (actor), Ross Bagdasarian Sr., Salli Terri, Stan Freberg, Tequila (song), That Old Black Magic, The Atomic Mr. Basie, The Beverly Hilton, The Champs, The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late), The Kingston Trio, The Music from Peter Gunn, The Music Man, Tom Dooley (song), Van Cliburn, Vic Damone, Volare (song), Witchcraft (1957 song), 2nd Annual Grammy Awards. Expand index (28 more) »

Alan Jay Lerner

Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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André Previn

André George Previn, KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929) is a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer.

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Barbara Cook

Barbara Cook (October 25, 1927 – August 8, 2017) was an American actress and singer who first came to prominence in the 1950s as the lead in the original Broadway musicals Plain and Fancy (1955), Candide (1956) and The Music Man (1957) among others, winning a Tony Award for the last.

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Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood.

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Billy May

Edward William May Jr. (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter.

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Carolyn Leigh

Carolyn Leigh (August 21, 1926 – November 19, 1983) was an American lyricist for Broadway, film, and popular songs.

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Catch a Falling Star

"Catch a Falling Star", written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss, is a song made famous by Perry Como's hit version, recorded and released in late 1957.

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Come Fly with Me (Frank Sinatra album)

Come Fly with Me is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1958.

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Count Basie

William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.

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Cy Coleman

Cy Coleman (born Seymour Kaufman; June 14, 1929 – November 18, 2004) was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.

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David Burns (actor)

David Burns (June 22, 1902 – March 12, 1971) was an American Broadway theatre and motion picture actor and singer.

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Domenico Modugno

Domenico Modugno (9 January 1928 – 6 August 1994) was an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, guitarist, and later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament.

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Duets with the Spanish Guitar

Duets with the Spanish Guitar is an album by Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida with vocalist Salli Terri and flautist Martin Ruderman.

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Eddie Cooley

Edward J. "Eddie" Cooley (born c. 1930) is an American R&B singer and songwriter, who co-wrote the much-recorded song "Fever".

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Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella.

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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book is a 1957 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, focusing on Ellington's songs.

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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book is a 1958 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Paul Weston, focusing on the songs of Irving Berlin.

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Franco Migliacci

Francesco "Franco" Migliacci (born in Mantua, 1 May 1930) is a lyricist, producer, and actor.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958, also known as Sings for Only the Lonely or simply Only the Lonely) is an album by Frank Sinatra.

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Frederick Loewe

Frederick Loewe (originally German Friedrich (Fritz) Löwe; June 10, 1901 – February 14, 1988), was an Austrian-American composer.

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Grammy Award for Album of the Year

The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales, chart position, or critical reception." Album of the Year is the most prestigious award category at the Grammys having been presented since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Album for Children

The Grammy Award for Best Album for Children has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Arrangement

The Grammy Award for Best Arrangement was awarded from 1959 to 1962.

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Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album

The Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement in comedy." The award was awarded yearly from 1959 to 1993 and then from 2004 to present day.

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Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording

The Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording was awarded from 1959 to 1968.

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Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical

The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Classical has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance was a Grammy Award recognizing superior vocal performance by a female in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo

The Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition

The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition (including its previous names) has been awarded since 1960.

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Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album

The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album is an award that was first presented in 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album

The Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus

The Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus was awarded from 1959 to 1960.

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Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra – for Dancing

The Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra - for Dancing was awarded from 1959 to 1964.

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Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra

The Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra - Primarily Not Jazz or for Dancing was awarded from 1959 to 1964.

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Grammy Award for Best R&B Song

The Grammy Award for Best R&B Song (sometimes known as the R&B Songwriter's Award) has been awarded since 1969.

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Grammy Award for Best Recording Package

The Grammy Award for Best Recording Package is one of a series of Grammy Awards presented for the visual look of an album.

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Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television

The Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television was awarded from 1959 to 1962.

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Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album

The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male

The Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male was awarded from 1959 to 1968.

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Grammy Award for Record of the Year

The Grammy Award for Record of the Year is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to sales or chart position." The Record of the Year award is one of the four most prestigious categories at the awards (alongside Best New Artist, Song of the Year and Album of the Year) presented annually since the 1st Grammy Awards in 1959.

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Grammy Award for Song of the Year

The Grammy Award for Song of the Year is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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Henry Mancini

Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores.

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Keely Smith

Dorothy Jacqueline Keely (March 9, 1928The reference work The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet gives Smith's date of birth as March 9, 1932. – December 16, 2017), better known as Keely Smith, was an American jazz and popular music singer, who performed and recorded extensively in the 1950s with then-husband Louis Prima, and throughout the 1960s as a solo artist.

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Laurindo Almeida

Laurindo Almeida (September 2, 1917 – July 26, 1995) was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres.

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Lee Pockriss

Lee Julian Pockriss (20 January 1924 – 14 November 2011) was an American songwriter who wrote many well-known popular songs and several scores for films and Broadway shows, mainly during the 1960s and 70s.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Louis Prima

Louis Leo Prima (December 7, 1910 – August 24, 1978) was an Italian American singer, actor, songwriter, bandleader, and trumpeter.

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Meredith Willson

Robert Meredith Willson (May 18, 1902 – June 15, 1984) was an American composer and playwright, best known for writing the book, music, and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical The Music Man.

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Mort Sahl

Morton Lyon "Mort" Sahl (born May 11, 1927) is a Canadian-born American stand-up comedian, actor and social satirist, considered the first modern stand-up comedian since Will Rogers.

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Nelson Riddle

Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. (June 1, 1921 – October 6, 1985) was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Otis Blackwell

Otis Blackwell (February 16, 1931 – May 6, 2002) was an African-American songwriter, singer, and pianist, whose work significantly influenced rock and roll.

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Paul Vance

Paul Vance (born Joseph Paul Florio on November 4, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an American songwriter and record producer.

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Peggy Lee

Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, in a career spanning six decades.

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Perry Como

Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18, 1913 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer and television personality.

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Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)

The Piano Concerto No.

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Robert Preston (actor)

Robert Preston Meservey (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and film actor best remembered for originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned him his first of two Golden Globe Award nominations.

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Ross Bagdasarian Sr.

Rostom Sipan "Ross" Bagdasarian (January 27, 1919 – January 16, 1972), otherwise known by his stage name David Seville, was an American pianist, musician, actor, voice actor, and record producer.

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Salli Terri

Salli C. Terri (September 3, 1922 in London, Ontario, Canada – May 5, 1996 in Long Beach, California) was a singer, arranger, recording artist, and composer.

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Stan Freberg

Stan Freberg (born Stanley Friberg; August 7, 1926 – April 7, 2015) was an American author, actor, recording artist, voice artist, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer and advertising creative director, whose career began in 1944.

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Tequila (song)

"Tequila" is a 1958 Latin-flavored rock and roll instrumental written by Daniel Flores and recorded by the Champs.

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That Old Black Magic

"That Old Black Magic" is a 1942 popular song written by Harold Arlen (music), with the lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

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The Atomic Mr. Basie

The Atomic Mr.

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The Beverly Hilton

The Beverly Hilton is a hotel located on an property at the intersection of Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards in Beverly Hills, California.

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The Champs

The Champs were an American rock and roll band, most famous for their Latin-tinged instrumental "Tequila".

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The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)

"The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" is a novelty Christmas song written by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. (a.k.a. David Seville) in 1958.

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The Kingston Trio

The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s.

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The Music from Peter Gunn

The Music from Peter Gunn is a 1959 album by Henry Mancini, RCA Victor LPM/LSP-1956, the soundtrack of the TV series Peter Gunn.

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The Music Man

The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey.

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Tom Dooley (song)

"Tom Dooley" is a North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina, allegedly by Tom Dula.

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Van Cliburn

Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (July 12, 1934February 27, 2013) was an American pianist who, at the age of 23, achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow in 1958 (during the Cold War).

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Vic Damone

Vic Damone (born Vito Rocco Farinola; June 12, 1928 – February 11, 2018) was an American traditional pop and big band singer, actor, radio and television presenter, and entertainer.

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Volare (song)

"Nel blu dipinto di blu" ("In the blue painted blue"), popularly known as "Volare" (meaning "To fly"), is a song recorded by Italian singer-songwriter Domenico Modugno.

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Witchcraft (1957 song)

"Witchcraft" is a popular song from 1957 composed by Cy Coleman with lyrics by Carolyn Leigh.

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2nd Annual Grammy Awards

The 2nd Annual Grammy Awards were held on November 29, 1959, at Los Angeles and New York.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Annual_Grammy_Awards

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