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Who were the biggest GRAMMY winners of the 50s and 60s?

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Ella Fitzgerald, Henry Mancini, Roger Miller, and Frank Sinatra are among the artists who won the most GRAMMY Awards in the '50s and '60s
Paul Grein
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Who are the biggest GRAMMY winners for each decade from the 1950s to the 2010s? In our ongoing Music's Biggest Winners series, we'll take a look at the four artists (more in the case of ties) who received the most awards in each decade. You'll learn a little bit about the artists, their GRAMMY wins during the decade and other notable Recording Academy honors. Let's fire up the GRAMMY time machine and go back to the '50s and the '60s.

'50s

(Editor's note: The GRAMMY Awards originated in 1958, so this decade encompasses just two years of awards.)

Ella Fitzgerald, 4
The jazz legend won two GRAMMYs in 1958 and two more in 1959. In 1958 Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book was voted Best Vocal Performance, Female, while Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book won for Best Jazz Performance, Individual. Fitzgerald won the same two awards the following year for, respectively, her version of George and Ira Gershwin's "But Not For Me" and her album Ella Swings Lightly. Fitzgerald received a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1967. She died in 1996.

Duke Ellington, 3
Ellington's score for the Otto Preminger film Anatomy Of A Murder brought the jazz legend three GRAMMYs in 1959: Best Performance By A Dance Band, Best Sound Track Album — Background Score From A Motion Picture Or Television and Best Musical Composition First Recorded And Released In 1959 (More Than 5 Minutes Duration). Ellington received a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1966. He died in 1974.

André Previn, 3
Previn won a GRAMMY in 1958 for Gigi, which was voted Best Sound Track Album, Dramatic Picture Score Or Original Cast. He won two more in 1959. Porgy And Bess won for Best Sound Track Album, Original Cast — Motion Picture Or Television. "Like Young," a collaboration with David Rose, took Best Performance By An Orchestra. (The billing on the single was rather florid: "The Piano Magic Of André Previn Combined With The Lush Strings of David Rose.") The German-born musician received a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.

Frank Sinatra, 3
The legendary singer actually won his first GRAMMY in 1958 as an art director. His cover design for Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely was voted Best Album Cover. Come Dance With Me! won two awards in 1959: Album Of The Year and Best Vocal Performance, Male. Sinatra received a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1965, a Trustees Award in 1979 and a GRAMMY Legend Award in 1994. He died in 1998.

'60s

Henry Mancini, 16
Mancini's mark of 16 GRAMMYs in a decade stood unequalled for four decades, until two female artists tied it in the 2000s. (Mancini continues to hold the record for most GRAMMYs won in a decade by a male artist.) Mancini won a then-record five awards in 1961 for his music from the Blake Edwards movie Breakfast At Tiffany's, including the instant standard "Moon River." His biggest successes were "Moon River" and "Days Of Wine And Roses," both of which were double winners for Record and Song Of The Year. Mancini won six of these 16 awards as an artist, six as an arranger and four as a composer. Mancini died in 1994. He was awarded a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995.

Roger Miller, 11
Miller received five GRAMMYs in 1964 and six in 1965. (The latter total broke Mancini's record of five GRAMMYs in one night.) Miller was the first artist in GRAMMY history to win five or more awards in one night more than once. He received nine of these 11 awards as an artist and two as a songwriter (for writing "Dang Me" and "King Of The Road"). The latter song won awards in both the Country & Western and Contemporary (R&R) Fields (as they were then called). Miller died in 1992.

Ray Charles, 9
Charles won four GRAMMYs in 1960, the most he ever amassed in one year during his lifetime. (He won five awards posthumously in 2004.) Of the nine GRAMMYs that Charles won in the '60s, six were for Rhythm & Blues, one for Pop and two for Best Vocal Performance, Male, with no genre specified. "Georgia On My Mind" and "Crying Time" both won two awards. Charles received a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987. He died in 2004.

Vladimir Horowitz, 8
Horowitz won Album Of The Year — Classical twice in the 1960s, for Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz in 1962 and Horowitz At Carnegie Hall — An Historic Return in 1965. The Ukrainian-born pianist died in 1989. He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1990.

The 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held Jan. 26, 2014, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and once again will be broadcast live in high-definition TV and 5.1 surround sound on CBS from 8–11:30 p.m. (ET/PT). For updates and breaking news, visit The Recording Academy's social networks on Twitter and Facebook. 

(Paul Grein, a veteran music journalist, writes for Yahoo Music.)

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A Jazzy Celebration

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The Academy honors Jazz Appreciation Month with a playlist based on music from April-born jazz musicians
Neil Tesser
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May 15, 2017 - 2:36 am
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Celebrating its 11th anniversary in 2012, Jazz Appreciation Month is the brainchild of Dr. John Edward Hasse, renowned jazz author and curator of the Smithsonian Institution's division of culture and the arts. In describing the idea behind the April celebration, Hasse says, "It occurred to me that jazz's biggest challenge was not a lack of talented, but a lack of audience and appreciation."  

With the Smithsonian Institution's backing, and the support of governmental agencies such as the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Department of State, Hasse launched the first JAM in April 2001. Today, JAM is supported by more than 20 federal and nongovernmental partners, including the GRAMMY Foundation, and extends across all 50 states and to 40 countries.

As an extension of the annual Jazz Appreciation Month, this year GRAMMY-winning artist Herbie Hancock announced the launch of International Jazz Day, which will be held each year on April 30. The aim is to bring people together from all over the world to celebrate and support understanding of the art of jazz, its roots and its impact, while highlighting its role as a means of communication. Festivities for the inaugural event begin tomorrow and will feature concerts in Paris, New Orelans and New York.

But even if you're not in Paris, New Orleans or New York, it's pretty easy to recognize Jazz Appreciation Month — you just have to listen to the music. And if you program an hour or so of GRAMMY-winning jazz, all the better. With that, we take this angle to its logical extreme and draw our random JAM playlist from a group of jazz artists born in April. After all, no one is appreciated more than on their birthday.

"Ritmo En El Corazon" (iTunes>)
Ray Barretto

Among the first congueros to play with a real jazz feel, the Nuyorican Barretto (April 29) was the main man for mainstream jazzers needing authentic Afro-Cuban percussion in the '50s and '60s. But he won his only GRAMMY in quite a different arena, joining with the great Cuban songstress Celia Cruz for the folkloric heat of Ritmo En El Corazon, which won the Best Tropical Latin Performance GRAMMY in 1989.

"Mongo's Blues" (iTunes>)
Michel Camilo

Sir Michel (April 4) — who has been knighted by his native Dominican Republic — made the first album under his own name in 1985. But even before he gained attention for his flashy and fiery piano work, listeners knew his tune "Why Not?" thanks to a hot recording with lyrics by the Manhattan Transfer. Camilo honored a true hero of Latin music, percussionist Mongo Santamaria, with this composition on Live At The Blue Note, which won the Best Latin Jazz Album GRAMMY in 2003.

"Libertad" (iTunes>)
Caribbean Jazz Project

The Gathering was the Caribbean Jazz Project's third album for the Concord Jazz label, and garnered them their lone GRAMMY win for Best Latin Jazz Album in 2002. Led by co-principal/flautist Dave Valentin (April 29) and GRAMMY-winning founder Dave Samuels, the album is both accessible and adventurous, evidenced by the romantic and musical themes of "Libertad."

"Anatomy Of A Murder" (iTunes>)
Duke Ellington

Often considered the greatest jazzman ever, and indisputably jazz's greatest composer, Ellington (April 29) won the first three of his 11 GRAMMYs for Anatomy Of A Murder in 1959, including Best Performance By A Dance Band. When film director Otto Preminger decided that his blockbuster adaptation of the best-selling novel needed an original jazz soundtrack, he went to the source. The resulting music remains a high-water mark of jazz in film.

"Cheek To Cheek" (iTunes>)
Ella Fitzgerald

The quintessential jazz singer, Fitzgerald (April 25) won 13 GRAMMYs during her career — including an impressive seven from 1958–1962. Her first two statues came in 1958, the GRAMMYs' inaugural year, for Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book, which included a grand arrangement of "Cheek To Cheek," and Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book. Symbolic of her stylistic breadth, Fitzgerald took home one GRAMMY in pop and one in jazz. 

"A Change Is Gonna Come" (iTunes>)
Herbie Hancock 

Hancock (April 12) added GRAMMYs 13 and 14 to his résumé in 2010. He released his star-studded The Imagine Project that year, which spawned two GRAMMY wins for "A Change Is Gonna Come" and "Imagine" for Best Improvised Jazz Solo and Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals, respectively. The latter song features appearances by Jeff Beck, India.Arie, Pink, and Oumou Sangare, among others, and was Hancock's first GRAMMY win in the Pop Field. 

"Miles Ahead" (iTunes>)
Joe Henderson 

Tenor saxophonist Henderson (April 24) was an insider's favorite — a jazz musician's jazz musician. His indelible in-and-out phrasings finally resulted in four GRAMMYs in the '90s, thanks to a series of inspired theme albums for Verve Records — including 1993's So Near, So Far (Musings For Miles), his homage to the late Miles Davis. The album itself earned Henderson one GRAMMY; his lustrous solo in "Miles Ahead" earned him another for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo.

"God Bless The Child" (iTunes>)
Billie Holiday

Holiday (April 7) never won a GRAMMY. She died in 1959, barely two years after The Recording Academy was founded. But "Lady Day" has no less than six recordings in the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame, including "God Bless The Child," which was inducted in 1976. Holiday wrote the lyrics for this 1941 recording, and they still resonate today as evidenced by George Benson, Al Jarreau and R&B vocalist Jill Scott's cover that won a GRAMMY in 2006.

"Moment To Moment" (iTunes>)
Freddie Hubbard

Hubbard (April 7) was brash, headstrong and exhilarating — a trumpet virtuoso in a lineage preceded by Lee Morgan, Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong. He also grabbed an early foothold on the fusion of rock and jazz that marked the Age of Aquarius, leaving his hard-bop roots in the dust to win his only GRAMMY in 1972 for Best Jazz Performance By A Group for First Light, which featured "Moment To Moment" and other bright new jazz sounds.

"Walk On The Water" (iTunes>)
Gerry Mulligan

Mulligan (April 6) first made his mark as one of Miles Davis' collaborators in the creation of cool jazz, and then as an innovative and virtuosic baritone saxophonist. But what won him his only GRAMMY for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band in 1981 were the lightly swinging arrangements written for Walk On The Water.

"I Feel Pretty" (iTunes>)
André Previn

Previn (April 6) is a quadruple threat — the pianist has won awards for classical, pop, jazz, and musical show recordings. He covered the latter two bases with his 1960 album of music from one of the all-time Broadway hits, "West Side Story," which won a GRAMMY for Best Jazz Performance Solo Or Small Group. Previn was honored with a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. 

"Jelly Belly"
Mongo Santamaria

Who is the only percussionist whose name serves as a punch line in a Mel Brooks movie?  That would be Santamaria (April 7), the Cuban-born master conguero/composer who was a forerunner in fusing Latin rhythms with soul jazz. This exemplar of jazz communication is taken from the GRAMMY-winning album Dawn, which marked the first GRAMMY nod for the then-new label Fania Records, soon to be a Latin music powerhouse. (The movie was Blazing Saddles.)  

Which jazz artists will you celebrate this month? Drop us a comment and share some of the artists who will make your playlist.

(Neil Tesser has broadcast, written about and helped program jazz in Chicago for more than 35 years. His work has appeared in Jazziz, USA Today, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times, and now online at Examiner.com. Tesser received a GRAMMY nomination in 1985 for Best Album Notes for The Girl From Ipanema — The Bossa Nova Years.)

 

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GRAMMY Rewind: What happened at the 1st GRAMMY Awards?

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Henry Mancini wins Album Of The Year and Domenico Modugno takes home Record and Song Of The Year against these nominees
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(For a complete list of 54th GRAMMY Awards nominees, please click here.)

Music's Biggest Night, the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards, will air live from Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

In the weeks leading up to the telecast, we will take a stroll down music memory lane with GRAMMY Rewind, highlighting the "big four" categories — Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Best New Artist — from past awards shows. In the process, we'll examine the winners and the nominees who just missed taking home a GRAMMY, while also shining a light on the artists' careers and the eras in which the recordings were born.

Join us as we take an abbreviated journey through the trajectory of pop music from the 1st Annual GRAMMY Awards in 1959 to last year's 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards.


1st Annual GRAMMY Awards
May 4, 1959

Album Of The Year
Winner: Henry Mancini, The Music From Peter Gunn
Van Cliburn, Tchaikovksy: Concerto No. 1 In B-Flat Minor, Op. 23
Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook
Frank Sinatra, Come Fly With Me
Frank Sinatra, Only The Lonely

At the first-ever annual GRAMMY Awards ceremony — so early in the GRAMMY game that the presentation didn't even air on TV — the great composer Henry Mancini began a string of 20 GRAMMY wins by taking the first Album Of The Year award. The Music From Peter Gunn began to show the real promise of both Mancini — who would become arguably the top film composer of his era — and his collaborations with writer/director Blake Edwards. The two would go on to create film and music magic with the Pink Panther series. The Peter Gunn title track became the first hit TV theme.

Among the competition, Sinatra had the rare feat of landing both of his 1958 albums in the running, likely cancelling out his chances for a win. Come Fly With Me was a jaunty upbeat album that was Sinatra's first with arranger Billy May. Only The Lonely was a concept song cycle arranged by Nelson Riddle. Both hold up as peaks in Sinatra's career. Ella Fitzgerald made the cut with one of her several songbook albums, this one dedicated to the legendary Irving Berlin. Finally, pianist Van Cliburn was coming off his historic April 1958 win at the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, hailed as a cultural warm breeze in the bleak years of the Cold War.


Record Of The Year
Winner: Domenico Modugno, "Nel Blu Dipinto Blu (Volare)"
Perry Como, "Catch A Falling Star"
Peggy Lee, "Fever"
David Seville And The Chipmunks, "The Chipmunk Song"
Frank Sinatra, "Witchcraft"

The first Record Of The Year winner was also the only foreign language release to win the award to date. Domenico Modugno became one of the first Italian international pop music stars, and rode the song that became popularly known as "Volare" to worldwide fame, even if he never quite achieved that level of success again. Sinatra also gained a nomination here with the irrepressible "Witchcraft," which appeared on neither of his nominated albums, giving a sense of the hot streak the Chairman was on. Lee made the group with the saucy "Fever," which would become her highest charting hit of the rock era. Como crooned his way onto the list with "Catch A Falling Star," one of three Top 10 singles he scored that year ("Magic Moments" and "Kewpie Doll" were the others). Finally, the Chipmunks, resurrected through a successful big-screen film franchise in recent years, snuck in with the novelty "The Chipmunk Song," written and performed by Chipmunks creator Ross Bagdasarian (whose stage name was David Seville), who also co-penned a signature hit for Rosemary Clooney with "Come On-A My House."


Song Of The Year
Winner: Domenico Modugno, "Nel Blu Dipinto Blu (Volare)"
Perry Como, "Catch A Falling Star"
Vic Damone, "Gigi"
Peggy Lee, "Fever"
Frank Sinatra, "Witchcraft"

No huge surprises here, with "Nel Blu Dipinto Blu (Volare)" (written by Franco Migliacci and Modugno), "Catch A Falling Star" (by Lee Pockriss and Paul Vance, who also wrote the Cuff Links hit "Tracy," among others as a team), "Fever" (by Eddie Cooley and John Davenport), and "Witchcraft" (by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh, who was one of the top female composers of the Great American Songbook era with titles such as "Young At Heart" and "The Best Is Yet To Come" to her credit) reprising their Record Of The Year nominations. Vic Damone's "Gigi" (by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe), from the Vincente Minnelli film of the same name, rounded out the nominees.


Best New Artist
There was no Best New Artist category in 1958. The first award was presented at the 2nd Annual GRAMMY Awards, won by Bobby Darin.


Come back to GRAMMY.com Jan. 6 as we revisit the 5th Annual GRAMMY Awards. Meanwhile, visit The Recording Academy's social networks on Facebook and Twitter for updates and breaking GRAMMY news.

GRAMMY Rewind: 1962

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2011 GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Selections Announced

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Selections include recordings by Joan Baez, the Beatles, Ray Charles, the Jackson 5, the Marvelettes, Willie Nelson, and Sergei Rachmaninoff
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(For a complete list of 53rd GRAMMY Awards nominees, click here.)

In continuing its mission to preserve and celebrate music year-round, The Recording Academy has announced the newest additions to its legendary GRAMMY Hall Of Fame, adding 30 recordings to a collection that now totals 881 titles. The collection is on display at the GRAMMY Museum.

"The GRAMMY Hall Of Fame represents all genres of music, acknowledging the diversity of musical expression for which The Academy has become renowned," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy. "These musical treasures have brought us timeless recordings, and each of them deserves to be memorialized. These recordings are living evidence that music remains an indelible part of our culture."

The dynamic group of 2011 inductees range from the Beatles' "Penny Lane" to the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There." Other recordings include Al Jolson's "My Mammy," the Marvelettes' "Hey Mr. Postman," Willie Nelson's "On The Road Again," the Original Broadway Cast recording of Brigadoon, Prince & The Revolution's Purple Rain, and Otis Redding's "I've Been Loving You Too Long." Other inductees with selections include Joan Baez, Mildred Bailey, Ray Charles, Jimmy Cliff, Fats Domino, Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra, Al Green, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys, among others.

Established by The Academy's National Trustees in 1973, the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame was created to honor recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance that are at least 25 years old. Recordings are reviewed annually by a special member committee of eminent and knowledgeable professionals from all branches of the recording arts, and final approval is made by The Recording Academy Trustees.

For a complete list of 2011 GRAMMY Hall Of Fame inductees click here.

Tune in to the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards live from Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. For updates and breaking news, please visit The Recording Academy's social networks on Twitter and Facebook.
 

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Album Of The Year GRAMMY Winners: '50s And '60s

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The Beatles, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, and Barbra Streisand are among the artists who took home music's biggest album prize
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An incalculable number of albums have been released in music history, but only 58 have earned the coveted distinction of Album Of The Year GRAMMY winner so far. From Henry Mancini's The Music From Peter Gunn to Taylor Swift's 1989, some of these elite albums have arguably surprised, some were seemingly consensus choices and still others have fostered lasting debate. In part one of Album Of The Year GRAMMY Winners, explore the albums that won — and were runners-up for — music's biggest prize for 1958–1969.

1958 ALBUM OF THE YEAR

The Music From Peter Gunn
Henry Mancini

"Peter Gunn," the noir-ish television detective series created by Blake Edwards, first aired in 1958 and was one of the first to feature an original score. Penned by composer Henry Mancini, the show's cool jazz strains became integral to the tone of the show. Mancini, only 34 at the time, was already a veteran film composer, having written for The Glenn Miller Story and The Benny Goodman Story. Over the years, "Peter Gunn"'s insistent show theme has been covered by artists of all genres (the Art Of Noise, Jimi Hendrix and Quincy Jones, among others), and remains one of the most recognized — and hippest — of all time.

Other Nominees: 
Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1, In B-Flat Minor, Op. 23, Van Cliburn
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book, Ella Fitzgerald
Come Fly With Me, Frank Sinatra
Only The Lonely, Frank Sinatra 

1959 ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Come Dance With Me!
Frank Sinatra

One of the most successful and popular albums of Frank Sinatra's career, Come Dance With Me! features classic compositions by songwriting titans, including Lerner & Loewe ("I Could Have Danced All Night"), Irving Berlin ("Cheek To Cheek"), Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne ("Saturday Night [Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week]"), and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein ("The Song Is You"). Produced by Capitol Records' Dave Cavanaugh, and featuring iconic swing arrangements by Billy May, the album parked itself on Billboard's charts for more than two years.

Other Nominees: 
Belafonte At Carnegie Hall, Harry Belafonte
Victory At Sea, Vol. 1, Robert Russell Bennett
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3, Kiril Kondrashin, Van Cliburn and the Symphony Of The Air Orchestra
More Music From Peter Gunn, Henry Mancini

1960 ALBUM OF THE YEAR

The Button-Down Mind Of Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart

The Button-Down Mind Of Bob Newhart won out over some serious competition: Frank, Harry and Nat, as well as a pair of classical heavyweights. But remember — this was an era when comedy albums (including those by Shelley Berman, Allan Sherman and Vaughn Meader) were extraordinarily popular. How much so? The Button-Down Mind … topped the Billboard charts for weeks (even fending off Elvis Presley and the original cast album to The Sound Of Music). Newhart was also named Best New Artist, something never again achieved by a comedian, so far. Primarily known for his stand-up to this point, he became a major star when the Emmy-nominated "The Bob Newhart Show" debuted in 1972.

Other Nominees: 
Belafonte Returns To Carnegie Hall, Harry Belafonte
Wild Is Love, Nat "King" Cole
Brahms: Concerto, Erich Leinsdorf and Sviatoslav Richter
Puccini: Turandot, Erich Leinsdorf
Nice 'N Easy, Frank Sinatra

1961 ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Judy At Carnegie Hall
Judy Garland

At this stage in her career, the 39-year-old Garland had shifted from performing in films to television, and was one of the highest-paid performers to appear in Las Vegas. But this double album — recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York on April 23, 1961 — reinvigorated her position as a singer of impressive vocal power, class and rarified status. A winner of four GRAMMYs, Judy At Carnegie Hall remains steadfastly popular to this day.

Other Nominees:
Genius + Soul = Jazz, Ray Charles
The Nat "King" Cole Story, Nat "King" Cole
West Side Story — Motion Picture Soundtrack, John Green
Breakfast At Tiffany's — Motion Picture Soundtrack, Henry Mancini
Great Band With Great Voices, Si Zentner and Johnny Mann Singers

1962 ALBUM OF THE YEAR

The First Family
Vaughn Meader

Beating out Tony Bennett's I Left My Heart In San Francisco was no small feat, but Vaughn Meader's The First Family was a smash-hit comedy album that sold an unheard-of 1 million copies in the fall of 1962. Clearly, Meader's lighthearted parody of life with the Kennedys struck a chord with Americans during the brightest days of Camelot. Ironically, only months later, the 5th Annual GRAMMY Awards show was preempted for coverage of John F. Kennedy's assassination. (Out of deference, Meader did not appear on the rescheduled telecast.)

Other Nominees:
I Left My Heart In San Francisco, Tony Bennett
Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, Vol. 1, Ray Charles
Jazz Samba, Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd
My Son, The Folk Singer, Allan Sherman

1963 ALBUM OF THE YEAR

The Barbra Streisand Album
Barbra Streisand

By 1963, 20-year-old Barbra Streisand was just beginning to make a name for herself on the Broadway stage. It makes sense, then, that her debut solo album would feature selections from shows such as "The Fantasticks" and "A Taste Of Honey." With sweeping arrangements by Peter Matz (known for his work up to this point with Harold Arlen and Noël Coward) and works by Cole Porter and Rodgers & Hart, the collection kicks off with a moving take on "Cry Me A River" (written by Arthur Hamilton and made famous by torchbearer Julie London). The Barbra Streisand Album won three GRAMMY Awards, establishing Streisand as a musical force.

Other Nominees:
Honey In The Horn, Al Hirt
The Singing Nun, Soeur Sourire
Bach's Greatest Hits, the Swingle Singers
Days Of Wine And Roses, Andy Williams

1964 ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz & João Gilberto

The 7th Annual GRAMMY Awards marked a time of change in the world of popular music — although the ceremony was still black tie and gown, the "longhairs" were starting to make some noise (the Beatles were named Best New Artist). And during this period, as silky bossa nova began to grace American hi-fi's, the pairing of tenor saxophone great Stan Getz and renowned Brazilian composer João Gilberto would take home Album Of The Year as well as Record Of The Year for its lilting single "The Girl From Ipanema," sung by Gilberto's wife, Astrud. Recorded in spring 1963, and impeccably produced by Creed Taylor and engineered by Phil Ramone, the album also features the immeasurable contribution of Brazilian guitarist/pianist Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Other Nominees:
Cotton Candy, Al Hirt
The Pink Panther, Henry Mancini
Funny Girl, Barbra Streisand, Bob Merrill and Jule Styne
People, Barbra Streisand

1965 ALBUM OF THE YEAR

September Of My Years
Frank Sinatra

In 1965 Frank Sinatra was at the top of his game: His albums were consistently touched by Midas, he was headlining Vegas with the Rat Pack and he was an established film star (Can-Can, Ocean's 11 and The Manchurian Candidate). He also made his debut as a film director with the release of None But The Brave. Produced by Reprise Records' Sonny Burke, Sinatra's reflective September Of My Years earned Album Of The Year honors, and one of its tracks — the Ervin Drake-penned "It Was A Very Good Year" — took home GRAMMYs for Best Vocal Performance, Male and Best Arrangement Accompanying A Vocalist Or Instrumentalist.

Other Nominees:
Whipped Cream & Other Delights, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
The Sound Of Music — Motion Picture Soundtrack, Julie Andrews and Cast
My World, Eddy Arnold
Help!, the Beatles
My Name Is Barbra, Barbra Streisand

1966 ALBUM OF THE YEAR

A Man And His Music
Frank Sinatra

Only two artists — Stevie Wonder and Frank Sinatra — have captured the prestigious Album Of The Year GRAMMY in consecutive years. A Man And His Music is a double-disc retrospective of the Chairman's career up to 1965, particularly noteworthy in that the year marked his 50th birthday. Because many of the songs had been previously released on his former labels (including RCA, Columbia and Capitol), Sinatra chose to re-record them and release the album on Reprise Records, the label he founded in 1958. A TV special of the same name would capture Emmy and Peabody awards.

Other Nominees:
What Now My Love, Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass
Revolver, the Beatles
Dr. Zhivago — Motion Picture Soundtrack, Maurice Jarre
Color Me Barbra, Barbra Streisand

1967 ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles

For three years in a row, Frank Sinatra and the Beatles would be nominated for Album Of The Year, with Sinatra capturing it twice. But with their epic psychedelic trip Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles would reign supreme for 1967. The group had for the most part retired from touring by 1966, choosing to instead retreat to Abbey Road Studios and its newfound technological advances. Sgt. Pepper's ... — whose memorable collage artwork cover won the GRAMMY for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts — became one of the most influential albums in rock history, opening doors for other recording artists to the infinite possibilities of studio recording.

Other Nominees:
My Cup Runneth Over, Ed Ames
It Must Be Him, Vikki Carr
Ode To Billie Joe, Bobbie Gentry
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim

1968 ALBUM OF THE YEAR

By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Glen Campbell

After years as one of the busiest on-call sidemen in the music business (including service as a touring member of the Beach Boys as well as the acclaimed Phil Spector-favored "Wrecking Crew" session players), Glen Campbell began to stretch out on his own as a country solo artist. The year prior to Campbell's win for Album Of The Year, he brought home four GRAMMYs for the tracks "Gentle On My Mind," written by John Hartford, and "By The Time I Get To Phoenix," written by Jimmy Webb. The latter was one of the first of many successful partnerships between Webb and Campbell, including the classics "Wichita Lineman" and "Galveston."

Other Nominees: 
Magical Mystery Tour, the Beatles
Feliciano!, José Feliciano
A Tramp Shining, Richard Harris
Bookends, Simon And Garfunkel

1969 ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears

Every album nominated in 1969 remains an essential listen, especially the winner. Featuring pop hits "And When I Die" (written by Laura Nyro), "Spinning Wheel" and "You've Made Me So Very Happy" — as well as the delicate "Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie" — Blood, Sweat & Tears' second album is an accessible mix of rock, jazz, R&B, and classical that showed rock could sample from many palettes as it entered the '70s. The group's massive, ever-rotating lineup was akin to a superstar big band with long hair and bell-bottoms: This recording features vocalist David Clayton-Thomas, guitarist Steve Katz, alto sax/piano man Fred Lipsius, drummer Bobby Colomby, and bassist Jim Fielder.

Other Nominees: 
Abbey Road, the Beatles
Johnny Cash At San Quentin, Johnny Cash
Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crosby, Stills & Nash
The Age Of Aquarius, 5th Dimension