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  Duvet Cover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Crash cover - A crash cover, also known as an air accident cover or interrupted flight cover, is a cover (envelope) that has been recovered from a fixed-wing aircraft or airship crash or other accident.
Grammy Award for Best Album Cover - Other Than Classical - The Grammy Award for Best Album Cover - Other Than Classical was awarded from 1962 to 1965, alongside the award for Best Album Cover - Classical.
Valve cover racing - Valve cover racing is a competitive event similar to the Pinewood Derby, but instead of wood blocks, vehicles are made from a valve cover from an internal combustion car engine.
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 U2 upstages Mariah Carey at Grammy Awards - Arts & Leisure - International Herald Tribune
Grammy voters, for the first time, honored a contestant on the Fox television smash "American Idol," granting that populist phenomenon a measure of acceptance from the musical establishment.
U2 took home two of the most prestigious Grammys, album of the year for "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" (Interscope) and song of the year for "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own." Bono, the group's lead singer, said the album was largely a rumination on his often difficult relationship with his father.
She won two Grammys in 1990, including the best new artist award, but her career took a downturn in 2001 when the movie "Glitter," in which she starred, and its soundtrack were poorly received.
www.iht.com /articles/2006/02/09/arts/web.0209grammy.php   (1146 words)

  
 Entertainment Awards | Grammy Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
A GRAMMY is awarded by and to artists and technical professionals for artistic or technical achievement in the 31 music fields including pop, rock, jazz, blues, rap, classical, folk and more and 107 categories among these fields.
Grammy winners chosen by the voting members of the Recording Academy by reviewing and balloting the entries(recordings submitted for GRAMMY consideration) received that meet all eligibility requirements.
In addition to the GRAMMY Awards, the other honors are given every year by the Recording Academy are the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Trustees Award, the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Award, the Technical GRAMMY Award, and the GRAMMY Legend Award and more.
www.freeusaguide.com /grammy.htm   (197 words)

  
 AOL Coverage of Grammys '07 -- Missing the Mark Photos - AOL Music
And when, in 1988, the first Best Rap Grammy was awarded, it was handed out during the preshow ceremony, not the televised broadcast.
She’s the undisputed Queen of Pop, but Madge’s music was first awarded with a Grammy 17 years into her ground-breaking career.
When the first Grammy awards were held in 1959, rock ‘n roll was the requisite soundtrack for American teens, yet Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Driftwood took home that’s year’s top honors.
music.aol.com /feature/grammy/trivia_misses   (789 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Sanz wins three Latin Grammys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Vives won the best contemporary tropical album award for Dejame Entrar, which also earned him a Grammy in February, and shared the best tropical song honor, a songwriters' award, for the album's title track.
It was the first Grammy of any kind for the Mexican singer, who's known as "the king of ranchera music" and has recorded 55 albums.
Most winners weren't present for the early awards, but Alejandra Guzman was — and she ran on stage, screaming and flailing her arms, to accept the best female rock album award for Soy.
www.usatoday.com /life/music/news/2002-09-18-latin-grammys-awards_x.htm   (779 words)

  
 Acy Lehman - Who's Who in RCA VideoDisc
Prior to VideoDisc he served as Art Director for RCA Records, and in that role was co-recipient with artist Harvey Dinnerstein of the 1972 Grammy Award for Best Album Cover.
This was for the cover of The Siegel Schwall Band by the Siegel-Schwall Band.
In producing some 125 covers over the past year, Lehman and his crew have acquired an unlikely miscellany of props, including a New York Yankee jersey, a revolver, boxing gloves, several feet of barbed wire, a police arrest record form, and a detective's badge.
www.cedmagic.com /mem/whos-who/lehman-acy.html   (492 words)

  
 Grammy Information for Hawaiian Music A Long Time Coming
There are a decent number of Hawai'i released albums in the "Album of the Year" category, including artists (The Brothers Cazimero for one), Ho'okena, Keahi Conjugation, Jake Shimabukuro and Paul Shimomoto are the most notable Hawai'i entrants in the in Best New Artist category.
Grammys are considered the most coveted of the many contemporary music awards.
Despite the honor the awards carry and the ratings success of the awards show, many industry insiders consider the Grammys to be merely a reflection of mainstream commercial success.
www.dannycouchfanaddicts.com /grammys.htm   (2802 words)

  
 '99 Grammy Nominations: Anyone Have a Painkiller? (NY Rock)
For Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Sarah McLachlan is nominated for her Party of Five-shopping-at-Pottery Barn anthem, "Adia." The song comes off of McLachlan's 1997 Surfacing, which was nominated for and won several awards at last year's Grammys.
Best Dance Recording is another category that shows many Order members can't even get up on their feet.
Again, Version 2.0 is a good album that has many exciting, poppy moments, but it's hardly one that deserves to stand alone, unlike past nominees Beck's Odelay or Radiohead's OK Computer or Dylan's Time Out of Mind.
www.nyrock.com /features/grammynoms.htm   (1252 words)

  
 The first Grammy nominees in the Hawaiian music category are
The brothers are hoping a Hawaiian Grammy award resonates with local musicians, sparking them to pursue Hawaiian music and, perhaps, withdraw from the Jawaiian sound that has permeated the Island music scene for a couple of decades.
Other categories in the awards ceremony are as diverse as best polka album, best album notes and best chamber music performance and best spoken word album for children.
When the Grammy award for Best Hawaiian Music Album is announced tomorrow at the 47th annual event in Los Angeles, it will be a historical moment, not only for the winner and five nominees, but the state, Hawaii's indigenous culture and thousands of musicians who have kept the music vibrant and alive.
www.dannycouchfanaddicts.com /grammy2.htm   (13604 words)

  
 Ani Difranco | The Evolve Packaging
The moth on the cover of Ani DiFranco's album Evolve looks so life-like, it almost wouldn't be a shock if it flew off the page and made a beeline towards the nearest light bulb.
On February 8, 2004, The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences agreed, awarding Ani and her longtime art director Brian Grunert the 2004 Grammy award for Best Recording Package.
Taking advantage of sophisticated printing techniques and creative uses of paper, the record's embossed digi-pak, metallic blue slip case with intricate moth die-cut and beautiful liner note booklet act as visual sisters to The Little Folksinger's ambitious songs, resulting in a package that is as relevant as it is striking.
www.righteousbabe.com /ani/evolve/grammy.asp   (163 words)

  
 Welcome to Yellow Dog Records, home of authentic roots music celebrating the American musical heritage
The Blues Music Awards (formerly known as the W.C. Handy Awards) are universally recognized as the highest honor given to Blues artists.
The album is also going strong on XM Satellite Radio's Bluesville channel, hitting #3 on the "Picks to Click" list, and the song "Big, Bigger, Biggest" was featured as "Blues Breaker of the Week" on the nationally syndicated House of Blues Radio Hour.
The award is the nineteenth for Terry, a CBA record.
www.yellowdogrecords.com /index.html   (1418 words)

  
 Just what is ‘alternative’? - 2006 GRAMMY AWARDS - MSNBC.com
As history shows, “Best New Artist,” instituted in 1959, is a repository or one hit wonders and long-forgotten has-beens.
Fourteen years reveal many repeat nominees, including acts that went on to “mainstream” Grammy nominations, as well as musicians whose “alternative” status is questionable.
In 1991 and from 1994 to 1999, it was called “best alternative music performance.” And from 2001 to 2003, the musicians, producers and engineers shared the prize.
www.msnbc.msn.com /default.aspx/id/10993760   (632 words)

  
 User Reviews and comparison blog on Ten Best Hip-Hop Songs - Music by RAGHUBHAI on MouthShut.com
named shyne from newyork, the album was produced by sean puffy combs now known p diddy, and all the songs were too good on the album.
This is considered one of the best albums of all time in hip hop also a grammy award for it.
i just wanna love you- by jay-z, jay-z is retired hip hop artist, he considered the best after tupac and notorius b.i.g and i think this is his best song from his album called the dynasty of the roc la familia.
www.mouthshut.com /review/Ten_Best_Hip-Hop_Songs-87430-1.html   (723 words)

  
 B.B. King in the News
B.B. King won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Recording for Blues on the Bayou earlier this year (his ninth).
B.B. The highly anticipated B.B. King and Eric Clapton collaborative album Riding With The King is due on June13 on Warner Bros. Records.
The album was produced by Eric Clapton and Simon Climie: Keyboardist Joe Sample, bassist Nathan East3 drummer Steve Gadd and guitarists Jimmie Vaughan and Doyle Bramhall played on the album along with Clapton and King.
www.worldblues.com /bbking/Press/press.htm   (1087 words)

  
 Howstuffworks "How the GRAMMYs Work"
The Record of the Year award recognizes one specific track or commercially released single, and the Album of the Year award recognizes an entire album.
In addition to the most well-known awards like Song of the Year, the Recording Academy recognizes a wide range of musical accomplishments, down to album notes and package design.
Regardless of whether they receive their award on live TV or earlier in the day, each winner gets a small statue of a gramophone.
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 Augusta Georgia: Features:Gobs of Grammys 02/27/02
The Grammy Awards, which air at 8 tonight (Wednesday) on CBS (WRDW-TV, Channel 12), have become an unwieldy beast.
This award, given for songwriting, could easily be her big win.
WHO WILL WIN: This award is often given to the artist who has graced the most magazine covers, and Alicia Keys has been crowned as the new face of R&B. Expect her to be rewarded accordingly.
chronicle.augusta.com /stories/022702/fea_grammy1.shtml   (528 words)

  
 JVibe -->pop culture
Competition for Best New Artist really exemplifies the attitude of the Grammys--and the recording industry--in 2000: the younger and more commercial, the better.
Grammy tradition of helping artists gain a mainstream audience would favor soul surprise Macy Gray or blues rocker Susan Tedeschi.
Sheryl Crow, a darling of Grammy voters (she's got 4), earned, I thought, an unwarranted nod for Best Female Rock Performance for her soundtrack-cover of the Guns 'n Roses "Sweet Child O' Mine" (from Jewish funny-boy Adam Sandler's Big Daddy).
www.jvibe.com /popculture/grammy.shtml   (809 words)

  
 Ray Charles big winner at Grammys - 2006 GRAMMY AWARDS - MSNBC.com
It won album of the year and best pop album; the song “Here We Go Again,” with Norah Jones, won record of the year and best pop collaboration with vocals.
Kevork Djansezian / AP Alicia Keys accepts the award for best RandB album for "The Diary of Alicia Keys." She won four trophies Sunday night.
Besides the four awards for best album and song, “Genius Loves Company” won for best instrumental arrangement accompanying a vocalist, best gospel performance, best engineered album and best surround sound album.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6964733   (1159 words)

  
 John Hammond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
A Grammy Award winner and four time nominee, Hammond is also a multiple W.C. Handy award winner who has shared the stage and/or recorded with many of the masters, including Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker and Howlin' Wolf.
Grammy Award winning blues veteran, John Hammond, is set to release his new CD, Push Comes To Shove on Back Porch Records on January 23.
Hammond gives major credit for the stellar sound and feel of the songs on the album to the musicians on the CD who also perform with him live when he is not performing solo.
www.rosebudus.com /hammond/index.html   (982 words)

  
 The Official Trout Fishing In America Web Site
Award winning duo TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA (Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet) has been nominated for a 2007 Grammy Award for "Best Musical Album For Children" (their third nomination) for MY BEST DAY (Trout Records).
The 15 songs cover a range of topics and themes, from odes to friends whom we love despite the fact they talk to much, to alien nose invasions and snowflakes named Bob.
The Grammy Awards will be held on SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2007 at 8pm at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and broadcast on CBS-TV.
troutmusic.com /default.htm   (849 words)

  
 Stereophile: Audiophile Gold Among the 2006 Grammy Nominees
In a year when far too many pundits are sounding the death knell for the CD in general and high-resolution formats in particular, there's a bumper crop of great sounding, high quality recordings vying for a listen.
In the final voting round for Grammy Award winners, Recording Academy members may vote in the four general categories and in no more than eight of the 31 fields.
While name recognition and big label pressure have been known play a major part in voting process—a pop producer with rudimentary knowledge of classical music, for example, may choose to vote in the classical category simply because she/he knows one of the nominees—the Academy's track record for nominating high quality discs is quite good.
www.stereophile.com /news/121106grammy   (1219 words)

  
 CD Design and Album Cover Art: Grammy Award Winning Archives
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (aka Grammys) gave their awards for Best Recording Package Design during those years too.
In 1959, the Grammy Awards began presenting an award for Best Album Cover, recognizing the growing artistry of the 'face' of recorded music releases.
So here they are, the best album cover designs of the 70s, according to The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
www.cddesign.com /covertalk/archives/grammy_award_winning   (699 words)

  
 Augusta Georgia: Features:Singer to vie for Grammy with Sinatra cover album 02/27/02
Augusta Georgia: Features:Singer to vie for Grammy with Sinatra cover album 02/27/02
LAS VEGAS - When the first Grammy Awards were held in 1959, singer Keely Smith didn't even know she had won.
The nomination is in the traditional pop vocal album category.
chronicle.augusta.com /stories/022702/fea_grammy2.shtml   (400 words)

  
 Best Childrens Music.com: Our Picks for Older Kids
Fresh off a Grammy win for their theme song to the hit TV show Malcolm in the Middle, They Might Be Giants present their latest batch of material with this new album for children.
The best children's music is music that we enjoy as much as our kids do.
Morgan's songs cover the spectrum from thought provoking to silly and gross -- but the language is always rich, colorful and insists that we raise the vocabulary bar for kids.
www.bestchildrensmusic.com /pick_ok.htm   (1379 words)

  
 CD Baby: BEN CARROLL: Lover Undercover
The son of members of the Grammy-winning Starland Vocal Band, best known for their # 1 hit Afternoon Delight in 1976, Carroll began performing and songwriting early on.
It is this variety, instrumentally and vocally, that makes the album such an intense and enjoyable emotional experience.
Ben Carroll's voice is rich and full of depth and emotion as he moves between blues to ballads to folk with ease and grace.
cdbaby.com /cd/bencarroll   (600 words)

  
 Thermostat Cover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Prepared by experienced writers in the Professional Association of Resume Writers, the organization that certifies career document specialists, "101 Best Cover Letters gives you the benefit of the expertise that clients have gladly paid hundreds of dollars for.
Packed with professional know-how, insight, thermostat cover and power, this high-energy collection of letters sells you to potential employers.
Grammy Award for Best Album Cover - Classical - The Grammy Award for Best Album Cover - Classical was awarded from 1962 to 1965, alongside the award for Best Album Cover - Other Than Classical.
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 Spreading the love | AccessAtlanta
The 48th annual Grammy Awards spread their statues around Wednesday night, honoring a comeback diva, a long-running Irish rock band, an "American Idol" and an outspoken rapper.
Hip-hop star Kanye West won best rap album for the acclaimed 'Late Registration.' The award came on the heels of his recent appearance posing as Jesus Christ on the cover of Rolling Stone — and in his speech, West thanked both his publicist and God.
Carey, whose smash album "The Emancipation of Mimi" restored both her credibility and marketability, also won best female R&B vocal performance for "We Belong Together." "Mimi" earned best contemporary R&B album.
www.accessatlanta.com /news/content/music/grammys/0209grammymain.html   (557 words)

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