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  Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959.
From 1984 to 1991 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for music released in the previous year.
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When Colvin came up to the stage to accept her song of the year award, the microphone was hijacked by another interloper, ODB of the rap group Wu-Tang Clan, who bragged about his group.
The versatile Krauss, a Grammy favorite, won three awards - for best country instrumental, best bluegrass album and best country performance by a duo or group with Union Station.
Winners of the Grammy Awards are determined by the votes of eligible members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
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In 1998 Williams won an Academy Award as best supporting actor for his portrayal of a therapist who helps a troubled genius in Good Will Hunting (1997).
In 2003 Williams won a Grammy Award for best spoken-word comedy album for Live 2002.
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 GRAMMY.com - 48th Annual Grammy Awards Nominee List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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I was one of the audio engineers that participated in the recording of this project at John Marshall Sound in NYC back in July of 2003.
July 2003 - Soullution : Having recorded and mixed 2 songs for this NY based roots reggae outfit in the past, they were back to have their new album mastered.
They went on to release a retrospective album of 40 songs on Level Plane Records titled "Lineage".
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 Booksontape.com : Award Winners : GRAMMY® Awards (Best Spoken Word for Children)
Award Winners > GRAMMY® Awards (Best Spoken Word for Children)
Covering 104 categories, the awards honor recordings in musical fields as diverse as pop, rock, jazz, blues, rap, classical and even polka.
A GRAMMY is awarded by and to artists and technical professionals for artistic or technical achievement, not sales or chart positions.
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 Awards - 4/1/2005 - Curriculum Connections - CA512533
The award honors the producer of an outstanding video production for children released in the U. Andrew Carnegie is well-remembered for providing funds to build more than 2,500 free public libraries throughout the English-speaking world.
The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children has been awarded to The Train They Call the City of New Orleans, performed by Tom Chapin and produced by Live Oak Media.
The award was established by the late writer and is administered by his wife.
www.schoollibraryjournal.com /article/CA512533.html   (367 words)

  
 Simon & Schuster Audio :: Bob Dylan's Chronicles Is Nominated for Best Spoken Word Album
Masterfully narrated by Academy Award- winner Sean Penn, the audiobook explores the critical junctions in Bob Dylan's life and career, and is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.
Also nominated for a Grammy, in the category of Best Spoken Word Album for Children, is Ray Romano's RAYMIE, DICKIE, AND THE BEAN: WHY I LOVE AND HATE MY BROTHERS (Book and CD), written with his real-life brothers, Richard and Robert Romano, and illustrated by Gary Locke.
Simon and Schuster, part of the entertainment operation of Viacom Inc., is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for consumers of all ages, across all printed, electronic and multi-media formats.
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 Maya Angelou to speak at commencement 2002
Her addresses will be the capstone of a series of academic and cultural events throughout the spring semester that will explore the human experience through coursework in a variety of disciplines; seminars built on the writer’s work; performances and symposia; and other events.
Angelou was the recipient of the Langston Hughes Award (1991), a distinguished merit citation from the National Conference of Christians and Jews (1997) and the International Civil and Human Rights Award (1998).
She won a Grammy Award for best spoken word album (1994) and was named Essence magazine’s woman of the year (1992).
www.news.uiuc.edu /news/01/1109commencementspeaker.html   (242 words)

  
 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children
The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children has been awarded since 1994.
Prior to 1994 the award was combined with the award for Best Musical Album for Children as the Grammy Award for Best Album for Children.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Spoken_Word_Album_for_Children   (319 words)

  
 Roxbury Film Festival: Biography
Currently in the critically acclaimed FX series, THE SHIELD, CCH was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for "Best Actress in a Drama Series" and recently received the Golden Satellite Award for "Performance by an Actress in a Series, Drama" for her role as Detective Claudette Wyms.
In addition, she received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Spoken Word Album for GROW OLD ALONG WITH ME, THE BEST IS YET TO COME and won an AUDI, the Audio Publishers Association's top honor, for WOMEN IN THE MATERIAL WORLD.
CCH and her husband, anthropologist Boubacar Kone, were married in an African ceremony in Dakar, Senegal West Africa and were again remarried at a traditional Los Angeles event six months later, and they have built The Boribana Museum (www.boribanamuseum.org) in Dakar, Senegal for the study of cultures of the African Diaspora.
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Grammy Award for Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album
Grammy Award for Best Gospel Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
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 Michael J. Fox Nominated for Best Spoken Word Album
Emmy Award-winning actor Michael J. Fox earns his first Best Spoken Word nomination with his #1 New York Times bestseller, LUCKY MAN: A Memoir (six hours available on four cassettes or five CDs), the moving life story of one of the world's most adored comedic actors, read by the actor himself.
Combining a trademark ironic sensibility and a keen sense of the absurd, LUCKY MAN is nothing short of a real-life story of courage and success against insurmountable odds from one of Hollywood's favorite actors...
The winners will be announced at the 45h Annual Grammy Awards to be held in New York City on February 23, 2003.
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 Hillary Rodham Clinton Nominated for Best Spoken Word Album
Her remarkable journey from childhood in middle class suburbia to a high-profile life in American politics is the story of one woman's coming of age during a time of profound political, social, and generational change.
Senator Clinton also won a Grammy award in 1997 for her reading of IT TAKES A VILLAGE: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us.
The winners will be announced at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards to be held at the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on February 8, 2004.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-04-2003/0002069927&EDATE=   (463 words)

  
 Playbill News: Wicked’s Cast Album Wins Grammy Award
The Grammy went to Schwartz, who was not only the composer/lyricist of the smash musical set in the land of Oz, but also produced the Decca Broadway recording.
The awards go to album producer(s), and to the lyricist(s) and composer(s) of 51 percent or more of a new score.
The Grammy Award winners were announced on CBS in a broadcast from the Staples Center in Los Angeles Sunday Feb. 13.
www.playbill.com /news/article/91197.html   (414 words)

  
 Denzel Washington @ Filmbug
Based on a true story, the film won critical praise and was awarded the Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America, as well as an NAACP Award for Outstanding Motion Picture and Outstanding Supporting Actor for Washington's performance.
He received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and an Academy Award nomination (his fourth) for his portrayal of Rubin Hurricane Carter.
Additionally, his narration of the legend of John Henry was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, and he was awarded the 1996 NAACP Image Award for his performance in the animated children's special Happily Ever After: Rumpelstiltskin.
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 LECTURE SERIES TO FEATURE MAYA ANGELOU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Her best-selling autobiographical account of her youth, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," won critical acclaim in 1970 and was a two-hour TV special on CBS.
She was also nominated for an Emmy Award for her acting in Roots, and her screenplay Georgia, the first by a fl woman to be filmed.
In 1994, she was presented a Grammy Award for best spoken word album for "On the Pulse of Morning." In 1995, she wrote and presented a poem to honor the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, and in 1996, was named UNICEF’s National Ambassador.
www.clarke.edu /news/collegian/summer98/maya.htm   (426 words)

  
 International Documentary Association
Hosted by Grammy and Emmy Award-winning humorist and best-selling author Al Franken, the program delivers fearlessly irreverent commentary on the political events of the day, as well as interviews and comedy segments.
Al Franken is an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer, best-selling author and Grammy Award-winning comedian.
He received three Emmy Awards for his writing on “SNL,” and a fourth for producing.
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 ASCAP's 47th GRAMMY Awards
Alicia Keys, Usher and U2 were among the multiple winners at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards, which were presented at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 13, 2005.
Alicia Keys collected four Grammys for Best RandB Album for The Diary Of Alicia Keys, Best Female RandB Vocal Performance for "If I Ain't Got You," Best RandB Song for "You Don't Know My Name," and for her duet with Usher, "My Boo," which won Best RandB Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.
Usher earned three awards including one for Best Contemporary Album of the Year for Confessions.
www.ascap.com /eventsawards/awards/grammys/2005   (292 words)

  
 Booksontape.com : Award Winners : GRAMMY® Awards (Best Spoken Word Album)
Award Winners > GRAMMY® Awards (Best Spoken Word Album)
The GRAMMY Awards continue to celebrate the best in recording arts and sciences.
GRAMMY® Awards (Best Spoken Word for Children)
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 ABCNews.com : Message Boards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In February 2004, Clinton (along with Mikhail Gorbachev and Sophia Loren) won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for narrating the Russian National Orchestra's album Peter and the Wolf/Wolf Tracks.
Following reception of the honorary degree, he spoke to the students, faculty, alumni and staff of Pace, officially kicking off the centennial anniversary of the university.
Also in 2006 Clinton was awarded the J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding.
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 Live Oak Media Receives Audie Award
Accepting the award was Arnie Cardillo, owner and producer of Live Oak Media, who was also the producer of the four other finalists in the same category.
Live Oak Media has also received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for the past two years.
In 2001, the Grammy went to MAMA DON"T ALLOW by Thacher Hurd, performed by Tom Chapin, and in 2002 the Grammy was awarded to THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY by Simms Taback, also performed by Tom Chapin.
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While in Hollywood he served as music supervisor on the film "THE T.A.M.I. SHOW" and was proud of his accomplishment of introducing the Rolling Stones in their first US television appearance.
He wrote the music for the film "HARLOW" starring Carol Lynley,and in 1967 was nominated for an Academy Award for his adaptation and treatment of the music for "STOP THE WORLD, I WANT TO GET OFF".
He returned to Hollywood in the mid 1970's to produce the film "GIVE 'EM HELL HARRY" which also won Al a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.
www.musicofyourlife.com /people/AlHamObituary.cfm   (485 words)

  
 Sidney Poitier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1963 film Lilies of the Field and was the first African-American actor to win this award.
He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2002.
The Defiant Ones, for which he won the British Academy Award for Best Actor in 1958.
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 Grammy Winner!!
Al Franken's audio book, "Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look At The Right", won the 46th Annual Grammy award for "Best Spoken Word Album ".
This album was recorded at John Marshall Sound and was edited, mixed and mastered by the JMS post-production team headed by Kevin Fecu with Ian DeWeerdt and Ben Bocardo.
Congratulations Al and thanks to all of our staff who made this outstanding production a Grammy winning album.
www.johnmarshallsound.com /grammy_winner!!.htm   (112 words)

  
 Nominations and awards
Tony Award Nomination for performance in “Look Away” 1973
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album 1994
President's Award, Collegiate of Language Association for Outstanding Achievements, Winston-Salem, NC 1996
www.maya-angelou.net /awards.html   (90 words)

  
 Award-Winning Storyteller and Musician to Perform June 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
ATHENS, Ohio -- Grammy Award winning storyteller and musician David Holt will present a "One Man Celebration of Stories and Songs" at 8 p.m.
His collection, "Grandfather's Greatest Hits," featuring the legendary Chet Atkins, Doc Watson and Duane Eddy playing together for the first time, received a 1992 Grammy Award nomination.
Holt's newest recording, "Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends," is up for a Grammy Award this year.
www.ohiou.edu /about/new/013-989.html   (304 words)

  
 2002 ASCAP R&S Awards::Special Recognition
ASCAP congratulates those members who were presented with special music awards during the past year...
Best RandB Performance by a Duo or Group w/Vocal:"Survivor"
Best Rap Performance By A Duo or Group
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 Bob Dylan's Chronicles Is Nominated for Best Spoken Word Album | Entertainment Magazine | EMOL.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Bob Dylan's Chronicles Is Nominated for Best Spoken Word Album
Simon & Schuster Audio is pleased to announce that CHRONICLES: Volume One has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Spoken Word Album category.
Simon & Schuster, part of the entertainment operation of Viacom Inc., is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for consumers of all ages, across all printed, electronic and multi-media formats.
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