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  Grammy Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in musical recordings, is one of four major music awards shows held annually (the others being the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music Awards, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony).
However, the Grammys (usually held in February as the last of the "big three" music awards shows--the others being the BMAs and the AMAs) is the approximate equivalent, in the music world, to the Oscarss.
The awards are named for the trophy given for them, a small gilded statuette of a gramophone.
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Grammy Awards of 2003: John Mayer for "Your Body Is A Wonderland"
Grammy Awards of 1981: Kenny Loggins for "This Is It"
Grammy Awards of 1979: Barry Manilow for "Copacabana (At The Copa)"
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Grammy Awards of 1984: Irene Cara for "Flashdance...
Grammy Awards of 1976: Janis Ian for "At Seventeen"
Grammy Awards of 1961: Ella Fitzgerald for "Mack The Knife"
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 Grammy Award for Best Country Song - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Grammy Award for Best Country Song (sometimes known as the Country Songwriter's Award) has been awarded since 1965.
The award is given to the writer of the song.
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for music released in the previous year.
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 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance has been awarded since 1966.
In 1967 the award was combined with the equivalent award for women as the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary (RandR) Solo Vocal Performance - Male or Female
A similar award for Best Vocal Performance, Male was awarded from 1959 to 1968.
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 Grammy Award for Album of the Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Grammy Awards of 1999: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill
Grammy Awards of 1994: The Bodyguard[?] by Whitney Houston
Grammy Awards of 1973: The Concert for Bangla Desh[?] by George Harrison, Ravi Shanker[?], Bob Dylan, Leon Russell[?], Ringo Starr, Billy Preston[?], Eric Clapton and Klaus Voormann
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 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance was first awarded in 1970.
Between 1986 amd 1989 the award was presented as the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist)
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
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 1974 in music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
See also: 1973 in music, other events of 1974, 1975 in music, 1970s in music and the list of 'years in music'
February 10 - record producer Phil Spector is badly injured in a car accident.
Washington Post Music Critic Tim Page has described 1974 as being the worst year in pop music.
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 Grammy Award For Album Of The Year Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Looking For grammy award for album of the year - Find grammy award for album of the year and more at Lycos Search.
Originally presented to the artist alone, the award is now presented to the artist, the producer, the engineer and/or mixer and the mastering engineer.
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were awarded, for music released in the previous year.
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However, the Grammys, usually held in February, (last of what are considered the "big three" music awards shows, including the BMA and AMA shows) are considered the approximate equivalent to the Oscars, in the music world.
The awards are named for the trophy which the winner receives - a small gilded statuette of a gramophone.
Unlike the Academy Awards, for which the eligiblilty period begins January 1, the eligibility period for the Grammys begins October 1, which results in September being considered the Christmas sales period for the music industry (in which artists generally release big albums to qualify for the next year's Grammy).
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 Grammy Awards 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In a prolific career that has spanned over five decades, this outstanding musician has received Grammy nominations and won Grammy Awards in a variety of categories, as an artist, songwriter, composer and producer.
In addition to going gold, the album has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the Album of The Year category, reasserting Simon as a true legend and one of the most talented artists of his era.
The MusiCares tribute dinner is one of the highlights in the series of high-profile Grammy week events leading up to the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 21.
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 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) has been awarded since 1959.
From 1967 to 1971 and in 1987 the award was combined with the award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) and awarded as the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra).
Andre Previn (conductor) and Anne-Sophie Mutter for Previn: Violin Concerto "Anne-Sophie"/Bernstein: Serenade performed by Anne-Sophie Mutter, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra
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 Grammy Award - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Grammy Award is presented by the Recording Academy, an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry, for outstanding achievements in musical recordings.
Like the Oscars, the Grammies, currently with a total of 101 categories within 28 fields of music (such as pop, gospel, rap), are voted by peers - in this case voting members of the Recording Academy.
The Grammy voters tend to be elderly, musically conservative, and are heavily marketed to by record companies, who place great stock in some types of artists winning Grammys (accurately but cynically put as those which sell to "teenage girls and housewives").
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 Grammy Award for Best New Artist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for records released in the previous year.
Grammy Awards of 1987[?]: Bruce Hornsby & the Range[?]
Grammy Awards of 1979: A Taste of Honey[?]
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 GRAMMY AWARD FOR RECORD OF THE YEAR FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Grammy Award for Record of the Year facts and information
The Record of the Year is one of the two most prestigious Grammy_Awards presented annually.
Often, a recording nominated for Record of the Year is also nominated for Song of the Year and the winner of these two awards may be the same.
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 Features @ Top40-Charts.com - 40 Top 20 & Top 40 Music Charts from 25 Countries
A GRAMMY is awarded by the Recording Academy's voting membership to honor excellence in the recording arts and sciences.
These awards recognize contributions and activities of significance to the recording field that fall outside the framework of the GRAMMY Awards categories, and include the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Trustees Award, the GRAMMY Hall of Fame Award, the Technical GRAMMY Award, and the GRAMMY Legend Award.
The GRAMMY Awards are telecast annually to an international audience of over 2 billion in 180 countries.
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 Grammy Awards Trivia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The only Grammys Elvis Presley ever won were for albums in the religious categories: "How Great Thou Art" (studio recording; Best Sacred Performance, 1967), "He Touched Me" (studio recording; Best Inspirationsal Performance, 1972) and "How Great Thou Art" (live performance recording; Best Inspirational Performance, 1974).
The only artist who has ever refused a Grammy was Sinéad O’Connor, who declined to accept her prize for Best Alternative Music Performance for "I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got" in 1990.
The only winner ever stripped of an award was Milli Vanilli, which lost its Best New Artist designation of 1989 after it was learned that the duo did not actually sing on its recordings.
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 Techno Guide: Tomita   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His debut album in 1974 'Snowflakes are Dancing' -an interpretation on synthesizer of the music of Claude Debussy- was at a time when awareness was still increasing about the use of the instrument.
The album reached the top 50's of the pop charts and received 4 nominations for Grammy awards in 1974.
Since 1982 he focused his work in digital synthesis and MIDI technology, in his own Casio Cosmo system.
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 Macrocultural Processes in Organizational Fields (Knowledge)
In this paper, we define award ceremonies as tournament rituals that shape the macroculture (Abrahamson and Fombrun, 1994) of an industry.
Based on a case study of the Grammy awards in the commercial music industry, we offer an interpretation of the manner in which tournament rituals help define organization field-wide macrocultures.
We blend a case analysis with qualitative and quantitative methods to provide a longitudinal, multi-dimensional look at the tournament ritual called the Grammy awards.
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 GRAMMY AWARD FOR BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement facts and information
The Grammy_Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement has been awarded since 1963.
The award is presented to the arranger of the music.
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 United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1974   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The United Kingdom held a national preselection to choose the song that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1974.
It was held on February 23, 1974 and presented by Jimmy Savile.
Long Live Love won the national and went on to tie for 4th in the contest.
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 Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance has been awarded since 1966.
In 1967 the award was combined with the equivalent award for men as the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary (RandR) Solo Vocal Performance - Male or Female
A similar award for Best Vocal Performance, Female was awarded from 1959 to 1968.
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 Grammy-winning gospel singer adapts to life as church pastor
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Every time he brought home a Grammy, it was another award for the Lord.
As pastor of Christ Memorial Church of God in Christ, the eight-time Grammy winner is one year into a family tradition started by his late father and brother.
Crouch, who has been winning Grammy awards since 1974, has toured 58 countries.
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 World Most Popular Lyrics - 1974 Top 10 Hit With Spanish Lyrics Crepuscule Chronologyground 7" In November, When A ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
World Most Popular Lyrics - 1974 Top 10 Hit With Spanish Lyrics Crepuscule Chronologyground 7" In November, When A Factory Package Tour Hit The Lowlands.
Their consolation was that Honey Honey had become a US Top 30 hit In 1979 a Spanish version of
In 1974 Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan wrote 17 hit in England.
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Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
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 IMDb: Grammy Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Grammys are considered as the most prestigious music award.
Awards are given in about ninety categories ranging from 'Best Album of the Year' to 'Best Classical Contemporary Composition' and the like.
Most of those Grammy categories are not movie-related at all.
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 The 5th Avenue Theatre - 2001-2002 Season - The Prince & The Pauper
After nearly eight years of developing the show, Judd Woldin, Marc Elliott and Ivan Menchell are joined by a team of talented artists to bring their dream from the page to the stage.
He is the winner of multiple ASCAP awards for composition.
He received the LA Critics' Award for Best Fight Choreography (1981) and the prestigious Critics' Circle Award in LA for Best Fight Choreographer (1988 and 1991).
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 Articles - Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording was awarded from 1960 to 1986.
In 1971 and from 1973 to 1974 the award was known as Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording (including traditional blues)
In 1987 the award was split into two new awards: the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album and the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
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