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The Grammy Award
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
 for Album of the Year
is the most prestigious award category at the Grammys. It has been awarded since 1959 and though it was 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. In 1962, the award name was extended to Album of the Year (other than classical) but reverted to the shorter name by 1965.






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The Grammy Award
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
 for Album of the Year
is the most prestigious award category at the Grammys. It has been awarded since 1959 and though it was 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. In 1962, the award name was extended to Album of the Year (other than classical) but reverted to the shorter name by 1965. It was not until until 1968, 1999, and 2002 that the award was won by a rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 album, a hip hop
Hip hop music

Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
 album, or a country
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 album, respectively.

Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
, Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
, & Paul Simon
Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
 are the biggest winners in this category with 3 victories each. Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
 leads all performers with 9 nominations: 5 as a member of The Beatles
The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
, 3 for solo albums, and 1 as a member of Wings
Wings (band)

Wings was a rock music group formed in August 1971 by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. The group was the only "permanent" group that any of the former members of the Beatles joined after their break-up....
. Frank Sinatra leads solo performers with 8 nominations, 7 for solo albums and 1 for a duet album. Paul McCartney and Paul Simon are the artists with nominations in most decades, 5 - the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s, if counting the nominations from the 1960s as part of their respective groups, The Beatles, and Simon & Garfunkel. They've only competed against each other once:1969, when The Beatles were nominated for Magical Mystery Tour and Simon and Garfunkel
Simon and Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
 were up for Bookends
Bookends

Bookends is the name of an album and its title track, both recorded by Simon and Garfunkel, released April 3, 1968. It was record producer by Paul Simon, Roy Halee and Art Garfunkel....
. They both lost to Glen Campbell.

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were awarded, for music released in the previous year.

Many wonder what the difference is between Record of the Year
Grammy Award for Record of the Year

The Record of the Year is one of the four most prestigious Grammy Awards presented annually. It has been awarded since 1959. The honorees through its history have been:...
 and Album of the Year. Record of the Year is awarded for a single or for one track from an album. This award goes to the performing artist, the producer, recording engineer, and/or mixer for that song. Album of the Year is awarded for a whole album, and the award is presented to the artist, producer, recording engineer, and mastering engineer for that album. So, in this context, "record" means one song and "album" means the whole collection of songs on a CD or LP.

2000s

YearWinnerNominations
2009
51st Grammy Awards

The 51st Annual Grammy Awards took place on February 8, 2009, and was broadcast in HD on CBS in the United States at 8 pm EST/PST. The nominations were announced on a special concert airing on CBS on December 3, 2008, and were then posted on the official website....
Raising Sand
Raising Sand

Raising Sand is a collaboration album by rock music singer Robert Plant and bluegrass music-country singer Alison Krauss. It was released on October 23, 2007 by Rounder Records....
 performed by Allison Krauss and Robert Plant
Robert Plant

Robert Anthony Plant Order of the British Empire , is an England Rock and Roll singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the former rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career....
; produced by T-Bone Burnett
T-Bone Burnett

Joseph Henry "T-Bone" Burnett is an American songwriter, musician and producer. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in Fort Worth, Texas....
  • Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
    Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends

    Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends is the fourth studio album by English alternative rock band Coldplay. It was released on 11 June 2008 in Japan, 12 June 2008 in the United Kingdom, and 17 June 2008 in North America....
     by Coldplay
    Coldplay

    Coldplay are a United Kingdom alternative rock Musical ensemble formed in London, England in 1998. The group comprises vocalist/pianist/guitarist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Will Champion....
  • Tha Carter III
    Tha Carter III

    Tha Carter III is the Grammy Award winning sixth studio album by American Rapping Lil Wayne, released June 10, 2008 on Cash Money Records. The first three singles released from the album, , have all achieved top ten success on the Billboard Hot 100, a very rare feat for a rap album....
     performed by Lil Wayne
    Lil Wayne

    Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. , better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an United States Rapping. Formerly a member of the rap group the Hot Boys, he joined the Cash Money Records collective as a teenager....
  • Year of the Gentleman
    Year of the Gentleman

    Year of the Gentleman is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Ne-Yo, released on September 16, 2008 by Def Jam Recordings. The album was met with generally favorable reviews from critics, as well as a considerable amount of commercial success and sales....
     performed by Ne-Yo
    Ne-Yo

    Shaffer Chimere Smith , better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, is an American pop music and contemporary R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, and occasional rapping....
  • In Rainbows
    In Rainbows

    In Rainbows is the seventh album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. It was first released on 10 October 2007 as a digital download, followed by a standard CD release in most countries during the last week of 2007....
     performed by Radiohead
    Radiohead

    Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire. The band is composed of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway ....
     
2008
50th Grammy Awards

The 50th Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, California, on February 10, 2008, starting at 8PM Eastern Time Zone ....
River: The Joni Letters
River: The Joni Letters

River: The Joni Letters is the 2008 Grammy-winning studio album by Herbie Hancock. His 47th studio album, it was released on September 25, 2007 by Verve Records....
 performed by Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
; featuring Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963....
, Norah Jones
Norah Jones

Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, keyboardist, guitarist, and occasional actress of English people-American and People of India-Bengali people descent....
, Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
, Corinne Bailey Rae
Corinne Bailey Rae

Corinne Bailey Rae is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist who released her eponymous debut album Corinne Bailey Rae in February 2006....
, Luciana Souza
Luciana Souza

Luciana Souza is a Brazilian jazz singer and composer who has crossed over into classical music.Daughter of poet Tereza Souza and singer-composer-guitarist Walter Santos, she grew up in S?o Paulo....
 & Tina Turner
Tina Turner

Tina Turner is an United States singer and actress whose career has spanned over 50 years and who has won numerous awards. Her achievements in the Rock genre have led to her being referred to as "The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll"....
; produced by Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
 & Larry Klein
Larry Klein

Larry Klein is a music producer, songwriter and bass guitar player, commonly known for being the frequent musical collaborator, and ex-husband, of Joni Mitchell....
; engineered/mixed by Helik Hadar; master engeineered by Bernie Grundman
Bernie Grundman

Bernie Grundman is an United States audio engineering....
  • Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
    Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

    Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is the sixth studio album by the Foo Fighters, released on September 25, 2007.The album debuted at the top of the UK album chart, selling 135,685 albums in its first week....
     performed by Foo Fighters
    Foo Fighters

    Foo Fighters is an American Rock music band formed by singer/guitarist/drummer Dave Grohl in 1995. Grohl formed the group as a one-man project after the dissolution of his previous band Nirvana in 1994....
  • These Days
    These Days (Vince Gill album)

    These Days is a 2006 box set by country music artist Vince Gill. Consisting of 43 original songs spanning four discs, the album displays the range of Gill?s lyrical and musical styles, ranging from traditional country and Bluegrass music to jazz and Rock music....
     performed by Vince Gill
    Vince Gill

    Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an United States neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in hig...
  • Graduation
    Graduation (album)

    Graduation is the third studio album by rapper Kanye West, released on September 11, 2007 on Roc-A-Fella Records. The title of the album follows the college theme of Kanye West's previous two studio albums, The College Dropout and Late Registration....
     performed by Kanye West
    Kanye West

    Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, record producer and singer. He released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, his third album Graduation in 2007, and his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak in 2008....
  • Back to Black
    Back to Black

    Back to Black is the second studio album by England soul music/Jazz music singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse, released in October 2006 in music on Island Records....
     performed by Amy Winehouse
    Amy Winehouse

    Amy Jade Winehouse is an England singer and songwriter, known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including soul music, jazz, rock & roll, ska and rhythm and blues....
  • 2007Taking the Long Way
    Taking the Long Way

    Taking the Long Way is the multiple Grammy Award-winning seventh studio album by the United States country music musical ensemble Dixie Chicks....
     performed by Dixie Chicks
    Dixie Chicks

    The Dixie Chicks are a country music group, comprising three women; Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, and Emily Robison. Together, they have sold over 36 million albums as of March 2009....
    ; engineered/mixed by Chris Testa, Jim Scott & Richard Dodd; master engineered by Richard Dodd; produced by Rick Rubin
    Rick Rubin

    Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin is an United States record producer and is currently the co-head of Columbia Records. He is given credit for merging hip hop music and heavy metal music as well as producing the "Johnny Cash discography#American Recordings" albums with Johnny Cash....
  • St. Elsewhere
    St. Elsewhere (album)

    St. Elsewhere is the debut album by Gnarls Barkley, a collaboration between Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo. The album was originally titled Who Cares? in reference to the low sales Gnarls Barkley prematurely predicted their album would experience....
     performed by Gnarls Barkley
    Gnarls Barkley

    Gnarls Barkley is a Grammy award winning United States musical collaboration between multi-instrumentalist and record producer Danger Mouse from New York, and rapper/lead singer Cee-Lo Green , from Atlanta....
  • Continuum
    Continuum (album)

    Continuum is the third major label studio album from John Mayer and was officially released in the United States on September 12, 2006. It marked a change in Mayer's musical style, and incorporated blues music and rhythm and blues elements more heavily than before....
     performed by John Mayer
  • Stadium Arcadium
    Stadium Arcadium

    Stadium Arcadium is the ninth studio album by the Rock music band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on May 5, 2006 via Warner Bros. Records. It sold 442,000 copies in the U.S....
     performed by Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Grammy Award-winning American Rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California, California, in 1983. For most of the band's existence, the members are vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Flea , and drummer Chad Smith....
  • FutureSex/LoveSounds
    FutureSex/LoveSounds

    FutureSex/LoveSounds is the second solo studio album by American pop music singer Justin Timberlake, released on September 12, 2006 through record labels Jive Records and Zomba Records....
     performed by Justin Timberlake
    Justin Timberlake

    Justin Randall Timberlake is an United Statesn pop music singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer and actor. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award....
  • 2006How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
    How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

    How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is the eleventh studio album by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2, released in November 2004. Much like their previous album, All That You Can't Leave Behind, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb was commercially successful and critically acclaimed and maintains a more traditional rock sound after t...
     performed by U2
    U2

    U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
    ; engineered/mixed by Carl Glanville, Flood, Greg Collins, Jacknife Lee
    Jacknife Lee

    Garret "Jacknife" Lee is an Irish Grammy Award winning music producer and remixer. He has worked with a variety of artists, including U2, R.E.M....
    , Nellee Hooper
    Nellee Hooper

    Nellee Hooper is a United Kingdom record producer/remixer/composer best-known for his work with Bj?rk, No Doubt/Gwen Stefani, Madonna , Garbage , U2, Sneaker Pimps, Soul II Soul and Massive Attack....
    , Simon Gogerly & Steve Lillywhite
    Steve Lillywhite

    Steve Lillywhite is a Grammy Award-winning England Record producer...
    ; master engineered by Arnie Acosta; produced by Brian Eno
    Brian Eno

    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
    , Chris Thomas
    Chris Thomas (record producer)

    Chris Thomas , is a British record producer who has worked extensively with The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, Badfinger, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Pulp and The Pretenders....
    , Daniel Lanois
    Daniel Lanois

    Daniel Lanois is a Canada record producer, guitarist and singer-songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Parachute Club , U2, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Scott Weiland, Sin?ad O'Connor, Robbie Robertson, the Neville Brothers, Chris...
    , Flood, Jacknife Lee
    Jacknife Lee

    Garret "Jacknife" Lee is an Irish Grammy Award winning music producer and remixer. He has worked with a variety of artists, including U2, R.E.M....
     & Steve Lillywhite
    Steve Lillywhite

    Steve Lillywhite is a Grammy Award-winning England Record producer...
  • The Emancipation of Mimi
    The Emancipation of Mimi

    The Emancipation of Mimi is the tenth studio album by American pop music/contemporary R&B singer Mariah Carey. It was released by Island Records on April 4, 2005, and in North America on April 12, 2005 ....
     performed by Mariah Carey
    Mariah Carey

    Mariah Carey is an United States singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S....
  • Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
    Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

    Chaos and Creation in the Backyard is an album by Paul McCartney released in 2005. A long time in the making, the set was produced by Radiohead and Beck collaborator Nigel Godrich ? at George Martin's suggestion....
     performed by Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney

    Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
  • Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
    Love. Angel. Music. Baby.

    Love. Angel. Music. Baby. is the debut studio album of American pop music and rock music singer Gwen Stefani, released November 22, 2004 on Interscope Records....
     performed by Gwen Stefani
    Gwen Stefani

    Gwen Ren?e Stefani is an American recording artist and fashion designer. Stefani serves as lead vocalist for the rock music band No Doubt. Formed with influences ranging from punk rock to new wave music, their third wave ska oriented third studio album Tragic Kingdom propelled them to stardom, selling 16 million copies worldwide....
  • Late Registration
    Late Registration

    Late Registration is the critically acclaimed second studio album by Chicago hip hop music artist Kanye West. The album was released on August 30, 2005, and entered the charts at number 1, selling over 860,000 copies in its first week, then the highest first week sales in Def Jam Recordings' history....
     performed by Kanye West
    Kanye West

    Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, record producer and singer. He released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, his third album Graduation in 2007, and his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak in 2008....
  • 2005Genius Loves Company
    Genius Loves Company

    Genius Loves Company is the final studio album by rhythm and blues and Soul music musician Ray Charles, released August 31, 2004 List of works published posthumouslyly on Concord Records....
     performed by Ray Charles
    Ray Charles

    Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
     and Various Artists; engineered/mixed by Al Schmitt
    Al Schmitt

    Al Schmitt is a recording engineer and record producer. Schmitt grew up in New York City. After serving in the U.S. Navy he began working at Apex Recording Studios at the age of 19....
    , Ed Thacker, Joel W. Moss, John Harris, Mark Fleming, Pete Karam, Robert Fernandez, Seth Presant & Terry Howard; master engineered by Doug Sax & Robert Hadley; produced by Don Mizell, Herbert Waltl, John R. Burk, Phil Ramone
    Phil Ramone

    Phil Ramone is a violinist, composer, recording engineer, and innovative record producer born in 1941.As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical child prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom at age ten....
     & Terry Howard
  • American Idiot performed by Green Day
    Green Day

    Green Day is an American Rock music trio formed in 1987. The band has consisted of Billie Joe Armstrong , Mike Dirnt , and Tr? Cool for the majority of its existence....
  • The Diary of Alicia Keys
    The Diary of Alicia Keys

    The Diary of Alicia Keys is the second studio album by American contemporary R&B-soul music singer and pianist Alicia Keys, released in the United States on December 2, 2003 by J Records....
     performed by Alicia Keys
    Alicia Keys

    Alicia Augello Cook , better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American contemporary R&B and soul music singer-songwriter, pianist, cello and actor....
  • Confessions
    Confessions (Usher album)

    Confessions is the fourth studio album by American contemporary R&B and pop music singer-songwriter Usher , released March 23, 2004 on Arista Records....
     performed by Usher
    Usher (entertainer)

    Usher Raymond IV , known simply as Usher, is an American contemporary R&B-pop music singer-songwriter and actor. He rose to fame in the 1990s, releasing the multi-platinum album My Way and 8701 ....
  • The College Dropout
    The College Dropout

    The College Dropout is the debut album by rapper and Hip hop production Kanye West, released February 10, 2004. It was, and still is, his longest album, almost daring the capacity of one Compact Disc, which is 80 minutes....
     performed by Kanye West
    Kanye West

    Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, record producer and singer. He released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, his third album Graduation in 2007, and his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak in 2008....
  • 2004Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
    Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

    Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is a double album by the Hip hop music group OutKast, released on September 23, 2003 on LaFace Records. The release includes a solo album from both of the group's members....
     performed by OutKast
    OutKast

    OutKast is an United States hip hop music duet based out of East Point, Georgia, a city south of Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia . The duo was originally known as The OKB but later changed its name to OutKast....
    ; engineered/mixed by Brian Paturalski, Chris Carmouche, Darrell Thorp, Dexter Simmons, John Frye, Kevin Davis, Matt Still, Moka Nagatani, Neal H. Pogue, Padraic Kernin, Pete Novak, Reggie Dozier, Robert Hannon, Terrence Cash & Vincent Alexander; master engineered by Bernie Grundman
    Bernie Grundman

    Bernie Grundman is an United States audio engineering....
     & Brian Gardner
    Brian Gardner

    Brian Gardner is an American mastering engineer. He has worked on over 750 recordings since the mid-1970s, including classic rock, funk, disco, alternative rock, R&B, hip hop, pop punk, and dance pop....
    ; produced by André 3000
    André 3000

    Andr? Lauren Benjamin better known by his stage name Andr? 3000, is an United States rapper, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor, best known for his work in the group OutKast....
    , Big Boi
    Big Boi

    Antwan Andr? Patton , better known by his stage name Big Boi, is an United States rapper, song-writer, record producer, and one half of the alternative hip hop duo Outkast....
     & Carl Mo
  • Under Construction
    Under Construction

    Under Construction is the fourth studio album by American rapper Missy Elliott, released by The Goldmind Inc. and Elektra Records on November 12, 2002 in the United States....
     performed by Missy Elliott
    Missy Elliott

    Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott is a five-time Grammy Award-winning American rapping, singing, songwriter, and record producer. With record sales of over seven million in the United States, she is the only female rapper to have six albums certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, including one double platinum ....
  • Fallen
    Fallen (album)

    Fallen is the first full-length album by American alternative metal band Evanescence. It was released on the Wind-up Records label, and was their first album to be released worldwide....
     performed by Evanescence
    Evanescence

    Evanescence is an American rock music band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody.After recording two private Extended play and a demo CD named Origin , with the help of Bigwig Enterprises in 2000, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen , on Wind-up Records in 2003...
  • Justified
    Justified (album)

    Justified is the debut album by American pop music singer Justin Timberlake. Released during the hiatus of the group 'N Sync, the album signaled Timberlake's desire to craft a more mature image than that of a "boy band member"....
     performed by Justin Timberlake
    Justin Timberlake

    Justin Randall Timberlake is an United Statesn pop music singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer and actor. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award....
  • Elephant
    Elephant (album)

    Elephant is the fourth album by the American alternative rock band The White Stripes. Released on April 1, 2003 on V2 Records, the album marks the band's major label debut....
     performed by The White Stripes
    The White Stripes

    The White Stripes is an American rock band, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consists of songwriter Jack White and Meg White .After releasing several singles and three albums within the Music of Detroit#1990s independent music underground music, The White Stripes rose to prominence in 2002, as part of the garage rock#Revival...
  • 2003Come Away with Me
    Come Away with Me

    Come Away with Me is the debut album of pianist and singer Norah Jones, released February 26, 2002 on Blue Note Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at New York City's Sorcerer Sound Studio and Shokan, New York's Allaire Studios in 2001....
     performed by Norah Jones
    Norah Jones

    Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, keyboardist, guitarist, and occasional actress of English people-American and People of India-Bengali people descent....
    ; engineered/mixed by Jay Newland & S. Husky Höskulds
    S. Husky Höskulds

    S. Husky H?skulds is a Grammy Award winning Audio engineering from Los Angeles, California. He has contributed to such works as Sheryl Crow album Sheryl Crow released in 1996 and Solomon Burke Don't Give Up on Me released in 2002....
    ; master engineered by Ted Jensen; produced by Arif Mardin
    Arif Mardin

    Arif Mardin was a Turkey-United States music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock music, soul music, disco, and country music....
    , Craig Street
    Craig Street

    Craig Street, born in Oakland, California, is a noted record producer.Craig moved with his family to Los Angeles at the age of 11, but returned to the Bay Area for his high school years....
    , Jay Newland & Norah Jones
    Norah Jones

    Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, keyboardist, guitarist, and occasional actress of English people-American and People of India-Bengali people descent....
  • Home
    Home (Dixie Chicks album)

    Home is the Grammy- winning sixth studio album by United States country music band Dixie Chicks, released in 2002 . It is notable for its acoustic bluegrass music sound, which stands in contrast with their previous two country pop albums....
     performed by Dixie Chicks
    Dixie Chicks

    The Dixie Chicks are a country music group, comprising three women; Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, and Emily Robison. Together, they have sold over 36 million albums as of March 2009....
  • The Eminem Show
    The Eminem Show

    The Eminem Show is the fourth studio album by Eminem, released in 2002 in music.The Eminem Show was the best-selling album of 2002. At the Grammy Awards of 2003 it was nominated for Grammy Award for Album of the Year and became Eminem's third straight LP to win the award for Best Rap Album....
     performed by Eminem
    Eminem

    Marshall Bruce Mathers III , known by his primary stage name Eminem, or by his alter-ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer and actor....
  • Nellyville
    Nellyville

    Nellyville is the 2002 second album by rapper Nelly. The singles released from this album were "Hot in Herre", "Dilemma ", "Number One , "Air Force Ones ", "Work It ", "Roc The Mic " and "Pimp Juice"....
     performed by Nelly
    Nelly

    Cornell Iral Haynes, Jr. , better known by his stage name Nelly, is an American rapping, singing, actor and entrepreneur. He has performed with the rap group St....
  • The Rising
    The Rising (album)

    The Rising is the 12th studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 2002. In addition to being Springsteen's first studio album in seven years, it was also his first with the E Street Band in 18 years....
     performed by Bruce Springsteen
    Bruce Springsteen

    Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band....
  • 2002O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
    O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack)

    O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the soundtrack of music from the 2000 Cinema of the United States comedy film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, written, directed and produced by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman....
     performed by Alison Krauss
    Alison Krauss

    Alison Krauss is an American Bluegrass music-Country music singer and fiddler. She entered the music of the United States at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen....
     & Union Station, Chris Sharp, Chris Thomas King
    Chris Thomas King

    Chris Thomas King is a New Orleans, Louisiana-based blues musician and actor....
    , Emmylou Harris
    Emmylou Harris

    Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
    , Gillian Welch
    Gillian Welch

    Gillian Welch is a singer-songwriter whose musical style combines elements of bluegrass music, neotraditional country, Americana , Old-time music, and folk music into a rustic style that she dubs "American Primitivism"....
    , Harley Allen
    Harley Allen

    Harley Lee Allen is a country singer and songwriter.He is a son of well-known bluegrass performer Red Allen . Married to singer Debbie Nims....
    , John Hartford
    John Hartford

    John Cowan Hartford was an United States folk music, country music and Bluegrass music composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore....
    , Mike Compton, Norman Blake
    Norman Blake (American musician)

    Norman Blake is a Grammy Award-nominated instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter. In a career spanning more than 50 years Blake has played in a number of folk music and Country music groups....
    , Pat Enright, Peasall Sisters, Ralph Stanley
    Ralph Stanley

    Ralph Stanley , also known as Dr. Ralph Stanley, is a legendary United States of America Bluegrass music artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing....
    , Sam Bush
    Sam Bush

    Sam Bush is an United States Bluegrass music mandolin player considered an originator of the Progressive bluegrass style....
    , Stuart Duncan
    Stuart Duncan

    Stuart Duncan is an award-winning Bluegrass music musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo. Born in Quantico, Virginia and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school band, he has been a member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band since 1985, and is a much-in-demand session musician who has worked with such s...
    , The Cox Family
    The Cox Family

    The Cox Family is an United States Bluegrass music family group from Cotton Valley, Louisiana, United States....
    , The Fairfield Four, The Whites
    The Whites

    The Whites are an United States country music vocal group consisting of lead singer Sharon White, her sister Cheryl, and their father Buck. In the 1980s they scored hits with songs including "You Put The Blue In Me," "Hangin' Around," "Give Me Back That Old Familiar Feeling," "Pins and Needles," "If It Ain't Love " "Hometown Gossip" and "When...
     & Tim Blake Nelson
    Tim Blake Nelson

    Tim Blake Nelson is an United States Film director, writer, singer and actor....
    ; engineered/mixed by Mike Piersante & Peter Kurland
    Peter Kurland

    Peter Franklin Kurland is a production sound mixer .Peter Kurland was born in 1958 and has done Boom operator work along with Audio mixing on many movies, such as Walk the Line, The Ladykillers, Intolerable Cruelty, Men in Black, Wild Wild West, and O Brother, Where Art Thou?....
    ; master engineered by Gavin Lurssen; produced by T-Bone Burnett
    T-Bone Burnett

    Joseph Henry "T-Bone" Burnett is an American songwriter, musician and producer. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in Fort Worth, Texas....
  • Acoustic Soul
    Acoustic Soul

    Acoustic Soul is the debut album by United States soul music/contemporary R&B singer India.Arie, released in 2001 . It was nominated for seven Grammy Awards in 44th Grammy Awards, including "Grammy Award for Album of the Year" and "Grammy Award for Best R&B Album"....
     performed by India.Arie
    India.Arie

    India.Arie is a Grammy Award winning United States soul music, contemporary R&B, and neo soul singer-songwriter, record producer, guitarist, and flautist....
  • "Love and Theft" performed by Bob Dylan
  • Stankonia
    Stankonia

    Stankonia is a Hip hop music album by OutKast, released by La Face on October 31, 2000. The album reached number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart , selling over 530,000 copies the first week of its release....
     performed by OutKast
    OutKast

    OutKast is an United States hip hop music duet based out of East Point, Georgia, a city south of Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia . The duo was originally known as The OKB but later changed its name to OutKast....
  • All That You Can't Leave Behind
    All That You Can't Leave Behind

    All That You Can't Leave Behind is the tenth studio album by the Republic Ireland Rock music band U2, released in 2000 by Island Records in the United Kingdom and Interscope Records in the United States The album signaled the band's return to a more traditional sound after their experimentation with alternative rock and electronic dance m...
     performed by U2
    U2

    U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
  • 2001Two Against Nature
    Two Against Nature

    Two Against Nature is an album by Steely Dan, released in 2000 in music. The album won the group four Grammy Awards including Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and marked the first major collaboration between Walter Becker and Donald Fagen since the album Gaucho , released 20 years earlier....
     performed by Steely Dan
    Steely Dan

    Steely Dan is an United States jazz-Rock music band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock and roll, funk, rhythm and blues, and Pop music....
    ; engineered/mixed by Dave Russell, Elliot Scheiner
    Elliot Scheiner

    Elliot Scheiner is a record producer and record engineer. Scheiner has received 23 Grammy Award nominations, 6 of which he won, and he has been awarded two Emmy nominations and three TEC Awards nominations....
    , Phil Burnett & Roger Nichols; produced by Donald Fagen
    Donald Fagen

    Donald Jay Fagen is an United States musician and songwriter. He is co-founder, lead singer, and the principal songwriter of the jazz-influenced Rock music musical ensemble Steely Dan....
     & Walter Becker
    Walter Becker

    Walter Becker is an American musician and record producer. He is best known as the co-founder, guitarist, bass guitar and a co-writing half of the duet which make-up the rock music band Steely Dan....
  • Midnite Vultures
    Midnite Vultures

    Midnite Vultures is the fourth major-label studio album by Beck, released in November 1999. Though similar to most of Beck's previous albums in its exploration of widely varying musical styles, Midnite Vultures didn't achieve the same blockbuster success as his breakthrough, Odelay though it was well-received by his fans and crit...
     performed by Beck
    Beck

    Beck Hansen is an United States musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and irony lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating sample , drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public...
  • The Marshall Mathers LP
    The Marshall Mathers LP

    The Marshall Mathers LP is the third studio album by American rapper Eminem, released in 2000. Widely seen as his magnum opus, the album sold over 1.76 million copies in its first week, earning a spot in the Guinness World Records as the fastest-selling rap album ever....
     performed by Eminem
    Eminem

    Marshall Bruce Mathers III , known by his primary stage name Eminem, or by his alter-ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer and actor....
  • Kid A
    Kid A

    Kid A is the fourth album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released on in the United Kingdom and on in the United States and Canada....
     performed by Radiohead
    Radiohead

    Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire. The band is composed of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway ....
  • You're the One
    You're the One (album)

    You're the One is an album released in 2000 by Paul Simon, his first studio album in 10 years. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2001, with Simon becoming the first artist to be nominated in that category in five consecutive decades, the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000?2009....
     performed by Paul Simon
    Paul Simon

    Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
  • 2000Supernatural performed by Santana
    Santana (band)

    Santana is a flexible number of musicians accompanying Carlos Santana since the late 1960s. Just like Santana himself, the band is known for helping make Latin rock famous in the rest of the world....
    ; engineered/mixed by Alvaro Villagra, Andy Grassi, Anton Pukshansky, Benny Faccone, Chris Theis, Commissioner Gordon, David Frazer, David Thoener, Glenn Kolotkin, Jeff Poe, Jim Gaines, Jim Scott, John Gamble, John Karpowich, John Seymour, Matty Spindel, Mike Couzzi, Steve Farrone, Steve Fontano, T-Ray, Tom Lord-Alge
    Tom Lord-Alge

    Tom Lord-Alge is a three-time Grammy-Award winning record producer and Audio engineering widely known as a leader in music mixing. He is the youngest of Vivian Lord's five children, Mark Alge, Lisa Alge, Chris Lord-Alge, Jeff Lord-Alge and Tom Lord-Alge....
    , Tony Prendatt & Warren Riker; produced by Alex Gonzales, Art Hodge, Charles Goodan, Clive Davis
    Clive Davis

    Clive Jay Davis is an American record producer, executive and a leading music executive. He has won multiple Grammy awards and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
    , Dante Ross, Dust Brothers
    Dust Brothers

    The 'Dust Brothers' are the Los Angeles, California, California based, Grammy Award winning record producer, E.Z. Mike and King Gizmo , famous for their Sampling -based music in the 1980s & 1990s, and specifically for their work on the albums Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, Odelay by Beck, and the soundtrack to the film, Fight C...
    , Fher Olvera, Jerry 'Wonder' Duplessis, K. C. Porter
    K. C. Porter

    K. C. Porter is an United States record producer, songwriter, musician and singing. Porter has worked with such artists, as Selena, Ricky Martin, Santana , and Boyz II Men....
    , Lauryn Hill
    Lauryn Hill

    Lauryn Noel Hill is a Grammy Award-winning American singer, rapper, musician, songwriter, record producer, and film actress. Early in her career, she established her reputation in the hip-hop world as the lone female member of The Fugees....
    , Matt Serletic
    Matt Serletic

    Matt Serletic is a record producer who has worked with several popular bands and artists for Atlantic Records, including Collective Soul, Matchbox Twenty, Blessid Union of Souls, Edwin McCain, Stacie Orrico, Taylor Hicks, and Rob Thomas ....
    , Stephen M. Harris & Wyclef Jean
    Wyclef Jean

    Wyclef Jean born Wyclef Neluset Jean on October 17, 1972) is a multi-platinum Haitian-United States of America musician, actor, record producer and former-member of the hip hop music trio Fugees....
  • Millennium
    Millennium (Backstreet Boys album)

    Millennium is an album by American pop music group Backstreet Boys. It broke numerous records, and is their biggest success to date. It was a highly anticipated follow-up to both their Backstreet Boys , and their Backstreet's Back....
     performed by Backstreet Boys
    Backstreet Boys

    Backstreet Boys are a Grammy Award-nominated United States boy band. They were the first group launched by fallen boy band mogul Lou Pearlman. They have had 13 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and have sold close to 200 million records including over 100 million albums worldwide, making them one of the best selling boy bands of all time;...
  • Fly performed by Dixie Chicks
    Dixie Chicks

    The Dixie Chicks are a country music group, comprising three women; Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, and Emily Robison. Together, they have sold over 36 million albums as of March 2009....
  • When I Look in Your Eyes
    When I Look in Your Eyes

    When I Look in Your Eyes is the fifth album by Canada jazz pianist and Singing Diana Krall, released in 1999 . It was a nominee for Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 2000 Grammy....
     performed by Diana Krall
    Diana Krall

    Diana Jean Krall, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian jazz pianist and singer. She is known for her graceful contralto vocals....
  • FanMail
    Fanmail

    Fanmail may refer to:* FanMail, a 1999 album by American band TLC* Mail from Fan ...
     performed by TLC
    TLC (band)

    TLC was a four-time Grammy Award-winning American contemporary R&B, Hip hop music, and Pop music group, consisting of Tionne Watkins, Lisa Lopes, and Rozonda Thomas....


  • 1990s

    YearWinnerNominations
    1999The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
    The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

    The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is the debut solo album studio album by Lauryn Hill. Released August 25, 1998, the album swept the Grammy Awards in 1999, being nominated for 10 and winning five....
     performed by Lauryn Hill
    Lauryn Hill

    Lauryn Noel Hill is a Grammy Award-winning American singer, rapper, musician, songwriter, record producer, and film actress. Early in her career, she established her reputation in the hip-hop world as the lone female member of The Fugees....
    ; engineered/mixed by Chris Theis, Commissioner Gordon, Johnny Wydrycz, Ken Johnston, Matt Howe, Storm Jefferson, Tony Prendatt & Warren Riker; produced by Lauryn Hill
    Lauryn Hill

    Lauryn Noel Hill is a Grammy Award-winning American singer, rapper, musician, songwriter, record producer, and film actress. Early in her career, she established her reputation in the hip-hop world as the lone female member of The Fugees....
    • The Globe Sessions
      The Globe Sessions

      The Globe Sessions is the third studio album by United States singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow, released in 1998 . It was nominated for Album of the Year, Best Rock Album and Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical at the 1999 Grammys, winning the latter two awards....
       performed by Sheryl Crow
      Sheryl Crow

      Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an United States singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock music, country music, pop music and folk music, into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards....
    • Version 2.0
      Version 2.0

      Version 2.0 is the second album by alternative rock group Garbage . It was released in worldwide in May 1998 and was the follow up to the band's Music recording sales certification debut album Garbage ....
       performed by Garbage
      Garbage (band)

      Garbage is an USA rock music group formed in Madison, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, in 1994. The band consists of Scotland vocalist Shirley Manson and American musicians Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig, and has counted worldwide album sales of over 14 million units....
    • Ray of Light
      Ray of Light

      Ray of Light is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna , released on March 3, 1998 by Maverick Records. The RIAA certified it RIAA certification on March 16, 2000, recognizing four million shipments in the United States, making it her fifth best-selling recording there....
       performed by Madonna
      Madonna (entertainer)

      Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
    • Come on Over
      Come on Over (Shania Twain album)

      Come on Over is the third studio album recorded by country singer Shania Twain. It was released on November 4, 1997. The best-selling Country Music album of all time, it is certified 20? Multi-Platinum in the US, 2× Diamond in Canada, 15? Platinum in Australia, and 10× Platinum in Great Britain....
       performed by Shania Twain
      Shania Twain

      Shania Twain Order of Canada is a Canadian singer and songwriter in the country music and popular music genres. Her third album Come on Over is the List of best-selling albums worldwide of all time by a female musician and the best-selling album in the history of country music....
    1998
    Grammy Awards of 1998

    The 40th Grammy Awards were held on February 25, 1998. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year.Unlike many Grammy award ceremonies, which are often criticized for being too boring, the 1998 Grammys had several memorable and shocking moments....
    Time out of Mind
    Time out of Mind

    Time Out of Mind is Bob Dylan's 30th studio album, released in 1997 by Columbia Records. It was his first double album studio album since 1970's Self Portrait ....
     performed by Bob Dylan, produced by Daniel Lanois
    Daniel Lanois

    Daniel Lanois is a Canada record producer, guitarist and singer-songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Parachute Club , U2, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Scott Weiland, Sin?ad O'Connor, Robbie Robertson, the Neville Brothers, Chris...
  • The Day
    The Day

    The Day is the fifth album by R&B artist, Babyface. Was produced by the artist himself, and includes a handful of guest artist like Mariah Carey, Jody Watley, Stevie Wonder, Kenny G, LL Cool J, among others....
     performed by Babyface
  • This Fire
    This Fire (album)

    This Fire is Paula Cole second album and was a huge commercial success. Paula Cole wrote and produced the whole album by herself. According to the RIAA, the album has gone double platinum selling over 2 million copies in US and peaked at #20 on the Billboard 200 chart ....
     performed by Paula Cole
    Paula Cole

    Paula Cole is an United States singer/songwriter. Her single "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and the following year she won a Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best New Artist....
  • Flaming Pie
    Flaming Pie

    Flaming Pie is an album by Paul McCartney, first released in 1997 in music. His first studio album in over four years, it was mostly recorded following McCartney's involvement in the highly successful The Beatles Anthology project....
     performed by Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney

    Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
  • OK Computer
    OK Computer

    OK Computer is the third album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released on 16 June 1997. Radiohead recorded the album in rural Oxfordshire and Bath, Somerset, during 1996 and early 1997, with Record producer Nigel Godrich....
     performed by Radiohead
    Radiohead

    Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire. The band is composed of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway ....
  • 1997
    Grammy Awards of 1997

    The 39th Grammy Awards were held on February 26, 1997. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year....
    Falling into You
    Falling into You

    Falling into You is Celine Dion's fourth English album and twenty-first in total, released on March 11, 1996. The album was well received by critics and fans, winning two Grammy Awards for Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album and Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1997, and becoming one of only three albums to remain in the top 10 of...
     performed by Celine Dion
    Celine Dion

    C?line Marie Claudette Dion Order of Canada National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actor. Born to a large, impoverished family, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband Ren? Ang?lil mortgaged his home to finance her first record....
    ; produced by Aldo Nova
    Aldo Nova

    Aldo Nova is a Canada guitarist, keyboardist, singer and record producer, Nova gained fame with his self-titled debut album Aldo Nova in 1981, and its accompanying single "Fantasy ", which climbed to #23 on the Billboard Hot 100....
    , Billy Steinberg
    Billy Steinberg

    Billy Steinberg is an United States songwriter. He has achieved most of his success as part of a song writing team, most notably with Tom Kelly ....
    , Dan Hill
    Dan Hill

    Daniel Grafton "Dan" Hill IV is a Canada pop music singer and songwriter. He had two major Chart-topper with his songs, "Sometimes When We Touch" and "Can't We Try," a duet with Vonda Shepard....
    , David Foster
    David Foster

    David Walter Foster, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia, Doctor of Laws is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer-songwriter and arrangement.....
    , Humberto Gatica
    Humberto Gatica

    Humberto Gatica is a Chile-born United States record producer, music mixer and audio engineer. A long-time collaborator with producer David Foster, Gatica is perhaps best known for his work with singer Celine Dion....
    , Jean-Jacques Goldman
    Jean-Jacques Goldman

    Jean-Jacques Goldman is a French people singer and songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and in 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday....
    , Jeff Bova
    Jeff Bova

    Jeff Bova is an American Grammy Award winning keyboardist, composer, arranger and record producer. He has been active in music industry since the mid-1970s, contributing to dozens of recordings by significant mainstream artists like Celine Dion, Michael Jackson, Blondie , Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, Bill Laswell and Herbie Hancoc...
    , Jim Steinman
    Jim Steinman

    James Richard "Jim" Steinman is an American record producer, composer and lyricist, responsible for several hit songs. He has also worked as an arranger, pianist, and singer....
    , John Jones
    John Jones (record producer)

    John Idris Jones is a musician and record producer who has worked with Duran Duran and many high-profile rock and pop musicians....
    , Ric Wake
    Ric Wake

    Ric Wake is a record producer recognized as one of the top music producers in the world and is an Academy Award winner and a two time Grammy Award winner....
    , Rick Hahn, Rick Nowels
    Rick Nowels

    Richard Wright Nowels is a record producer and Grammy Award/Ivor Novello Award-winning songwriter who is known for his work with Madonna , Nelly Furtado, Dido , New Radicals, Stevie Nicks, Belinda Carlisle, Darren Hayes, Sonique, Jewel , Ronan Keating, Robert Miles, Tupac Shakur, k....
    , Roy Bittan
    Roy Bittan

    Roy Bittan is an United States keyboardist, best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, which he joined on August 23, 1974. Bittan, nicknamed "The Professor", plays the piano, organ , accordion and synthesizers....
     & Steven Rinkoff
    Steven Rinkoff

    Steven Rinkoff is a record producer, mixer, and Audio engineering, known for his work with songwriter-producer Jim Steinman. He has worked with Steinman since 1986 on various projects, in all facets of production , and is Steinman's partner in Ravenous Records, a record label....
  • Odelay
    Odelay

    Odelay is the second major-label studio album recorded by alternative rock artist Beck, originally released June 18, 1996. After the mainstream success of "Loser ", Odelay featured several hit Single , including "Where It's At", "Devils Haircut ," and "The New Pollution." The album peaked at #16 on the Billboard 200 chart and eventua...
     performed by Beck
    Beck

    Beck Hansen is an United States musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and irony lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating sample , drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public...
  • The Score
    The Score (album)

    The Score is the second album by R&B/hip-hop trio The Fugees, released worldwide February 13, 1996, following their 1994 debut Blunted on Reality....
     performed by The Fugees
    The Fugees

    The Fugees were a critically-acclaimed New Jersey hip hop music group that rose to fame in the mid-1990s, whose repertoire included elements of soul music and Caribbean music, particularly reggae....
  • Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
    Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

    Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is the third album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released October 24, 1995, on Virgin Records....
     performed by The Smashing Pumpkins
    The Smashing Pumpkins

    The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. While the group has gone through several lineup changes, The Smashing Pumpkins consisted of Billy Corgan , James Iha , D'arcy Wretzky , and Jimmy Chamberlin for most of the band's recording career....
  • Waiting to Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album performed by Various Artists
  • 1996
    Grammy Awards of 1996

    The 38th Grammy Awards were held on February 28, 1996. The awards recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. The highest number of nominations in this year's awards was six each to Alanis Morissette and Mariah Carey, but although first-time nominee Alanis won four out her six nominations, Mariah, considered by many to be...
    Jagged Little Pill
    Jagged Little Pill

    Jagged Little Pill is the third studio album by Canada singer Alanis Morissette. The album made a sharp turn in genre and style for Morissette from her previous dance pop sound....
     performed by Alanis Morissette
    Alanis Morissette

    Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canada singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actress. She has won eleven Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, and has sold over 60 million albums worldwide....
    , produced by Glen Ballard
    Glen Ballard

    Glen Ballard is a veteran songwriter and record producer, best known as the producer of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, which went platinum sixteen times in the U.S....
  • Daydream performed by Mariah Carey
    Mariah Carey

    Mariah Carey is an United States singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S....
  • HIStory Past Present & Future
    HIStory

    HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
     performed by Michael Jackson
    Michael Jackson

    Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
  • Relish
    Relish (album)

    Relish is the second album by Joan Osborne, released on March 21 1995....
     performed by Joan Osborne
    Joan Osborne

    Joan Osborne is an United States singer-songwriter. She is best known for her song "One of Us ," and for her work with members of The Grateful Dead....
  • Vitalogy
    Vitalogy

    'Vitalogy' is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on December 6, 1994 through Epic Records. Pearl Jam wrote and recorded while touring behind its previous album Vs....
     performed by Pearl Jam
    Pearl Jam

    Pearl Jam is an American rock music band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready ....
  • 1995
    Grammy Awards of 1995

    The 37th Grammy Awards were presented March 1, 1995. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year....
    MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett
    MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett

    MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett is a live album by Tony Bennett, released in 1995.This album capped Bennett's unlikely commercial comeback story....
     performed by Tony Bennett
    Tony Bennett

    Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
    , produced by David Kahne
    David Kahne

    David Kahne is an United States record producer. Kahne is notable for his role as in-house producer and engineer at 415 Records, the first American New Wave music label, and for his subsequent roles as Vice President of A&R at Columbia Records and Warner Bros....
  • The 3 Tenors In Concert 1994 performed by José Carreras
    José Carreras

    Josep Maria Carreras i Coll , better known as Jos? Carreras, is a Spain Catalonia tenor. One of the most prominent opera singers of his generation, and particularly eminent in the operas of Verdi and Puccini, his career has encompassed over 60 roles on stage and in the recording studio....
    , Plácido Domingo
    Plácido Domingo

    Jos? Pl?cido Domingo Embil Order of the British Empire , better known as Pl?cido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor, known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range....
     & Luciano Pavarotti
    Luciano Pavarotti

    Luciano Pavarotti Italian orders of merit was an Italian opera tenor, who also crossed over into popular music. He was the most commercially successful tenor of all....
     with Zubin Mehta
    Zubin Mehta

    Zubin Mehta is an Indian conducting of Western classical music....
  • From the Cradle
    From the Cradle

    From the Cradle is a Grammy winning blues cover album by Eric Clapton released in 1994 in music. Per the liner notes, "This is a live recording with no overdubs or edits except for dobro overdub on 'How Long Blues' and drum overdub on 'Motherless Child'."...
     performed by Eric Clapton
    Eric Clapton

    Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
  • Longing in Their Hearts
    Longing in Their Hearts

    Longing in Their Hearts is the twelfth album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 1994 . The album contained the mainstream pop hit, "Love Sneakin' up on You," which reached #19 on the Billboard singles chart....
     performed by Bonnie Raitt
    Bonnie Raitt

    Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter who was born in Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, California. Raitt is best known for her songs "Nick of Time ", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneaking Up on You", and the ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me." Raitt is also an avid political activist and has received nine Gra...
  • Seal
    Seal (1994 album)

    Seal, sometimes referred to as Seal II to avoid confusion with Seal 's Seal , is his second self-titled album. The album was released in 1994 on ZTT Records/Sire Records....
     performed by Seal
    Seal (musician)

    Seal Henry Olusegun Kwassi Olumide Adelo Samuel is a British Soul music singer and songwriter. His name Olusegun means "God is victorious"....
  • 1994
    Grammy Awards of 1994

    The 36th Grammy Awards were held in 1994. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year....
    The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album performed by Whitney Houston
    Whitney Houston

    Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an United States singer, songwriter,actress, record producer, film producer, and former model . Houston rose to international fame in the mid-1980s and her crossover success opened doors for many other African American women to find success in booty shaking & pop music and movies....
    ; produced by Babyface, BeBe Winans
    BeBe Winans

    Benjamin "BeBe" Winans is a Grammy Award-winning gospel music and Rhythm and blues singer. He is a member of the noted Winans family, most members of which are also gospel artists....
    , David Cole
    C+C Music Factory

    C+C Music Factory was a dance music production group distinguished for having seven #1 Dance/Club Play hits in the early to mid 1990s, as well as several pop music crossover hit record, one of which "Gonna Make You Sweat " reached #1 on Billboard Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs single record chart....
    , David Foster
    David Foster

    David Walter Foster, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia, Doctor of Laws is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer-songwriter and arrangement.....
    , L. A. Reid
    L. A. Reid

    Antonio "L.A." Reid is a three-time Grammy Award-winning United States record industry, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the co-founder of LaFace Records....
    , Narada Michael Walden
    Narada Michael Walden

    Narada Michael Walden is an United States Record producer, drummer, singing, and songwriter. He was given the name Narada by guru Sri Chinmoy in the early 1970s and his musical career spans three decades, in which he was awarded several gold, platinum and music recording sales certification awards....
     & Robert Clivillés
    C+C Music Factory

    C+C Music Factory was a dance music production group distinguished for having seven #1 Dance/Club Play hits in the early to mid 1990s, as well as several pop music crossover hit record, one of which "Gonna Make You Sweat " reached #1 on Billboard Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs single record chart....
  • Kamakiriad
    Kamakiriad

    Kamakiriad is the second solo album by Steely Dan singer Donald Fagen, released in 1993 . It was his first collaboration with Steely Dan partner Walter Becker, who produced the album, since 1980....
     performed by Donald Fagen
    Donald Fagen

    Donald Jay Fagen is an United States musician and songwriter. He is co-founder, lead singer, and the principal songwriter of the jazz-influenced Rock music musical ensemble Steely Dan....
  • River of Dreams
    River of Dreams

    River of Dreams is the twelfth studio album by Billy Joel, released in 1993 in music. This is the last pop album made by Joel, and presented a much more serious tone as a whole, dealing with issues such as trust and long-lasting love; it was rumored that the themes of trust and betrayal, particularly certain lyrics from the songs "All Abo...
     performed by Billy Joel
    Billy Joel

    William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
  • Automatic for the People
    Automatic for the People

    Automatic for the People is the eighth album by the United States alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1992. The album was a critical and commercial success, with three top 40 hits in the United States and UK....
     performed by R.E.M.
    R.E.M.

    R.E.M. is an American Rock music band formed in Athens, Georgia, Georgia , in 1980 by Michael Stipe , Peter Buck , Mike Mills , and Bill Berry ....
  • Ten Summoner's Tales
    Ten Summoner's Tales

    Ten Summoner's Tales is the fourth solo studio album by the Rock music musician Sting . The title is a combined pun of his given name, Gordon Sumner, and a character in Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales, the summoner....
     performed by Sting
  • 1993
    Grammy Awards of 1993

    The 35th Grammy Awards were held in 1993. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Eric Clapton was the nights big winner winning 6 awards....
    Unplugged
    Unplugged (Eric Clapton album)

    Unplugged is an album by Eric Clapton released in 1992 in music. It was recorded live in England for the MTV Unplugged series. The album includes an acoustic version of the hit single "Tears in Heaven" and a heavily reworked acoustic version of "Layla"....
     performed by Eric Clapton
    Eric Clapton

    Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
    , produced by Russ Titelman
    Russ Titelman

    Russ Titelman is an United States record producer and songwriter. He has to date won three Grammy Awards. He earned his first producing the Steve Winwood song "Higher Love", and his second and third for Eric Clapton's Journeyman and Unplugged albums....
  • Ingenue
    Ingenue (album)

    Ing?nue is the second solo album by K.D. Lang, released in 1992 . It has more of a cabaret flavor than Lang's previous work, and was her most successful album on the pop charts both in her native Canada and internationally....
     performed by k.d. lang
    K.D. Lang

    k.d. lang Order of Canada is a Canada pop music and country music singer-songwriter. The artist gives her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these initials....
  • Diva
    Diva (album)

    Diva is the first solo album by Scottish singer/songwriter Annie Lennox, released in 1992. The album entered the UK album chart at no.1 and has since sold over 1.2 million copies in the UK alone, being certified quadruple platinum....
     performed by Annie Lennox
    Annie Lennox

    Annie Lennox is a British musician, vocalist and Academy Award-winning songwriter. She is both a solo artist and the lead singer of the musical duo Eurythmics, hailed as "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by members of the rock industry on the VH1 show 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll in 1999....
  • Achtung Baby
    Achtung Baby

    Achtung Baby is the seventh studio album by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2. It was released on 19 November 1991, nearly two years after lead vocalist Bono announced the band would have to "go away and dream it all up again", following the mixed response to 1988's Rattle and Hum and their own sense of musical stagnation....
     performed by U2
    U2

    U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
  • Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
    Beauty and the Beast (soundtrack)

    Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack of Disney 1991 Academy Award-winning animated feature Beauty and the Beast ....
     performed by Various Artists
  • 1992
    Grammy Awards of 1992

    The 34th Grammy Awards were held on February 26, 1992. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year . This ceremony was unique because something happened that rarely, if ever, does at the Grammies ? a tie....
    Unforgettable... with Love
    Unforgettable... with Love

    Unforgettable... with Love is a 1991 album by Natalie Cole, which focuses on covers of songs originally performed by Cole's father, Nat King Cole....
     performed by Natalie Cole
    Natalie Cole

    Natalie Maria Cole is an influential United States singer-songwriter and performer who has won ten Grammy Awards. She achieved success in her early career as an R&B star, but smoothly changed her repertoire toward a more jazz orientated musical style in the early 1990s....
    ; produced by Andre Fischer, David Foster
    David Foster

    David Walter Foster, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia, Doctor of Laws is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer-songwriter and arrangement.....
     & Tommy LiPuma
    Tommy LiPuma

    Tommy LiPuma is an United States music producer. In his long career, he has worked with many musicians, including Miles Davis, Al Jarreau, Anita Baker, Natalie Cole, Claudine Longet, Dave Mason, the Yellowjackets, Michael Franks, Diana Krall, and The Story ....
  • Heart in Motion
    Heart in Motion

    Heart in Motion is the twelfth album by Contemporary Christian music singer Amy Grant, released in 1991 .In contrast with its predecessor, the natural-sounding Lead Me On , Heart In Motion consisted of songs that were heavy in the style of mainstream music of the time....
     performed by Amy Grant
    Amy Grant

    Amy Lee Grant is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, media personality and occasional actress, best known for her contemporary Christian music....
  • Luck of the Draw
    Luck of the Draw (album)

    Luck of the Draw is the eleventh album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 1991 . After being nominated for Grammy awards in four different categories for the album Nick of Time , Raitt went for a creative retreat in Northern California to begin work on Luck of the Draw....
     performed by Bonnie Raitt
    Bonnie Raitt

    Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter who was born in Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, California. Raitt is best known for her songs "Nick of Time ", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneaking Up on You", and the ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me." Raitt is also an avid political activist and has received nine Gra...
  • Out of Time
    Out of Time (album)

    Out of Time is the seventh album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on Warner Bros. Records in 1991. With Out of Time R.E.M.'s status grew from that of a cult band to a massive international act....
     performed by R.E.M.
    R.E.M.

    R.E.M. is an American Rock music band formed in Athens, Georgia, Georgia , in 1980 by Michael Stipe , Peter Buck , Mike Mills , and Bill Berry ....
  • The Rhythm of the Saints
    The Rhythm of the Saints

    The Rhythm of the Saints is an album released in 1990 by Paul Simon.Following the success of 1986's Graceland , on which he worked principally with South African musicians, Simon broadened his interests in diverse forms of world music....
     performed by Paul Simon
    Paul Simon

    Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
  • 1991
    Grammy Awards of 1991

    The 33rd Grammy Awards were held on February 20, 1991. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year.Award winners:...
    Back on the Block
    Back on the Block

    Back on the Block is a 1989 in music Grammy Award-winning studio album produced by the United States music impresario, Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter Quincy Jones....
     performed by Quincy Jones
    Quincy Jones

    Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. , is an United States music Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991....
     and Various Artists, produced by Quincy Jones
    Quincy Jones

    Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. , is an United States music Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991....
  • Mariah Carey
    Mariah Carey (album)

    Mariah Carey is the self-titled debut album by American singer Mariah Carey, released in the United States on June 12, 1990 by Columbia Records....
     performed by Mariah Carey
    Mariah Carey

    Mariah Carey is an United States singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S....
  • …But Seriously performed by Phil Collins
    Phil Collins

    Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, Royal Victorian Order, is an England singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as the lead singer and drummer of England progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy Award and Academy Award-winning solo artist....
  • Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em
    Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

    Please, Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em is the third album by MC Hammer, released in 1990 by Capitol Records. The album was a #1 smash hit for 21 weeks, due primarily to the runaway single , "U Can't Touch This"....
     performed by MC Hammer
    MC Hammer

    Stanley Kirk Burrell , better known by his stage names MC Hammer and Hammer, is an American multi-platinum selling rapper and dancer most popular during the late 1980s until the mid-1990s, known for his dramatic rise and fall from fame and fortune and his trademark Hammer Pants....
  • Wilson Phillips
    Wilson Phillips (album)

    Wilson Phillips is the Grammy Award nominated 1990 debut album by Wilson Phillips. The singles, "Hold On ", "Release Me " and "You're in Love ", all hit number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, while "Impulsive " reached the top five....
     performed by Wilson Phillips
    Wilson Phillips

    Wilson Phillips is an United States vocal group consisting of Carnie Wilson andWendy Wilson and Chynna Phillips. Their 1990 self-titled debut album scored four Grammy Award nominations, two American Music Award nominations and a Billboard Music Award....
  • 1990
    Grammy Awards of 1990

    The 32nd Grammy Awards were held in 1990. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year....
    Nick of Time
    Nick of Time (album)

    Nick of Time is a blues rock album by Bonnie Raitt, released on March 21, 1989.Nick of Time topped the Billboard 200 chart, selling five million copies, and won Grammy Awards of 1990, including Grammy Award for Album of the Year....
     performed by Bonnie Raitt
    Bonnie Raitt

    Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter who was born in Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, California. Raitt is best known for her songs "Nick of Time ", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneaking Up on You", and the ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me." Raitt is also an avid political activist and has received nine Gra...
    , produced by Don Was
    Don Was

    Don Was is an American musician, bassist and record producer.Was was born in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Oak Park High School in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park, then attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan but dropped out after the first year.He later trained at the Recording Institute of Detroit for a time in t...
  • The End of the Innocence
    The End of the Innocence

    The End of the Innocence is the third album by Don Henley, released in 1989 . It is his best selling album, selling over 6 million copies in the United States, peaking at #8....
     performed by Don Henley
    Don Henley

    Donald Hugh " Don " Henley is an United States rock music singing, songwriter and drummer, best known as a founding member of the Eagles before launching a successful Grammy Award-winning solo career....
  • The Raw and the Cooked
    The Raw and the Cooked (album)

    The Raw & the Cooked is the second album by Fine Young Cannibals. A remixed version was also released as The Raw and the Remix. Selling over two million copies, The Raw & the Cooked included two US number one songs "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing "....
     performed by Fine Young Cannibals
    Fine Young Cannibals

    Fine Young Cannibals were a United Kingdom band formed in Birmingham, England in 1984, by guitarist David Steele and bassist Andy Cox , and singer Roland Gift....
  • Full Moon Fever
    Full Moon Fever

    Full Moon Fever is the first solo album by Tom Petty, though it features contributions from several members of his backing band, the Heartbreakers, along with fellow members of the Traveling Wilburys....
     performed by Tom Petty
    Tom Petty

    Thomas Earl Petty is an United Statesn singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a member of Mudcrutch....
  • Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
    Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1

    Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 is the debut record album by the Supergroup Traveling Wilburys and was recorded and released in 1988 to commercial success and critical acclaim....
     performed by Traveling Wilburys
    Traveling Wilburys

    Traveling Wilburys were a 1980s Supergroup consisting of George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan. The band recorded two albums during the two years they were together....


  • 1980s

    YearWinnerNominations
    1989
    Grammy Awards of 1989

    The 31st Grammy Awards were held in 1989. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year....
    Faith
    Faith (George Michael album)

    Faith is George Michael's first solo album, released in October 1987 via Columbia Records/Epic Records. The album is widely considered one of the greatest albums in pop music history, and won several awards including the Grammy Award for Album of the Year....
     performed by George Michael
    George Michael

    Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou , best known as George Michael, is a two-time Grammy Award winning, England singer-songwriter, who has had a career as frontman of the duo Wham! as well as a soul music-influenced, solo Pop music musician....
    , produced by George Michael
    George Michael

    Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou , best known as George Michael, is a two-time Grammy Award winning, England singer-songwriter, who has had a career as frontman of the duo Wham! as well as a soul music-influenced, solo Pop music musician....
    • Tracy Chapman
      Tracy Chapman (album)

      Tracy Chapman is the self-titled debut album by singer/songwriter Tracy Chapman, released in 1988 in music....
       performed by Tracy Chapman
      Tracy Chapman

      Tracy Chapman is an United States singer-songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason", "New Beginning " and "Telling Stories"....
    • Simple Pleasures performed by Bobby McFerrin
      Bobby McFerrin

      Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is a ten-time Grammy Award-winning jazz-influenced a cappella vocal performer and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy"....
    • ...Nothing Like the Sun
      ...Nothing Like the Sun

      ?Nothing Like the Sun is a 1987 double album by Sting . The title comes from Shakespeare's sonnets #130 , which Sting used in the song "Sister Moon"....
       performed by Sting
    • Roll with It
      Roll with It (album)

      Roll with It is the fifth solo album by blue-eyed soulster Steve Winwood. It topped the album charts in the United States, and has sold over three million copies....
       performed by Steve Winwood
      Steve Winwood

      Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an England singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In addition to his solo career, he was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic , Blind Faith, and Go ....
    1988
    Grammy Awards of 1988

    The 30th Grammy Awards were held March 2, 1988. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Michael Jackson performed his new hit singles The Way You Make Me Feel & Man in the Mirror at the award ceremony....
    The Joshua Tree
    The Joshua Tree

    The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2, released 9 March 1987 on Island Records. Recording sessions took place from July to November 1986 at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, Ireland....
     performed by U2
    U2

    U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
    , produced by Brian Eno
    Brian Eno

    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
     & Daniel Lanois
    Daniel Lanois

    Daniel Lanois is a Canada record producer, guitarist and singer-songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Parachute Club , U2, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Scott Weiland, Sin?ad O'Connor, Robbie Robertson, the Neville Brothers, Chris...
  • Whitney
    Whitney (album)

    Whitney is the second studio album by United States pop music/contemporary R&B singer Whitney Houston, released on June 29, 1987 by Arista Records....
     performed by Whitney Houston
    Whitney Houston

    Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an United States singer, songwriter,actress, record producer, film producer, and former model . Houston rose to international fame in the mid-1980s and her crossover success opened doors for many other African American women to find success in booty shaking & pop music and movies....
  • Bad
    Bad (album)

    Bad is the seventh album by Michael Jackson. It was released on August 31, 1987 by Epic Records. The record was released nearly five years after his last studio album Thriller ....
     performed by Michael Jackson
    Michael Jackson

    Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
  • Trio
    Trio (album)

    Trio is a 1987 Grammy award-winning, Platinum collaboration album by American singers/songwriters Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris....
     performed by Dolly Parton
    Dolly Parton

    Dolly Rebecca Parton is a Grammy Award-winning United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, known for her prolific work in country music....
    , Linda Ronstadt
    Linda Ronstadt

    Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....
    , & Emmylou Harris
    Emmylou Harris

    Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
  • Sign o' the Times performed by Prince
    Prince (musician)

    Prince Rogers Nelson is an United States musician. He performs under the Mononymous person name of Prince, but has also been known by various other names, among them an Love Symbol ...
  • 1987
    Grammy Awards of 1987

    The 29th Grammy Awards were held in 1987. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year.__FORCETOC__...
    Graceland
    Graceland (album)

    Graceland is an album released in 1986 in music by Paul Simon. It was a big hit in the UK topping the charts at #1. It also reached #3 in the US....
     performed by Paul Simon
    Paul Simon

    Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
    , produced by Roy Halee
    Roy Halee

    Roy Halee is a record producer and Audio engineering. Halee grew up in Long Island, New York. He was named to the TEC Awards#TEC Awards Hall of Fame in 2001....
     & Paul Simon
    Paul Simon

    Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
  • So
    So (album)

    So is the fifth studio album by United Kingdom rock music musician Peter Gabriel, released in 1986. Many of its songs reflect a more conventional pop-writing style and became radio hits, others still retain Gabriel's dark, brooding sense of experimentalism....
     performed by Peter Gabriel
    Peter Gabriel

    Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
  • Control
    Control (Janet Jackson album)

    Control is the third studio album by American recording artist Janet Jackson, released on March 4, 1986 by A&M Records. The album was produced by first-time collaborators Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, as well as Jackson's newly hired manager and A&M executive, John McClain....
     performed by Janet Jackson
    Janet Jackson

    Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, California, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians....
  • The Broadway Album
    The Broadway Album

    The Broadway Album is a 1985 award-winning album by film director, composer, actor and singing Barbra Streisand of classic show tunes. Streisand, who had formerly represented only minor theater composers on her albums, not only chose in this instance to represent more major figures but also to collaborate with one of them....
     performed by Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Streisand

    Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
  • Back in the High Life
    Back in the High Life

    Back in the High Life is the fourth solo album by blue-eyed soul musician Steve Winwood. It was a top ten hit on the album charts in the United States and has sold over five million copies....
     performed by Steve Winwood
    Steve Winwood

    Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an England singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In addition to his solo career, he was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic , Blind Faith, and Go ....
  • 1986
    Grammy Awards of 1986

    The 28th Grammy Awards were held on February 25, 1986. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year, 1985 in music....
    No Jacket Required
    No Jacket Required

    No Jacket Required is an album by English singer-songwriter Phil Collins, released on 25 January 1985. It was his third solo album and to date remains his most commercially successful....
     performed by Phil Collins
    Phil Collins

    Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, Royal Victorian Order, is an England singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as the lead singer and drummer of England progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy Award and Academy Award-winning solo artist....
    , produced by Hugh Padgham
    Hugh Padgham

    Hugh Padgham is a British record producer. He has won a string of awards, including four Grammys, with Producer of the Year and Engineer of the Year amongst them....
     & Phil Collins
    Phil Collins

    Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, Royal Victorian Order, is an England singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as the lead singer and drummer of England progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy Award and Academy Award-winning solo artist....
  • Brothers in Arms performed by Dire Straits
    Dire Straits

    Dire Straits were a United Kingdom Rock music, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers , and managed by Ed Bicknell....
  • Whitney Houston
    Whitney Houston (album)

    Whitney Houston is the debut album of American contemporary R&B and pop music singer Whitney Houston, released February 14, 1985, on Arista Records....
     performed by Whitney Houston
    Whitney Houston

    Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an United States singer, songwriter,actress, record producer, film producer, and former model . Houston rose to international fame in the mid-1980s and her crossover success opened doors for many other African American women to find success in booty shaking & pop music and movies....
  • The Dream of the Blue Turtles
    The Dream of the Blue Turtles

    The Dream of the Blue Turtles is the first solo album released by Sting . It includes ten tracks and was released in 1985, only a year after The Police had unofficially broken up....
     performed by Sting
  • We Are the World
    We Are the World (album)

    We Are the World was a 1985 album that contained USA for Africa's "We Are the World" superstar charity recording for famine relief efforts in Ethiopia....
     performed by USA for Africa
    USA for Africa

    USA for Africa , was the name under which forty-five predominantly United States artists, led by Harry Belafonte, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Richie, recorded the hit single "We Are the World" in 1985....
  • 1985
    Grammy Awards of 1985

    The 27th Grammy Awards were held February 26, 1985, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1984....
    Can't Slow Down performed by Lionel Richie
    Lionel Richie

    Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning United States singer, songwriter, record producer who has sold more than 100 million records....
    , produced by James Anthony Carmichel & Lionel Richie
    Lionel Richie

    Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning United States singer, songwriter, record producer who has sold more than 100 million records....
  • She's So Unusual
    She's So Unusual

    She's So Unusual is the debut studio album by United States pop music singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, released in 1983 by Portrait Records ....
     performed by Cyndi Lauper
    Cyndi Lauper

    Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an Music of the United States Grammy- and Emmy award winning singer-songwriter and actress. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual, and became the first artist to have four top-five singles released from one album....
  • Purple Rain
    Purple Rain (album)

    Purple Rain is an album by Prince and The Revolution , the soundtrack album to the Purple Rain .Purple Rain regularly is ranked among the best albums in rock music history....
     performed by Prince
    Prince (musician)

    Prince Rogers Nelson is an United States musician. He performs under the Mononymous person name of Prince, but has also been known by various other names, among them an Love Symbol ...
  • Born in the U.S.A.
    Born in the U.S.A.

    Born in the U.S.A. is the seventh studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1984 .In contrast to his previous album, the critical favorite Nebraska , Born in the U.S.A. featured anthemic, radio-friendly arrangements and 1980s production incorporating Springsteen's first use of synthesizers....
     performed by Bruce Springsteen
    Bruce Springsteen

    Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band....
  • Private Dancer
    Private Dancer

    Private Dancer is the fifth solo album by Tina Turner, released on Capitol Records in 1984, which became her breakthrough solo album. Turner's success with the album came after several challenging years of going solo after a public divorce from husband and performing partner Ike Turner....
     performed by Tina Turner
    Tina Turner

    Tina Turner is an United States singer and actress whose career has spanned over 50 years and who has won numerous awards. Her achievements in the Rock genre have led to her being referred to as "The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll"....
  • 1984
    Grammy Awards of 1984

    The 26th Grammy Awards were held on February 28 1984, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1983....
    Thriller
    Thriller (album)

    Thriller is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. The album was released on November 30, 1982 by Epic Records as the follow-up to Jackson's critically and commercially successful 1979 album Off the Wall ....
     performed by Michael Jackson
    Michael Jackson

    Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
    , produced by Michael Jackson
    Michael Jackson

    Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
     & Quincy Jones
    Quincy Jones

    Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. , is an United States music Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991....
  • Let's Dance performed by David Bowie
    David Bowie

    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
  • An Innocent Man
    An Innocent Man

    An Innocent Man is the 9th album by United States singer/songwriter Billy Joel, released in 1983 . It became one of his best-charted albums since Glass Houses, going directly to #2 in the UK....
     performed by Billy Joel
    Billy Joel

    William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
  • Synchronicity
    Synchronicity (album)

    Synchronicity is the fifth and final studio album by The Police, released in 1983. Their most popular release together, Synchronicity includes the number one single, "Every Breath You Take."...
     performed by The Police
    The Police

    The Police were an English Power trio Rock music band consisting of Sting , Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland . The band became globally popular in the late 1970s, playing a style of rock that was influenced by jazz, punk rock and reggae music....
  • Flashdance Soundtrack
    Flashdance (soundtrack)

    Flashdance is the soundtrack to the 1983 United States musical film and romance film Flashdance, produced by Don Simpsonand Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri....
     performed by Various Artists
  • 1983
    Grammy Awards of 1983

    The 25th Grammy Awards were held February 23, 1983. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year.*Grammy Award for Record of the Year...
    Toto IV
    Toto IV

    Toto IV is the fourth studio album by United States pop rock band Toto . It was released in 1982 .The album was awarded with 6 Grammy Awards, including "Grammy Award for Record of the Year" for "Rosanna", "Grammy Award for Album of the Year" for Toto IV, and "Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical" for the band....
     performed by Toto
    Toto (band)

    Toto was an United States Rock music Rock band founded in 1977 by some of the most popular and experienced session musicians of the era. The band enjoyed great commercial success in the 1980s, beginning with the band's Toto , released in 1978, which immediately brought the band into the mainstream rock spectrum of the time....
    , produced by Toto
    Toto (band)

    Toto was an United States Rock music Rock band founded in 1977 by some of the most popular and experienced session musicians of the era. The band enjoyed great commercial success in the 1980s, beginning with the band's Toto , released in 1978, which immediately brought the band into the mainstream rock spectrum of the time....
  • American Fool
    American Fool

    American Fool is the sixth album by John Cougar, now known by his real name of John Mellencamp, released in 1982 . This was Mellencamp's last album to be released under the name John Cougar....
     performed by John Mellencamp
  • The Nightfly
    The Nightfly

    The Nightfly is the first solo album by Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen, released in 1982 in music. It was one of the first fully digital recordings of popular music....
     performed by Donald Fagen
    Donald Fagen

    Donald Jay Fagen is an United States musician and songwriter. He is co-founder, lead singer, and the principal songwriter of the jazz-influenced Rock music musical ensemble Steely Dan....
  • The Nylon Curtain
    The Nylon Curtain

    The Nylon Curtain is the eighth studio album by Billy Joel. It was released by Columbia Records on September 23, 1982 in music and record producer by Phil Ramone....
     performed by Billy Joel
    Billy Joel

    William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
  • Tug of War
    Tug of war

    Tug of war, tug o' war, or tug war, also known as rope pulling, is a sport that directly puts two teams against each other in a test of strength....
     performed by Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney

    Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
  • 1982
    Grammy Awards of 1982

    The 24th Grammy Awards were held February 24, 1982, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1981....
    Double Fantasy
    Double Fantasy

    Double Fantasy is the comeback album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, released in 1980 initially on the newly-formed Geffen Records, and then from 1989 onwards through EMI....
     performed by John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
     & Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono

    , born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
    ; produced by Jack Douglas
    Jack Douglas (record producer)

    Jack Douglas is an influential American record producer. He was born in Bronx, New York. Starting out as folk musician and performer, he worked on Robert Kennedy's senatorial campaign as a song-writer....
    , John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
     & Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono

    , born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
  • Mistaken Identity
    Mistaken Identity (Kim Carnes album)

    Mistaken Identity, released in 1981, is the sixth studio album by Kim Carnes.It spent four weeks as number one on Billboard magazine's Pop Albums chart, and was subsequently certified platinum album....
     performed by Kim Carnes
    Kim Carnes

    Kim Carnes is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter. She is noted for her distinctive, raspy voice which she attributes to many hours spent singing in smoky bars and nightclub....
  • Breakin' Away performed by Al Jarreau
    Al Jarreau

    Alwyn Lopez "Al" Jarreau is an United States singer. A seven-time Grammy Award winner, he is the only vocalist in history to win in three separate categories: jazz, pop music, and R&B....
  • The Dude
    The Dude (Quincy Jones album)

    The Dude is a 1981 album by United States music impresario, Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter Quincy Jones....
     performed by Quincy Jones
    Quincy Jones

    Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. , is an United States music Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991....
  • Gaucho
    Gaucho (album)

    Gaucho was Steely Dan last album before the band's 10-year breakup from June 1981 to October 1991. The album, originally released in 1980, was also the band's last studio album until the 2000 release of Two Against Nature....
     performed by Steely Dan
    Steely Dan

    Steely Dan is an United States jazz-Rock music band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock and roll, funk, rhythm and blues, and Pop music....
  • 1981
    Grammy Awards of 1981

    The 23rd Grammy Awards were held February 25, 1981, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1980....
    Christopher Cross
    Christopher Cross (album)

    Christopher Cross is the self-titled debut album by Christopher Cross, released in 1980 . In 1981, it won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year....
     performed by Christopher Cross
    Christopher Cross

    Christopher Cross is an United States singer-songwriter from San Antonio, Texas, Texas. His debut album earned him all of the "Big Four" Grammy Awards in one year, a feat that is yet to be equalled....
    ; produced by Michael Omartian
    Michael Omartian

    Michael Omartian is an Armenian-American songwriter, Grammy Award-winning keyboardist, and music producer. He has produced albums for several pop music artists including Christopher Cross, Michael Bolton, Whitney Houston, the Jacksons, Rod Stewart, Trisha Yearwood, Clint Black, Donna Summer, Joe Esposito , Peter Cetera, Benny Hester, Steve C...
  • Glass Houses
    Glass Houses

    Glass Houses is the seventh album by United States singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released in 1980 . It features Joel's first song to peak at #1 on Billboard magazine's Pop Singles chart, "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me." The album itself topped the Pop Albums chart for six weeks and became the fourth best-selling album in the United State...
     performed by Billy Joel
    Billy Joel

    William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
  • The Wall
    The Wall

    The Wall is a rock opera presented as a double album by the England progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in late 1979. It was subsequently performed live, with elaborate theatrical effects, and made into Pink Floyd The Wall ....
     performed by Pink Floyd
    Pink Floyd

    Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
  • Trilogy: Past Present Future
    Trilogy: Past Present Future

    Trilogy: Past Present Future is a Grammy nominated 1980 triple album by the American singer Frank Sinatra. This album produced the last of Sinatra's many signature numbers, "Theme from New York, New York."...
     performed by Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  • Guilty
    Guilty (Barbra Streisand album)

    Guilty is an album released by Barbra Streisand in 1980. After the success of the Bee Gees in 1977/1978 there was some time to perform songwriting for other artists and Barbra Streisand asked Barry Gibb to write an album for her....
     performed by Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Streisand

    Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
  • 1980
    Grammy Awards of 1980

    The 22nd Grammy Awards were held February 27, 1980, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1979....
    52nd Street
    52nd Street (album)

    52nd Street is the sixth studio album by Billy Joel, released in 1978. It was also the first of many Joel albums to top the Billboard charts, along with his third and fourth Grammy win....
     performed by Billy Joel
    Billy Joel

    William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
    , produced by Phil Ramone
    Phil Ramone

    Phil Ramone is a violinist, composer, recording engineer, and innovative record producer born in 1941.As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical child prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom at age ten....
  • Minute by Minute
    Minute by Minute

    Minute by Minute is the eighth studio album by American rock band The Doobie Brothers, released in 1978. ....
     performed by The Doobie Brothers
    The Doobie Brothers

    The Doobie Brothers is an United States rock and roll musical group. They have sold over 22 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present....
  • The Gambler
    The Gambler (album)

    The Gambler is one of Kenny Rogers' most popular albums, selling in excess of 35 million copies since it was first released by United Artists in 1978 ....
     performed by Kenny Rogers
    Kenny Rogers

    Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is an United States country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone....
  • Bad Girls
    Bad Girls (album)

    Bad Girls is the eighth album by Donna Summer and her third consecutive double album. It was released in 1979 in music by Casablanca Records, who had had been distributing her work in the U.S....
     performed by Donna Summer
    Donna Summer

    Donna Summer is an United States singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music.Summer was trained as a gospel music singer prior to her introduction to the music industry....
  • Breakfast in America
    Breakfast in America

    Breakfast in America is the sixth album by the band Supertramp, released in 1979. It was recorded the previous year at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles....
     performed by Supertramp
    Supertramp

    Supertramp were a United Kingdom progressive rock band that released a series of top-selling albums in the 1970s and early 1980s.Their early music included ambitious concept albums, but they are best known for their later hits including "Bloody Well Right", "Dreamer ", "Goodbye Stranger", "Give a Little Bit" and "The Logical Song"....


  • 1970s

    YearWinnerNominations
    1979
    Grammy Awards of 1979

    The 21st Grammy Awards were held in 1979, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1978....
    Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track
    Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)

    Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track is the soundtrack album from the blockbuster film Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta....
     performed by Bee Gees
    Bee Gees

    The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers ? Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb. They were born on the Isle of Man to England parents, lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, United Kingdom and during their childhood years moved to Brisbane, Australia, where they began their musical careers....
    , KC and the Sunshine Band
    KC and the Sunshine Band

    KC and the Sunshine Band is an United States musical group. Founded in 1973, their style has included funk, rhythm and blues, and disco. Their most well known songs include the disco hits "That's the Way ", " Shake Your Booty", "I'm Your Boogie Man", "Keep It Comin' Love", "Get Down Tonight", "Give It Up", and "Please Don't Go"....
    , Kool & the Gang
    Kool & the Gang

    Kool & the Gang are an American jazz/R&B/soul music/funk/disco group. They originally formed in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. in 1964 in music. They went through several musical phases in their career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, becoming practitioners of R&B and funk, progressing to a smooth disco ensemble, and ended the successfu...
    , MFSB
    MFSB

    MFSB was a pool of more than thirty resident studio musicians based at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania famed Sigma Sound Studios. They worked closely with record producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and Arranger Thom Bell, and backed up such groups as The Bluenotes, The O'Jays, The Stylistics, The Spinners , The Intruders, The Three Degrees, Jerr...
    , Ralph MacDonald
    Ralph MacDonald

    Ralph MacDonald is a Grammy-award winning United States percussionist and song-writer born in Harlem, New York, in 1944. He joined Harry Belafonte's band at age 17....
    , Tavares
    Tavares (band)

    Tavares is a successful United States R&B, disco, and soul music band , composed of five Cape Verdean-American brothers from New Bedford, Massachusetts....
    , The Trammps
    The Trammps

    The Trammps, based in Philadelphia, were one of the first disco band . The band's first major success was with 1972's Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart....
    , Walter Murphy
    Walter Murphy

    Walter Anthony Murphy, Jr. is a pianist, composer, and arranger who had a massive hit with the instrumental, "A Fifth of Beethoven", a disco adaptation of some passages of the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No....
     & Yvonne Elliman
    Yvonne Elliman

    Yvonne Marianne Elliman is an United States singer and actress. Her father was of Irish-American descent, and her mother shared Japanese-American and Chinese-American ancestries....
    ; produced by Albhy Galuten
    Albhy Galuten

    Albhy Galuten is a Grammy Award winning United States record producer, composer, musician, orchestrator and technology executive.He produced 18 chart-topper single with songs and albums selling over 100,000,000 copies....
    , Arif Mardin
    Arif Mardin

    Arif Mardin was a Turkey-United States music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock music, soul music, disco, and country music....
    , Bee Gees
    Bee Gees

    The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers ? Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb. They were born on the Isle of Man to England parents, lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, United Kingdom and during their childhood years moved to Brisbane, Australia, where they began their musical careers....
    , Bill Oakes, Bobby Martin, Broadway Eddie, David Shire
    David Shire

    David Lee Shire is an United States songwriter and the composer of stage Musical theatre and film and television film score....
    , Freddie Perren
    Freddie Perren

    Frederick "Freddie" Perren was an United States songwriter, record producer, arranger, and orchestra conductor.He is notable for being a member of The Corporation , a hitmaking production team which included Alphonzo Mizell, Deke Richards and Berry Gordy that wrote and produced The Jackson 5's early hits, including "I Want You Back", "ABC...
    , Harry Wayne Casey
    Harry Wayne Casey

    Harry Wayne "K.C." Casey is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is most famous for his group, KC and the Sunshine Band and as a producer of several hits for other artists....
    , K.G. Productions, Karl Richardson, Ralph MacDonald
    Ralph MacDonald

    Ralph MacDonald is a Grammy-award winning United States percussionist and song-writer born in Harlem, New York, in 1944. He joined Harry Belafonte's band at age 17....
    , Richard Finch, Ron Kersey
    Ron Kersey

    Tyrone Garfield "Ron " Kersey was an United States keyboardist, songwriter, record producer and arranger most known for writing the music to "Disco Inferno " by The Trammps....
    , Thomas J. Valentino & William Salter
    • Even Now
      Even Now

      Even Now is the sixth studio album by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow. The album was recorded at A&M Records Studios in Hollywood, California, released in 1978....
       performed by Barry Manilow
      Barry Manilow

      Barry Manilow is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, arrangement, record producer and conducting, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy ", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana "....
    • Grease Original Soundtrack Album performed by Various Artists
    • Running on Empty
      Running on Empty (album)

      Running on Empty is the fifth album by United States singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1977 . In addition to tracks recorded on-stage during concerts, it also contains songs recorded in hotel rooms, on the tour bus, and backstage....
       performed by Jackson Browne
      Jackson Browne

      Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician. His introspective lyrics made him the poster boy of the Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s....
    • Some Girls
      Some Girls

      Some Girls is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1978. Considered a highlight of their output and the best of their post-Exile on Main St. records, the album revitalized the band's career upon its release and re-established The Rolling Stones as a vital rock and roll band in an era infused with punk rock and disco....
       performed by The Rolling Stones
      The Rolling Stones

      The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
    1978
    Grammy Awards of 1978

    The 20th Grammy Awards were held February 23, 1978, and were broadcast live on American television. They were hosted by folk music legend John Denver, and recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1977....
    Rumours
    Rumours

    Rumours is the thirteenth album by Rock music band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1977 in music. It was the second album recorded with this line-up, following the successful self-titled Fleetwood Mac album in 1975....
     performed by Fleetwood Mac
    Fleetwood Mac

    Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
    ; produced by Fleetwood Mac
    Fleetwood Mac

    Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
    , Ken Caillat
    Ken Caillat

    Ken Caillat is a record producer, probably best known for producing the Rumours, Tusk , Mirage , Live, and The Chain Box Set albums of Fleetwood Mac....
     & Richard Dashut
    Richard Dashut

    Richard Dashut is a record producer who produced several Fleetwood Mac albums including their popular Rumours and Tusk , and later an album by Matthew Sweet, Altered Beast ....
  • Aja
    Aja (album)

    Aja is an album by the rock band Steely Dan. The album was named after the Korean wife of group co-founder Donald Fagen's friend's brother. Originally released in 1977 in music, it became the group's best-selling album....
     performed by Steely Dan
    Steely Dan

    Steely Dan is an United States jazz-Rock music band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock and roll, funk, rhythm and blues, and Pop music....
  • Hotel California
    Hotel California

    Hotel California is an album released by the United States rock music band Eagles in late 1976 . It is the first Eagles album without founding member Bernie Leadon and the first album with Joe Walsh....
     performed by The Eagles
    Eagles

    The Eagles are an American rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. The group chose the name Eagles as a nod to The Byrds ....
  • JT
    JT (album)

    JT is singer-songwriter James Taylor's ninth album, and his first album for Columbia Records. Released in 1977, it contains hit singles in "Handy Man" and "Your Smiling Face" and was Taylor's highest charting album since Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon....
     performed by James Taylor
    James Taylor

    James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
  • Star Wars Soundtrack
    Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (soundtrack)

    John Williams' score for Star Wars was recorded over eight sessions at Anvil Studios in Denham, England on March 5, 8?12, 15 and 16, 1977. The score was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra with Williams conducting....
     performed by John Williams conducting the London Symphony Orchestra
    London Symphony Orchestra

    The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Arts Centre....
  • 1977
    Grammy Awards of 1977

    The 19th Grammy Awards were held on February 19, 1977, and were broadcast live on American television . They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1976....
    Songs in the Key of Life
    Songs in the Key of Life

    Songs in the Key of Life is an album by American musician Stevie Wonder, released on Motown on September 28, 1976 . It was the last of five consecutive albums widely hailed as his "classic period", along with Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale....
     performed by Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
    , produced by Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  • Breezin'
    Breezin'

    Breezin' is an album by jazz/soul music guitarist George Benson.The album marked the beginning of Benson's most successful period commercially....
     performed by George Benson
    George Benson

    George Benson is an American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is however, better known to the public at large as a Pop music and R&B singer, famous for such hits as "Give Me the Night", "Lady Love Me ", "Turn Your Love Around", "Inside Love", "In Your Eyes", and "This Masquerade", among...
  • Chicago X
    Chicago X

    Chicago X is the tenth album by United States rock music band Chicago and was released in 1976. The album is notable for its soulfulness, and it ended up being a turning point in the band's career thanks to one song....
     performed by Chicago
    Chicago (band)

    Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
  • Frampton Comes Alive!
    Frampton Comes Alive!

    Frampton Comes Alive! is a live album by Peter Frampton released in 1976, and one of the best-selling live albums in the United States. Following four solo albums with minimal commercial success, Frampton Comes Alive! was a breakthrough for the artist....
     performed by Peter Frampton
    Peter Frampton

    Peter Kenneth Frampton is an English musician, singer, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and The Herd , among others....
  • Silk Degrees
    Silk Degrees

    Silk Degrees is an album released by Boz Scaggs on the Columbia Records label in 1976. The album reached #2 on the Billboard 200.The album marked Scaggs' commercial zenith, mainly spearheaded by the R&B/Soul music hit "Lowdown"....
     performed by Boz Scaggs
    Boz Scaggs

    Boz Scaggs is an United States singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 Hits in the United States along with the #2 album Silk Degrees....
  • 1976
    Grammy Awards of 1976

    The 18th Grammy Awards were held February 28, 1976, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1975....
    Still Crazy After All These Years
    Still Crazy After All These Years

    Still Crazy After All These Years is a studio album by Paul Simon.Recorded in 1975, the album produced four US Top 40 hits, "Gone at Last" , "My Little Town" , "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" and the title track ....
     performed by Paul Simon
    Paul Simon

    Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
    , produced by Paul Simon
    Paul Simon

    Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
     & Phil Ramone
    Phil Ramone

    Phil Ramone is a violinist, composer, recording engineer, and innovative record producer born in 1941.As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical child prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom at age ten....
  • Between the Lines performed by Janis Ian
    Janis Ian

    Janis Ian is a Grammy Award-winning United States songwriter, singer, multi-instrumental musician, columnist, and science fiction science fiction fandom-turned-author....
  • Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
    Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

    Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is the ninth studio album by Great Britain singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1975. It debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200, the first ever to do so, and stayed there for seven weeks....
     performed by Elton John
    Elton John

    Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
  • Heart Like a Wheel
    Heart Like a Wheel

    Heart Like a Wheel is Linda Ronstadt's fifth solo album release and the last-ever of her studio projects for Capitol Records, arriving a year after 1973's Don't Cry Now, by her outgoing contract, Linda Ronstadt owed Capitol Records one more album and, as such, brought in producer Peter Asher, who worked with her on Don't Cry Now, and...
     performed by Linda Ronstadt
    Linda Ronstadt

    Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....
  • One of These Nights
    One of These Nights

    One of These Nights is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Eagles, released in 1975 . It included the song "One of These Nights" which became Eagles' second number one single in July 1975 on the Billboard Hot 100....
     performed by The Eagles
    Eagles

    The Eagles are an American rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. The group chose the name Eagles as a nod to The Byrds ....
  • 1975
    Grammy Awards of 1975

    The 17th Grammy Awards were presented March 1, 1975, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1974....
    Fulfillingness' First Finale
    Fulfillingness' First Finale

    Fulfillingness' First Finale is a landmark album by Stevie Wonder, released on July 22, 1974. It was the fourth of five consecutive albums widely hailed as his "classic period", along with Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, and Songs in the Key of Life....
     performed by Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
    , produced by Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  • Back Home Again performed by John Denver
    John Denver

    John Denver , born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an United States Country Music/folk music singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about half were composed by him....
  • Band on the Run
    Band on the Run

    Band on the Run is an album by Wings , released in 1973. McCartney's fifth album since the breakup of The Beatles , it became Wings' most successful album and remains the most celebrated of McCartney's post-Beatles albums....
     performed by Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney

    Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
     & Wings
    Wings (band)

    Wings was a rock music group formed in August 1971 by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. The group was the only "permanent" group that any of the former members of the Beatles joined after their break-up....
  • Caribou
    Caribou (album)

    Caribou is the 8th studio album by Great Britain singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1974 . It was John's 4th chart-topping album in the U.S....
     performed by Elton John
    Elton John

    Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
  • Court and Spark
    Court and Spark

    Court and Spark is Canadian singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell's 1974 full-length release. Her most commercially successful album, Court and Spark infused her folk-rock style with jazz inflections....
     performed by Joni Mitchell
    Joni Mitchell

    Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
  • 1974
    Grammy Awards of 1974

    The 16th Grammy Awards were held March 2, 1974, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1973....
    Innervisions
    Innervisions

    Innervisions is an album by Stevie Wonder, released on Motown/Motown on August 3 1973 . It was the third of five consecutive albums widely hailed as his "classic period", along with Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Fulfillingness' First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life....
     performed by Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
    , produced by Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  • Behind Closed Doors performed by Charlie Rich
    Charlie Rich

    Charlie Rich was an United States. A Grammy Award winner, his eclectic-style of music was often hard to classify in a single genre, playing in the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country music, and gospel music genres....
  • The Divine Miss M
    The Divine Miss M (album)

    The Divine Miss M is the debut album by American female Singing Bette Midler, released in 1972 on the Atlantic Records label. The title of the album refers to Midler's famous stage persona....
     performed by Bette Midler
    Bette Midler

    Bette Midler is an American singing, actress and comedienne, also known as The Divine Miss M. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards....
  • Killing Me Softly
    Killing Me Softly (album)

    Killing Me Softly is an album by Roberta Flack. The song "Killing Me Softly with His Song" won the Grammy Awards of 1974 for best record....
     performed by Roberta Flack
    Roberta Flack

    Roberta Flack is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter and musician who is notable in the areas of jazz, soul music, R&B and folk music....
  • There Goes Rhymin' Simon
    There Goes Rhymin' Simon

    There Goes Rhymin' Simon is a studio album by United States musician Paul Simon, released on May 5, 1973. It was his most rushed-released studio album, sixteen months after his debut, sophomore album....
     performed by Paul Simon
    Paul Simon

    Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
  • 1973
    Grammy Awards of 1973

    The 15th Grammy Awards were held on March 3, 1973, and were the first to be broadcast live on CBS, after the first two ceremonies were on American Broadcasting Company....
    The Concert for Bangla Desh performed by George Harrison
    George Harrison

    George Harrison Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer. He achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, and is listed number 21 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time"....
    , Ravi Shankar
    Ravi Shankar

    Pandit Ravi Shankar is a Bengali people Indian sitar player and composer. He is a disciple of Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar gharana of Hindustani classical music....
    , Bob Dylan, Leon Russell
    Leon Russell

    Leon Russell is a singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist. Russell attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.First known mostly as a session musician, Russell has played with artists as varied as Jerry Lee Lewis, Phil Spector, Joe Cocker, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Elton John, BB King, Freddie King, Eric Clapton, Bill Wyman...
    , Ringo Starr
    Ringo Starr

    Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
    , Billy Preston
    Billy Preston

    William Everett "Billy" Preston was an United States soul musician from Houston, Texas, raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. In addition to his successful, Grammy-winning career as a solo artist, Preston collaborated with some of the greatest names in the music industry, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Nat King Cole, Little...
    , Eric Clapton
    Eric Clapton

    Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
     & Klaus Voormann
    Klaus Voormann

    Klaus Voormann is a Germany artist, musician, and record producer known for his long association with the The Beatles, for whom he designed the cover of their album Revolver , as well as for being the bass guitar with the British Invasion group Manfred Mann and later a respected session musician and record producer....
    ; produced by George Harrison
    George Harrison

    George Harrison Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer. He achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, and is listed number 21 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time"....
     & Phil Spector
    Phil Spector

    Harvey Philip Spector is an United Statesn record producer and songwriter.The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s' girl group sound and clocked in over twenty-five Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1965....
  • American Pie
    American Pie (album)

    American Pie is the title of a 1971 in music music album by Don McLean, best known for its American Pie about The Day the Music Died. The third track, "Vincent ," is a tribute to the famed artist Vincent Van Gogh....
     performed by Don McLean
    Don McLean

    Don McLean is an United States singer-songwriter. He is most famous for his 1971 album American Pie , containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent "....
  • Jesus Christ Superstar (Original Broadway Cast Recording) performed by Various Artists
  • Moods performed by Neil Diamond
    Neil Diamond

    Neil Leslie Diamond is an United States of America singer-songwriter.Neil Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters....
  • Nilsson Schmilsson
    Nilsson Schmilsson

    Nilsson Schmilsson is an album by Harry Nilsson. Commercially, this was Nilsson's strongest work, producing three of his better known songs and achieving acclaimed chart success....
     performed by Nilsson
    Harry Nilsson

    Harry Edward Nilsson III was an American songwriter, singer, pianist, and guitarist who achieved the height of his fame during the 1960s and 1970s....
  • 1972
    Grammy Awards of 1972

    The 14th Grammy Awards were held March 15, 1972, and were broadcast live on television in the United States by American Broadcasting Company; the following year, they would move the telecasts to CBS, where they remain to this date....
    Tapestry
    Tapestry (album)

    Tapestry is a ground-breaking popular music album by singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1971 in music. It features minimal production by Lou Adler....
     performed by Carole King
    Carole King

    Carole King is an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period....
    , produced by Lou Adler
    Lou Adler

    Lou Adler is an United States record producer, manager, and director.Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in East Los Angeles, Adler grew up in a mixed Jewish/Mexico family....
  • All Things Must Pass
    All Things Must Pass

    All Things Must Pass is a triple album by George Harrison recorded and released after the break-up of The Beatles. The first triple album by a solo artist, the original vinyl release featured two records of rock songs, while the third, entitled "Apple Jam" was composed of informal jams led by Harrison with musician friends and other famou...
     performed by George Harrison
    George Harrison

    George Harrison Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer. He achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, and is listed number 21 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time"....
  • The Carpenters performed by The Carpenters
    The Carpenters

    The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter . Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply "Carpenters", without the Article ....
  • Jesus Christ Superstar
    Jesus Christ Superstar (album)

    Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1970 rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The album musical is a musical dramatisation of the last week of the life of Jesus Christ, beginning with his Palm Sunday and ending with the Passion ....
     performed by Various Artists
  • Shaft
    Shaft (album)

    Shaft is a double album by Isaac Hayes, recorded for Stax Records' Enterprise label as the soundtrack album for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft ....
     performed by Isaac Hayes
    Isaac Hayes

    Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an United Statesn Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter, actor and musician. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s....
  • 1971
    Grammy Awards of 1971

    The 13th Grammy Awards were held on March 16 1971, and was the first time the ceremonies were broadcast on television by American Broadcasting Company....
    Bridge over Troubled Water
    Bridge over Troubled Water

    Bridge over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel. First released on January 26, 1970, it reached No. 1 on Billboard Music Charts pop albums list....
     performed by Simon and Garfunkel
    Simon and Garfunkel

    Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
    ; produced by Art Garfunkel
    Art Garfunkel

    Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an United States singer, poet and actor, best known as half of the Grammy Award winning folk music duo Simon & Garfunkel....
    , Paul Simon
    Paul Simon

    Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
     & Roy Halee
    Roy Halee

    Roy Halee is a record producer and Audio engineering. Halee grew up in Long Island, New York. He was named to the TEC Awards#TEC Awards Hall of Fame in 2001....
  • Chicago
    Chicago (album)

    Chicago II is the second album by Chicago, Illinois-based rock and roll band Chicago . It was released in 1970 after the band had shortened its name from The Chicago Transit Authority after releasing their same-titled The Chicago Transit Authority album the previous year....
     performed by Chicago
    Chicago (band)

    Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
  • Close to You
    Close to You (Carpenters album)

    Close to You was the second album by The Carpenters, released in August 1970. In 2003, the album was ranked number 175 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time....
     performed by The Carpenters
    The Carpenters

    The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter . Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply "Carpenters", without the Article ....
  • Déjà Vu
    Déjà Vu (album)

    D?j? Vu is the second album by Rock music band Crosby, Stills & Nash , and their first as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, released on March 11, 1970....
     performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
    Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young)

    Crosby, Stills & Nash are a folk rock/rock and roll Supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, also known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young when joined by occasional fourth member Neil Young....
  • Elton John
    Elton John (album)

    Elton John is the eponymous second album by Great Britain singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1970. It was his first album, however, released in America, thus commonly assumed by many as his debut, as Empty Sky would not be released in the U.S....
     performed by Elton John
    Elton John

    Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
    , Sweet Baby James
    Sweet Baby James

    Sweet Baby James is singer-songwriter James Taylor's second album, and his first release on Warner Bros. Records. Released in February 1970, it showcased Taylor's talents and showed the direction he would take in the early 1970s with the expansion of his career....
     performed by James Taylor
    James Taylor

    James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
  • 1970
    Grammy Awards of 1970

    The 12th Grammy Awards were held in 1970. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1969....
    Blood, Sweat & Tears
    Blood, Sweat & Tears (album)

    Blood, Sweat & Tears is the 1969 self-titled second album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears.After the critical success of the first album, bandleader Al Kooper and two other members left the group....
     performed by Blood, Sweat & Tears
    Blood, Sweat & Tears

    Blood, Sweat & Tears is an United States music group, originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since its beginnings in 1967, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles....
    , produced by James William Guercio
    James William Guercio

    James William Guercio is an United States music producer, musician and songwriter , and is probably best known for his work as the producer of Chicago 's early albums as well as early recordings of The Buckinghams and Blood Sweat & Tears....
  • Abbey Road
    Abbey Road (album)

    Abbey Road is the eleventh official U.K. album and seventeenth U.S. album released by The Beatles. Though work on Abbey Road began in April 1969, making it the final album recorded by the band, Let It Be was the last album released before the Beatles' dissolution in 1970....
     performed by The Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  • The Age of Aquarius
    The Age of Aquarius (album)

    The Age of Aquarius is the fourth album by United States pop music group The Fifth Dimension, released in 1969 ....
     performed by The Fifth Dimension
    The Fifth Dimension

    The Fifth Dimension, also known as The 5th Dimension, is a multiple Grammy-winning United States popular music vocal group, whose repertoire also includes pop, Rhythm and blues, Soul music, and jazz....
  • Crosby, Stills & Nash
    Crosby, Stills & Nash (album)

    Crosby, Stills & Nash is the eponymous first album released by Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1969 on the Atlantic Records label. It spawned two Top 40 hits, "Marrakesh Express" and "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," which peaked respectively at #28 the week of August 23, 1969, and at #21 the week of October 25, 1969, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles ch...
     performed by Crosby, Stills & Nash
    Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young)

    Crosby, Stills & Nash are a folk rock/rock and roll Supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, also known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young when joined by occasional fourth member Neil Young....
  • At San Quentin
    At San Quentin

    At San Quentin is a recording of a live concert given by Johnny Cash to the inmates of San Quentin State Prison. As well as being released on record the concert was filmed by Granada Television....
     performed by Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....


  • 1960s

    YearWinnerNominations
    1969
    Grammy Awards of 1969

    The 11th Grammy Awards were held in 1969. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1968....
    By the Time I Get to Phoenix
    By the Time I Get to Phoenix

    "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" is an American pop song written by Jimmy Webb and made famous by Glen Campbell, whose version reached #3 on the U.S....
     performed by Glen Campbell
    Glen Campbell

    Glen Travis Campbell is a Grammy Award, Dove Award winning, and two time nominated Golden Globe Award United States country pop singer, guitarist and occasional actor....
    , produced by Al De Lory
    • Bookends
      Bookends

      Bookends is the name of an album and its title track, both recorded by Simon and Garfunkel, released April 3, 1968. It was record producer by Paul Simon, Roy Halee and Art Garfunkel....
       performed by Simon and Garfunkel
      Simon and Garfunkel

      Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
    • Feliciano! performed by José Feliciano
      José Feliciano

      Jos? Montserrate Feliciano Garc?a is a Puerto Rico singer and virtuoso guitarist, known for many international hits. He was born permanently blind due to congenital glaucoma....
    • Magical Mystery Tour
      Magical Mystery Tour (album)

      Magical Mystery Tour is the name of the 6-song double EP and 11-song album by the England rock music band The Beatles, first released in late 1967 in music....
       performed by The Beatles
      The Beatles

      The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
    • A Tramp Shining
      A Tramp Shining

      A Tramp Shining is an album by Richard Harris, released in 1968. Harris teamed with singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb for this album. Jimmy Webb wrote all the songs, arranged the musicians, and produced the entire album....
       performed by Richard Harris
      Richard Harris

      Richard St. John Harris was a two-time Academy Award-nominated and Grammy Award-winning Ireland actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer....
    1968
    Grammy Awards of 1968

    The 10th Grammy Awards were held February 29, 1968. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1967....
    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the United Kingdom rock music band The Beatles. Recorded over a 129-day period beginning on 6 December 1966, the album was released on 1 June 1967 in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States....
     performed by The Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
    , produced by George Martin
    George Martin

    Sir George Henry Martin Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom record producer, arrangement and composer. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle"?a title that he owes to his work as producer or co-producer of all of The Beatles' original records as well as playing piano on some of The Beatles tracks?and is considered one o...
  • Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
    Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

    Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim is a 1967 album by Frank Sinatra, featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim.The tracks were arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman and his orchestra....
     performed by Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
     & Antonio Carlos Jobim
    Antônio Carlos Jobim

    Ant?nio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also known as Tom Jobim, was a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist....
  • It Must Be Him performed by Vikki Carr
    Vikki Carr

    Vikki Carr is an United States singer who has performed in a variety of music genres, including jazz, pop music and country music, but has enjoyed her greatest success singing in Spanish language....
  • My Cup Runneth Over performed by Ed Ames
    Ed Ames

    Ed Ames is an United States popular music singer and actor. He is best known for his Pop and Adult Contemporary hits of the 1960s like "When the Snow is on the Roses" and the perennial "My Cup Runneth Over." He also was originally part of a popular singing group of 1950s called The Ames Brothers....
  • Ode to Billie Joe
    Ode to Billie Joe (album)

    Ode to Billie Joe is Bobbie Gentry's debut album, released in 1967. It was produced by Kelly Gordon and arranged by Jimmie Haskel and Shorty Rogers....
     performed by Bobbie Gentry
    Bobbie Gentry

    Roberta Lee Streeter , professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is an American singer-songwriter. Gentry was one of the first female country music to write and produce her own material....
  • 1967
    Grammy Awards of 1967

    The 9th Grammy Awards were held March 2, 1967. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1966. The 9th Grammy Awards is notable for not presenting the Grammy Award for Best New Artist....
    A Man and His Music
    A Man and His Music

    A Man and His Music is a 1965 double album by Frank Sinatra. It provides a brief retrospective of Sinatra's musical career. It won the 1967 Grammy Award for Album of the Year....
     performed by Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
    , produced by Sonny Burke
    Sonny Burke

    Sonny Burke was a big band leader. In 1937, he graduated from Duke University.During the 1930s and 1940s he was a big band leader in New York, including Sam Donahue's band, and during the 1940s and 1950s he worked as a band arranger for the Charlie Spivak and Jimmy Dorsey bands, among others....
  • Color Me Barbra
    Color Me Barbra

    Color Me Barbra is the title of the seventh studio album by singer Barbra Streisand released on Columbia Records in 1966. It reached #3 in the US albums charts and was certified GOLD by the RIAA....
     performed by Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Streisand

    Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
  • Dr. Zhivago Soundtrack performed by Maurice Jarre
    Maurice Jarre

    Maurice Jarre is a France composer and Conducting. Although he has composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores for motion pictures, particularly those of David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia , Doctor Zhivago , and A Passage to India ....
  • Revolver
    Revolver (album)

    Revolver is the seventh album by The Beatles, released on 5 August 1966. The album showcased a number of new stylistic developments which would become more pronounced on later albums....
     performed by The Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  • What Now My Love
    What Now My Love (album)

    What Now My Love is a 1966 album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. The album remained at the #1 position on the Billboard Album chart for nine weeks, the longest of any album released by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass....
     performed by Herb Alpert
    Herb Alpert

    Herbert "Herb" Alpert is an United States musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass or as Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or just TJB for short....
     and the Tijuana Brass
  • 1966
    Grammy Awards of 1966

    The 8th Grammy Awards were held March 15, 1966. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1965....
    September of My Years performed by Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
    , produced by Sonny Burke
    Sonny Burke

    Sonny Burke was a big band leader. In 1937, he graduated from Duke University.During the 1930s and 1940s he was a big band leader in New York, including Sam Donahue's band, and during the 1940s and 1950s he worked as a band arranger for the Charlie Spivak and Jimmy Dorsey bands, among others....
  • Help!
    Help! (album)

    Help! is the fifth U.K. album and tenth U.S. album by The Beatles, and the soundtrack album from their Help! . Produced by George Martin for EMI's Parlophone Records, the album contains seven songs that appeared in the film Help! , and seven that did not, including the singles "Help! " and "Ticket to Ride"....
     performed by The Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  • My Name Is Barbra performed by Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Streisand

    Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
  • My World performed by Eddy Arnold
    Eddy Arnold

    Richard Edward Arnold was among the most popular country music singers in United States history and helped to create the Nashville sound....
  • The Sound of Music Soundtrack performed by Various Artists
  • 1965
    Grammy Awards of 1965

    The 7th Grammy Awards were held in 1965. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1964....
    Getz/Gilberto
    Getz/Gilberto

    Getz/Gilberto, is a jazz bossa nova album released in 1964 by the United States Saxophone Stan Getz and the Brazilian guitarist Jo?o Gilberto, and featuring composer and musician Antonio Carlos Jobim....
     performed by Stan Getz
    Stan Getz

    Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky , usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young....
     & João Gilberto
    João Gilberto

    Jo?o Gilberto is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer and guitarist. He is credited with having created the bossa nova beat and is known as the "Father of Bossa Nova." His seminal recordings, including many songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, established the new musical genre in the late 1950s....
  • Cotton Candy
    Cotton candy

    Cotton candy , candy floss , or fairy floss is a form of spun sugar. Since it consists of mostly air, servings are large. Many people consider eating cotton candy part of the quintessential experience of a visit to a fairground or circus....
     performed by Al Hirt
    Al Hirt

    Alois Maxwell Hirt was an United States trumpeter and bandleader.Hirt was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of a police officer, and was known as "Al" or "Jumbo." At the age of six, he was given his first trumpet, which had been purchased at a local pawnshop....
  • Funny Girl: Original Broadway Cast performed by Various Artists
  • People performed by Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Streisand

    Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
  • The Pink Panther
    The Pink Panther (album)

    The Pink Panther is a 1964 album by Henry Mancini. It is a soundtrack from the film The Pink Panther. The retro cover art uses the image of the cartoon Pink Panther and incorporates mod elements such as the star above the I; this sets the tone for the music on the album....
     performed by Henry Mancini
    Henry Mancini

    Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
  • 1964
    Grammy Awards of 1964

    The 6th Grammy Awards were held in 1964. They recognized accomplishments by musicians for the year 1963....
    The Barbra Streisand Album
    The Barbra Streisand Album

    The Barbra Streisand Album is the title of Barbra Streisand debut solo studio album. Released on February 25, 1963 in the United States, it contained her Musical interpretation of eleven pop standards....
     performed by Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Streisand

    Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
  • Bach's Greatest Hits performed by The Swingle Singers
    The Swingle Singers

    The Swingle Singers are a a cappella formed in 1962 in Paris, France with Ward Swingle, Anne Germain, Jeanette Baucomont and Jean Cussac. Christiane Legrand, the sister of composer Michel Legrand, was the lead soprano in the group....
  • The Days of Wine and Roses Soundtrack performed by Henry Mancini
    Henry Mancini

    Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
  • Honey in the Horn performed by Al Hirt
    Al Hirt

    Alois Maxwell Hirt was an United States trumpeter and bandleader.Hirt was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of a police officer, and was known as "Al" or "Jumbo." At the age of six, he was given his first trumpet, which had been purchased at a local pawnshop....
  • The Singing Nun performed by The Singing Nun
    The Singing Nun

    Jeanine Deckers , better known in English as The Singing Nun, was a Belgium nun, and a member of the Dominican Order Fichermont Convent in Belgium....
  • 1963
    Grammy Awards of 1963

    The 5th Grammy Awards were held in 1963. They recognized accomplishments by musicians for the year 1962....
    The First Family
    The First Family (album)

    The First Family is a comedy album recorded on October 22, 1962, as a good-natured parody of President John F. Kennedy, both as Commander-in-Chief and as a member of a large, Celebrity politics family....
     performed by Vaughn Meader
    Vaughn Meader

    Abbott Vaughn Meader was an United States comedian and impersonator whose achievement of fame with The First Family album spoofing President John F....
  • I Left My Heart in San Francisco
    I Left My Heart in San Francisco (album)

    I Left My Heart in San Francisco is a 1962 album by Tony Bennett.At the Grammy Awards of 1963 Bennett won two Grammies for the title song, Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male....
     performed by Tony Bennett
    Tony Bennett

    Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
  • Jazz Samba
    Jazz Samba

    Jazz Samba is a bossa nova LP by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, released on the Verve Records label on February 13, 1962.Jazz Samba was the first major bossa-nova album on the United States jazz scene, and is often called the best-selling jazz album of all time....
     performed by Stan Getz
    Stan Getz

    Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky , usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young....
     & Charlie Byrd
    Charlie Byrd

    Charlie Lee Byrd was a famous American jazz and classical guitarist born in Suffolk, Virginia. Byrd collaborated on the famous 1962 album Jazz Samba with Stan Getz, a recording which pushed bossa nova into the mainstream of American music....
  • Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
    Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

    Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music is a studio album by United States rhythm and blues and Soul music musician Ray Charles, released April 1962 on ABC Records, in both Monaural and Stereophonic format....
     performed by Ray Charles
    Ray Charles

    Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
  • My Son, the Folk Singer
    My Son, the Folk Singer

    My Son, the Folk Singer is a monophonic album by Allan Sherman, released by Warner Bros. Records in 1962. On the album sleeve, the title appears directly below the words "Allan Sherman's mother presents."...
     performed by Allan Sherman
    Allan Sherman

    Allan Sherman was a Jewish United States musician, parody, satire and television producer....
  • 1962
    Grammy Awards of 1962

    The 4th Grammy Awards were held in 1962. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1961....
    Judy at Carnegie Hall
    Judy at Carnegie Hall

    Judy at Carnegie Hall is a legendary two-record live recording of a concert by Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall in New York City.This concert appearance, on the night of April 23, 1961, has been called "the greatest night in show business history"....
     performed by Judy Garland
    Judy Garland

    Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's Soundtrack performed by Henry Mancini
    Henry Mancini

    Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
  • Genius+Soul=Jazz performed by Ray Charles
    Ray Charles

    Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
  • Great Band with Great Voices performed by Si Zentner & the Johnny Mann
    Johnny Mann

    Johnny Mann is an United States arrangement, composer, Conducting, entertainer, and musician....
     Singers
  • The Nat King Cole Story performed by Nat King Cole
    Nat King Cole

    Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
  • West Side Story Soundtrack
    West Side Story (soundtrack)

    West Side Story is the soundtrack to the 1961 film West Side Story . Released in 1961, the soundtrack spent 54 weeks at #1 on Billboard 's album charts, giving it the longest run at #1 of any album in history, although some lists instead credit Michael Jackson's Thriller , on the grounds that West Side Story was listed on a ch...
     performed by Various Artists
  • 1961
    Grammy Awards of 1961

    The third Grammy Awards were held in 1961. They recognized musical accomplishments by the performers for the year 1960. Bob Newhart and Henry Mancini each won three awards....
    The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart
    The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart

    The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart is a 1960 live album by comedian Bob Newhart. The debut album by Newhart, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard Pop Album chart, topping an album by Elvis Presley and the cast album of The Sound of Music....
     performed by Bob Newhart
    Bob Newhart

    George Robert "Bob" Newhart is an United States Stand-up comedy and actor who is best known for playing psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the popular 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the popular 1980s sitcom Newhart....
  • Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall performed by Harry Belafonte
    Harry Belafonte

    Harold George Belafonte, Jr. is a Jamaican American musician, actor and social activist. One of the most successful popular singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso music" a title which he was very reluctant to accept for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s....
  • Brahams: Concert No. 2 in B-Flat
    Piano Concerto No. 2 (Brahms)

    The Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Opus number 83 by Johannes Brahms is a composition for solo piano with orchestral accompaniment. It is separated by a gap of 22 years from the composer's Piano Concerto No....
     performed by Sviatoslav Richter
    Sviatoslav Richter

    Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was a Soviet pianist and widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. He was well known for the depth of his interpretations, virtuoso technique and vast repertoire....
  • Nice 'n' Easy
    Nice 'n' Easy

    Nice 'n' Easy is a 1960 album by Frank Sinatra .All the songs, with the notable exception of the title song, are sung as ballads and were arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle....
     performed by Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  • Puccini: Turandot
    Turandot

    Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly based on the earlier text Turandot by Carlo Gozzi....
     performed by Erich Leinsdorf
    Erich Leinsdorf

    Erich Leinsdorf was an Austrian-born American conducting. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for exacting standards as well as an acerbic personality....
  • Wild is Love performed by Nat King Cole
    Nat King Cole

    Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
  • 1960
    Grammy Awards of 1960

    The second Grammy Awards were held on November 29, 1959. They recognized musical accomplishments by performers for that particular year. Duke Ellington won three awards....
    Come Dance with Me!
    Come Dance with Me!

    Come Dance with Me! is an album by the United States singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1959 .It was the most successful album of Frank Sinatra's career, spending two and a half years on the Billboard charts....
     performed by Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  • Belafonte at Carnegie Hall
    Belafonte at Carnegie Hall

    Belafonte at Carnegie Hall is a live album by Harry Belafonte. It is the first of two Belafonte Carnegie Hall albums, and was recorded on April 19 and April 20, 1959....
     performed by Harry Belafonte
    Harry Belafonte

    Harold George Belafonte, Jr. is a Jamaican American musician, actor and social activist. One of the most successful popular singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso music" a title which he was very reluctant to accept for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s....
  • More Music From Peter Gunn performed by Henry Mancini
    Henry Mancini

    Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
  • Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
    Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rachmaninoff)

    The Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 by Sergei Rachmaninoff is famous for its technical and musical demands on the performer. It has the reputation of being one of the most difficult concertos in the standard piano repertoire....
     performed by Van Cliburn
    Van Cliburn

    Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. , is an United States pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War....
  • Victory at Sea, Vol. 1 performed by Robert Russell Bennett
    Robert Russell Bennett

    Robert Russell Bennett was an United States composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway theatre musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers....


  • 1950s

    YearWinnerNominations
    1959
    Grammy Awards of 1959

    The inaugural Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959. They recognized musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958. Domenico Modugno, Henry Mancini, Ella Fitzgerald and Ross Bagdasarian each won 2 awards....
    The Music from Peter Gunn
    The Music from Peter Gunn

    The Music from Peter Gunn is a 1959 album by Henry Mancini. It was the first album ever to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1959....
     performed by Henry Mancini
    Henry Mancini

    Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
    • Come Fly with Me
      Come Fly with Me (album)

      Come Fly with Me is an album by United States singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1958 in music.Sinatra's first collaboration with arranger/conductor Billy May, Come Fly With Me was designed as a musical trip around the world....
       performed by Frank Sinatra
      Frank Sinatra

      Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
    • Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook
      Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook

      Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook is a 1958 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....
       performed by Ella Fitzgerald
      Ella Fitzgerald

      Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
    • Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely
      Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely

      Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely is an album by the United States singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1958. The album consists of a haunting collection of melancholic Ballad about sadness and loss ....
       performed by Frank Sinatra
      Frank Sinatra

      Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
    • Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor, Op. 23
      Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)

      The Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Opus number 23 was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between November 1874 and February 1875. It was revised in the summer of 1879 and again in December 1888....
       performed by Van Cliburn
      Van Cliburn

      Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. , is an United States pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War....


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