1st Annual Grammy Awards

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1st Annual Grammy Awards
DateMay 4th, 1959
LocationBeverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles
Hosted byMort Sahl
Television/radio coverage
NetworkABC
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The 1st Annual Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959. They recognized musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958. Two separate ceremonies were held simultaneously on the same day; the first hotel in Beverly Hills, California, and the second in the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City.[1] Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Domenico Modugno, Ross Bagdasarian, and Henry Mancini, each won 2 awards.[2][3]

Award winners[]

The following awards were given in the first award ceremony:[1]

General[]

Record of the Year
Album of the Year
Song of the Year

Children's[]

Comedy[]

  • Best Comedy Performance
    • Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. for "The Chipmunk Song", performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. as "David Seville and the Chipmunks"

Composing and arranging[]

Country[]

Jazz[]

Musical show[]

Packaging and notes[]

Pop[]

Production and engineering[]

R&B[]

Spoken[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Grammy Awards 1959 (May)". Grammy. Archived from the original on 2019-04-30. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
  2. ^ Dornbrook, Don (24 May 1959). "And Now the Grammy Awards". The Milwaukee Journal. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  3. ^ "1958 Grammy Winners". Grammy.com. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
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