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It's a quick lunch at work, and I thought I'd put up something interesting, in honor of Sunday's Grammy awards.
Fun facts: The first Grammy awards were held for 1958. Perry Como and Ella Fitzgerald were best male and female vocal performers, respectively. Henry Mancini won for best record of the year--Music from Peter Gunn (which I've played, and it is very good music). "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu" won for best song (it's the one that goes "Volare, oh-oh"), which is curious and must be a matter of taste, since I've never been crazy about that song, and in the year of Gigi and The Music Man, you have to wonder what people were thinking in voting for something that I personally consider less than tuneful or wittily lyrical. Anyway, other winners for 1958 included Louis Prima and Keely Smith ("That Old Black Magic" as best group vocal performance--I concur; it's a great song with great singers performing a great arrangement), Count Basie, the Kingston Trio ("Tom Dooley" as best country/western performance), Nelson Riddle (for best composition), Andres Segovia (best classical instrumental performance), David Seville (the name's not particularly familiar, but he won for the perennial favorite "The Chipmunk Song"), and STAN FREBERG (Woohoo! Although one must wonder why he was overlooked for best comedy performance, and won only best documentary or spoken word).
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It's a quick lunch at work, and I thought I'd put up something interesting, in honor of Sunday's Grammy awards.
Fun facts: The first Grammy awards were held for 1958. Perry Como and Ella Fitzgerald were best male and female vocal performers, respectively. Henry Mancini won for best record of the year--Music from Peter Gunn (which I've played, and it is very good music). "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu" won for best song (it's the one that goes "Volare, oh-oh"), which is curious and must be a matter of taste, since I've never been crazy about that song, and in the year of Gigi and The Music Man, you have to wonder what people were thinking in voting for something that I personally consider less than tuneful or wittily lyrical. Anyway, other winners for 1958 included Louis Prima and Keely Smith ("That Old Black Magic" as best group vocal performance--I concur; it's a great song with great singers performing a great arrangement), Count Basie, the Kingston Trio ("Tom Dooley" as best country/western performance), Nelson Riddle (for best composition), Andres Segovia (best classical instrumental performance), David Seville (the name's not particularly familiar, but he won for the perennial favorite "The Chipmunk Song"), and STAN FREBERG (Woohoo! Although one must wonder why he was overlooked for best comedy performance, and won only best documentary or spoken word).
Nice information for you.
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