The following awards were given in the first award ceremony:[1]
I was going to compare the first Grammys with last years, but I began vomiting when trying to upload the code.
“I coulda had those guys whacked, but I figured I’d be nice about it.”
— Sinatra
It is interesting this post comes around the same time we hear of the passing of Duane Eddy which covered the song Peter Gunn.
The pictures are not from 1959.
Wow. Only the Lonely. Perhaps his best.
“65 Years Ago, Frank Sinatra Came Up Short”. He was 5’8”. He was height challenged. The things these people come up with.
Later, Petula would win the Grammy for "Downtown" as the best rock and roll song of 1964. "Downtown," which is set to a bolero beat, is most definitely not rock and roll, and there were dozens of great rock and roll songs from 1964 that the Grammy folks passed over.
Wow! What an incredible year. Look at those charts, all across the board. Sinatra had two top albums the year I was born!
To be fair, in 1959, Volare was a GIANT hit!
As a child, I found my folks’ “Catch a Falling Star” on 45 rpm. I loved that song and used to play it on my record player.
The Grammys were an irrelevant joke when I was a kid, they’re an irrelevant joke now.