💿🎶🏆 GRAMMY Award for Album of the Year - Winners

Album of the Year | 1959  

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Music From Peter Gunn

by  Henry Mancini

The Music from Peter Gunn is a soundtrack album to the TV series Peter Gunn, composed and conducted by Henry Mancini, and released in January 1959 on RCA Victor. It was the first album ever to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1959. The album was followed by More Music from Peter Gunn, released on RCA Victor in July 1959. In 1998 the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame

Nominees :

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book  by  Ella Fitzgerald, Paul Weston & His Orchestra

https://dzr.page.link/TABdhKGQKVAL1JUB9

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely  by  Frank Sinatra

https://dzr.page.link/6Nr3B8aEJf4GeecL9

Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1, In B-Flat Minor, Op.23  by Van Cliburn

https://dzr.page.link/2TTqpr9eSa6xrNvW8

2001

Foo Fighters

There is nothing left to loose

1978 -  Rumours (Fleetwood Mac)
 

Album of the Year 1960 

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Come Dance With Me!

by Frank Sinatra

 Come Dance with Me! is the sixteenth studio album by American vocalist Frank Sinatra, released on January 5, 1959.This was Sinatra's most successful album, spending two and a half years on the Billboard charts.

Come Dance With Me stayed on Billboard's Pop album chart for 141 weeks, peaking at #2 for four weeks. The album remained in the top ten for 58 weeks, spending 29 weeks in the top ten in 1959 and another 29 weeks in the top ten in 1960.

Nominees :

 Belafonte at Carnegie Hall by Harry Belafonte 

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 More Music From Peter Gunn by Henry Mancini

https://dzr.page.link/JYeZwabwSSLHBK6G9

Victory at Sea, Vol. I by  Robert Russell Bennett

https://dzr.page.link/YhzUpZRH2uyAHD4aA

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 by Van Cliburn

https://dzr.page.link/Enk5xj9Mxq4x4M5q7

Album of the Year |1961

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The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart

by Bob Newhart

 The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart is a 1960 live album by comedian Bob Newhart. Recorded at the Tidelands Club in Houston, Texas by recording engineer Bill Holford, Newhart's debut album reached No. 1 on the Billboard Mono Action Albums chart (later the Billboard 200) on August 1, 1960, and remained at the top for 14 weeks. In Canada, the album was No. 1 for 17 of 18 weeks between June 13 and October 10.The album stayed on the chart for two years, selling over 600,000 copies near release and ranking as the 20th best-selling album of all time on the Billboard charts.
 It won Album of the Year at the 1961 Grammy Awards, where Newhart was named Best New Artist; it was the first comedy album to win Album of the Year and the only time a comedian had won Best New Artist.

Nominees :

 Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall  by  Harry Belafonte

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 Nice 'n' Easy by Frank Sinatra

Wild Is Love by  Nat King Cole

https://dzr.page.link/vmmyoLXyKUsFre4V8

Brahms: Concerto by Sviatoslav Richter

Puccini: Turandot by Erich Leinsdorf

https://dzr.page.link/MoxKPqSXEegHxoFJ9

Album of the Year |1962

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Judy At Carnegie Hall

by Judy Garland

 Judy at Carnegie Hall is the second live album by Judy Garland. It was released on July 10, 1961, by Capitol Records. The album is a live recording of a concert by Garland held at Carnegie Hall in New York City, with backing orchestra conducted by Mort Lindsey. It was recorded on the night of Sunday April 23, 1961 and re-released decades later as an extended, two-disc CD).

Garland's live performances were a big success at the time and her record company wanted to capture that energy onto a recording. The double album became a smash, both critically and commercially.

The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, making Garland the first woman to win the award, and spent thirteen weeks at #1 on the Billboard album chart.

Nominees :

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Henry Mancini

Genius + Soul = Jazz  by Ray Charles

https://dzr.page.link/grzSffvUaauPdtoe9

Great Band with Great Voices by Si Zentner

Great Band with Great Voices... Swing the Great Voices of the Great Bands (Remastered Edition)

The Nat King Cole Story by Nat King Cole

The Nat King Cole Story

West Side Story (Motion Picture Soundtrack) by John Green

West Side Story (Original Motion Picture

Album of the Year |1963

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The First Family

by Vaughn Meader

The First Family is a 1962 comedy album featuring comedian and impressionist Vaughn Meader. The album, written and produced by Bob Booker and Earle Doud, was recorded on October 22, 1962, is a good-natured parody of then-President John F. Kennedy, both as Commander-in-Chief and as a member of the prominent Kennedy family. Issued by Cadence Records, The First Family became the largest and fastest selling record in the history of the record industry, selling at more than one million copies per week for the first six and one-half weeks in distribution and remained at #1 on the Billboard 200 for 12 weeks.

The First Family won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1963, becoming the second and most recent comedy or spoken word album to win the award.

Nominees :

I Left My Heart in San Francisco  by Tony Bennett

https://dzr.page.link/6RSRX7KNfkAtSUL38

Jazz Samba by Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd

https://dzr.page.link/SFd4JGN9UatLFLgd9

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music by Ray Charles

My Son, the Folk Singer by Allan Sherman

https://dzr.page.link/cXmJfE7hS5FGhRQh9

Album of the Year | 1964

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The Barbra Streisand Album

by Barbra Streisand

The Barbra Streisand Album is the debut album by American singer Barbra Streisand, released February 25, 1963, on Columbia Records, catalogue CL 2007 in mono and CS 8807 in stereo. It peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Top LPs, and has been certified a gold album by the RIAA. By 1966, the album had sold over one million copies worldwide.

The album was nominated for five Grammys at the 1963 Grammy Awards and won Album of the Year and Best Female Vocal Performance. The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2006.

Nominees :

Bach's Greatest Hits by The Swingle Singers

https://dzr.page.link/Z4koHwWSvUyZaNq29

Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests by Andy Williams

https://dzr.page.link/6CanksdxfFZHJNDd7

Honey in the Horn by Al Hirt

The Singing Nun  by The Singing Nun (Soeur Sourire)

https://dzr.page.link/5zYDVXHsQWz8rWpS7

Album of the Year | 1965

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Getz/Gilberto 

by Stan Getz, João Gilberto

Getz/Gilberto is an album by American saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto, featuring pianist and composer Antônio Carlos Jobim (Tom Jobim), who also composed many of the tracks. It was released in March 1964 by Verve Records. The album features the vocals of Astrud Gilberto on two tracks, "Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") and "Corcovado". The artwork was done by artist Olga Albizu. Getz/Gilberto is a jazz and bossa nova album and includes tracks such as "Desafinado", "Corcovado", and "Garota de Ipanema". The last received a Grammy Award for Record of the Year and started Astrud Gilberto's career. "Doralice" and "Para Machucar Meu Coração" strengthened Gilberto's and Jobim's respect for the tradition of pre-bossa nova samba.

 Getz/Gilberto received Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group and Best Engineered Recording - Non-Classical; it also became the first non-American album to win Album of the Year, in 1965.

Nominees :

Cotton Candy by Al Hirt

https://dzr.page.link/AtwxcYGfPoLfT4fH6

Funny Girl by Various Artists

https://dzr.page.link/uJQp6ZaMoYfveaYG9

People by Barbra Streisand

https://dzr.page.link/ESSLkzcFWDfENcTVA

The Pink Panther by Henry Mancini

Album of the Year | 1966

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September of My Years

by Frank Sinatra

September of My Years is a 1965 studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released on Reprise Records in August 1965 on LP and October 1986 on CD. The orchestral arrangements are by Gordon Jenkins, their fifth album collaboration. It peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart.

In 2000 it was voted number 190 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.

Nominees :

Help! by The Beatles

My Name Is Barbra by  Barbra Streisand

https://dzr.page.link/QzmvC2yYtQCaakVYA

My World by Eddy Arnold

https://dzr.page.link/EzjRnvax6vk5UgUu7

The Sound Of Music (Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Rodgers & Hammerstein, Julie Andrews

https://dzr.page.link/2uaU1QL4DzHuPBTM6

Album of the Year | 1967

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A Man and His Music

by Frank Sinatra

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

Instead of using the original recordings, which were made for RCA, Columbia and Capitol Records, and therefore not licensed for use by his then-current label, Reprise, Sinatra used re-recorded versions for the majority of the album's songs, culling tracks from his prior Reprise albums. Three songs were specifically recorded for the project: "I'll Never Smile Again", "Come Fly with Me" and "Love and Marriage". There is also a narration from Sinatra that runs throughout the album.

Nominees :

Color Me Barbra by Barbra Streisand

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Doctor Zhivago (Original Soundtrack) by Maurice Jarre

https://dzr.page.link/uwWxmBoR1QYEio628

Revolver by The Beatles

What Now My Love by  Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

https://dzr.page.link/WcXDvYGmWD2Xia6c9

Excellent album ​@Nina Nebo 

It’s one of my favourites from The Beatles 😁

I love these tracks in particular from the album

Album of the Year | 1968

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

by The Beatles

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (often referred to simply as Sgt. Pepper) is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967, Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the roles of sound composition, extended form, psychedelic imagery, record sleeves, and the producer in popular music. The album had an immediate cross-generational impact and was associated with numerous touchstones of the era's youth culture, such as fashion, drugs, mysticism, and a sense of optimism and empowerment. Critics lauded the album for its innovations in songwriting, production and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for reflecting the interests of contemporary youth and the counterculture.

Nominees :

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim by Frank Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim

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It Must Be Him by Vikki Carr

https://dzr.page.link/wMXFmtiVWU3vqk7o6

My Cup Runneth Over by Ed Ames

https://dzr.page.link/eZ1zReBXv3UBTRj26

Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry

Album of the Year | 1969

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By the Time I Get to Phoenix

by   Glen Campbell

By the Time I Get to Phoenix is the seventh album by American singer-guitarist Glen Campbell, released in November 1967 by Capitol Records.

In March 1969 the album won the Grammy for Album of the Year (for 1968), the first country album to do so. In February 1968 the album's lead single "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", released October 1967, won Grammys for both Best Vocal Performance, Male and Best Contemporary Male Solo Vocal Performance (for 1967).
 In 2004 "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Nominees :

Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel

https://dzr.page.link/7RQzRMHn4J78VGue7

Feliciano! by José Feliciano

Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles

https://dzr.page.link/WAYxAaYMQNN1gRxw7

A Tramp Shining by Richard Harris

https://dzr.page.link/zCu7XBq4h6nBVL9i8

Album of the Year | 1970

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Blood, Sweat & Tears

by Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears is the second album by the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released on December 11, 1968. It was the most commercially successful album for the group, rising to the top of the U.S. charts for a collective seven weeks and yielding three successive Top 5 singles. It received a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1970. The album has been certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA, with sales of more than four million units in the U.S. In Canada, the album enjoyed a total of eight weeks at number 1 on the RPM national album chart.

Nominees :

Abbey Road by The Beatles

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The Age of Aquarius by The 5th Dimension

Crosby, Stills & Nash by Crosby, Stills & Nash

https://dzr.page.link/jCQppPAXUapHZMnp6

Johnny Cash At San Quentin by Johnny Cash

https://dzr.page.link/fLScHCMwccpi7LVG9

Album of the Year | 1971

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Bridge over Troubled Water

by Simon & Garfunkel

Bridge Over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, released on January 26, 1970, by Columbia Records. Following the duo's soundtrack for The Graduate, Art Garfunkel took an acting role in the film Catch-22, while Paul Simon worked on the songs, writing all tracks except Felice and Boudleaux Bryant's "Bye Bye Love" (previously a hit for the Everly Brothers).

Nominees :

Chicago by Chicago

https://dzr.page.link/93rog3WCjUTcEodn8

Close to You by Carpenters

https://dzr.page.link/KPCAoSYK1HuAu5Mi7

Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

https://dzr.page.link/N7s3M4mRyQEDARFT6

Elton John  by Elton John

Sweet Baby James by James Taylor

https://dzr.page.link/Do9j5PZ5swWNPvHQ9

Album of the Year | 1972

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Tapestry

by Carole King

Tapestry is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Carole King. Produced by Lou Adler, it was released on February 10, 1971, by Ode Records. The album's lead singles, "It's Too Late" and "I Feel the Earth Move", spent five weeks at number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts.

Nominees :

All Things Must Pass by George Harrison

https://dzr.page.link/SrKouE8w4ewAZbb46

Carpenters by Carpenters

https://dzr.page.link/VY6DcmRsLYXsMzrP7

Jesus Christ Superstar (London Production) by Various Artists

https://dzr.page.link/uGXkTEnner4DzJqT7

Shaft by Isaac Hayes

Album of the Year | 1973

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The Concert for Bangladesh

by George Harrison

The Concert for Bangladesh (originally spelt The Concert for Bangla Desh) is a live triple album credited to "George Harrison & Friends" and released on Apple Records in December 1971 in the United States and January 1972 in the United Kingdom. The album followed the two concerts of the same name, held on 1 August 1971 at New York's Madison Square Garden, featuring Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and Eric Clapton. The shows were a pioneering charity event, in aid of the displaced Bengali refugees of the Bangladesh Liberation War, and set the model for future multi-artist rock benefits such as Live Aid (1985) and the Concert for New York City (2001). The event brought Harrison and Starr together on a concert stage for the first time since 1966, when the Beatles retired from live performance, and represented Dylan's first major concert appearance in the U.S. in five years.

Nominees :

American Pie by Don McLean

Jesus Christ Superstar — Original Broadway Cast by Various Artists

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Moods by Neil Diamond

https://dzr.page.link/Gbcj2wczm4GGmnrTA

Nilsson Schmilsson by Nilsson

https://dzr.page.link/qxtgvNEHwS8iCwUv7

Album of the Year | 1974

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Innervisions

by  Stevie Wonder

Innervisions is the sixteenth studio album by American singer, songwriter, and musician Stevie Wonder, released on August 3, 1973, by Tamla, a subsidiary of Motown Records. A landmark recording of Wonder's "classic period", the album has been regarded as completing his transition from the "Little Stevie Wonder" known for romantic ballads into a more musically mature, conscious, and grown-up artist. On the album, Wonder continued to experiment with the revolutionary T.O.N.T.O. (The Original New Timbral Orchestra) synthesizer system developed by Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, and Innervisions became hugely influential on the future sound of commercial soul and black music.

Nominees :

Behind Closed Doors by Charlie Rich

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The Divine Miss M by Bette Midler

https://dzr.page.link/SwQ727M5F5wpTYtH9

Killing Me Softly With His Song by Roberta Flack

There Goes Rhymin' Simon by Paul Simon

https://dzr.page.link/PsoXrSa4PPzFNAzV8

Album of the Year | 1975

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Fulfillingness' First Finale

by   Stevie Wonder

Fulfillingness' First Finale is the seventeenth studio album by American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer Stevie Wonder, released on July 22, 1974, by Tamla, a subsidiary of Motown Records. It is the fourth of five albums from what is considered Wonder's "classic period".

The album was Wonder's second to top the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart, where it remained for two weeks, and also reached number one on the Billboard Soul LPs chart, where it spent eight non-consecutive weeks between October 5 and Christmas 1974. At the 17th Annual Grammy Awards, it won in three categories: Album of the Year (Wonder's second consecutive win in this category), Best Male Pop Vocal, and Best Male Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance (for "Boogie On Reggae Woman") at the ceremony held in 1975. Retrospectively, the album was voted number 413 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000) and included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Nominees :

Back Home Again by John Denver

https://dzr.page.link/cWFDg6NGdPRMbcP66

Band on the Run by Paul McCartney and Wings

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Caribou by Elton John

Court and Spark by Joni Mitchell

https://dzr.page.link/LphT2S4tvsaQtPteA

Album of the Year | 1976

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Still Crazy After All These Years

by Paul Simon

Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon, released on October 17, 1975, by Columbia Records. Recorded and released in 1975, the album produced four U.S. Top 40 hits: "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (No. 1), "Gone at Last" (No. 23, credited to Paul Simon/Phoebe Snow), "My Little Town" (No. 9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel), and the title track (No. 40). It won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1976.

Nominees :

Between the Lines by  Janis Ian

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Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John

https://dzr.page.link/e4siCtvUKzxZnu2U7

Heart Like a Wheel by Linda Ronstadt

One of These Nights by Eagles

https://dzr.page.link/yVh3CYBgwCagEcy57

Album of the Year | 1977

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Songs in the Key of Life

by Stevie Wonder

Songs in the Key of Life is the eighteenth studio album by American singer, songwriter and musician Stevie Wonder. A double album, it was released on September 28, 1976, by Tamla Records, a division of Motown. It was recorded primarily at Crystal Sound studio in Hollywood, with some sessions recorded at the Record Plant in Hollywood, the Record Plant in Sausalito, and The Hit Factory in New York City; final mixing was conducted at Crystal Sound.The album has been regarded by music journalists as the culmination of Wonder's "classic period" of recording.

Nominees :

Breezin' by George Benson

https://link.deezer.com/s/30mZTHuU3yF7EU2YXZNAM

Chicago X by Chicago

Frampton Comes Alive! by Peter Frampton

https://link.deezer.com/s/30mZW3VqoZH5MJFdeZQp3

 Silk Degrees by  Boz Scaggs

https://link.deezer.com/s/30mZXOaldQ8o7QQvaoB7Z

Album of the Year | 1978

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Rumours

by Fleetwood Mac

Rumours is the eleventh studio album by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 4 February 1977. The recording sessions took place as the band members dealt with breakups and struggled with heavy drug use, both of which shaped the album's direction and lyrics.

Recorded with the intention of making "a pop album" that would expand on the commercial success of the 1975 album Fleetwood Mac, Rumours contains a mix of electric and acoustic instrumentation, accented rhythms, guitars, and keyboards, with lyrics concerning personal and often troubled relationships. Its release was postponed by delays in the mixing process. The band promoted the album with a worldwide concert tour.

Nominees :

Aja by Steely Dan

https://link.deezer.com/s/30xjGKzgaJ9iYCYF5V41Z

Hotel California by Eagles

JT by James Taylor

https://link.deezer.com/s/30xjL8MM15IZW6UsGsc7M

Star Wars by John Williams

https://link.deezer.com/s/30xjMXp4Yf3EKTWA0cA1n

Album of the Year | 1979

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Saturday Night Fever – Soundtrack

Saturday Night Fever is the soundtrack double album (in 2 Long Play records) from the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta. The soundtrack was released on November 15, 1977 by RSO Records. Prior to the release of Thriller by Michael Jackson, Saturday Night Fever was the best-selling album in music history, and still ranks among the best-selling soundtrack albums worldwide, with sales figures of over 40 million copies.

Nominees :

Even Now by Barry Manilow

https://link.deezer.com/s/30HCHLXZlHE034wc2RFMA

Grease (Original Soundtrack) by Various Artists

https://link.deezer.com/s/30HCIRrfGXCmafVgdOPHt

Running on Empty by Jackson Browne

https://link.deezer.com/s/30HCL49DdXIKXXDFnVFy0

Some Girls by The Rolling Stones