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πŸ’ΏπŸŽΆπŸ† GRAMMY Award for Album of the Year - Winners


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An overview of the GRAMMY Awards

for the Album of the Year

 

 

The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is an award presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales, chart position, or critical reception." Commonly known as "The Big Award", Album of the Year is the most prestigious award category at the Grammy Awards, and is one of the four general field categories alongside Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year that have been presented annually since the 1st Annual Grammy Awards in 1959.

Album of the Year is awarded for a whole album, and the award is presented to the artist, songwriter, producer, recording engineer, and mastering engineer for that album. In this context, "album" means a recorded collection of songs (a multi-track LP, CD, or download package), not the individual songs or their compositions.

 

 

 

In this topic I will present through decades the Albums that won the
Grammy Award for Album of the Year and which you can find on Deezer.
I will also mention the albums who was nominated for Album of the Year .
Album of the Year will be published in a thread during the following period .

 

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I hope you will like the topic and you will get to know all the winning and nominated albums better !?

Maybe you will hear for some of them for the first time in your life  πŸ˜‰


 

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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 FitzgeraldPaul 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

 


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2001

Foo Fighters

There is nothing left to loose

 

 


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1978 -  Rumours (Fleetwood Mac)
 

 


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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 

https://dzr.page.link/BqaXGqeieP6wYPfs6

 

 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


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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

https://dzr.page.link/PNkwnMasxNS3P8nQ9

 

 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


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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

 


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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 GetzCharlie 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


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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.

 

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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


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Album of the Year | 1965

 

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Getz/Gilberto 

 

by Stan GetzJoΓ£o 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

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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

 


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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.

 

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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 & HammersteinJulie Andrews

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