1st Annual Grammy Awards

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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: one in the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, and the other 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]

1st Annual Grammy Awards
DateMay 4th, 1959
LocationBeverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California, and Park Sheraton Hotel, New York, New York
Hosted byMort Sahl
Television/radio coverage
NetworkNBC
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Award winners

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

General

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

Children's

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Comedy

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Composing and arranging

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Country

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Jazz

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Musical show

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Packaging and notes

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Production and engineering

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Spoken

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References

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  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. Archived from the original on 18 November 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  3. ^ "1958 Grammy Winners". Grammy.com. Retrieved 29 May 2022.