S1959E1: The 1st Annual Grammy Awards
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Grammy Awards S1959E1: The 1st Annual Grammy Awards

  • Aired: 1959-05-04
  • Time: 20:00:00
  • Runtime: 210 minutes
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Overview

The 1st Annual Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959. They recognized musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1959. Two separate ceremonies were held simultaneously on the same day; the first hotel in Beverly Hills, California, and the second in the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City. Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Domenico Modugno, Ross Bagdasarian, and Henry Mancini, each won 2 awards.

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