Date 4 May 1959 Host Mort Sahl | Network ABC Other ceremonies 1959 | |
Location Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles & New York |
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; the first in Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills California, and the second in the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City. Count Basie, Domenico Modugno, Henry Mancini, Ella Fitzgerald and Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. each won 2 awards.
Contents
Award winners
The following awards were given in the first award ceremony:
Children's
Comedy
Composing and arranging
Country
Jazz
Musical show
Packaging and notes
Pop
Production and engineering
R&B
Spoken
References
1st Annual Grammy Awards Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA