The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards are Sunday night. And every Grammy Awards ceremony brings recollections of how little respect the Beatles received, especially early in their career.
For example, in 1964, they won Best New Group (over Petula Clark, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto and Morgana King.) and Best Performance By A Vocal Group for "A Hard Day's Night." But here's what they didn't get:
- They lost a nomination for "I Want to Hold Your Hand" for Record of the Year to Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto's "The Girl From Ipanema.")
- Paul McCartney and John Lennon lost a Songwriter's Award for "A Hard Day's Night" to "Hello, Dolly!"
- They lost Best Rock and Roll Recording for "A Hard Day's Night" to Petula Clark's "Downtown"
- They lost Best Original Score Written For a Motion Picture or TV Show, again for "A Hard Day's Night" to "Mary Poppins".
There's a long string of these awards they lost out to questionable choices. The most extreme example was in 1966 when both "Eleanor Rigby" AND the Beach Boys "Good Vibrations" lost Best Contemporary Rock 'n' Roll Recording to ... "Winchester Cathedral" by the New Vaudeville Band.
You can find a complete history of the Beatles' Grammy Award wins and losses at my Abbeyrd Beatles Page site.
Comments
Well...as much as I love the Beatles and their music,not to mention AHDN, it's hard to fault an award given to Mary Poppins.
The others, though...hard to figure.
In the 60s the Grammy's for the most part went to "established" long-time acts. The voters were, uh, different. Rock/pop was quite new and wasn't music to be taken seriously. It was all about Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, et.al. But even so....there's no excuse for The Beatles not winning much more than they did. Musically, they were the 60s. They had 20 #1 singles and not one seemingly was deemed important/good enough to win Record of The Year?? I mean in '68 "Little Green Apples" and not "Hey Jude??" That pretty much says it all. They have at least five of the greatest albums of all time. And only one album of the Year? Please. There was some jealousy to be sure when it came to The Beatles. The voters came to love Simon and Garfunkel, however. They were Grammy darlings. The fact that The Beatles didn't win more often speaks volumes about the Grammy's, not The Beatles. How seriously can we take these "awards?" Not very.
Unbedamnlievable!
Clearly, the world was not ready for the Beatles....
but we go ready REAL QUICK.
But on the rock memorabilia site itsonlyrocknroll.com reported a few years ago that The Beatles won 20 prestigious Ivor Novello awards as singer song writers in just an 8 year recording career! John and Paul were awarded the first one as early as early 1964!
I do not agree.For example in Japan, who won the largest number of awards: Japanese artists and band.
In France, who won the largest number of awards: French artists and band.
And in Usa, it's Us artists and band.
Excuse me, but The Beatles weren't an American group.
But look in England: Between 1963 and 1970, The Beales have received 15 Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. (an average of almost 2 Ivor Novello Awards per year)
But i don't understand this article: Concerning Usa, why you don't count all the awards won by The Beatles:
In Usa, The Beatles won 1 TRUSTEES AWARD (1972), 14 GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Award, 17 Grammy Awards, 1 Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, 1 National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Presidents' Award, 1 The Beatles' Academy Awards.
Miriam I think said it best. The world just wasn't ready for The Beatles. Now I'm humming Winchester Cathedral.
Excuse me my friend "THEBEATLESARESTILLTHEGREATESTROCKBANDEVER!"
Between 1963 and 1970, The Beatles have received 15 Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.
March 3, 1964: 5 Ivor Novello awards
The same day : 2 awards from the Duke of Edinburgh.
July 13, 1965: 5 Ivor Novello awards
July 12, 1966: 3 Ivor Novello awards
March 25, 1967: 2 Ivor Novello awards
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- 1965: Silberner Bravo Otto
- 1966: Goldener Bravo Otto
- 1967: Silberner Bravo Otto
- 1968: Silberner Bravo Otto
- 1969: Silberner Bravo Otto
- 1970: Goldener Bravo Otto
But between 1963-1970, the music industry weren't developped like today: Between 1971-2009, Paul McCartney won more awards than The Beatles:
1971 : < Grammy : Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey >
- 1973 : < Best song to a movie : Live and let die >
- 1974 : < Grammy : Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus for Band On The Run >
- 1976 : < Song of the year : Silly love songs wins the price of best song in 1976.>
- 1979 : < Most succesful popular music composer of all time Paul is honoured by The Guinness Book Of Records with a unique rhodium disc to mark his official standing as the most successful popular music composer of all time. >
- 1979 : < Best Rock Instrumental Performance (with Wings)>
- 1980 : 1 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for "Rockestra Theme" from the LP Back To The Egg.
- 1983 : < Best British Male Solo Artist >
1983 : < The Sony Award For Technical Excellence >
- 1983 : < Best music-video : The video for the Pipes Of Peace single wins the BPI Best Video award. >
- 1984 : < Freedom of the city of Liverpool award : Paul is awarded the Freedom of The City Of Liverpool.>
- 1984 : < Best soundtrack : Give my regards to broad street >
- 1984 : < Golden Globe : Original Song (for No More Lonely Nights) >
- 1985 : < Best Selling Video Award : Ruport and the frog song got the biggest selling video award
- 1986 : < McCartney was honored with the Award of Merit at the American Music Awards. >
- 1988 : < Silver Clef award : Paul is awarded an honorary doctorate by Sussex University and honoured with Music Therapy's Silver Clef award. >
- 1990 : < The Q Awards : Merit Award >
- 1997 : < The Q Awards : Songwriter Award >
- 1990 : < Paul McCartney is given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. >
- 1992 : < Nobel price : Paul is named the world's first recipient of the Swedish Polar Music
- 1993 : < Award of Merit >
- 1996 : < Animal award : Paul and Linda are honoured by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals with a special achievement award for their work to promote care of animals.>
- 1997 : < Knight of the British Empire >
- 1998 : < Horizon award : < Paul wins the USA's National Public Radio New Horizon Award for Standing Stone and in recognition of his work to broaden the appeal of classical music.>
- 1999 : < Composer of the Millenium : Paul is voted "The Composer of the Millennium" in a poll conducted by the BBC, getting more votes than Mozart, Bach and Beethoven and beating contemporaries including Frank Zappa, Prince, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan. >
- 1999 : < Paul McCartney is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the fourteenth annual induction dinner.>
- 2000 : < Ivor Novello award : At the annual Ivor Novello Awards in London, Paul is honoured with Britain's highest award for a songwriter - the first Fellowship of the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters. >
- 2001 : < Golden Globe : Original Song (for Vanilla Sky) >
- 2002 : < Peace award : January 2002; in recognition of his lifetime support for the freedom-fighting organisation, Amnesty International presents Paul with a special award at a ceremony in New York. The award recognises Paul's efforts to try right wrongs through his protest songs, from the black civil rights song 'Blackbird' in the Sixties through to Freedom four decades on. >
- 2003 : < EMMY® AWARD-WINNING CONCERT IN RED SQUARE >
- 2008 : < McCartney was honored with the Lifetime Achivement Award at the Brit Awards. >
- 2008 : 1 award : < McCartney was presented with the Ultimate Legend Award, created especially for him, by U2 frontman Bono, who compared him to the pope and described his work as "immortal" >
That's why the award should be called "The Granny's" and not the "Grammy's" They reward music only your granny could love - fine examples Winchester Cathedral & Hello Dolly.
(The Beatles are beyond awards: Mozart won zero award)
More important: In the Worldwide and during the twentieth century the most covered songs are the Beatles'songs
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