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Grammy Award for Album of the Year
The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is one of the most prestigious award category at the Grammys. It has been awarded since 1959 and though it was originally presented to the artist alone, the award is now presented to the artist, the producer, the engineer and/or mixer and the mastering...
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The Music from Peter Gunn
The Music from Peter Gunn is a 1959 album by Henry Mancini (RCA LPM/LSP-1956). It was the first album ever to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1959. It was followed by 'More Music from "Peter Gunn"' (RCA LPM/LSP-2040).
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Come Dance With Me!
Come Dance with Me! is an album by the American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1959 .
It was the most successful album of Frank Sinatra's career, spending two and a half years on the Billboard charts. Stereo Review wrote in 1959 that "Sinatra...
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The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart
The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart is a 1960 live album by comedian Bob Newhart. The debut album by Newhart, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard Pop Album chart, topping an album by Elvis Presley and the cast album of The Sound of Music.
It won...
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Judy at Carnegie Hall
Judy at Carnegie Hall is a two-record live recording of a concert by Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall in New York.
This concert appearance, on the night of April 23, 1961, has been called "the greatest night in show business history".
The double album...
The First Family
The First Family is a comedy album recorded on October 22, 1962, as a good-natured parody of President John F. Kennedy, both as Commander-in-Chief and as a member of a large, well-known political family. Issued by Cadence Records,It was honored as...
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The Barbra Streisand Album
The Barbra Streisand Album is the title of Streisand's debut solo studio album. Released on February 25, 1963 in the United States, it contained her interpretations of eleven pop standards. The album was very well received, critically and...
Getz/Gilberto
Getz/Gilberto, is a jazz bossa nova album released in 1964 by the American saxophonist Stan Getz and the Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto, and featuring composer and musician Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Its release created a bossa nova craze in the...
September of My Years
September of My Years is an album by Frank Sinatra, released in October 1965, that is often considered one of his best.
The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and Sinatra's version of "It Was a Very Good Year" won the Grammy Award for...
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A Man and His Music
A Man and His Music is a 1965 (see 1965 in music) double album by Frank Sinatra. It provides a brief retrospective of Sinatra's musical career. It won the 1967 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
Instead of using the original recordings, which were...
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by English rock band The Beatles. Released in the UK on 1 June 1967, it became a defining album in the emerging psychedelic rock style; it has since been recognised by prominent...
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By the Time I Get to Phoenix
By the Time I Get to Phoenix is the 7th album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1967 (see 1967 in music).
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Singles - Billboard (United States)
The album By the Time I Get to...
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Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears is the 1969 self-titled second album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears.
After the critical success of the first album, bandleader Al Kooper and two other members left the group. Bobby Colomby and Steve Katz searched for a...
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Bridge Over Troubled Water
Bridge Over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel. Released on January 26, 1970, it reached No. 1 on Billboard Music Charts pop albums list. It won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, as well as for Best...
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Tapestry
Tapestry is a pop album by singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1971. It features minimal production by Lou Adler. Tapestry was ranked US number 1 for 15 weeks, which is the longest time for an album by a female to occupy that position, and...
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The Concert for Bangla Desh
The Concert for Bangladesh (originally titled The Concert for Bangla Desh) is a live triple album and double DVD by George Harrison and celebrity friends performed in aid of the homeless Bengali refugees of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War....
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Innervisions
Innervisions is an album by Stevie Wonder, released on Tamla/Motown on August 3, 1973 (see 1973 in music). A landmark recording, it was the third of five consecutive albums widely hailed as his "classic period", along with Music of My Mind, Talking...
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Fulfillingness' First Finale
Fulfillingness' First Finale is a landmark album by Stevie Wonder, released on July 22, 1974. It was the fourth of five consecutive albums widely hailed as his "classic period", along with Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, and Songs in...
Still Crazy After All These Years
Still Crazy After All These Years is a studio album by Paul Simon. Recorded in 1975, the album produced four US Top 40 hits, "Gone at Last" (#23), "My Little Town" (#9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel), "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" (#1) and the title...
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Songs in the Key of Life
Songs in the Key of Life is an album by American musician Stevie Wonder, released on Motown on September 28, 1976 (see 1976 in music). It was the last of five consecutive albums widely hailed as his "classic period" along with Music of My Mind,...
Rumours
Rumours is the eleventh album by British and American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1977. It was the second album recorded with this line-up, following the successful self-titled Fleetwood Mac album in 1975. In December 1976, prior to the...
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Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track is the soundtrack album from the blockbuster film Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta. In the United States, the album was certified 15x Platinum for shipments of over 15 million copies....
52nd Street
52nd Street is the sixth studio album by Billy Joel, released in 1978. It was also the first of many Joel albums to top the Billboard charts, along with his third and fourth Grammy win. (see 1978 in music). 52nd Street also became, in 1982, the...
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Christopher Cross
Christopher Cross is the self-titled debut album by Christopher Cross, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music). In 1981, it won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. It has been noted for being one of the most influential soft rock albums of the...
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Double Fantasy
Double Fantasy is the comeback album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, released in 1980 initially on the newly-formed Geffen Records, and then from 1989 onwards through EMI. It is notable for being John Lennon's last authorised release, released only...
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Toto IV
Toto IV is the fourth studio album by American pop rock band Toto. It was released in 1982 (see 1982 in music).
The album was awarded with six Grammy Awards, including "Record of the Year" for "Rosanna", "Album of the Year" for Toto IV, and ...
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Thriller
Thriller is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. The album was released on November 30, 1982 by Epic Records as the follow-up to Jackson's critically and commercially successful 1979 album Off the Wall. Thriller...
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Can't Slow Down
Can't Slow Down is the title of Lionel Richie's second solo album, which was released on October 11, 1983. The album reached #1 on the Billboard album chart on December 3, 1983, where it stayed for three weeks. It also spent 59 consecutive weeks...
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No Jacket Required
No Jacket Required is the third solo album by English singer-songwriter Phil Collins, released on 25 January 1985. The album was named after an incident at The Pump Room in Chicago, where Collins was denied admittance to the establishment because of...
Graceland
Graceland is an album released by Paul Simon in 1986. It was a hit in the UK topping the charts at #1. It also reached #3 in the US. The album won the Album of the Year Grammy award, while the title song won the Record of the Year Grammy award, for...
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The Joshua Tree
The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by Irish rock band U2, released 9 March 1987 on Island Records. Recording took place from July to November 1986 at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin. The album features the band's exploration of roots rock,...
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Faith
Faith is George Michael's first solo album, released in October 1987 via Columbia Records/Epic Records. The album is widely considered one of the greatest albums in pop music history, and won several awards including the Grammy Award for Album of...
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Nick of Time
Nick of Time is the tenth blues rock album by Bonnie Raitt, released on March 21, 1989.
Nick of Time topped the Billboard 200 chart, selling five million copies, and won three Grammy Awards, including Album Of The Year. In 2003, the album was ranked...
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Back on the Block
Back on the Block is a 1989 Grammy Award-winning studio album produced by the American music impresario, conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter Quincy Jones. It features many famous and important musicians and...
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Unforgettable... with Love
Unforgettable... with Love is a 1991 album by Natalie Cole, which focuses on covers of standards previously performed by Cole's father, Nat King Cole. Her uncle Ike Cole plays piano on the album.
The album was certified seven times platinum by the...
Unplugged
Unplugged is an album by Eric Clapton released in 1992. It was recorded live in England for the MTV Unplugged series and includes acoustic versions of both the hit single "Tears in Heaven" and a heavily reworked "Layla". Clapton earned three Grammy...
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The Bodyguard
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MTV Unplugged
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Jagged Little Pill
Jagged Little Pill is the third studio album (and the first to be released internationally) by Canadian singer–songwriter Alanis Morissette. The album made a sharp turn in genre and style for Morissette from her previous dance pop sound. As detailed...
Time Out of Mind
Time Out of Mind is Bob Dylan's 30th studio album, released in 1997 by Columbia Records. It was his first double studio album (as it was released on vinyl - it was released also as a single CD) since 1970's Self Portrait.
For fans and critics, the...
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Falling into You
Falling into You is an album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released on March 8, 1996. It is her fourth English-language album and twenty-first overall. Falling into You was well received by critics and fans, winning two Grammy Awards for Best Pop...
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is the debut solo studio album by Lauryn Hill. Released August 25, 1998, the album swept the Grammy Awards in 1999, being nominated for 10 and winning five, including Album of the Year. As of 2009, the album has sold...
Supernatural
Supernatural is a 1999 concept album by Santana. It went 15 times platinum in the US and won nine Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year as well as three Latin Grammy Awards including Record of the Year.
The album, conceived by Clive Davis and A...
Two Against Nature
Two Against Nature is an album by Steely Dan, released in 2000. The album won the group four Grammy Awards including Album of the Year, and marked the first major collaboration between Walter Becker and Donald Fagen since the album Gaucho, released...
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the soundtrack of music from the 2000 American comedy film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, written, directed and produced by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman....
Come Away With Me
Come Away with Me is the debut album of pianist and singer Norah Jones, released February 26, 2002 on Blue Note Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at New York City's Sorcerer Sound Studio and Shokan's Allaire Studios in 2001....
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Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is a double album by American hip hop duo OutKast, released September 23, 2003 on LaFace Records. Clocking at over two hours and a quarter, it includes a solo album from both of the group's members. Speakerboxxx has Big...
Genius Loves Company
Genius Loves Company is the final studio album by rhythm and blues and soul musician Ray Charles, released August 31, 2004 posthumously on Concord Records. Recording sessions for the album took place throughout June 2003 to March 2004. The album...
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How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is the eleventh studio album by Irish rock band U2, released in November 2004. Much like their previous album, All That You Can't Leave Behind, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb was commercially successful and...
Taking the Long Way
Taking the Long Way is the multiple Grammy Award-winning seventh studio album by the American Country female band Dixie Chicks. It was released on May 23, 2006 in the U.S. and on June 12 2006 worldwide. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200....
River: The Joni Letters
River: The Joni Letters is the 2008 Grammy-winning album by Herbie Hancock. His 47th studio album, it was released on September 25, 2007 by Verve Records. The tribute album is an homage to Joni Mitchell, a longtime associate and friend of Hancock....
Raising Sand
Raising Sand is a collaboration album by rock singer Robert Plant and bluegrass-country singer Alison Krauss. It was released on October 23, 2007 by Rounder Records. Raising Sand won Album of the Year at the 2009 Grammy Awards.
The two songs written...
