Another Salute to Grammy Winning Songs

Well, this week all the public television stations will air the Salute to Grammy Winning Songs episode from '74.

Which leads me to today's post, if the Music Makers aired another episode of that same theme, which Grammy songs would they cover?

I think it would go something like this.....

1. UP UP AND AWAY (1968 Song of the Year) - Gail, Mary Lou, Cissy, Ralna, Dick, Ken, Bobby & Guy
2. THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS (1960 Song of the Year) - Clay Hart on guitar
3. SEXYBACK (2007 Best Dance Recording) - the orchestra
4. DON'T KNOW WHY (2003 Female Pop Vocal Performance) - Tanya Falan
5. JUST THE TWO OF US (1982 Best R&B Song) - Guy Hovis & Ralna English
6. FREEWAY OF LOVE (1986 Best R&B song) - orchestra featuring Henry Cuesta on clarinet solo
7. ME AND MRS. JONES (1973 Best Male R&B Vocal) - Jimmy Roberts
8. YOU OUGHTA KNOW (1996 Best Rock Song) - Sandi Griffiths, Gail Farrell and Mary Lou Metzger
9. BLACK HOLE SUN (1995 Best Hard Rock Performance) - Myron Floren on accordion

11. BILLIE JEAN (1984 Best Male R&B Vocal) - Joe Feeney with Bob Ralston at the Thomas Organ
12. COPACABANA "AT THE COPA" (1978 Best Male Pop Performance) - Anacani
13. LIGHT MY FIRE (1969 Best Male Pop Performance) - Buddy Merrill and Neil Levang at guitar
14. IF YOU LEAVE ME NOW (1977 Best Pop Performance by a duo or group) - Norma Zimmer
15. JUMP JIVE AN' WAIL (1999 Best Pop Performance by a duo or group) - Bobby Burgess and Cissy King dancing
16. MIAMI VICE THEME (1986 Best Pop Instrumental) - the orchestra
17. WHEN I FALL IN LOVE (1997 Best Pop Collaboration with vocals) - Dick Dale and Gail Farrell
18. SHUT UP AND KISS ME (1995 Best Female Country Performance) - Ava Barber
19. NEVER KNEW LOVE LIKE THIS BEFORE (1981 Best R&B Song) - Gail, Sandi, Mary Lou, Anacani, Cissy, Dick, Ken, Joe, Clay and Jimmy

 

Another Salute to Grammy Winning Songs

Salute to Grammy Award Winning Songs

Ah....the Grammies, they are the awards given out to the music industry's best, so they say.

If so, how do you explain recording legends like Milli Vanilli, Zack Braff and Senator Everett Dirksen listed as Grammy winners?

But that's for another time, this week the Champagne Music Makers salute the Grammy's best in this 1974 episode!

Highlights include Ralna and Lawrence sharing a dance....

....Jack Imel doing his version of the Sermon on the Mount

....and the Musical Family pretending they're Bob Havens

GRAMMY AWARD WINNING SONGS - January 5, 1974

1. COME TO THE CABARET - Larry (Hooper), Bobby, Cissy, Mary Lou, Anacani, Gail, Ken & Arthur
2. PUT YOUR HAND IN THE HAND - Guy Hovis & Ralna English
3. I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU - orchestra featuring the saxophone section
4. MICHELLE - Ken Delo
5. THEME FROM EXODUS - orchestra conducted by George Cates featuring Bob Smale and Bob Ralston at piano

6. LES BICYCLETTES DE BELSIZE - Anacani with Bob Ralston at the organ
7. STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT - Tom Netherton
8. WHAT NOW MY LOVE - danced by Bobby Burgess and Cissy King
9. PEOPLE - Tanya Falan

10. MOON RIVER - Norma Zimmer
11. GAMES PEOPLE PLAY - orchestra featuring Neil Levang on guitar, Henry Cuesta on clarinet, Russ Klein on saxophone and Bob Havens on trombone
12. LITTLE GREEN APPLES - Clay Hart
13. CATCH A FALLING STAR - Dick Dale with Cissy, Mary Lou (Metzger), Tanya, Norma, Sandi (Griffiths), Gail (Farrell) and Anacani

14. ROSE GARDEN - Ralna English featuring a little dance with Lawrence
15. MACK THE KNIFE - danced by Arthur Duncan
16. MORE - Jimmy Roberts
17. MEDLEY OF MEREDITH WILSON SONGS FROM THE MUSIC MAN
     a) SEVENTY SIX TROMBONES - the orchestra
     b) GARY, INDIANA - danced by Bobby and Cissy
     c) TIL' THERE WAS YOU - Joe Feeney
     d) (YA' GOT) TROUBLE - Jack Imel with entire cast
     e) SEVENTY SIX TROMBONES REPRISE - Jack, Mary Lou, Arthur, Dick, Sandi, Tanya, Ken, Guy, Ralna, Norma, Jimmy, Joe, Gail

A wunnerful episode in my opinion, based on the fact that the songs featured were actually those well deserved of winning the Grammy.

That meant you didn't hear them sing Milli Vanilli's "Girl You Know It's True" although it would have sounded better....and it was actually sung!

Also, maybe this episode should have been called "Forever Plaid" considering an outbreak of plaid on the set......

And our own Clay Hart was nominated for a Grammy back in 1969, for his album "Spring". He would be a well deserving winner, but lost out to another well deserved artist, Johnny Cash.
 
So until next week, keep a song in your heart and if you haven't won a Grammy, just blame it on the rain.

Salute to Grammy Award Winning Songs

The Soapbox: Grammies? We don't need no stinkin' Grammies!

I found out about this from Mike who runs the NotionsCapital blog...

NARAS ELIMINATES POLKA CATEGORY FOR GRAMMY AWARDS

It's official folks, the Grammy Awards are now officially irrelevant.

When it first started back in 1958, their intentions were good....honoring the best in music, not just what's popular but artistic in terms of quality.

Now it's just a stinkin' popularity contest.

Their excuse is that the awards should reflect the tastes in popular music, granted that polka caters to a smaller audience and demographic (or niche audience)....in my opinion, niche matters, it what makes an award show...and life in general, unique, fun and interesting.

Face it, what do expect from an organization that once awarded the Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance to freakin' Jethro Tull for Christ sake?

Or that gave the Grammy for Best New Artist to lip synchin' Milli Vanilli?

I have no use for the Grammy awards anymore.

The Soapbox: Grammies? We don't need no stinkin' Grammies!