Today in 1971 The Grammy Awards for the year in music 1970 were held in Los Angeles California at the Hollywood Paladium and hosted by Andy Williams.
The BIG winner was Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel.
They took home Record of the Year (Performer), Song of the Year (writer/producer Paul Simon), Album of the Year, Contemporary (Rock) Song of the Year,Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) and Best Engineered Recording (Roy Halee).
This video clip is very cool because it is one of the only times Simon and Garfunkel performed this song together before their breakup. They had recorded the song in there own studios and had it mixed together and basically refused to be together at this point. In the clip from that years Grammy's you could sense the tension between them but the managed to seem like a team for the show.
The other big hit at the 1971 Grammy awards was Ray Stevens and his #1 hit Everything is Beautiful, which was nominated for all the major awards and lost to Simon and Garfunkel. He did however win Contemporary Male Vocalist of the Year and Best Sacred Performance.
The Beatles took home a Grammy Award in 1971 for Best Original Score written for a Motion Picture or Television Special with Let It Be
Best New Artist Grammy and Contemporary Vocal Group - The Carpenters
On the Country side, Ray Price won for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male with his hit For The Good Times
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female was Lynn Anderson for Rose Garden
Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group was Johnny Cash/June Carter with
If I Were a Carpenter
Best R&B Song went to General Johnson & Ronald Dunbar (songwriters) for Patches performed by Clarence Carter
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