Louisiana Music at the Grammys


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Louisiana Music at the Grammy Awards
Louisiana Grammy Award Nominees and Winners - winners noted by [w]

Artist(s)	Category	Title
1970 - 13th Annual GRAMMY Awards - held March 16, 1971 [1] [2]
no nominees
1971 - 14th Annual GRAMMY Awards - held March 14, 1972 [3] [4] [5]
Jean Knight	Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance, Female	Mr. Big Stuff
Floyd Cramer	Best Country Instrumental	For The Good Times
Jerry Kennedy	Best Country Instrumental	With All Due Respect to Kris Kristofferson
1972 - 15th Annual GRAMMY Awards - held on March 3, 1973
Merry Clayton	Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance, Female	Oh No, Not My Baby
Joe Simon	Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance, Male	Drowning In the Sea of Love
Jerry Lee Lewis	Best Country Vocal Performance, Male	Chantilly Lace
Little Brother Montgomery, Roosevelt Sykes, et al	Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording	Blues Piano Orgy
1973 - 16th Annual GRAMMY Awards - held March 2, 1974 [6] [7]
Leadbelly	Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording	Recorded In Concert
King Curtis & Champion Jack Dupree	Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording	Blues at Montreux
1974 - 17th Annual GRAMMY Awards - held March 1, 1975
Floyd Cramer	Best Country Instrumental Performance	The Young and the Restless
1975 - 18th Annual GRAMMY Awards - held February 28, 1976
Shirley & Company (Shirley Goodman)	Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance, Female	Shame, Shame, Shame
1976 - 19th Annual GRAMMY Awards - held February 19, 1977
Joe Simon	Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance, Male	I Need You, You Need Me
Floyd Cramer	Best Country Instrumental Performance	I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
Mahalia Jackson [w]	Best Soul Gospel Performance	How I Got Over
1977 - 20th Annual GRAMMY Awards - held February 23, 1978
Allen Toussaint	Song of the Year	Southern Nights
Chet Atkins, Danny Davis, Floyd Cramer	Best Country Instrumental Performance	Chet, Floyd And Danny
1978 - 21st Annual GRAMMY Awards - held February 15, 1979 [8]
Toto [9]	Best New Artist	n/a
Clifton Chenier	Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording	In New Orleans
1979 - 22nd Annual GRAMMY Awards - held February 27, 1980
Hank Williams, Jr.	Best Country & Western Vocal Performance, Male	Family Tradition (album)
Floyd Cramer	Best Country Instrumental Performance	In Concert
Lonnie Brooks, etc.	Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording	Living Chicago Blues
Various Artists	Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording	10th New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

Notes:

1. Performers at the 13 Annual GRAMMY Awards included Hank Williams Jr. Hank performed Merle Haggard’s "The Fightin' Side of Me".

2. "Rainy Night in Georgia" by Brook Benton was nominated for Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Male. The song was written by Tony Joe White.

3. Nominees for Best Album Notes included "The Genius of Louis Armstrong" (Don De Micheal, album notes writer) and "Louis Armstrong July 4, 1900 - July 6, 1971" (Nat Hentoff, album notes writer).

4. Nominees for Best Rhythm & Blues Song included "Mr. Big Stuff" (Joseph Broussard, Carrol Washington & Ralph Williams, songwriters).

5. Duke Ellington's "New Orleans Suite" won the Grammny for Best Jazz Performance By A Big Band. It was also nominated for Best Instrumental Composition. The suite was commissioned by George Wein for the 1970 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

6. Host Andy Williams announced the launch of the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame at the 16th Annual GRAMMY Awards with the first five inductees. They included "West End Blues" by Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five.

7. Paul Simon's "There Goes Rhymin' Simon" was nominated for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male. Allen Toussaint provided horn arrangements for the track "Tenderness". The Onward Brass Band provided horns on "Take Me to the Mardi Gras".

8. The single "The Pink Panther Theme (78)" from the Revenge of the Pink Panther soundtrack was nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Performance at the 21st Annual GRAMMY Awards. The track featured the distinctive tenor saxophone of Plas Johnson. The soundtrack album was nominated for Best Album Of Original Score Written For A Motion Picture or A Television Special.

9. Members of Toto included vocalist and Vinton, Louisiana native Bobby Kimball.

Louisiana Music at the Grammy Awards