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• John Billings devised a custom zinc alloy he called grammium, of which he uses about 6,000 lbs. (2,721 kg) a year to create the Grammys. It takes about 15 hours to produce each of the five-pound (2.27 kg) awards in Billings’ 2,000-square-foot studio. Each award is cast from three different molds – the base, the gramophone cabinet, and the tone arm. After casting, the cabinet and arm are plated in 24-karat gold.

• The trophy that each artist receives at the televised broadcast is actually a “stunt” Grammy that is re-used each year. Because the winners aren’t known at the time of production, after the announcement of the winners, Billings and his crew engrave the brass plates (including a unique serial number for authenticity), and affix to the base of the actual trophies. The awards are then boxed and personally hand-delivered to Los Angeles by John Billings.

• The first Awards ceremony was held in 1959, recognizing performers from 1958 in 28 different categories. The big winners that year with three awards apiece were Ella Fitzgerald and Ross Bagdasarian. Bagdasarian, also known as David Seville, was the creator of Alvin & The Chipmunks, who captured those awards for “Christmas, Don’t Be Late.” Other winners included Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Peggy Lee, and Count Basie.

• The second Awards ceremony was the first to be presented on television, although not as a live program. In fact, the Grammys were not aired live until 1971. Bobby Darin was the Best New Artist of 1959 at the second ceremony, as well as winning Record of the Year with “Mack the Knife.” Frank Sinatra took Album of the Year. Ray Charles

was the big winner the following year, collecting four awards.

• Every year, the Recording Academy receives more than 20,000 entries to be considered for a Grammy. If a recording meets all of the eligibility requirements, it is then voted on by the Academy’s voting members, with those votes resulting in the nominations. Voting members must not be swayed by the entry’s success on the charts, sales, or personal friendships. Voters are those who have been credited on at least six commercially-released tracks, and include vocalists, conductors, songwriters, composers, producers, arrangers, and others involved in a release. Media companies are not allowed to vote.

• From the initial 28 awards, the total has grown to 30 fields with 84 categories within those fields. To be eligible for this year’s awards, the recording must be released anytime from October 1, 2018 to August 31, 2019.

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“When Woodrow proposed to me,” President Woodrow Wilson’s second wife, Edith Bolling Galt, once recalled, “I was so surprised that I nearly fell out of bed.” It is interesting to note that Woodrow and Edith married nine months after their first meeting (by chance) at the White House. NOTE: After a disabling stroke, Wilson spent the last seventeen months of his second term lying or dozing in the White House, unable to carry out his duties.

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• The idea for Snow White was planted in Walt Disney’s brain when he was just a 15-year-old Kansas City newsboy. In 1916, the youth viewed a short silent film version of the story and visualized it on the big screen. When Disney’s film was released in 1937, it was the first full-length animated feature film produced in America, as well as the first produced in full color.

• With an original budget of $250,000, the projected total was ten times that of the budget of Disney’s Silly Symphonies shorts. Disney was ridiculed for believing it could be successful, and even his wife was unsupportive. Walt mortgaged his house to pay for the movie, which, in the end, exceeded $1.4 million. But his gamble proved to be a good one, as the film held the title of highest-grossing film for a year, before it was displaced by Gone with the Wind. Snow White does continue to be the highest-grossing animated film, adjusted for inflation. Walt used the profits to buy 51 acres of land to build Disney Studios, still in use today.

• It took about three years for 750 artists to create the more than 2 million sketches that went into the movie. Walt Disney was adamant about realistic forest creatures, and brought live animals into the studio for the artists to study.

• Lucille LaVerne was chosen to voice the Wicked Queen, but during production, was told by the animators that they needed an older, raspier voice for the Old Witch. Lucille left the recording booth momentarily and when she returned, the voice of the witch was perfect. How did she do it? She took her teeth out!

• Adriana Caselotti, the voice of Snow White, received $970 for her work (about $17,000 in today’s dollars). Because Disney wanted to keep the character’s voice special and unique, Caselotti’s contract restricted the 19-year-old from ever acting in films again. Because she was a classically-trained singer, she went into the field of opera. She did, however, continue to voice Snow White on several occasions, including a recording for the wishing well at Disneyland when she was 75 years old.

• The mystical voice of the Magic Mirror was achieved by the voice actor, Moroni Olsen, speaking his lines wearing a box frame covered with old drum heads over his head. The voices of both Grumpy and Sleepy

were provided by Pinto Colvig, who also voiced Pluto and Goofy in other Disney productions, as well as Bozo the Clown.

• Twenty-five songs were written for the film, but that number was whittled down to just eight. The movie was nominated for Best Musical Score at the 1938 Academy Awards.

• Can you name the seven little men? They were Grumpy, Sneezy, Sleepy, Doc, Dopey, Bashful, and Happy. However, there were at least 50 other names suggested during the initial phase, including Blabby, Gaspy, Crabby, Flabby, Scrappy, Sniffy, Biggy-Wiggy, and Wheezy. At the last minute, Sneezy was selected over Deefy.

• The original plan for the silent Dopey was for him to be a gabby little dwarf with the voice of Mel Blanc, but the producers had trouble finding a voice that seemed quite right. To avoid what they deemed wrong, Dopey became the silent one. Dopey’s slow footsteps on a creaky floor were created by Walt’s brother, Roy, who slowly bent a leather wallet back and forth.

• Although Snow White ends up with Prince Charming, she never interacts with him in the movie, in fact, never even talks to him. The Prince is only seen a little bit more than two minutes in the entire film.

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• There’s a difference between Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Record of the Year recognizes the artist, the producer, recording engineers, and sound mixers, while Song of the Year honors the songwriter.

• You’ve probably never heard of the Grammy record-holder with the most awards. Nominated 74 times, Sir Georg Solti, who was conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 22 years, won 31 Grammys, more than any other recording artist in any category. Jazz legend Quincy Jones has had more nominations than any other artist, with 80, winning 28 of those awards.

• The honor of the most Grammys by a female artist belongs to bluegrass singer and fiddler Alison Krauss, who has captured 27 awards from her 42 nominations. Her first award was in 1990 for the Best Bluegrass Recording for “I’ve Got That Old Feeling,” but perhaps her best-known achievement was her music for the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?,” which earned the Album of the Year.

• In 1984, Michael Jackson set a record for the most wins in a single night, with eight trophies, knocking out the previous record-holder, Paul Simon, who had seven wins in 1971.

The group Santana tied Jackson’s record in 2000. Only eight artists have won six or more Grammys in one night, including Adele, Eric Clapton, and Beyonce.

• Stevland Hardaway Judkins, better known as Stevie Wonder, won 14 Grammy Awards between 1974 and 1977. His total to date is 25 wins from 74 nominations. Wonder is one of just three artists in Grammy history to have won Album of the Year three times. The other two are Paul Simon and Frank Sinatra.

• In 1990, the duo Milli Vanilli became the first artists to be stripped of their Grammys. Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus had achieved international fame for their 1989 album “Girl, You Know It’s True,” and were awarded the Grammy for Best New Artist. However, it was soon learned that

the pair did not sing any of the vocals on the recordings. They did attempt a comeback as Rob & Fab, but after the scandal, success was hard to find.

• Although Elvis was the king of rock and roll and was nominated several times in that category, he never received a Grammy for that genre. He was awarded three Grammys for his gospel music in 1967, 1972, and 1974. Elvis never attended a Grammy Awards ceremony.


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W.C. Fields was engaged to work at Fortescue’s Pier, in Atlantic City, for ten dollars a week and cakes. There was no admission charge to the performances of Fields and his fellow artistes at Fortescue’s. The management made its profit by selling sandwiches and beer. Fields, who was still in his teens, was engaged as a juggler and drowner. When business was good, he juggled.

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NOW THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT!

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During his audition for the role of Mork from Ork (on the ‘70s sitcom “Mork and Mindy”), Robin Williams was invited by Gary Marshall, the show’s producer, to have a seat. Williams immediately obliged, sitting in the indicated chair - on his head! He had soon won Marshall’s heart, and the coveted role: Williams, Marshall later explained, was the only alien who had auditioned. On the set, Williams’ departures from script were so frequent that the show’s peeved scriptwriters sometimes left entire scenes blank but for a bitter stage direction: “Mork does his own thing.” NOTE: Williams’ first appearance as the alien Mork was not on “Mork & Mindy” as is commonly believed. The goofy character was introduced in a Richie Cunningham dream sequence - on “Happy Days.”

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