[78-L] Greatest addicts

[Cary Ginell]

Merit based? Pshaw. The Grammys have been incredibly dumb from the very first year. The first Grammy for Best Country Western Performance went to "Tom Dooley" by the Kingston Trio. Of the other nominees that year, only one could be considered country: Don Gibson's "Oh Lonesome Me." The others included two songs by the Everly Brothers and one by Jimmie "Honeycomb" Rodgers. (Right name, wrong guy). All this in a year that saw Faron Young, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, and other bonafide country artists making tremendous strides. 

No, the Grammys have always been myopic, unfair, and incalculably stupid.

Cary Ginell

> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:55:13 -0400
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Greatest addicts
> 
> On 7/23/2011 3:38 PM, buster wrote:
> > 1.  That there were no Grammy awards in bix's day
> 
> There have been many reissues that could have been eligible for Grammys 
> in historical divisions.
> 
> > 2.  That the Grammy award is commercial rather than merit-based
> 
> To the contrary, although the award may now seem to be commercial, the 
> award was very clearly originated to NOT be commercially based.  The 
> original documentation back in the 50s discusses the merit bases of the 
> awards were NOT to be based in any way on sales or popularity
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> >
> > On Jul 23, 2011, at 12:33 PM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
> >
> >> And she won 5 Grammys..how many did Bix win? And what does this tell you?
> >>
> >> dl
> >>
> >> On 7/23/2011 3:31 PM, Erwin Kluwer wrote:
> >>>   I agree that she was 'repellant' with her tattoos and piercings and
> >>>> general presence -- drunkenness and drugged out. To some of 'our
> >>>> generation' this is rather disgusting, but apparently not to her
> >>>> peers.
> >>>
> 
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