| Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Quality spoken word performances aimed at children |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |
| First award | 1994 |
| Final award | 2011 |
| Website | grammy.com |
The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards,[1] to recording artists for works containing quality "spoken word" performances aimed at children. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position."[2]
The award was first presented to Audrey Hepburn and producers Deborah Raffin and Michael Viner in 1994 for the album Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales. Its last winners were the artists, producers, audio engineers, and audio mixers who contributed to the album Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies in 2011, when it was announced the award would be combined with the Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children to form the Grammy Award for Best Children's Album.[3]
Tom Chapin holds the record for the most wins in this category, with a total of three. Artists Bill Harley and Jim Dale, along with audio engineer David Correia, and producers Arnold Cardillo and David Rapkin, and audio engineer-musical director Rory Young, are the others to win the award more than once, all winning it twice. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has also won the award, along with Mikhail Gorbachev and Sophia Loren, for their work on the album Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf at the 2003 installment of the awards.
Recipients
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1990s
[edit]2000s
[edit]2010s
[edit]| Year | Performing Artist(s) | Work | Producers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 [21] |
Buck Howdy | Aaaaah! Spooky, Scary Stories & Songs | Buck Howdy, producer |
| Ed Asner | Scat | ||
| Harlan Ellison | Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There | ||
| David Hyde Pierce | The Phantom Tollbooth | ||
| Dean Pitchford | Captain Nobody | ||
| Various artists | Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales | ||
| 2011 [22] |
Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton | Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies | Michele McGonigle, producer. |
| Selma Blair | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition | ||
| Bill Harley | The Best Candy in the Whole World | ||
| Emma Thompson | Nanny McPhee Returns | ||
| Various artists | Healthy Food for Thought: Good Enough to Eat |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Including Robert Guillaume as the narrator.
- ^ (Jim Belushi, Robert Davi, Tate Donovan, Linda Hamilton, Patrick MacNee, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga)
General
- "Past Winners Search". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on September 24, 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
Specific
- ^ "Grammy Awards at a Glance". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 12, 2012. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
- ^ "Overview". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on October 27, 2009. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
- ^ "Explanation For Category Restructuring". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
- ^ "Hundreds Nominated For Grammys". Deseret News. Deseret News Publishing Company. January 10, 1994. p. 6. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
- ^ "The 37th Grammy Nominations". Los Angeles Times. January 6, 1995. p. 4. Archived from the original on November 8, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
- ^ "The Complete List of Nominees". Los Angeles Times. January 5, 1996. p. 4. Archived from the original on November 8, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
- ^ "The Complete List of Nominees". Los Angeles Times. January 8, 1997. p. 4. Archived from the original on November 8, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
- ^ "1997 Grammy Nominees". Orlando Sentinel. Tribune Company. January 9, 1998. p. 3. Archived from the original on October 5, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
- ^ "Academy's Complete List of Nominees". Los Angeles Times. January 6, 1999. p. 5. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
- ^ "Awards". Archived from the original on February 19, 2023. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
- ^ "Final Nominations For The 42nd Annual Grammy Awards". Billboard. Vol. 112, no. 3. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 2000. p. 72. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
- ^ Boucher, Geoff (January 4, 2001). "Grammys Cast a Wider Net Than Usual". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on May 14, 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
- ^ "Complete List Of Grammy Nominees". CBS. January 4, 2002. Archived from the original on October 10, 2003. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
- ^ "Complete list of Grammy nominees; ceremony set for Feb. 23". San Francisco Chronicle. January 8, 2003. p. 5. Archived from the original on December 7, 2012. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
- ^ "Grammy Award Winners". The New York Times. 2004. Archived from the original on December 8, 2012. Retrieved March 11, 2011.
- ^ "Grammy Award nominees in top categories". USA Today. Gannett Company. February 7, 2005. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
- ^ "The Complete List of Grammy Nominations". The New York Times. December 8, 2005. p. 2. Archived from the original on April 1, 2019. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ^ "Complete list of Grammy nominees". San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst Corporation. December 8, 2006. p. 5. Archived from the original on November 6, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ^ "The Complete List of Grammy Nominees". The New York Times. December 6, 2007. p. 3. Archived from the original on June 5, 2015. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ^ "The 51st Annual Grammy Awards Nominations". CBS. Archived from the original on February 14, 2009. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
- ^ "Grammy Awards Winners & Nominees for Best Spoken Word Album For Children". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on January 10, 2022. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
- ^ "53rd Annual Grammy Awards nominees list". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
External links
[edit]- Official site of the Grammy Awards Archived May 7, 2014, at the Wayback Machine