The 10th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 29,1968,at Chicago,Los Angeles,Nashville and New York. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1967.
Kenneth Donald Rogers was an American singer and songwriter. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Rogers was particularly popular with country audiences but also charted more than 120 hit singles across various genres,topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone. He sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his lifetime,making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. His fame and career spanned multiple genres:jazz,folk,pop,rock,and country. He remade his career and was one of the most successful cross-over artists of all time.
Kim Carnes is an American singer and songwriter born and raised in Los Angeles. She began her career as a songwriter in the 1960s,writing for other artists while performing in local clubs and working as a session background singer with the famed Water Sisters. After she signed her first publishing deal with Jimmy Bowen,she released her debut album Rest on Me in 1971. Carnes' self-titled second album primarily contained self-penned songs,including her first charting single "You're a Part of Me",which reached No. 35 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in 1975. In the following year,Carnes released Sailin',which featured "Love Comes from Unexpected Places". The song won the American Song Festival and the award for Best Composition at the Tokyo Song Festival in 1976.
Bruce Randall Hornsby is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. His music draws from folk rock,jazz,bluegrass,folk,Southern rock,country rock,jam band,rock,heartland rock,and blues rock musical traditions.
Robert Joseph Bare Sr. is an American country singer and songwriter,best known for the songs "Marie Laveau","Detroit City" and "500 Miles Away from Home". He is the father of Bobby Bare Jr.,also a musician.
Angela Laverne Brown known professionally as Angie Stone,is an American singer,songwriter,actress,and record producer. She rose to fame in the late 1970s as member of the hip hop trio The Sequence. In the early 1990s,she became a member of the R&B trio Vertical Hold. Stone would later release her solo debut Black Diamond (1999) on Arista Records,which was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and spawned the single "No More Rain ".
Norma Jean Beasler is an American country music singer who was a member of The Porter Wagoner Show from 1961–1967. She had 13 country singles in Billboard's Country Top 40 between 1963 and 1968,recorded twenty albums for RCA Victor between 1964 and 1973,received two Grammy nominations,and was a Grand Ole Opry member for several years.
Elizabeth Jane Anderson was an American country music singer-songwriter who was one in a wave of new-generation female vocalists in the genre during the 1960s to write and record her own songs on a regular basis. Writing in The New York Times Bill Friskics-Warren noted,"Like her contemporary Loretta Lynn,Ms. Anderson gave voice to female survivors;inhabiting their struggles in a soprano at times alluring,at times sassy."
Michael H. McDonald is an American singer,keyboardist and songwriter known for his distinctive,soulful voice and as a member of the bands the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan (1973–1974). McDonald wrote and sang several hit singles with the Doobie Brothers,including "What a Fool Believes","Minute by Minute",and "Takin' It to the Streets." McDonald has also performed as a prominent backing vocalist on numerous recordings by artists including Steely Dan,Christopher Cross,and Kenny Loggins.
Rob Wasserman was an American composer and bass player. A Grammy Award and NEA grant winner,he played and recorded with a wide variety of musicians including Bob Weir,Bruce Cockburn,Elvis Costello,Ani di Franco,Jerry Garcia,David Grisman,Stéphane Grappelli,Rickie Lee Jones,Van Morrison,Steve Morse,Aaron Neville,Lou Reed,Pete Seeger,Jules Shear,Brian Wilson,Chris Whitley,Neil Young,Jackson Browne,Laurie Anderson,Stephen Perkins,Banyan,Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo,and Ratdog.
"Piece of My Heart" is a romantic soul song written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns,originally recorded by Erma Franklin in 1967. Franklin's single peaked in December 1967 at number 10 on the Billboard Hot Rhythm &Blues Singles chart in the United States.
Carleen Cassandra Anderson is a US American born/UK resident Music Artist. She was the vocalist,composer and musician for the Young Disciples and is known for her numerous,varied collaborations. Her solo career began in 1992. She is credited for composing and writing futuristic Operas.
"If I Were a Carpenter" is a folk song written by Tim Hardin in the 1960s,and re-recorded with commercial success by various artists including Bobby Darin,The Four Tops and Johnny Cash. Hardin's own recording of the piece appeared on his 1967 album Tim Hardin 2. It was one of two songs from that release performed by Hardin at Woodstock in 1969. The song,believed by some to be about male romantic insecurity,is rumored to have been inspired by his love for actress Susan Morss,as well as the construction of Hardin's recording studio.
"Think" is a rhythm and blues song written by Lowman Pauling and originally recorded by his group The "5" Royales. Released as a single on King Records in 1957,it was a national hit and reached number nine on the U.S. R&B chart.
"The Last Thing on My Mind" is a song written by American musician and singer-songwriter Tom Paxton in the early 1960s and recorded first by Paxton in 1964. It is based on the traditional lament song "The Leaving of Liverpool". The song was released on Paxton's 1964 album Ramblin' Boy,which was his first album released on Elektra Records.
The discography of American country singer-songwriter Liz Anderson consists of 12 studio albums and 23 singles. Her early songwriting produced hits for Merle Haggard that brought a recording contract from RCA Victor Records in 1964. Her first charting single was 1966's "Go Now Pay Later," which reached number 23 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. The same year,Anderson collaborated with Bobby Bare and Norma Jean on the duet "The Game of Triangles." The song reached the top five of the Billboard country chart. In 1967,she had her biggest solo hit with "Mama Spank," which also reached the country top five. Anderson was also releasing studio albums for RCA. This included her third release,Liz Anderson Sings (1967),which peaked at number 20 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Anderson's fourth studio effort,Cookin' Up Hits,reached number 18 on the same chart.
Charles Burgess Kelley is an American musician who is the co-lead vocalist and founding member of the country music trio Lady A,which was formed in 2006 and are signed to Big Machine Records.
"Gimme Your Love" is a song recorded as duet between American singers Aretha Franklin and James Brown in 1989. The two singers' only collaboration,it is the lead track on Franklin's album Through the Storm and also appeared on Brown's Soul Session Live. It was written by Narada Michael Walden and Jeffrey Cohen,and produced by the former. It was released as the album's third and final single on September 18,1989,by Arista Records and peaked at No. 48 on the Billboard R&B singles chart. The song was poorly received by critics,with Rolling Stone describing it as "a series of whoops and grunts as challenging to [the singers] as yawning". Nevertheless,it was nominated for the 1990 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
Alfa Anderson is a soul /rhythm and blues/ disco singer and teacher,best known as one of the lead singers of the 1970s band Chic.
The albums discography of American country artist Bobby Bare contains 39 studio albums,28 compilation albums,two box sets and one live album. Bare's first album was a compilation released in August 1963 on RCA Victor titled "Detroit City" and Other Hits by Bobby Bare. The disc was one of several to reach the top ten of the American Billboard Top Country Albums chart. It also reached number 119 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. It was followed by his debut studio LP in December 1963 by RCA Victor titled 500 Miles Away from Home. The disc reached similar chart positions on the Billboard country and 200 albums lists. Bare's follow-up LP's reached the country albums top ten in 1966:Talk Me Some Sense and The Streets of Baltimore. He also collaborated with Skeeter Davis during this time on the studio disc Tunes for Two (1965),which charted at number eight on the country albums list. In 1967,he collaborated with Liz Anderson and Norma Jean on the trio studio album called The Game of Triangles. Bare remained with RCA Victor until 1969,releasing his final album with the label that year called "Margie's at the Lincoln Park Inn".
