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What happened in history on this day: February 20?
On February 20 in ...
- 1917 - Kern, Bolton and Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!" premieres in New York City, New York.
- 1977 - CBS live telecasts the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences presentation of the 19th Annual Grammy Awards.
- Record of the Year: George Benson for "This Masquerade";
- Album of the Year: Stevie Wonder for "Songs In The Key Of Life";
- Song of the Year: Bruce Johnston for "I Write The Songs";
- Best New Artist of the Year: Starland Vocal Band;
- Best Instrumental Arrangement: Chick Corea for "Leprechaun's Dream";
- Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): James William Guercio and Jimmie Haskell for "If You Leave Me Now";
- Best Arrangement for Voices (duo, group or chorus): Starland Vocal Band for "Afternoon Delight";
- Best Engineered Recording - Non-classical: Al Schmitt for "Breezin'";
- Best Album Package: John Berg for "Chicago X";
- Best Album Notes: Dan Morgenstern for "The Changing Face Of Harlem - The Savoy Sessions";
- Best Producer of the Year: Stevie Wonder;
- Best Jazz Vocal Performance: Ella Fitzgerald for "Fitzgerald And Pass...Again";
- Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist (instrumental): Count Basie for "Basie And Zoot";
- Best Jazz Performance by a Group: Chick Corea for "The Leprechaun";
- Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band: Duke Ellington for "The Ellington Suites";
- Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female: Linda Ronstadt for "Hasten Down The Wind";
- Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male: Stevie Wonder for "Songs In The Key Of Life";
- Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus: Chicago for "If You Leave Me Now";
- Best Pop Instrumental Performance: George Benson for "Breezin'";
- Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female: Natalie Cole for "Sophisticated Lady (She's A Different Lady)";
- Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male: Stevie Wonder for "I Wish";
- Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus: Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. for "You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show)";
- Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance: George Benson for "Theme From Good King Bad";
- Best Rhythm and Blues Song: Boz Scaggs and David Paich for "Lowdown";
- Best Soul Gospel Performance: Mahalia Jackson for "How I Got Over";
- Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: Emmylou Harris for "Elite Hotel";
- Best Country Vocal Performance, Male: Ronnie Milsap for "(I'm A) Stand By My Woman Man";
- Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group: Amazing Rhythm Aces for "The End Is Not In Sight (The Cowboy Tune)";
- Best Country Instrumental Performance: Chet Atkins and Les Paul for "Chester And Lester";
- Best Country Song: Larry Gatlin for "Broken Lady";
- Best Inspirational Performance: Gary S. Paxton for "The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable, Different World of Gary S. Paxton";
- Best Gospel Performance (other than soul gospel): The Oak Ridge Boys for "Where The Soul Never Dies";
- Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording: John Hartford for "Mark Twang";
- Best Latin Recording: Eddie Palmieri for "Unfinished Masterpiece";
- Best Recording for Children: Karl Bohm and Hermione Gingold for "Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf/Saint-Saens: Carnival Of The Animals";
- Best Comedy Recording: Richard Pryor for "Bicentennial Nigger";
- Best Spoken Word Recording: Helen Hayes, Orson Welles, Henry Fonda and James Earl Jones for "Great American Documents";
- Best Instrumental Composition: Chuck Mangione for "Bellavia";
- Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special: Norman Whitfield for "Car Wash";
- Best Cast Show Album: Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore for "Bubbling Brown Sugar";
- Classical Album of the Year: Artur Rubinstein and Daniel Barenboim for "Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos";
- Best Classical Orchestral Performance: Georg Solti for "Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra";
- Best Opera Recording: Lorin Maazel for "Gershwin: Porgy And Bess";
- Best Choral Performance (other than opera): André Previn and Arthur Oldham for "Rachmaninoff: The Bells";
- Best Chamber Music Performance: David Munrow, conductor for "The Art Of Courtly Love";
- Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra): Artur Rubinstein for "Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos";
- Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra): Vladimir Horowitz for "Horowitz Concerts 1975/76";
- Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance: Beverly Sills for "Herbert: Music Of Victor Herbert";
- Best Engineered Recording, Classical: Edward T. Graham, Milton Cherin, and Ray Moore for "Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue".
- 1991 - CBS live telecasts the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences presentation of the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards.
- Record of the Year: Phil Collins for "Another Day In Paradise";
- Album of the Year: Quincy Jones for "Back On The Block";
- Song of the Year: Julie Gold for "From A Distance";
- Best New Artist: Mariah Carey;
- Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female: Mariah Carey for "Vision Of Love";
- Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male: Roy Orbison for "Oh Pretty Woman";
- Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville for "All My Life";
- Best Pop Instrumental Performance: Angelo Badalamenti for "Twin Peaks Theme";
- Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female: Alannah Myles for "Black Velvet";
- Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male: Eric Clapton for "Bad Love";
- Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: Aerosmith for "Janie's Got A Gun";
- Best Rock Instrumental Performance: Vaughan Brothers for "D/FW";
- Best Hard Rock Performance: Living Colour for "Time's Up";
- Best Metal Performance: Metallica for "Stone Cold Crazy";
- Best Alternative Music Performance: Sinéad O'Connor for "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got";
- Best Ryhthm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female: Anita Baker for "Compositions";
- Best Ryhthm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male: Luther Vandross for "Here And Now";
- Best Ryhthm and Blues Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: Ray Charles and Chaka Khan for "I'll Be Good To You";
- Best Rhythm and Blues Song: Alonzo Miller, M.C. Hammer and Rick James for "U Can't Touch This";
- Best Rap Solo Performance: M.C. Hammer for "U Can't Touch This";
- Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: Melle Mel, Ice-T, Big Daddy Kane, Kool Moe Dee, Quincy Jones and Quincy D. III for "Back On The Block";
- Best New Age Performance: Mark Isham for "Mark Isham";
- Best Jazz Fusion Performance: Quincy Jones for "Birdland";
- Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female: Ella Fitzgerald for "All That Jazz";
- Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male: Harry Connick, Jr. for "We Are In Love";
- Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist: Oscar Peterson for "The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live At The Blue Note";
- Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group: The Oscar Peterson Trio for "The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live At The Blue Note";
- Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band: Frank Foster for "Basie's Bag";
- Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: Kathy Mattea for "Where've You Been";
- Best Country Vocal Performance, Male: Vince Gill for "When I Call Your Name";
- Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: The Kentucky Headhunters for "Pickin' On Nashville";
- Best Country Vocal Collaboration: Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler for "Poor Boy Blues";
- Best Country Instrumental Performance: Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler for "So Soft, Your Goodbye";
- Best Bluegrass Recording: Alison Krauss for "I've Got That Old Feeling";
- Best Country Song: Don Henry and Jon Vezner for "Where've You Been";
- Best Rock/Contemporary Gospel Album: Petra for "Beyond Belief";
- Best Pop Gospel Album: Sandi Patti for "Another Time... Another Place";
- Best Southern Gospel Album: Bruce Carroll for "The Great Exchange";
- Best Traditional Soul Gospel Performance: Tramaine Hawkins for "Tramaine Hawkins Live";
- Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album: Take 6 for "So Much 2 Say";
- Best Gospel Album by a Choir or Chorus: James Cleveland for "Having Church";
- Best Latin Pop Performance: Jose Feliciano for "Por Que Te Tengo Que Olvidar?";
- Best Tropical Latin Performance: Tito Puente for "Lambada Timbales";
- Best Mexican-American Performance: Texas Tornados for "Soy De San Luis";
- Best Traditional Blues Recording: B.B. King for "Live At San Quentin";
- Best Contemporary Blues Recording: Vaughan Brothers for "Family Style";
- Best Traditional Folk Recording: Doc Watson for "On Praying Ground";
- Best Contemporary Folk Recording: Shawn Colvin for "Steady On";
- Best Reggae Recording: Bunny Wailer for "Time Will Tell - A Tribute To Bob Marley";
- Best Polka Recording: Jimmy Sturr for "When It's Polka Time At Your House";
- Best Recording for Children: Alan Menken and Howard Ashman for "The Little Mermaid";
- Best Comedy Recording: Peter Schickele for "P.D.Q. Bach: Oedipus Tex And Other Choral Calamities";
- Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Recording: George Burns for "Gracie - A Love Story";
- Best Musical Cast Show Album: David Caddick for "Les Miserables - The Complete Symphonic Recording";
- Best Instrumental Composition: Pat Metheny, Dave Holland and Roy Haynes for "Change Of Heart";
- Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television: James Horner for "Glory";
- Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television: Alan Menken and Howard Ashman for "Under The Sea";
- Best Music Video - Short Form: Paula Abdul, Candice Reckinger, Michael Patterson, and Sharon Oreck for "Opposites Attract";
- Best Music Video - Long Form: M.C. Hammer, Rupert Wainwright, and John Oetjen for "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em - The Movie";
- Best Arrangement on an Instrumental: Ian Prince, Jerry Hey, Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton for "Birdland";
- Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s): Clif Magness, Glen Ballard, Jerry Hey and Quincy Jones for "The Places You Find Love";
- Best Engineered Recording - Non-classical: Bruce Swedien for "Back On The Block";
- Producer of the Year (non-classical): Quincy Jones;
- Best Album Package: Jeffrey Gold, Len Peltier and Suzanne Vega for "Days Of Open Hand";
- Best Album Notes: Dan Morgenstern for "Brownie - The Complete Emarcy Recordings Of Clifford Brown";
- Best Historical Album: Lawrence Cohn and Stephen Lavere for "Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings";
- Best Classical Album: Leonard Bernstein and Hans Weber for "Ives: Sym. No. 2; Gong On The Hook And Ladder; Central Park In The Dark; The Unanswered Question";
- Best Orchestral Performance: Leonard Bernstein for "Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 7";
- Best Opera Recording: Christa Ludwig, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Heinz Zednik, James Morris, Jan Hendrik Rootering, Kurt Moll, Siegfried Jerusalem, James Levine, and Cord Garben for "Wagner: Das Rheingold";
- Best Choral Performance (other than opera): Robert Shaw for "Walton: Belshazzar's Feast/Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis";
- Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (with orchestra): Itzhak Perlman for "Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 In A Minor/Glazunov: Violin Concerto In A Minor";
- Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (without orchestra): Vladimir Horowitz for "The Last Recording";
- Best Chamber Music or Other Small Ensemble Performance: Itzhak Perlman and Daniel Barenboim for "Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas";
- Best Classical Vocal Performance: Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti for "Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti In Concert";
- Best Contemporary Composition: Leonard Bernstein for "Bernstein: Arias and Barcarolles";
- Best Engineered Recording - classical: Jack Renner for "Rachmaninoff: Vespers";
- Classical Producer of the Year: Adam Stern;
- Lifetime Achievement Award: John Lennon, Bob Dylan.
Births on February 20
- 1791 - Birth of Carl Czerny in Vienna; pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen).
- 1854 - Birth of Louis F M van Westerhoven; actor/singer/opera director (Youth).
- 1907 - Birth of Nadine Conner in California, USA; soprano (Carmen, Pamina - Magic Flute).
- 1911 - Birth of Robert Guyn McBride in Tucson, Arizona, USA; composer ("Mexican Rhapsody").
- 1913 - Birth of Nadine Conner; US opera singer (Carmen, La Bohéme).
- 1937 - Birth of David Ackles in Illinois, USA; singer/songwriter (American Gothic).
- 1937 - Birth of Nancy Wilson in Chillicothe, Ohio, USA; jazz singer ("Feel Like Making Love").
- 1940 - Birth of Barbara Laine Ellis in Olympia, Washington, USA; singer (Fleetwoods).
- 1941 - Birth of Buffy Sainte-Marie in Maine, USA; folksinger ("Now That the Buffalo Are Gone").
- 1944 - Birth of Lew Soloff in Brooklyn, New York, USA; rocker (Blood Sweat and Tears).
- 1946 - Birth of J[erome] Geils in New York City, New York, USA; rock guitarist/vocalist (J Geils Band - "Freeze-Frame", "Centerfold").
- 1950 - Birth of Walter Becker in New York City, New York, USA; rock bassist (Steely Dan - "Peg").
- 1951 - Birth of Kathy Baillie in Morristown, New Jersey, USA; country vocalist (Baillie and the Boys - "Oh Heart").
- 1951 - Birth of Randy California [Wolfe] in Los Angeles, California, USA; guitarist (Spirit - "I Got a Line on You").
- 1953 - Birth of Riccardo Chailly in Milan, Italy; conductor (West Berlin Symphony Orchestra).
- 1954 - Birth of Jon Brant; rock bassist (Cheap Trick - "The Dream Police").
- 1960 - Birth of Kee Marcello; rocker (Europe - "Final Countdown").
- 1960 - Birth of Mark Reilly [Matt Bianco]; rocker (Indio - "Big Harvest").
- 1963 - Birth of Ian Brown; English rock vocalist (Stone Roses - "Made of Stone").
- 1964 - Birth of Terry Ilous; rock vocalist (XYZ, Cannibal Jacket).
- 1967 - Birth of Kurt Cobain; rock vocalist (Nirvana)/husband of Courtney Love.
- 1975 - Birth of Brian Littrell; singer (Backstreet Boys).
Deaths on February 20
- 1975 - Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at age 76.
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