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What happened in history on this day: April 13?
On April 13 in ...
- 1965 - NBC airs "The Best on Record", the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences presentation of the 7th Annual Grammy Awards.
Record of the Year: Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto for "The Girl From Ipanema";
Album of the Year: Stan Getz and João Gilberto for "Getz/Gilberto";
Album of the Year -- Classical: Leonard Bernstein for "Bernstein: Symphony No. 3 'Kaddish'"
Song of the Year: Jerry Herman for "Hello, Dolly!";
Best Instrumental Composition (other than jazz): Henry Mancini for "The Pink Panther Theme";
Best Vocal Performance, Female: Barbra Streisand for "People";
Best Vocal Performance, Male: Louis Armstrong for "Hello, Dolly!";
Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Small Group or Soloist with Small Group: Stan Getz for "Getz/Gilberto";
Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group or Soloist with Large Group: Laurindo Almeida for "Guitar From Ipanema";
Best Original Jazz Composition: Lalo Schifrin for "The Cat";
Best Instrumental Performance - Non-jazz: Henry Mancini for "The Pink Panther";
Best Instrumental Arrangement: Henry Mancini for "The Pink Panther";
Best Accompaniment Arrangement for Vocalist(s) or Instrumentalist(s): Peter Matz for "People";
Best Performance by a Vocal Group: The Beatles for "A Hard Day's Night";
Best Performance by a Chorus: The Swingle Singers for "The Swingle Singers Going Baroque";
Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman for "Mary Poppins";
Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album: Bob Merrill and Jule Styne for "Funny Girl";
Best Comedy Performance: Bill Cosby for "I Started Out As A Child";
Best Documentary, Spoken Word or Drama Recording (other than comedy): That Was The Week That Was for "BBC Tribute To John F. Kennedy";
Best Engineered Recording - Non-classical: Phil Ramone for "Getz/Gilberto";
Best Engineered Recording - Special or Novel Effects: Dave Hassinger for "The Chipmunks Sing The Beatles";
Best Album Cover - Other Than Classical: Bob Cato and Don Bronstein for "People";
Best Album Cover - Classical: Robert M. Jones and Jan Balet for "Saint-Saens: Carnival Of The Animals/Britten: Young Persons Guide To The Orchestra";
Best Recording for Children: Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke for "Mary Poppins";
Best Rock and Roll Recording: Petula Clark for "Downtown";
Best Rhythm and Blues Recording: Nancy Wilson for "How Glad I Am";
Best Folk Recording: Gale Garnett for "We'll Sing In The Sunshine";
Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording (musical): Tennessee Ernie Ford for "Great Gospel Songs";
Best New Artist of 1964: The Beatles;
Best Country and Western Single: Roger Miller for "Dang Me";
Best Country and Western Album: Roger Miller for "Dang Me/Chug-A-Lug";
Best Country and Western Vocal Performance - Female: Dottie West for "Here Comes My Baby";
Best Country and Western Vocal Performance - Male: Roger Miller for "Dang Me";
Best Country and Western Song: Roger Miller for "Dang Me";
Best New Country and Western Artist of 1964: Roger Miller;
Best Album Notes: Carleton Beals and Stanton Catlin for "Mexico (Legacy Collection)";
Best Performance - Orchestra: Erich Leinsdorf for "Mahler: Symphony No. 5/Berg: Wozzeck Excerpts";
Best Chamber Performance - Instrumental: Gregor Piatigorsky and Jascha Heifetz for "Beethoven: Trio No. 1 In E Flat, Op. 1 #1";
Best Chamber Music Performance - Vocal: Noah Greenberg for "It Was A Lover And His Lass";
Best Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra): Isaac Stern for "Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 In D";
Best Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra): Vladimir Horowitz for "Vladimir Horowitz Plays Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin";
Best Opera Recording: Herbert von Karajan for "Bizet: Carmen";
Best Choral Performance (other than opera): Robert Shaw for "Britten: A Ceremony Of Carols";
Best Vocal Soloist Performance (with or without orchestra): Leontyne Price for "Berlioz: Nuits D'Ete (Song Cycle)/Falla: El Amor Brujo";
Best Composition by a Contemporary Composer: Samuel Barber for "Barber: Piano Concerto";
Best Engineered Recording: Douglas Larter for "Britten: Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra";
Most Promising New Classical Recording Artist: Marilyn Horne.
Births on April 13
- 1906 - Birth of Budd [Lawrence] Freeman; US jazz saxophonist ("Eel").
- 1919 - Birth of Harold Clifford Keel AKA Howard Keel in Gillespie, Illinois, USA; actor/singer (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Kiss Me Kate).
- 1933 - Birth of Shani Wallis in Ireland; singer/actress (Oliver).
- 1934 - Birth of Horace Kay; US singer (Tams - "You Lied to Your Daddy").
- 1936 - Birth of Loretta Lynn in Butcher's Hollow, Kentucky, USA; country singer ("Coal Miner's Daughter").
- 1940 - Birth of Lester Chambers in Flora, Mississippi, USA; vocalist (Chambers Brothers - "Time Has Come Today").
- 1941 - Birth of Margaret Price in Tredegar, Wales; soprano (Pamlina - Die Zauberflöte).
- 1943 - Birth of Eve Graham; rocker (New Seekers).
- 1944 - Birth of Brian Pendleton Wolverhampton in West Midlands, England; rocker (The Pretty Things).
- 1944 - Birth of Jack Casady in Washington, DC; rock bassist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane).
- 1945 - Birth of Lowell George; rock vocalist/guitarist (Little Feat - "Time is a Hero").
- 1945 - Birth of Raymond van Geytenbeek; Dutch singer/drummer (Les Baroques).
- 1945 - Birth of Stacy Johnson; American singer (Sharpees - "Tired of Being Alone").
- 1946 - Birth of Al Green in Forest City, Arkansas, USA; singer ("Let's Stay Together").
- 1946 - Birth of Jim Pons; rocker (Mothers Of Invention).
- 1946 - Birth of Roy Loney; rocker (Flaming Groovies).
- 1948 - Birth of Kathleen Battle; US soprano (Tannhäuser).
- 1950 - Birth of Riff West; rock bassist (Molly Hatchet - "Flirtin' With Disaster").
- 1951 - Birth of Max Weinberg; rock drummer (E Street Band, Conan O'Brien Show).
- 1951 - Birth of Peabo Bryson in Greenville, South Carolina, USA; rhythm and blues vocalist ("I'm So into You").
- 1954 - Birth of Jimmy Destri; rock keyboardist (Blondie - "Heart of Glass", Rapture).
- 1955 - Birth of Louis Johnson in Los Angeles, California, USA; rock bassist/vocalist (Brothers Johnson).
- 1957 - Birth of Wayne Lewis; keyboardist (Atlantic Star - "Touch a Four Leaf Clover").
- 1958 - Birth of Randy Piper; heavy metal rocker (Wasp - "Wildchild").
- 1961 - Birth of Tammy Stephens in Arlington, Texas, USA; singer (Girls Next Door - Don't Be Cruel).
- 1963 - Birth of John Bell; singer, guitarist (Widespread Panic).
- 1968 - Birth of Barrett Martin; drummer (Screaming Trees).
- 1969 - Birth of Harold Pruett; rocker (Outsiders - "Time Won't Let Me").
- 1972 - Birth of Jeroen Thesseling; pop bassist (Pestilence, Spheres).
- 1975 - Birth of David Miller; singer (Il Divo).
- 1979 - Birth of Tony Lundon; Irish singer (Liberty X).
Deaths on April 13
- 1959 - Eduard van Beinum, chief conductor at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Netherlands, dies at age 58 while rehearsing a Brahms symphony.
- 1990 - Death of Thurston Harris at age 58 of a heart attack in Pomona, California, USA; rhythm-and-blues singer ("Little Bitty Pretty One" (1957)).
- 2005 - Death of Tutti Camarata at age 91; trumpet player (Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman), musical arranger (Glen Gray, Casa Loma Orchestra, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington), musical director (Startime TV show, The Vic Damone Show, The Alcoa Hour).
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