Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album

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The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959. The award had several minor name changes:

• In 1959 the award was known as Best Performance, Documentary or Spoken Word
• From 1960 to 1961 it was awarded as Best Performance - Documentary or Spoken Word (other than comedy)
• From 1962 to 1963 it was awarded as Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording (other than comedy)
• From 1964 to 1965 it was awarded as Best Documentary, Spoken Word or Drama Recording (other than comedy)
• In 1966 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word or Drama Recording
• From 1967 to 1968 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording
• From 1969 to 1979 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word Recording
• From 1980 to 1983 it returned to the title of Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording
• From 1984 to 1991 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording
• From 1992 to 1997 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album
• Since it has been awarded as Best Spoken Word Album

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for a recording released in the previous year.

Contents 1 2000s 2 1990s 3 1980s 4 1970s 5 1960s 6 1950s 7 See also

[edit] 2000s

• Grammy Awards of 2009
  • Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood for An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore
• Grammy Awards of 2008
  • Barack Obama for The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
• Grammy Awards of 2007
  • Jimmy Carter for Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis; and
  • Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee for With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together (Tie)
• Grammy Awards of 2006
  • Barack Obama for Dreams from My Father
• Grammy Awards of 2005
  • Bill Clinton for My Life
• Grammy Awards of 2004
  • Paul Ruben (producer) & Al Franken for Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
• Grammy Awards of 2003
  • Charles B. Potter (producer) & Maya Angelou for A Song Flung Up to Heaven
• Grammy Awards of 2002
  • Jeffrey S. Thomas, Steven Strassman (engineers) & Elisa Shokoff (producer) & Quincy Jones for Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
• Grammy Awards of 2001
  • Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) & Sidney Poitier for The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
• Grammy Awards of 2000
  • LeVar Burton for The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

[edit] 1990s

• Grammy Awards of 1999
  • Christopher Reeve for Still Me
• Grammy Awards of 1998
  • Charles Kuralt for Charles Kuralt's Spring
• Grammy Awards of 1997
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton for It Takes a Village
• Grammy Awards of 1996
  • Maya Angelou for Phenomenal Woman
• Grammy Awards of 1995
  • Henry Rollins for Get in the Van
• Grammy Awards of 1994
  • Maya Angelou for On the Pulse of Morning
• Grammy Awards of 1993
  • Earvin "Magic" Johnson & Robert O'Keefe for What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS
• Grammy Awards of 1992
  • Ken Burns for The Civil War
• Grammy Awards of 1991
  • George Burns for Gracie - A Love Story
• Grammy Awards of 1990
  • Gilda Radner for It's Always Something

[edit] 1980s

• Grammy Awards of 1989
  • Jesse Jackson for Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson
• Grammy Awards of 1988
  • Garrison Keillor for Lake Wobegon Days
• Grammy Awards of 1987
  • Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chips Moman, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins & Sam Phillips for Interviews From the Class of '55 Recording Sessions
• Grammy Awards of 1986
  • Mike Berniker (producer) & the original Broadway cast for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• Grammy Awards of 1985
  • Ben Kingsley for The Words of Gandhi
• Grammy Awards of 1984
  • William Warfield for Copland: A Lincoln Portrait
• Grammy Awards of 1983
  • Tom Voegeli (producer) for Raiders of the Lost Ark - The Movie on Record performed by various artists
• Grammy Awards of 1982
  • Orson Welles for Donovan's Brain
• Grammy Awards of 1981
  • Pat Carroll for Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein
• Grammy Awards of 1980
  • John Gielgud for Ages of Man - Readings From Shakespeare

[edit] 1970s

• Grammy Awards of 1979
  • Orson Welles for Citizen Kane
• Grammy Awards of 1978
  • Kenny Leckie for Foxbar Marathons
• Grammy Awards of 1977
  • Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones & Orson Welles for Great American Documents
• Grammy Awards of 1976
  • James Whitmore for Give 'Em Hell Harry
• Grammy Awards of 1975
  • Peter Cook & Dudley Moore for Good Evening
• Grammy Awards of 1974
  • Richard Harris for Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• Grammy Awards of 1973
  • Bruce Botnick (producer) for Lenny performed by the original cast
• Grammy Awards of 1972
  • Les Crane for Desiderata
• Grammy Awards of 1971
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. for Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam
• Grammy Awards of 1970
  • Art Linkletter & Diane Linkletter for We Love You Call Collect

[edit] 1960s

• Grammy Awards of 1969
  • Rod McKuen for Lonesome Cities
• Grammy Awards of 1968
  • Everett Dirksen for Gallant Men
• Grammy Awards of 1967
  • Edward R. Murrow for Edward R. Murrow - A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I The War Years
• Grammy Awards of 1966
  • Goddard Lieberson (producer) for John F. Kennedy - As We Remember Him
• Grammy Awards of 1965
  • That Was The Week That Was for BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy performed by the That Was the Week That Was cast
• Grammy Awards of 1964
  • Edward Albee (playwright) for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? performed by Melinda Dillon, George Grizzard, Uta Hagen & Arthur Hill
• Grammy Awards of 1963
  • Charles Laughton for The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton
• Grammy Awards of 1962
  • Leonard Bernstein for Humor in Music
• Grammy Awards of 1961
  • Robert Bialek (producer) for FDR Speaks
• Grammy Awards of 1960
  • Carl Sandburg for A Lincoln Portrait

[edit] 1950s

• Grammy Awards of 1959
  • Stan Freberg for The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows

[edit] See also

• Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children