33rd Annual Grammy Awards

The 33rd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 20, 1991. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Quincy Jones was the night's biggest winner winning a total of six awards including Album of the Year.[2][3]

33rd Annual Grammy Awards
DateFebruary 20, 1991
LocationRadio City Music Hall, New York City
Hosted byGarry Shandling[1]
Most awardsQuincy Jones (6)
Most nominationsQuincy Jones
Television/radio coverage
NetworkCBS
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Performers

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Artist(s) Song(s)
Bette Midler "From a Distance"
MC Hammer "U Can't Touch This"
Mariah Carey "Vision of Love"
En Vogue & Take 6 "Who's Loving You" / "Something Within Me"
Tracy Chapman "Imagine"
Aerosmith "Come Together"
Phil Collins & David Crosby "Another Day in Paradise"
Garth Brooks "Friends in Low Places"
The Judds "Love Can Build a Bridge"
Bob Dylan "Masters of War"
Tony Bennett "When Do the Bells Ring for Me?"
Harry Connick, Jr. "We Are in Love"
Living Colour "Time's Up"
Wilson Phillips "Hold On"
Kathleen Battle ""In the Silence of the Secret Night"
(from Six Songs Op. 4, no. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff)

Presenters

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Award winners

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General

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Record of the Year
Album of the Year
Song of the Year
Best New Artist

Alternative

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Blues

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Children's

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Classical

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Comedy

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Composing and arranging

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Country

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Folk

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Gospel

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Historical

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Jazz

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Latin

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Musical show

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Music video

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New Age

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Packaging and notes

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Polka

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Production and engineering

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Reggae

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Rock

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Spoken

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Special merit awards

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Reception

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In a contemporary review, Variety described the telecast was "one of the most unmemorable in memory" and that "This year's telecast was doomed from the moment Sinead O'Connor, the artist behind the year's most compelling record, announced that she would boycott the show because the awards celebrate commercialism."[4] The review critiqued the performers stating that Garth Brooks stage set up resembled a "Noël Coward play", Billy Idol changed a lyric of "Cradle of Love" to state "This song is so cheesy" and that MC Hammer appeared to be wrapped in aluminium foil.[4]

The review spoke positively about performance of En Vogue and Take 6 and the a cappella performance by Tracy Chapman.[4]

References

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ "33rd Annual Grammy Awards". The Recording Academy. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  2. ^ "Quincy Jones wins block of Grammys". The Milwaukee Journal. February 21, 1991. Archived from the original on April 2, 2019. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
  3. ^ "1990 Grammy Award Winners". Grammy.com. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
  4. ^ a b c Prouty 1994: "No page number in the book. Review is dated "February 21, 1991""

Sources

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  • Prouty, Howard H., ed. (1994). Variety Television Reviews 1923-1992. Garland Publishing Inc. ISBN 0-8240-3796-0.