Bacharach, Day, et al. to Receive Lifetime Achievement Grammy Awards

Burt Bacharach and Doris Day will be among the recipients of this year’s Grammy Award honors for Lifetime Achievement. The awards will be presented at a special ceremony on February 9, the day before the 50th Annual Grammy Awards.

Other recipients will be the Band, Cab Calloway, Itzhak Perlman, Max Roach, and Earl Scruggs. Clarence Avant, who ran Sussex Records and then Motown, Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman, and Memphis producer Willie Mitchell will be honored with the Academy’s Trustees Award, while AMPEX Corp. and John Eargle will receive the Technical Grammy Award.

In addition to being one of the world’s most successful pop music composers — with such hits as “Walk on By,” “Anyone Who Had a Heart,” and “Say a Little Prayer” — Bacharach composed the score for the Broadway musical Promises, Promises. A revue of his songs, The Look of Love, was presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company in 2003, and his music was featured in the Broadway shows Andre DeShields’ Harlem Nocturne and The Boy from Oz.

Day, a top-selling vocalist for decades, starred in numerous movie musicals including The Pajama Game, Love Me or Leave Me, Calamity Jane, and By the Light of the Silvery Moon.

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