Grammy Award for 1960 Album of the Year, awarded to Bob Newhart
date: label: date made
content: 1960
name: label: Associated Name
content: Newhart, Bob
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Grammy Award trophy for the 1960 Album of the Year award, given to Bob Newhart for his comedy record The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart. The Button-Down Mind became the first (of two) comedy album to win a Grammy for Album of the Year, and Bob remains the only comedian to ever win a Grammy as Best New Artist. It stayed at number 1 for 14 weeks, staying on the chart for more than two years, and selling more than 600,000 copies. The sequel, The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!, released later that year, also reached number 1, pushing the original down to the number 2 spot. The album was inducted into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress in 2007.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Bob Newhart changed the face of American comedy in his six decade-long career as a stand-up comedian and film and television actor. Newhart’s genial, halting, square delivery obscured a sly, subversive, and quietly revolutionary form of satire. Eschewing the more aggressive and controversial style of “sick comic” contemporaries like Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl, Newhart’s deadpan, stammering, straight man persona allowed him to subtly excoriate social mores, crassness and greed, hypocrisy, and the absurdities of modern American life. His debut comedy album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart became first comedy LP ever to hit number one on the Billboard charts, first (of two) comedy album to win a Grammy for Album of the Year, and Newhart became the only comedian to ever win a Grammy as Best New Artist. He began acting in film and television, including two acclaimed and long running sitcoms, The Bob Newhart Show (1972-1978) and Newhart (1982-1990). Newhart has continued to play small roles and make guest appearances into his 90s, including a recurring guest role on The Big Bang Theory that won him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 2013. Newhart won the 2002 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, has been inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame, and earned a 1962 Golden Globe award for Best TV Star as well as his three Grammy Awards in 1961.
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content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Comedy
label: Subject
content: Awards and Prizes
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2023.0059.02
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0059.02
label: accession number
content: 2023.0059
objectType: label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 11.43 cm x 13.97 cm