The Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording , in German "Grammy Award for the best disco recording", is a music prize that was awarded in 1980 by the American Recording Academy .
Since 1959, the Grammy Awards are presented annually in numerous categories by the Recording Academy in the United States to recognize artistic achievement, technical competence, and overall outstanding performance regardless of album sales or chart position.
One of these categories was the Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording. The award was only given at the 1980 Grammy Awards and went to Gloria Gaynor and record producers Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren for the song I Will Survive .
Disco is a genre of dance music that originated in the United States in the 1970s . The experimental mixing of records, combined with the newly acquired ability to play longer tracks, resulted in a genre that was well suited for dance events. From 1973 to 1974 the songs Love Is the Message by MFSB and shortly afterwards Never Can Say Goodbye by Gloria Gaynor , The Hustle by Van McCoy and Love to Love You Baby by Donna Summer provided the right disco sound. The opening of Studio 54 in Manhattan and the success of Saturday Night Fever (starring John Travolta and music from the Bee Gees ) added to the popularity of the disco genre in 1977. The following year, Paradise Garage opened in Manhattan's West Village , New York radio station WKTU only played disco music, and the number of nightclubs in the United States reached nearly 20,000. At the 21st Grammy Awards in 1979 , Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track was named Album of the Year and the Bee Gees received the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group . By late 1979, the disco industry was valued at over $ 4 billion, "more than the film, television, or professional sports industries". Disco music quickly went out of fashion, however, and so the Recording Academy canceled the Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording category even before the 1981 Grammy Awards . According to the Recording Academy, disco was “no longer a freely definable form of music in its own right”, although its influence “permeated all types of pop music”. Despite the short period of its award, the award has helped establish Gloria Gaynor as one of the most famous disco musicians of the 1970s and the song I Will Survive as one of the best-known and best-selling songs in the genre.
In 1998 a similar category, the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording, was awarded, although there were concerns that the category, similar to the disco category, might be short-lived. In 2003 the Recording Academy moved the category from the “Pop” section to the new “Dance” section, which currently also includes the Grammy Awards for Best Dance / Electronica Album category .
↑ On February 27, 1980, Gloria Gaynor received the award for Best Disco Recording during a live broadcast at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles . Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren were also recognized as producers of the song.
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