Jay Graydon. Official Web Site. Grammy Awards and Nominations

Jay Graydon has been extremely active in session work and recording over the years. The hard work has paid off in two Grammy Awards and 10 additional nominations .....up til now. And more will come - I'm telling you....

Close-up of the Grammy Award plaque for

BEST RHYTHM & BLUES SONG

1979

AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE

22nd Annual (1979) Grammy Winner for
BEST RHYTHM & BLUES SONG:
AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE
Co-writers: David Foster and Bill Champlin

Also nominated SONG OF THE YEAR!

25th Annual (1982) Grammy Winner for
BEST RHYTHM & BLUES SONG:
TURN YOUR LOVE AROUND

Co-writers: Bill Champlin and Steve Lukather

ADDITIONAL NON-OFFICIAL GRAMMY AWARD

Apart from the above noted Grammy wins, Ms. Janis Siegel of The Manhattan Transfer, who won a Grammy Award for the Vocal Arranging of the song BIRDLAND, included on the album EXTENSIONS, which Jay produced, requested from The Recording Academy, that Jay would be officially approved to share the win with her, since he had been instrumental in assisting her with this vocal arrangement, and his help was absolutely crucial in leading to her Grammy win.

Unfortunately, the request from Ms. Siegel came too late and did not comply with the strict time limits stated in the Grammy rules for them to make an official change to the awards history, and consequently the Grammy award for BEST ARRANGEMENT FOR VOICES of the song BIRDLAND, could not be officially accepted and registered as a regular Grammy win for Jay Graydon as a co-arranger together with Janis Siegel.

GRAMMY NOMINATIONS

1979	BEST RHYTHM & BLUES SONG	AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE WINNER!
1979	SONG OF THE YEAR	AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE (Single)
1980	BEST ARRANGEMENT FOR VOICES	TWILIGHT ZONE/TWILIGHT TONE (Single)
1981	ALBUM OF THE YEAR	BREAKIN' AWAY (Album)
1981	BEST VOCAL ARRANGEMENT FOR TWO OR MORE VOICES	KAFKA (Track)
1982	BEST RHYTHM & BLUES SONG	TURN YOUR LOVE AROUND WINNER!
1983	BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT ACCOMPANYING VOCAL(S)	MORNIN' (Track)
1983	BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT ACCOMPANYING VOCAL(S)	STEP BY STEP (Track)
1983	BEST ENGINEERED RECORDING - NON-CLASSICAL	JARREAU (Album)
1983	PRODUCER OF THE YEAR - NON-CLASSICAL	JARREAU (Album)
1984	BEST ALBUM OF ORIGINAL SCORE WRITTEN FOR A MOTION PICTURE OR TELEVISION SPECIAL	GHOSTBUSTERS (Album)
1985	BEST ALBUM OF ORIGINAL SCORE WRITTEN FOR A MOTION PICTURE OR A TELEVISION SPECIAL	ST ELMO'S FIRE (Album)

But there is more to life than Grammy Awards - Jay has also received other kinds of awards and recognition over the years. There are for instance many Gold and Platinum Albums hanging in his studio, although the walls at Garden Rake Studios cannot lodge them all.

So I have made a list of the gold and platinum awarded albums stating artists, titles, Jay's participation, certification dates etc.

Jay has received much acknowledgement and many awards of different kinds for his musical contributions, from a lot of different instances and organizations. Four of Jay's songs have for instance been presented with the BMI Pop Award and the following is a quote from my correspondance with BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.).

1979: "After the Love Has Gone" --- This song received a BMI Pop Award at our annual Pop Awards Dinner in 1980 which honored the most performed Pop songs of 1979. This song has now received over 2 million US radio and TV feature performances (through 6/30/98). Since then there has been many more...

1983: "Mornin'" --- This song received a BMI Pop award at the awards dinner in 1984 which honored the most performed Pop songs of 1983. This song has now received over 1 million performances and counting...

1985: "After All" and "Who's Holding Donna Now" --- These songs received BMI Pop awards at the dinner in 1986 which honored the most performed Pop songs of 1985. These songs have each now received over 1 million performances and counting...

Our awards are given to the songs which received the most US radio and TV feature performances during the award period. As mentioned, these songs are all over a million performances now. It may be interesting to note that when a song of an average length of 3 minutes reaches one million performances, it has been broadcast at least 50,000 hours, which equals more than 5.7 years of continuous airplay!

More appreciation for Jay's music and good vibes...

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