By successful five Juno Awards this 12 months, The Weeknd has upped his profession complete of Juno wins to 22. Just one artist in Juno historical past has gained extra awards: That’s the nice Anne Murray, who has picked up 25 over time.
Watching The Weeknd shut in on Murray’s long-held document echoes the way in which Beyoncé closed in on – and this 12 months surpassed – classical conductor Sir Georg Solti’s document because the all-time Grammy Award winner. Even when Murray’s document is ultimately toppled, the actual fact she has held it so lengthy speaks volumes. (The artists who’re subsequent up on the Juno leaderboard are additionally international superstars: Bryan Adams is in third place with 21 Junos, whereas Celine Dion is in fourth place with 20.)
Murray’s assortment of Junos contains back-to-back awards for each album of the 12 months and single of the 12 months for 1980-81. She took the album awards with New Sort of Feeling and Anne Murray’s Biggest Hits, and the only prizes with “I Simply Fall in Love Once more” and “May I Have This Dance.”
Murray was one of many prime pop/nation crossover artists of the Seventies and ’80s. She topped the Billboard Hot 100 as soon as (with “You Wanted Me” in 1978) and the Hot Country Songs 10 occasions. She gained a Grammy for finest feminine pop vocal efficiency with “You Wanted Me” and for finest feminine nation vocal efficiency 3 times, with “Love Music,” “May I Have This Dance” and “A Little Good Information.”
Murray was finest identified for ballads, such because the exquisitely sad “Damaged Hearted Me,” however she additionally had some midtempo hits, together with covers of The Beatles’ sassy “You Received’t See Me” and The Monkees’ endearing “Daydream Believer.”
Murray additionally had a splendidly dry humorousness in live performance. When a fan would yell out a request, she would counter with a dry “Not but. First, I need to work you as much as feverish pitch.”
Listed here are 9 issues to learn about Anne Murray.
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She made the highest 10 on the Scorching 100 together with her first charted hit.
“Snowbird” made No. 8 in September 1970. It introduced her two Grammy nominations – finest modern vocal efficiency, feminine and finest new artist. She misplaced each awards (to Dionne Warwick and the Carpenters, respectively), however she went on to win 4 Grammys. And she or he landed a efficiency slot on that first stay Grammy telecast in March 1971, the place she sang James Taylor’s track of the 12 months nominee, “Hearth and Rain.”
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She had three Scorching 100 hits with covers of Beatles songs.
She reached the chart with variations of the Fab 4’s “You Received’t See Me,” “Day Tripper” and “I’m Glad Simply to Dance With You.” The acts had been Capitol Information labelmates, although The Beatles broke up in 1970, simply as Murray’s profession took off.
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Kenny Loggins wrote two of her greatest hits.
Loggins wrote “Danny’s Music,” which Murray took to No. 7 on the Scorching 100 in April 1973. He co-wrote “Love Music,” which was a No. 12 hit for Murray in March 1974. Murray later had a rustic hit with Kenny’s cousin, Dave Loggins. Their collab, “No one Loves Me Like You Do,” topped Scorching Nation Songs in December 1984.
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She is one in all simply 4 ladies to win Grammys in each pop and nation solo vocal efficiency classes.
She adopted Olivia Newton-John and Linda Ronstadt in carrying out the feat, and preceded okay.d. lang.
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She prevailed over a powerful discipline of nominees to win a Grammy for “You Wanted Me.”
The opposite nominees for finest pop vocal efficiency, feminine had been Olivia Newton-John for “Hopelessly Dedicated to You,” Donna Summer season for “MacArthur Park,” Carly Simon for “You Belong to Me” and Barbra Streisand for her solo recording of “You Don’t Deliver Me Flowers” (which was launched earlier than her duet model with Neil Diamond). So was Murray’s Grammy win an enormous upset? In no way: “You Wanted Me” was the one single by a lady to obtain a document of the 12 months nomination that 12 months. Murray competed with Billy Joel (who gained), Bee Gees, Gerry Rafferty and Chuck Mangione.
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She had one of many greatest hits from the City Cowboy soundtrack.
“May I Have This Dance” topped the Scorching Nation Songs chart in November 1980 and reached No. 33 on the Scorching 100. It was the third No. 1 nation hit to emerge from the soundtrack, following Mickey Gilley’s remake of “Stand by Me” and Johnny Lee’s “Lookin’ for Love.” The soundtrack topped Prime Nation Albums for eight weeks. The soundtrack and the John Travolta/Debra Winger movie didn’t precisely do for nation music what Travolta’s Saturday Evening Fever and the Bee Gees-dominated soundtrack had executed for disco in 1977-78, however it received partway there. If Fever was a home-run as a cultural phenomenon, this was no less than a base hit.
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In 1984, she gained each album of the 12 months and single of the 12 months on the CMA Awards.
She gained each awards with “A Little Good Information” and the album of the identical identify. It was her second single of the 12 months nod, following “You Wanted Me.”
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She co-hosted the CMA Awards 3 times.
She co-hosted with Willie Nelson in 1983, Kris Kristofferson in 1985 and Kenny Rogers in 1989. (All three of these males are within the Nation Music Corridor of Fame. Murray ought to be there too. She performed an essential function in bridging pop and nation, and broadening nation’s viewers. That’s exactly why they requested her to co-host.)
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She had a 1981 album with a title that was just like that of a 2019 blockbuster.
The title of Murray’s 1981 album posed the philosophical query, The place Do You Go When You Dream. Almost 4 many years later, the title of Billie Eilish’s debut album posed an identical query, When We All Fall Asleep, The place Do We Go? Typically nice artists – even from totally different generations and genres – assume alike.
