February 29, 1968 –
At the Grammy Awards on this date, the Fifth Dimension’s Up, Up and Away won record of the year for 1967,
the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance category is given for the first time, and Aretha Franklin won it for Respect. (She won the award again each of the next seven years.)
while album of the year honors went to the Beatles for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The album was heavily produced and took 129 days and about 700 hours to complete. The Beatles first album, Please Please Me, was recorded in less than 10 hours.
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