[Ads-l] Grammy (April 1959)

[dave@wilton.net]

The OED has September 1959. Here are two earlier ones.
 
Connolly, Mike. “Rambling Reporter.” The Hollywood Reporter, 23 April 1959, 2/2. ProQuest: Trade Journal.

"Newly organized Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences is previewing ITS award at the Derby—miniature gramophone called Grammy . . . Grammy, meet Oscar & Emmy"
 
(The elipsis in the above quotation is in the original.)
 
 
Myers, Sim. “On the Square: Now Grammy.” Times-Picayune (New Orleans), 4 May 1959, 32/2. Readex: America’s Historical Newspapers.
 
"This is the week of Emmy and Grammy. I suppose quite a few people know by now that Emmy is the niece of Oscar and means the award symbol for the top television prizes for the year just ended. Grammy is the name of an award which will be given for the first time this year in the phonograph industry.
 
"'Grammy' was selected because of its nomenclature similarity to grammophone [<i>sic</i>] which is what people used to call the phonograph in America and still do in England.
 
"The Grammy awards in 28 categories of recording activity will be awarded at a banquet Monday night in Beverly Hills, Calif.
 
"When the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences set out to find a name for its equivalent to Oscar and Emmy, some 300 persons usggested [<i>sic</i>] the name Grammy, and of all those who thought this would be a good name for the statuette, a New Orleans girl one the prize for having the earliest post mark on her letter."
 

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