FUNK BROTHERS ACCEPTING THEIR 2 GRAMMYS 2003

The Recording Academy Give Funk Brothers
Lifetime Achievement Award 2004

Funk Brothers Win 2 Grammys 2003
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First Row: producer Ted Greenberg, pianist Joe Hunter, guitarist Joe Messina,
bassist Bob Babbitt, and producers Harry Weinger and Allan Slutsky.
Bottom row left to right: drummer Uriel Jones,
guitarist Eddie Willis and percussionist Jack Ashford.

Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media - 2003 Allan Slutsky, Harry Weinger (producers), Ted Greenberg (producer & engineer/mixer), Kooster McAllister (engineer/mixer) & The Funk Brothers for Standing in the Shadows of Motown performed by The Funk Brothers & various artists

AND THE 2003 GRAMMY WINNERS ARE . . .

	WINNER - BEST TRADITIONAL R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE: " What's Going On" - Chaka Khan & The Funk Brothers -
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Standing In The Shadows Of Motown (Deluxe Edition)	WINNER - BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK ALBUM: "Standing In the Shadows of Motown - Various Artists "

Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media - 2003 Allan Slutsky, Harry Weinger (producers), Ted Greenberg (producer & engineer/mixer), Kooster McAllister (engineer/mixer) & The Funk Brothers for Standing in the Shadows of Motown performed by The Funk Brothers & various artists Grammy Awards of 2002 T Bone Burnett (producer), Peter Kurland & Mike Piersante (engineers) for O Brother, Where Art Thou performed by various artists Grammy Awards of 2001 Danny Bramson & Cameron Crowe (producers) for Almost Famous performed by various artists Grammy Awards of 2000 Mark Mancina (producer) & Phil Collins (producer & artist) for Tarzan.
CD: THE BEST OF THE FUNK BROTHERS released February 3, 2004, just a few days before they receive their Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award .
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Funk Brothers
1. The Way You Do the Things You Do
2. Come See About Me
3. All for You
4. Too Many Fish in the Sea
5. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)
6. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
7. Soul Stomp
8. 6 by 6
9. Runaway Child, Running Wild
10. The Stingray
11. What's Going On [Instrumental]
12. Papa Was a Rolling Stone

RECORDING ACADEMY® ANNOUNCES 2004 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AND TRUSTEES AWARD RECIPIENTS
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GRAMMY Magazine - February 6, 2004 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award The Funk Brothers

The Lifetime Achievement Award, established in 1965, is presented by vote of the Recording Academy's National Trustees to performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording.

The Funk Brothers

One of the best illustrations of the important role the Funk Brothers played in the famous Motown sound was the simple but now immortalized intro to "My Girl," the song I wrote for the Temptations and one of the biggest hits I was ever involved in. We went in to cut the track, and we began with that little bass intro, and the guitarist, Robert White, just started in with this guitar riff. It was a spontaneous creative moment, and it's since gone down in history.

The Funk Brothers were not just Motown Records' backing band, they were a living part of the Motown family, and they were as much a part of creating the Detroit sound as any of the other artists and songwriters who put Motown on the map in the '60s.

The Funk Brothers were all local Detroit musicians. Our A&R director, Mickey Stevenson, went around Detroit and gathered the Funk Brothers from little clubs and brought them in to record at the studio. They were hand-picked musicians who came together to form this family.

People often say, "What was the Motown sound? Was it more bass? Was it more drums? More piano?" I firmly believe that the Motown sound was the people who created it. When we started recording in Detroit and making a bunch of hits, people were coming from all over the world — from London, Chicago, New York, Nashville, Africa, everywhere you can think of — to record their artists. It was as if they thought the Motown sound was in the air in Detroit. And if you brought your artist to Detroit to record them, you were going to get the Motown sound, because it just was hovering there. Little did they know that at the same time we were recording our artists in London and in Africa and in Chicago and New York and Nashville, and all the places they were coming from.

If our artists happened to be on the road somewhere, and we needed to record them, we were recording them in those places. And we always got the Motown sound, because it was the people — bassist James Jamerson, guitarist Robert White, drummers Benny Benjamin and Richard "Pistol" Allen, pianist Johnny Griffith and the others who were part of this family — who created that sound. And I defy anyone to tell me which records were recorded where.

Recently, the film Standing In The Shadows Of Motown, which helped the Funk Brothers win two GRAMMYs last year, brought a greater awareness to these deserving musicians. But in truth, they have always been appreciated, both within our family and publicly. I remember a time when we took a Motortown Review to Europe, and as we got off the plane, there were hordes of people standing there waiting. And they charged James Jamerson; there were a bunch of Motown artists on that tour, and they went straight for him.

The Funk Brothers helped create one of the most influential sounds in pop music history. There was a magic at Motown, and these were some of the magicians, and the success we created had never happened before and will probably never happen again to that magnitude.

My love, as ever, to all the Funk Brothers who are still with us, and to those who are gone.

The Funk Brothers: Richard "Pistol" Allen, Jack Ashford, Bob Babbitt, William "Benny" Benjamin, Eddie "Bongo" Brown, Earl Van Dyke, Johnny Griffith, Joe Hunter, James Jamerson, Uriel Jones, Joe Messina, Robert White and Eddie Willis

Smokey Robinson was an artist and executive at Motown. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and won a Best R&B Vocal Performance GRAMMY for "Just To See Her" in 1987. He received his own GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999.

Van Cliburn, The Funk Brothers, Ella Jenkins, Sonny Rollins, Artie Shaw and Doc Watson to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award;

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (December 22, 2003) -- Recipients of the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award and Trustees Award were announced today by the Recording Academy®. Recording artists Van Cliburn, The Funk Brothers, Ella Jenkins, Sonny Rollins, Artie Shaw and Doc Watson will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards .

USA Today - Motown Funk Brothers cast long 'Shadows'

Book Reviews

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2003 Grammy Winners including The Funk Brothers

THE 2003 GRAMMY WINNERS WERE . . .

WINNER - BEST TRADITIONAL R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE:
" What's Going On" - Chaka Khan & The Funk Brother s - WINNER
In the BEST TRADITIONAL R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE category, a series of iconic crooners enjoy nominations. Chaka Khan and the Funk Brothers combined for the stunning "What's Going On"

WINNER - BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK ALBUM:
"Standing In the Shadows of Motown - Various Artists " - WINNER

20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Funk Brothers
1. The Way You Do the Things You Do
2. Come See About Me
3. All for You
4. Too Many Fish in the Sea
5. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)
6. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
7. Soul Stomp
8. 6 by 6
9. Runaway Child, Running Wild
10. The Stingray
11. What's Going On [Instrumental]
12. Papa Was a Rolling Stone

Funk Brothers finally get their due Grammys By Susan Whitall / The Detroit News

Science, Technology and Music High Definition TV and 5.1 Surround Sound . Marking the first time a live, primetime, network music special "This is a perfect illustration of the Recording Academy's mission to spotlight both the art and the science of music and its makers," said The Recording Academy® , President Neil Portnow.

"Standing in the Shadows of Motown," about the studio musicians who played on the biggest Motown hits of the 1960s, was the group's choice for best documentary. And the racy Mexican hit "Y Tu Mama Tambien" won for foreign language film.

New York Film Critics Circle: http://www.nyfcc.com
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"Standing In The Shadows Of Motown," directed by Paul Justman, was chosen as the year's best non-fiction film while the award for best first film was given to "Roger Dodger."

AND THE NOMMINEES WERE . . .
NARAS - MTV RADIO BULLETIN FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2003 45th ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARD NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

PAGE 45 - Nominations for the 45th annual Grammy Awards were announced this morning (Tuesday, January 7th) at a press conference held in New York's Madison Square Garden. Among the artists on hand were Ashanti, country singer Kenny Chesney, Cyndi Lauper, Avril Lavigne, John Mayer, Justin Timberlake, Nelly and producer Jimmy Jam, who filled in for a previously scheduled but absent Sean "P. Diddy" Combs.

RECORD OF THE YEAR:
" A Thousand Miles" - Vanessa Carlton <> " Without Me" - Eminem <> " Don't Know Why" - Nora Jones <> " Dilemma" - Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland <> " How You Remind Me" - Nickelback

ALBUM OF THE YEAR:
Home - Dixie Chicks <> The Eminem Show - Eminem <> Come Away with Me - Norah Jones
Nellyville - Nelly <> The Rising - Bruce Springsteen

SONG OF THE YEAR (TO SONGWRITER):
" Complicated" - Avril Lavigne & The Matrix, songwriters (Avril Lavigne)
" Don't Know Why" - Jesse Harris, songwriter (Norah Jones)
" The Rising" - Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)
" A Thousand Miles" - Vanessa Carlton, songwriter (Vanessa Carlton)
" Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" - Alan Jackson, songwriter (Alan Jackson)

BEST NEW ARTIST:
Ashanti <> Michelle Branch <> Norah Jones <> Avril Lavigne <> John Mayer

BEST MALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE:
" 7 Days" - Craig David <> " Original Sin" - Elton John <> " Your Body is a Wonderland" - John Mayer
" Fragile" - Sting <> " October Road" - James Taylor

BEST FEMALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE:
" Soak Up the Sun" - Sheryl Crow <> " Don't Know Why" - Norah Jones <> " Complicated" - Avril Lavigne <> " Get the Party Started" - Pink <> " Overprotected" - Britney Spears

BEST POP PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL:
" Everyday" - Bon Jovi
" Girl All the Bad Guys Want" - Bowling for Soup
" Where Are You Going" - Dave Matthews Band
" Hey Baby" - No Doubt
" Girlfriend" - *NSYNC

BEST POP COLLABORATION WITH VOCALS:
" Dirrty" - Christina Aguilera
" Christmas Song" - India.Arie & Stevie Wonder
" What A Wonderful World" - Tony Bennett & kd Lang
" Better Than Anything" - Natalie Cole & Diana Krall
" It's So Easy" - Sheryl Crow & Don Henley
" The Game of Love" - Santana & Michelle Branch

BEST POP INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE:
" Auld Lang Syne" - B.B. King
" Blackbird" - Dave Koz & Jeff Koz
" As It Is" - Pat Metheny Group
" 18" - Moby
" Playing with Fire" - Kirk Whalum

BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM:
Come Away with Me - Norah Jones
Let Go - Avril Lavigne
Rock Steady - No Doubt
Missundastood - Pink
Britney - Britney Spears

BEST DANCE RECORDING:
" Gotta Get Thru This" - Daniel Bedingfield
" Days Go By" - Dirty Vegas
" Superstylin'" - Groove Armada
" Love at First Sight" - Kylie Minogue
" Hella Good" - No Doubt

BEST FEMALE ROCK VOCAL PERFORMANCE:
" Steve McQueen" - Sheryl Crow
" The Weakness In Me" - Melissa Etheridge
" Sk8er Boi" - Avril Lavigne
" Gnawin' On It" - Bonnie Raitt
" Alone" - Susan Tedeschi

BEST MALE ROCK VOCAL PERFORMANCE:
" Slow Burn" - David Bowie
" 45" - Elvis Costello
" The Barry Williams Show" - Peter Gabriel
" Darkness, Darkness" - Robert Plant
" The Rising" - Bruce Springsteen

BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL:
" Girls of Summer" - Aerosmith
" In My Place" - Coldplay
" My Sacrifice" - Creed
" Hero" - Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott
" When I'm Gone" - 3 Doors Down
" Take Me As I Am" - Tonic
" Walk On" - U2

BEST HARD ROCK PERFORMANCE:
" All My Life" - Foo Fighters
" I Stand Alone" - Godsmack
" Youth of the Nation" - P.O.D.
" No One Knows" - Queens of the Stone Age
" Aerials" - System of a Down

BEST metaL PERFORMANCE:
" Here To Stay" - Korn
" Portrait" - P.O.D.
" My Plague" - Slipknot
" Get Inside" - Stone Sour
" Never Gonna Stop (The Red, Red Kroovy)" - Rob Zombie

BEST ROCK INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE:
" Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia)" - The Flaming Lips
" Sco-Mule" - Gov't Mule
" Apollo" - Tony Levin
" Starry Night" - Joe Satriani
" Love Theme from the Godfather" - Slash

BEST ROCK SONG (a songwriter(s) award):
" All My Life" - Foo Fighters, songwriters (Foo Fighters)
" Hero" - Chad Kroeger, songwriter (Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott)
" I Stand Alone" - Sully Erna, songwriter (Godsmack)
" The Rising" - Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)
" When I'm Gone" - Brad Arnold, Todd Harrell, Chris Henderson & Matt Roberts, songwriters (3 Doors Down)

BEST ROCK ALBUM:
When I Was Cruel - Elvis Costello
C'mon, C'mon - Sheryl Crow
Dreamland - Robert Plant
The Rising - Bruce Springsteen
Head on Straight - Tonic

BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE:
Sea Change - Beck
Walking with Thee - Clinic
A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
Cruel Smile - Elvis Costello & The Imposters
Behind the Music - The Soundtrack of Our Lives

BEST FEMALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE:
" More Than A Woman" - Aaliyah
" Foolish" - Ashanti
" He Think I Don't Know" - Mary J. Blige
" I'm Still Standing" - Eartha
" He Loves Me (Lyzel In E Flat) (Movements I, II, III)" - Jill Scott

BEST MALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE:
" Let's Stay Home Tonight" - Joe
" The World's Greatest" - R. Kelly
" Halfcrazy" - Musiq
" Take A Message" - Remy Shand
" U Don't Have To Call" - Usher

BEST URBAN / ALTERNATIVE PERFORMANCE:
" Little Things" - India.Arie
" Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop)" - Erykah Badu featuring Common
" Getting' Grown" - Cee-Lo
" Floetic" - Floetry
" Be Here" - Raphael Saadiq featuring D'Angelo

BEST R&B PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL:
" All The Way" - Kenny G featuring Brian McKnight
" Don't Mess With My Man" - Nivea featuring Brian & Brandon Casey of Jagged Edge
" More Than A Woman" - Angie Stone & Joe
" Girl Talk" - TLC
" Love's In Need of Love Today" - Stevie Wonder & Take Six

BEST R&B SONG (a songwriter(s) award):
" Be Here" - Michael Archer, Bobby Ozuna, Raphael Saadiq & Glenn Standridge, songwriters (Raphael Saadiq featuring D'Angelo)
" Floetic" - Marsha Ambrosius, Darren "Limitless" Henson, Keith "Keshon" Pelzer & Natalie Stewart, songwriters (Floetry)
" Good Man" - Will Baker, Andrew Ramsey, Shannon Sanders & India Simpson, songwriters (India.Arie)
" Love of My Life (An Ode To Hip-Hop)" - Erykah Badu, Robert Ozuna, James Poyser, Raphael Saadiq & Glen Standridge, songwriters (Erykah Badu featuring Common)
" Take A Message" - Remy Shand, songwriter (Remy Shand)

BEST R&B ALBUM:
Voyage To India - India.Arie
Better Days - Joe Juslisen (Just Listen) - Musiq
Instant Vintage - Raphael Saadiq
The Way I Feel - Remy Shand

BEST CONTEMPORARY R&B ALBUM:
Ashanti - Ashanti
Full Moon - Brandy
Faithfully - Faith Evans
Floetic - Floetry
Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape - Meshell Ndegeocello

BEST FEMALE RAP SOLO PERFORMANCE:
" Diary" - Charli Baltimore
" Scream A.K.A. Itchin'" - Missy Elliott
" Satisfaction" - Eve
" Na Na Be Like" - Foxy Brown
" Mystery of Iniquity" - Lauryn Hill

BEST MALE RAP SOLO PERFORMANCE:
" Without Me" - Eminem
" Song Cry" - Jay-Z
" Rollout (My Business)" - Ludacris
" Bouncin' Back (Bumpin' Me Against The Wall)" - Mystikal
" Hot In Herre" - Nelly

BEST RAP PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP:
" The Essence" - AZ featuring Nas
" Still Fly" - Big Tymers
" Pass The Courvoisier Part II" - Busta Rhymes featuring P. Diddy & Pharrell
" Oh Boy" - Cam'Ron featuring Juelz Santana
" The Whole World" - Outkast featuring Killer Mike

BEST RAP / SUNG COLLABORATION:
" What's Luv?" - Fat Joe featuring Ashanti
" Always on Time" - Ja Rule featuring Ashanti
" Po' Folks" - Nappy Roots featuring Anthony Hamilton
" Dilemma" - Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland
" Like I Love You" - Justin Timberlake featuring Clipse

BEST RAP ALBUM:
The Eminem Show - Eminem
Word of Mouf - Ludacris
Tarantula - Mystikal
Nellyville - Nelly
Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry - Petey Pablo

BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR A MOTION PICTURE OR FOR TELEVISION (a songwriter award):
" Hero" (from Spider-Man) - Chad Kroeger, songwriter (Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott)
" If I Didn't Have You" (from Monsters, Inc.) - Randy Newman, songwriter (Randy Newman)
" Love of My Life - An Ode To Hip-Hop" (from Brown Sugar) - Erykah Badu, Madukwu Chinwah, Rashid Lonnie Lynn, Robert Ozuna, James Poyser, Raphael Saadiq & Glen Standridge, songwriters (Erykah Badu featuring Common)
" May It Be" (from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) - Enya & Roma Ryan,songwriters (Enya)
" Vanilla Sky" (from Vanilla Sky) - Paul McCartney, songwriter (Paul McCartney)

BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, NON-CLASSICAL:
Ask A Woman Who Knows - Natalie Cole (Elliott Scheiner & Al Schmitt, Eng.)
C'mon, C'mon - Sheryl Crow (Trina Shoemaker & Eric Tew, Eng.)
Come Away with Me - Nora Jones (Husky Huskolds, Arif Mardin & Jay Newland, Eng.)
Home - Dixie Chicks (Gary Paczosa, Eng.)
Morning View - Incubus (Mike Einziger, Dave Holdredge, Scott Litt & Rick Will, Eng.)

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FUNK BROTHERS ACCEPTING THEIR 2 GRAMMYS 2003

The Recording Academy Give Funk Brothers
Lifetime Achievement Award 2004

2003 Grammy Winners including The Funk Brothers

WINNER - BEST TRADITIONAL R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE:
" What's Going On" - Chaka Khan & The Funk Brother s - WINNER
In the BEST TRADITIONAL R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE category, a series of iconic crooners enjoy nominations. Chaka Khan and the Funk Brothers combined for the stunning "What's Going On"

WINNER - BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK ALBUM:
"Standing In the Shadows of Motown - Various Artists " - WINNER

FUNK BROTHERS ACCEPTING THEIR 2 GRAMMYS 2003

The Recording Academy Give Funk Brothers Lifetime Achievement Award 2004

2003 Grammy Winners including The Funk Brothers

WINNER - BEST TRADITIONAL R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE: " What's Going On" - Chaka Khan & The Funk Brother s - WINNER In the BEST TRADITIONAL R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE category, a series of iconic crooners enjoy nominations. Chaka Khan and the Funk Brothers combined for the stunning "What's Going On"

WINNER - BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK ALBUM: "Standing In the Shadows of Motown - Various Artists " - WINNER

The Recording Academy Give Funk Brothers
Lifetime Achievement Award 2004

WINNER - BEST TRADITIONAL R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE:
" What's Going On" - Chaka Khan & The Funk Brother s - WINNER
In the BEST TRADITIONAL R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE category, a series of iconic crooners enjoy nominations. Chaka Khan and the Funk Brothers combined for the stunning "What's Going On"

WINNER - BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK ALBUM:
"Standing In the Shadows of Motown - Various Artists " - WINNER