The Recording Academy is opening its video vault with a Web site that allows fans to vote on their favorite Grammy performances over the years. Selected clips will be shown on a television special in November.

Mynightatthegrammys.com, which launches today (Sept. 10), offers 50 video clips of Grammy performances from such artists as Prince, Beyonce, U2, Marvin e, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Diamond, Kanye West, Elton John, Tina Turner, Madonna and Eminem, among others. Online fans will select their top five choices, with a voting deadline set for Oct. 7.

The top 25 performances that receive the most votes will then be featured on the two-hour "My Night at the Grammys" television special, scheduled to air Nov. 30 on CBS. Along with the video clips, the special will feature artists sharing personal stories about performing at the Grammys, along with behind-the-scenes footage of rehearsals and how the show is produced.

http://mynightatthegrammys.com/

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Nice list, but they got some that's missing and should've been included!

Based on the backstory...

There's never been a Grammy save like in March 1998, when Luciano Pavarotti, suffering from a head cold, had to cancel his performance of "Nessun Dorma" just half an hour before he was supposed to go on. Producers knocked on Franklin's dressing room door and asked if she could fill in. Now, there are opera greats who would've taken a pass; after all, the Puccini aria is Pavarotti's signature tune. But an unintimidated Franklin, presented with a tape of Pavarotti's rehearsal as a guideline, nailed the song, blowing the doors off the theater. It was a performance bordering on miraculous, the crowning achievement in a career of a much-honored, much-adored vocal icon who still had something to prove.

http://www.austin360.com/...retha.html

...The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin gets my vote.



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that list sucks...they got bonnie raitt for the wrong performance (should have been her "i cant make you love me")...the wrong alanis...seal? that dude is soo boring live...and i say that with love.

out of all them folks i gotta go with theaudience's choice. seconded by lil ricky martin

theAudience said:

As much as I respect Aretha Franklin, that performance was OK, nothing more. Still give her props for filling in.

round 1

BTW, why is Madonna "Hung Up" and not "Like A Virgin" performance included in the list?

The list is awful.

I thought Like A Virgin was from the MTV Awards...

sosgemini said:

Oops! Still that "Hung Up" performance should not be included.

do you choose 5 or one? there were five spots. i shoulda read the fine print.

You can select up to 5 performances.

I agree with Rodya, some performances should've been switched with others. Like I think I would've picked "Billie Jean" for MJ. And that Aretha take did suck balls...I guess it was alright for it being last minute though.

i chose:

u2, ricky martin, madonna, michael, and christina.

sassybritches said:

I chose Michael Jackson, Prince and Beyonce, Usher and James Brown, Isaac Pearlman, and Marvin Gaye. The Usher and James Brown one I am not too enthusiastic about, but had to include James Brown.

Scorpion said:

did mj do billie jean for the grammies?

Rodya24 said:

i didn't care much for the prince/beyonce performance. i also didn't think that was marvin's best performance. actually, most of the selections kinda sucked.

really, the best performances out of the bunch were mike, ricky, and christina.

sassybritches said:

The selections are awful.

sosgemini said:

I am not even sure if Michael Jackson performed more than once at the Grammy Awards as a solo artist post-Thriller. All I know of is his '88 performance.

Rodya24 said:

I'm sure Michaels only grammy performance is the one in '88.

Rodya24 said:

I don't think Madonna has performed at the Grammy awards but twice. Once when Ray of Light was out and then when Confessions came out. The other times, she was either not nominated or lost to someone else.

sosgemini said:

No. MJ didn't perform when Thriller won all of those awards. I believe he only performed "Man In The Mirror" because Bad was up for several awards (and lost in all categories). If I'm not mistaken, it was after Thriller won all of those awards that the Academy made it a rule that songs nominated in certain major categories had to be performed.

My choices:
Prince/Beyonce, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Tina Turner.

Janet Jackson's What Have You Done For Me Lately and Prince's Baby I'm a Star performances should have been included

daPrettyman said:

Michael Jackson won the Best Short Music Video award for "Leave Me Alone" in '88. So he did not go empty-handed. But he looked furious that he did not win more.

banks said:

While I am not much of a Janet Jackson lover, her performance was better than most of the shit on the list.

Rodya24 said:

Rodya24 said:

But on that particular night, he did. He didn't win the best video award until 1990

I put Michael Jackson as my first choice. I remember watching that performace live as it happened when I was 9 years old and I was moved.

Rodya24 said:

That's what makes this performance spectacular, I thought she was amazing and I didn't find out until later that she had stepped up to the plate with a 1/2 hr advanced notice

My bad. LOL

That "Billie Jean" performance was on Motown 25, not the Grammy's.

bboy87 said:

Wow. I had no idea. I assumed that he won the best music video award that night since Leave Me Alone was on the Bad album. I guess he made the music video for it after the deadline to be considered for the '88 awards.

Aw, poor Mike. No Grammies.