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Awards and honors given to producer Phil Ramone

Some of the awards and honors given to music producer, arranger and engineer Phil Ramone, who died Saturday of complications stemming from heart surgery:

Grammy Awards:

Ÿ 2011 Producer, Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Tony Bennett’s “Duets II”

Ÿ 2006 Producer, Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Tony Bennett’s “Duets: An American Classic”

Ÿ 2005 Producer, Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Tony Bennett’s “The Art of Romance”

Ÿ 2004 Producer, Album of the Year for Ray Charles’ “Genius Loves Company”

Ÿ 2004 Producer, Best Surround Sound Album for Ray Charles’ “Genius Loves Company”

Ÿ 2004 Technical Grammy, for contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field

Ÿ 2002 Producer, Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Tony Bennett’s “Playin’ With My Friends: Bennett Sings The Blues”

Ÿ 1994 Producer, Best Musical Show Album for “Passion”

Ÿ 1983 Composer, Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television for “Flashdance”

Ÿ 1980 Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Ÿ 1979 Producer, Album of the Year for Billy Joel’s “52nd Street”

Ÿ 1978 Producer, Record of the Year for Billy Joel’s “Just The Way You Are”

Ÿ 1975 Producer, Album of the Year for Paul Simon’s “Still Crazy After All These Years”

Ÿ 1969 Producer, Best Musical Show Album for “Promises, Promises”

Ÿ 1964 Engineer, Best Engineered Recording (non-classical) for Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto’s “Getz/Gilberto”

Emmy Award:

Ÿ 1973, Sound Mixer, Outstanding Achievement In Live Or Tape Sound Mixing for “Duke Ellington ... We Love You Madly”

National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS):

Ÿ 2001 National Trustees Award

Ÿ 2000 New York Heroes Award

Ÿ 1984 Governors Award for Honor Roll for A&R/Producers

Ÿ 1965 National Trustee Award, Engineering

Honorary Degrees:

Ÿ Doctor of Musicology, Berklee College of Music, Boston, and Five Towns College, Dix Hills, N.Y.

Ÿ Doctor of Humane Letters, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

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