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\u201cLife goes in cycles,\u201d Frank Sinatra<\/a> once sang. So, he shouldn\u2019t have been all that surprised when his swinging style was replaced by rock \u2018n\u2019 roll once Elvis Presley burst onto the scene.<\/p>\n All the same, he wasn\u2019t all that fond of this \u201cugly\u201d transition. \u201cHis kind of music is deplorable, a rancid-smelling aphrodisiac,\u201d Sinatra once said regarding Presley\u2019s hip-snaking revolution. \u201cIt fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people\u201d.<\/p>\n While that might seem vaguely ludicrous in retrospect, \u2018retrospect\u2019 happens to be the key word. Sinatra\u2019s opinion reflected what a fair chunk of the population was thinking. That\u2019s one of the problems with mainstream awards. By the dawn of the 1960s, it was obvious to anyone paying due attention that rock \u2018n\u2019 roll was the future, but the Grammys were never independent enough to champion the advancing avant-garde.<\/p>\n So, remaining aligned with the populist vote, it took a while to break away from swing following its inaugural ceremony in 1959. For instance, in 1963, it gave the plaudit to \u2018What Kind of Fool am I?\u2019, but was Sammy Davis Jr\u2019s typical jazzy record really more worthy than the cutting edge vitality of something like Bob Dylan\u2019s \u2018Blowin\u2019 in the Wind\u2019?<\/p>\n