Roberta Flack wins 3 Grammy Awards 1973

Roberta Flack won two Grammy Awards for her performance of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face at the 15th annual ceremony held March 3, 1973.  She won Record of the Year with Joel Dorn, producer.  The second Grammy went to the songwriter Ewan MacColl for Song of the Year. 

The same night she won Best Pop Vocal Performance by Duo, Group or Chorus with Donnie Hathaway for their performance of Where is the Love?

Charley Pride won two Grammys.  Best Country Vocal Performance, Male for Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs; and Best Country Song for Kiss an Angel Good Morning with songwriter Ben Peters.

Billy Preston won Best Pop Instrumental Performance for Outa-Space.

Happy birthday, Space Shuttle astronaut Alvin Drew!

Alvin Drew, born November 5, 1962 in Washington, DC, is a veteran of two space shuttle flights and during his last shuttle mission became the 200th person to walk in space.

His first mission into space was aboard Endeavour (STS-118) as mission specialist in August 2007 to the International Space Station.  It was the first flight of the Endeavour after the Columbia disaster.  Drew and fellow astronaut Barbara Morgan participated in an education event on August 16 (Day 9) with students in Alexandria, Virginia.

His wake-up songs are two songs I really like: Outa-space by Billy Preston and Learn to Fly by the Foo Fighters.

Drew's second mission into space was aboard Discovery (STS-133) in February-March 2011 to the International Space Station.  It was the 39th and final mission of Discovery.  It completed a cumulative total of 365 days in space.  Drew performed the mission's first EVA on Day 5 with fellow astronaut Steve Bowen.  That is when Drew became the 200th person to walk in space.