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7 Times Bob Newhart Made Billboard Charts & Awards History

Here are seven times Newhart made Billboard and awards history.

Newhart had a wonderfully dry sense of humor and comic timing that put him up there with such masters as Jack Benny, Bea Arthur and Betty White. Newhart won best new artist at that same ceremony in 1961, beating opera legend Leontyne Price (who went on to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy in 1989), South African singer Miriam Makeba, the folk group The Brothers Four and 20-year old pop star Joanie Sommers. Those gathered to honor Newhart included Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, The Smothers Brothers, Don Rickles, Tim Conway, Bernie Mac, Jane Curtin, Fred Willard, Julia Sweeney and Steven Wright.

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