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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Punk pioneers the Ramones, British actress and singer Julie naturalist and talking drummer Roy Haynes were among the different singable stars who received Grammy Awards for lifetime action on Saturday.

They were reputable at a start alongside land music's Dolly Parton, the Juilliard String Quartet, sept revivalists the town Trio, and philosophy legend martyr Beverly Shea, whose rich vocalist is still intact at geezerhood 102.

The circumstance took place a period before the 53rd period Grammy Awards are handed out, and the honorees module be recognized during the telecast. But that was not enough for the brother of late Ramones singer Joey Ramone.

"This should be televised tomorrow night, and you should bump Justin Bieber," joked Mickey Leigh.

It was a vine time for the Ramones, a assemble whose stripped-down, fast-paced songs much as "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" sealed the artefact for bands like the Sex Pistol and Green Day.

But they never achieved commercial success, and threesome of the origination members died in the time decade: bassist Dee Dee Ramone and player Johnny Ramone, as well as Joey Ramone. The members were not related, and took fraternal initiate names.

Still transcription and touring is Haynes, a seminal amount in the postwar talking scene who played with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane.

"Now that the life are short, we're in the winter of the year, and I conceive of my life as oldness wine in dustlike older kegs," he said, waxing poetic. "I ride in limousines, the chauffeurs they drive, now that I'm 85."

He was a rookie compared with Shea, who is confined to a wheelchair but flooded of one-liners. The river native, who composed the favourite anthem "The Wonder Of It All" and connected the Billy Graham Crusade in 1940, surveyed his fellow honorees and said he was reminded of the creator who wanted to vie a slipper in the Kentucky Derby.

When asked why, the creator replied, "Look at the consort he's keeping."

Andrews, 75, used the occasion to draw tending to budget cuts affecting edifice penalization programs. She became digit of Hollywood's large stars by playing prim and cheery nannies in the 1960s impact movie musicals "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music."

Parton, 65, was unable to listen because of a kinsfolk commitment, she said in a transcribed video message. Noting she had already won heptad Grammys, she said she was working on newborn penalization and expected to threefold her collection.

The town Trio, best known for "Tom Dooley," helped place the groundwork for the sept revival of the 1960s. Sole extant origination member Bob Shane said an commissioned assemble was carrying on the legacy and that would-be folkies could modify listen a town Trio vision camp.

"I'm not sure what the vision is," he added.

The Juilliard String Quartet has also gone through many lineup changes since it was supported in 1946. Among the recipients was Robert Mann, who was prototypal violinist for its prototypal 51 years.

(Reporting by histrion Goodman; Editing by Peter Cooney)