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Scotty Award

Date confirmed in Billboard Magazine (August 15, 1981)

Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall" LP... is the recipient of 3M's Magnetic Audio-Video Products Division first "Scotty" award.

"Scotty" is 3M's version of citing outstandingly produced on Scotch professional audio tape. The award itself, takes the form of an original oil painting of the winning artist.

3M is utilizing a panel of five well-known and respected recording industry veterans, and one 3M representative, to judge Scotty contenders. 3M also intends donating $1,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Assn. in the name of the LP.