Leon Thomas’ Mutt received a Grammy nomination for album of the year at the 68th annual awards, but another “Mutt” got there first. Robert John “Mutt” Lange has been nominated for album of the year three times, as the producer of Shania Twain’s Come on Over and as one of a platoon of producers of Backstreet Boys’ Millennium and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way.

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As Marvin Gaye might say, “I’ll be doggone.”

Thomas and Lange have something in common beyond their “Mutt” connection. Both received their first Grammy Awards as songwriters. Thomas won best R&B song in 2

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