The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES € Hot newcomers Alanis Morissette and Hootie & the Blowfish were rewarded for major debut successes with multiple Grammys last night.

Morissette's jealousy anthem ''You Oughta Know'' won best rock song and female rock vocal performance. Her ''Jagged Little Pill'' earned the rock album trophy.

With 1995's bestselling album ''Cracked Rear View,'' Hootie won best new artist and pop group vocal performance for ''Let Her Cry.''

''You Oughta Know,'' with graphic sexual references, was performed word-for-word by Morissette on the Grammy stage but CBS bleeped out the most flagrant four-letter word.

''This award does not represent the fact that I'm better than any other women that were nominated with me, but it does represent a lot of people connected to what I wrote ... and for that I'm grateful,'' Morissette said after receiving her trophy for female rock vocal performance.

Vince Gill, the trio TLC and Stevie Wonder also captured two Grammys apiece. Frank Sinatra scored his first victory in decades and Nirvana was saluted for its last effort before Kurt Cobain's death.

Morissette and pop diva Mariah Carey were the leading nominees entering the 38th annual Grammys with six bids apiece. The competition between Morissette's album of raw, angry songs and Carey's romantic ''Daydream'' was the edgy clash Grammy officials hoped would make the contest more relevant.

Most of the awards in the 88 categories were presented in a program before the CBS-TV telecast with Ellen DeGeneres as host.

DeGeneres had her own edge, opening with off-color banter about a song title. ''This is not your father's Grammys,'' she would note later in the telecast.

The other top nominees included Joan Osborne, Babyface and Ballard with five each.