| 1976
Grammy Award Winners: |
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Album of the Year:
Songs in the Key of Life, - Stevie Wonder (Tamla/Motown)
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Song of the Year:
I Write the Songs - Bruce Johnston, songwriter |
Best New Artist of the
Year:
Starland Vocal Band |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Male:
Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Female:
Hasten Down the Wind - Linda Ronstadt |
Best Pop Vocal Performance
By a Duo, Group or Chorus
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago |
Best Pop Instrumental
Performance:
Breezin' - George Benson |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Song:
Lowdown - Boz Scaggs and David Paich, songwriters |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance, Male:
I Wish - Stevie Wonder |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance, Female:
Sophisticated Lady” (She's a Different Lady) - Natalie
Cole |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus:
You Don't Have to Be a Star” (To Be in My Show) - Marilyn
McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Instrumental Performance:
Theme From Good King Bad - George Benson |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance:
Fitzgerald and Pass Again - Ella Fitzgerald |
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Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist
Basie and Zoot - Count Basie
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Best Jazz Performance
By a Big Band
The Ellington Suites - Duke Ellington |
Best Country Song:
Broken Lady - Larry Gatlin, songwriter |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Male:
(I'm a) Stand By My Woman Man - Ronnie Milsap |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Female:
Elite Hotel - Emmylou Harris |
Best Country Vocal Performance
By a Duo or Group:
The End Is Not in Sight (The Cowboy Tune) - Amazing Rhythm
Aces |
Best Country Instrumental
Performance:
Chester and Lester - Chet Atkins and Les Paul |
Best Gospel Performance:
Where the Soul Never Dies - Oak Ridge Boys |
Best Soul Gospel Performance:
How I Got Over - Mahalia Jackson |
Best Latin Recording:
Unfinished Masterpiece - Eddie Palmieri (Coco) |
Best Inspirational Performance:
The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable,
Different World of Gary S. Paxton - Gary S. Paxton |
Best Ethnic or Traditional
Recording:
Mark Twang - John Hartford (Flying Fish) |
Best Instrumental Arrangement:
Leprechaun's Dream - Chick Corea, arranger |
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Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists
If You Leave Me Now - Jimmy Haskell and James William
Guercio, arrangers
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Best Arrangement for
Voices
Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band, arrangers |
Best Instrumental Composition:
Bellavia - Chuck Mangione, Composer |
Best Cast Show Album:
Bubbling Brown Sugar - various composers (H&L) |
Album of Best Original
Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special:
Car Wash - Norman Whitfield, composer (MCA) |
Album of the Year, Classical:
Beethoven, Five Piano Concertos - Artur Rubinstein; Daniel
Barenboim conducting London Philharmonic (RCA) |
Best Classical Orchestral
Performance:
Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra - Sir Georg Solti conducting
Chicago Symphony |
Best Chamber Music Performance:
The Art of Courtly Love - David Munrow conducting Early
Music Consort of London |
Best Classical Performance,
Instrumental Soloist (With Orchestra):
Beethoven, The Five Piano Concertos - Artur Rubinstein;
Daniel Barenboim conducting London Philharmonic |
Best Classical Performance,
Instrumental Soloist (Without Orchestra):
Horowitz Concerts 1975/76 - Vladimir Horowitz |
Best Opera Recording:
Gershwin, Porgy and Bess - Lorin Maazel conducting Cleveland
Orchestra and Chorus (London): |
Best Choral Performance,
Classical:
Rachmaninoff, The Bells - Arthur Oldham, Chorus master
of London Symphony Chorus; André Previn conducting
London Symphony Orchestra |
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Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance:
Music of Victor Herbert - Beverly Sills
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Best Comedy Recording:
Bicentennial Nigger - Richard Pryor (Warner Brothers) |
Best Spoken Word Recording:
Great American Documents - Orson Welles, Henry Fonda,
Helen Hayes and James Earl Jones (CBS) |
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Best Recording for Children:
Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf; Saint-Saëns, Carnival
of the Animals - Hermione Gingold, narrator; Karl Bohm,
conductor (Deutsche Grammophon)
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Best Album
Package
Chicago X - John Berg, art director (Columbia) |
Best Album
Notes:
The Changing Face of Harlem, the Savoy Sessions - Dan
Morgenstern, annotator (Savoy) |
Best Producer
of the Year:
Stevie Wonder |
