| 1977
Grammy Award Winners: |
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Record of the Year:
Hotel California - Eagles
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Album of the Year:
Rumours, Fleetwood Mac (Warner Brothers) |
Song of the Year (tie):
Love Theme From A Star Is Born” (Evergreen) - Barbra Streisand
and Paul Williams, songwriters
You Light Up My Life - Joe Brooks, songwriter |
Best New Artist of the
Year:
Debby Boone |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Male:
Handy Man - James Taylor |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Female:
Love Theme From A Star Is Born” (Evergreen) - Barbra Streisand |
Best Pop Vocal Performance
By a Duo, Group or Chorus:
How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees |
Best Pop Instrumental
Performance:
Star Wars - John Williams conducting London Symphony Orchestra |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Song:
You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - Leo Sayer and Vini Poncia,
songwriters |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance, Male:
Unmistakably Lou - Lou Rawls |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance, Female:
Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus
Best of My Love - Emotions |
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Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance:
Q - Brothers Johnson
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Best Jazz Vocal Performance:
Look to the Rainbow - Al Jarreau |
Best Jazz Performance
By a Soloist
The Giants - Oscar Peterson |
Best Jazz Performance
By a Group:
The Phil Woods Six—Live From the Showboat - Phil Woods |
Best Jazz Performance
By a Big Band
Prime Time - Count Basie and His Orchestra |
Best Country Song:
Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Richard Leigh, songwriter |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Male:
Lucille - Kenny Rogers |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Female:
Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle |
Best Country Vocal Performance
By a Duo or Group:
Heaven's Just a Sin Away - The Kendalls |
Best Country Instrumental
Performance:
Country Instrumentalist of the Year - Hargus “Pig” Robbins |
Best Gospel Performance,
Contemporary or Inspirational
Sail On - Imperials |
Best Gospel Performance,
Traditional
Just a Little Talk With Jesus - Oak Ridge Boys |
Best Soul Gospel Performance,
Contemporary
Wonderfull - Edwin Hawkins and the Edwin Hawkins Singers |
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Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional
James Cleveland Live at Carnegie Hall - James Cleveland
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Best Latin Recording:
Dawn, Mongo Santamaria (Vaya) |
Best Inspirational Performance:
Home Where I Belong - B.J. Thomas |
Best Ethnic or Traditional
Recording:
Hard Again, Muddy Waters (Blue Sky/CBS) |
Best Instrumental Arrangement:
Nadia's Theme (The Young and the Restless) - Harry Betts,
Perry Botkin, Jr. and Barry De Vorzon, arrangers |
Best Arrangement Accompanying
Vocalist(s):
Love Theme From A Star Is Born” (Evergreen) - lan Freebairn-Smith,
arranger |
Best Arrangement for
Voices
New Kid in Town - Eagles, arrangers |
Best Instrumental Composition:
Main Title From Star Wars - John Williams, Composer |
Best Cast Show Album:
Annie - Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, composers
(Columbia) |
Best Original Score Written
for a Motion Picture or Television Special
Star Wars - John Williams, composer (20th Century) |
Album of the Year, Classical:
Concert of the Century - Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz,
Isaac Stern, Mstislav Rostropovich, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
Yehudi Menuhin and Lyndon Woodside (Columbia) |
Best Classical Orchestral
Performance:
Mahler, Symphony No. 9 - Carlo Maria Giulini conducting
Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
Best Chamber Music Performance:
Schoenberg, Quartets for Strings - Juilliard Quartet |
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Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s)
(With Orchestra):
Vivaldi, The Four Seasons - Itzhak Perlman, violin;
Itzhak Perlman conducting London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Best Classical Performance
Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra):
Beethoven, Sonata for Piano No. 18; Schumann, Fantasiestücke
- Artur Rubinstein, piano |
Best Opera Recording:
Gershwin, Porgy and Bess - John De Main conducting Sherwin
M. Goldman Houston Grand Opera Production; solos: Albert,
Dale, Smith, Shakesnider, Lane, Brice and Smalls (RCA) |
Best Choral Performance,
Classical (Other Than Opera):
Verdi, Requiem - Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony
Orchestra; Margaret Hillis, choral director of the Chicago
Symphony Chorus |
Best Classical Vocal
Soloist Performance:
Bach, Arias - Janet Baker; Neville Marriner conducting
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields |
Best Comedy Recording:
Let's Get Small - Steve Martin (Warner Brothers) |
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Best Spoken Word Recording:
The Belle of Amherst - Julie Harris (Credo)
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Best Recording
for Children:
Aren't You Glad You're You - Sesame Street cast and Muppets
(Sesame Street) |
Best Album
Package
Simple Dreams - Kosh, art director (Asylum) |
Best Album
Notes:
Bing Crosby: A Legendary Performer - George T. Simon,
annotator (RCA) |
Best Producer
of the Year:
Peter Asher |
