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Grammy Award Winners: |
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Record of the Year:
What a Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers
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Album of the Year:
52nd Street, Billy Joel (Columbia) |
Song of the Year:
What a Fool Believes - Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald,
songwriters |
Best New Artist:
Rickie Lee Jones |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Male:
52nd Street - Billy Joel |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Female:
I'll Never Love This Way Again - Dionne Warwick |
Best Pop Vocal Performance
By a Duo, Group or Chorus:
Minute by Minute - Doobie Brothers |
Best Pop Instrumental
Performance:
Rise - Herb Alpert |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Male:
Gotta Serve Somebody - Bob Dylan |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Female:
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer |
Best Rock Vocal Performance
By a Duo or Group:
Heartache Tonight - Eagles |
Best Rock Instrumental
Performance:
Rockestra Theme - Wings |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Song:
After the Love Has Gone - David Foster, Jay Graydon and
Bill Champlin, songwriters |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance, Male:
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson |
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Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female:
Deja Vu - Dionne Warwick
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Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus
After the Love Has Gone - Earth, Wind and Fire |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Instrumental Performance:
Boogie Wonderland - Earth, Wind and Fire |
Best Disco Recording:
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor (Polydor) |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance:
Fine and Mellow - Ella Fitzgerald |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Soloist
Jousts - Oscar Peterson |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Group:
Duet - Gary Burton and Chick Corea |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Big Band
At Fargo, 1940 Live - Duke Ellington |
Best Jazz Fusion Performance,
Vocal or Instrumental:
8:30 - Weather Report |
Best Country Song:
You Decorated My Life - Debbie Hupp and Bob Morrison,
songwriters |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Male:
The Gambler - Kenny Rogers |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Female:
Blue Kentucky Girl - Emmylou Harris |
Best Country Vocal Performance
By a Duo or Group:
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band |
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Best Country Instrumental Performance:
Big Sandy/Leather Britches - Doc and Merle Watson
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Best Gospel Performance,
Contemporary or Inspirational
Heed the Call - Imperials |
Best Gospel Performance,
Traditional
Lift Up the Name of Jesus - Blackwood Brothers |
Best Soul Gospel Performance,
Contemporary
I'll Be Thinking of You, Andrae Crouch |
Best Soul Gospel Performance,
Traditional
Changing Times - Mighty Clouds of Joy |
Best Latin Recording:
Irakere - Irakere (Columbia) |
Best Inspirational Performance:
You Gave Me Love (When Nobody Gave Me a Prayer) - B.J.
Thomas |
Best Ethnic or Traditional
Recording:
Muddy “Mississippi” Waters Live - Muddy Waters (Sky/CBS) |
Best Instrumental Arrangement:
Soulful Strut - Claus Ogerman, arranger |
Best Arrangement Accompanying
Vocalist(s):
What a Fool Believes - Michael McDonald, arranger |
Best Instrumental Composition:
Main Title Theme From Superman - John Williams, Composer: |
Best Cast Show Album:
Sweeney Todd - Stephen Sondheim, composer and Iyricist
(RCA) |
Best Album of Original
Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special
Superman - John Williams, composer (Warner Brothers) |
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Best Classical Album:
Brahms, Symphonies Complete - Sir Georg Solti conducting
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (London):
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Best Classical Orchestral
Recording:
Brahms, Symphonies Complete - Sir Georg Solti conducting
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (London): |
Best Chamber Music Performance:
Copland, Appalachian Spring - Dennis Russell Davies conducting
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra |
Best Classical Performance,
Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra):
Bartók, Concertos for Piano nos. 1 and 2 - Maurizio
Pollini; Abbado conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
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Best Classical Performance, Instrumental
Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra):
The Horowitz Concerts 1978/79 - Vladimir Horowitz
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Best Opera
Recording:
Britten - Peter Grimes, Colin Davis conducting Orchestra
and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; solos:
Vickers, Harper and Summers (Philips) |
Best Choral
Performance, Classical (Other Than Opera):
Brahms, A German Requiem - Sir Georg Solti, conductor
and Margaret Hillis, choral director, Chicago Symphony
Chorus and Orchestra |
Best Classical
Vocal Soloist Performance:
O Sole Mio - Luciano Pavarotti |
Best Comedy
Recording:
Reality . . .What a Concept - Robin Williams (Casablanca) |
Best Spoken
Word, Documentary or Drama Recording:
Ages of Man (Readings From Shakespeare) - Sir John Gielgud
(Caedmon) |
Best Recording
for Children:
The Muppet Movie - Jim Henson, creator (Atlantic) |
Best Album
Package
Breakfast in America - Mike Doud and Mick Haggerty, art
directors (A&M) |
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Best Album Notes:
Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy Sessions - Bob Porter
and James Patrick, annotators (Savoy)
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Best Historical
Reissue
Billie Holiday (Giants of Jazz) (Time Life) |
Producer of
the Year (Non-Classical):
Larry Butler |
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Classical Producer of the Year:
James Mallinson
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