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Grammy Award Winners: |
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Record of the Year:
Sailing - Christopher Cross
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Album of the Year:
Christopher Cross, Christopher Cross (Warner Brothers) |
Song of the Year:
Sailing - Christopher Cross, songwriter |
Best New Artist:
Christopher Cross |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Male:
This Is It - Kenny Loggins |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Female:
The Rose - Bette Midler |
Best Pop Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Guilty - Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb |
Best Pop Instrumental
Performance:
One on One - Bob James and Earl Klugh |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Male:
Glass Houses - Billy Joel |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Female:
Crimes of Passion - Pat Benatar |
Best Rock Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Against the Wind - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band |
Best Rock Instrumental
Performance:
Reggatta de Blanc - Police |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Song:
Never Knew Love Like This Before - Reggie Lucas and James
Mtume, songwriters |
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Best Rhythm and Blues Performance, Male:
Give Me the Night - George Benson
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Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance, Female:
Never Knew Love Like This Before - Stephanie Mills |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Shining Star - Manhattans |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Instrumental Performance:
Off Broadway - George Benson |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Male:
Moody's Mood - George Benson |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Female:
A Perfect Match/Ella and Basie - Ella Fitzgerald |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Soloist
I Will Say Goodbye - Bill Evans |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Group:
We Will Meet Again - Bill Evans |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Big Band
On the Road - Count Basie and Orchestra: |
Best Jazz Fusion Performance,
Vocal or Instrumental:
Birdland - Manhattan Transfer |
Best Country Song:
On the Road Again - Willie Nelson, songwriter |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Male:
He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Female:
Could I Have This Dance - Anne Murray |
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Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
That Lovin' You Feelin' Again - Roy Orbison and Emmylou
Harris
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Best Country Instrumental
Performance:
Orange Blossom Special/Hoedown - Gilley's Urban Cowboy
Band |
Best Gospel Performance,
Contemporary or Inspirational
The Lord's Prayer - Reba Rambo, Dony McGuire, B.J. Thomas,
Andrae Crouch, the Archers, Walter and Tramiane Hawkins
and Cynthia Clawson |
Best Gospel Performance,
Traditional
We Come to WorshipV Blackwood Brothers |
Best Soul Gospel Performance,
Contemporary
RejoiceV Shirley Caesar |
Best Soul Gospel Performance,
Traditional
Lord, Let Me Be an Instrument - James Cleveland and the
Charles Fold Singers |
Best Latin Recording:
La Onda Va Bien - Cal Tjader (Concord Jazz) |
Best Inspirational Performance:
With My Song I Will Praise Him - Debby Boone |
Best Ethnic or Traditional
Recording:
Rare Blues - Dr. Isaiah Ross, Maxwell Street Jimmy, Big
Joe Williams, Son House, Rev. Robin Wilkins, Little Brother
Montgomery and Sunnyland Slim (Takoma) |
Best Instrumental Arrangement:
Dinorah, Dinorah - Quincy Jones and Jerry Hey, arrangers |
Best Arrangement Accompanying
Vocalist(s):
Sailing - Michael Omatian and Christopher Cross, arrangers |
Best Arrangement for
Voices
Birdland - Janis Siegel, arranger |
Best Instrumental Composition:
The Empire Strikes Back - John Williams, Composer |
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Best Cast Show Album:
Evita—Premier American Recording - Andrew Lloyd Webber,
composer; Tim Rice, Iyricist (MCA)
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Best Album of Original
Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special
The Empire Strikes Back - John Williams, composer (RSO) |
Best Classical Album:
Berg, Lulu (Complete Version) - Pierre Boulez conducting
Orchestre de l'Opera de Paris; solos: Stratas, Minton,
Mazura and Blankenheim (Deutsche Grammophon) |
Best Classical Orchestral
Recording:
Bruckner, Symphony No. 6 in A Major - Sir Georg Solti
conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra (London) |
Best Chamber Music Performance
Music for Two Violins (Moszkowski, Suite for Two Violins;
Shostakovich, Duets; Prokofiev, Sonata for Two Violins)
- Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman |
Best Classical Performance,
Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) (tie):
-Berg, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Stravinsky,
Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra - Itzhak
Perlman; Seiji Ozawa conducting Boston Symphony Orchestra:
-Brahms, Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Cello (Double
Concerto) - Itzhak Perlman and Mstislav Rostropovich;
Bernard Haitink conducting Concertgebouw Orchestra |
Best Classical Performance
Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra):
The Spanish Album - Itzhak Perlman |
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Best Opera Recording:
Berg, Lulu (Complete Version) - Pierre Boulez conducting
Orchestre de l'Opera de Paris; solos: Stratas, Minton,
Mazura and Blankenheim
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Best Choral
Performance, Classical (Other Than Opera):
Mozart, Requiem - Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor and Norbert
Balatsch, chorus master, Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra
(Deutsche Grammophon) |
Best Classical
Vocal Soloist Performance:
Prima Donna, Volume 5 Great Soprano Arias From Handel
to Britten - Leontyne Price; Henry Lewis conducting Philharmonia
Orchestra |
Best Comedy
Recording:
No Respect, Rodney Dangerfield (Casablanca) |
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Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording:
Gertrude Stein, Pat Carroll (Caedmon)
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Best Recording
for Children:
In Harmony/A Sesame Street Record - Doobie Brothers, James
Taylor, Carly Simon, Bette Midler, Muppets, Al Jarreau,
Linda Ronstadt, Wendy Waldman, Libby Titus and Dr. John,
Livingston Taylor, George Benson and Pauline Wilson, Lucy
Simon, Kate Taylor and the Simon/Taylor Family (Sesame
Street/Warner Brothers) |
Best Album
Package
Against the Wind - Roy Kohara, art director (Capitol) |
Best Album
Notes:
Trilogy: Past, Present and Future - David McClintick,
annotator (Reprise/Warner Brothers) |
Best Historical
Reissue Album:
Segovia—The EMI Recordings 1927–39 (Angel) |
Producer of
the Year (Non-Classical):
Phil Ramone |
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Classical Producer of the Year:
Robert Woods
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