| 1981
Grammy Award Winners: |
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Record of the Year:
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
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Album of the Year:
Double Fantasy - John Lennon and Yoko Ono (Warner Bros/Geffen) |
Song of the Year:
Bette Davis Eyes - Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon, songwriters |
Best New Artist:
Sheena Easton |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Male:
Breakin Away - Al Jarreau |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Female:
Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music Live On Broadway -
Lena Horne |
Best Pop Vocal Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Boy From New York City - Manhattan Transfer |
Best Pop Instrumental
Performance:
The Theme From Hill Street Blues - Mike Post featuring
Larry Carlton |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Male:
Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Female:
Fire and Ice - Pat Benatar |
Best Rock Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Don't Stand So Close to Me - Police |
Best Rock Instrumental
Performance:
Behind My Camel - Police |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Song:
Just the Two of Us - Bill Withers, William Salter and
Ralph MacDonald, songwriters |
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Best Rhythm and Blues Performance, Male:
One Hundred Ways - James Ingram
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Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance, Female:
Hold On I'm Comin' - Aretha Franklin |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
The Dude - Quincy Jones |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Instrumental Performance:
All I Need Is You - David Sanborn |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Male:
Blue Rondo a la Turk - Al Jarreau |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Female:
Digital III at Montreux - Ella Fitzgerald |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Duo or Group:
Until I Met You (Corner Pocket) - Manhattan Transfer |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Soloist:
Bye Bye Blackbird - John Coltrane |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Group:
Chick Corea and Gary Burton in Concert, Zurich, October
28, 1979 - Chick Corea and Gary Burton |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Big Band
Walk on the Water - Gerry Mulligan and His Orchestra |
Best Jazz Fusion Performance,
Vocal or Instrumental:
Winelight - Grover Washington, Jr. |
Best Country Song:
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton, songwriter |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Male:
(There's) “No Gettin' Over Me - Ronnie Milsap |
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Best Country Vocal Performance, Female:
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
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Best Country Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Elvira - Oak Ridge Boys |
Best Country Instrumental
Performance:
Country - After All These Years, Chet Atkins |
Best Gospel Performance,
Contemporary or Inspirational:
Priority - Imperials |
Best Gospel Performance,
Traditional:
The Masters V - J.D. Sumner, James Blackwood, Hovie Lister,
Rosie Rozell and Jake Hess |
Best Soul Gospel Performance,
Contemporary:
Don't Give Up - Andrae Crouch |
Best Soul Gospel Performance,
Traditional:
The Lord Will Make a Way - Al Green |
Best Latin Recording:
Guajira Pa la Jeva - Clare Fischer (Pausa) |
Best Inspirational Performance:
Amazing Grace, B.J. Thomas |
Best Ethnic or Traditional
Recording:
There Must Be a Better World Somewhere, B.B. King (MCA) |
Best Arrangement of an
Instrumental Recording:
Velas - Quincy Jones and Johnny Mandel, arrangers |
Best Instrumental Arrangement
Accompanying Vocal(s):
Ai No Corrida - Quincy Jones and Jerry Hey, arrangers |
Best Vocal Arrangement
for Two or More Voices:
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square - Gene Puerling,
arranger |
Best Instrumental Composition:
The Theme From Hill Street Blues - Mike Post, Composer |
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Best Cast Show Album:
Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music Live on Broadway,
various composers and lyricists (Qwest/Warner Brothers)
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Best Album of Original
Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special:
Raiders of the Lost Ark, John Williams, composer (Columbia/CBS) |
Best Classical Album:
Mahler, Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Sir Georg Solti conducting
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (London) |
Best Classical Orchestral
Recording:
Mahler, Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Sir Georg Solti conducting
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (London) |
Best Chamber Music Performance:
Tchaikovsky, Piano Trio in A Minor, Itzhak Perlman, Lynn
Harrell and Vladimir Ashkenazy |
Best Classical Performance,
Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra):
Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration, Isaac Stern,
Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman; Zubin Mehta conducting
New York Philharmonic Orchestra |
Best Classical Performance,
Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra):
The Horowitz Concerts 1979/80, Vladimir Horowitz |
Best Opera Recording:
Janácek, From the House of the Dead, Sir Charles
Mackerras conducting Vienna Philharmonic; solos: Zahradnicek,
Zitek and Zidek (London) |
Best Choral Performance
(Other Than Opera):
Haydn, The Creation, Neville Marriner conducting Chorus
of Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields |
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Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance:
Live From Lincoln Center, Sutherland-Horne-Pavarotti,
Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne and Luciano Pavarotti
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Best Comedy
Recording:
Rev. Du Rite, Richard Pryor (Laff) |
Best Spoken
Word, Documentary or Drama Recording:
Donovan's Brain, Orson Welles (Radiola) |
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Best Recording for Children:
Sesame Country, Muppets, Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle,
Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker; Jim Henson (Sesame Street)
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Best Album
Package
Tatoo You, Peter Corriston, art director (Rolling Stones/Atlantic) |
Best Album
Notes:
Erroll Garner, Master of the Keyboard, Dan Morgenstern,
annotator (Book-of-the-Month Records) |
Best Historical
Album:
Hoagy Carmichael: From “Star Dust” to “Ole Buttermilk
Sky” (Book-of-the-Month Records) |
Video of the
Year:
Michael Nesmith in Elephant Parts - Michael Nesmith |
Producer of
the Year (Non-Classical):
Quincy Jones |
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Classical Producer of the Year:
James Mallinson
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