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Grammy Award Winners: |
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Record of the Year:
Graceland - Paul Simon
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Album of the Year:
Joshua Tree, U2 (Island) |
Song of the Year:
Somewhere Out There - James Horner, Barry Mann and Cynthia
Weil, songwriters |
Best New Artist:
Jody Watley |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Male:
Bring on the Night - Sting |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Female:
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston |
Best Pop Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
(I've Had) The Time of My Life - Bill Medley and Jennifer
Warnes |
Best Pop Instrumental
Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist):
Minute by Minute - Larry Carlton |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Solo:
Tunnel of Love - Bruce Springsteen |
Best Rock Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
The Joshua Tree - U2 |
Best Rock Instrumental
Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist):
Jazz From Hell - Frank Zappa |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Song:
Lean on Me - Bill Withers, songwriter |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance, Male:
Just to See Her - Smokey Robinson |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance, Female:
Aretha - Aretha Franklin |
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Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group
With Vocal:
I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) - Aretha Franklin and
George Michael
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Best Rhythm and Blues
Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist):
Chicago Song - David Sanborn |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Male:
What Is This Thing Called Love - Bobby McFerrin |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Female:
Diane Schuur and the Count Basie Orchestra - Diane Schuur |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Soloist
The Other Side of Round Midnight - Dexter Gordon |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Group:
Marsalis Standard Time, Volume 1 - Wynton Marsalis |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Big Band
Digital Duke - Duke Ellington Orchestra conducted by Mercer
Ellington |
Best Jazz Fusion Performance,
Vocal or Instrumental:
Still Life (Talking) - Pat Metheny Group |
Best Country Song:
Forever and Ever, Amen - Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz,
songwriters |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Male:
Always and Forever - Randy Travis |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Female:
'80's Ladies - K.T. Oslin |
Best Country Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Trio, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Duet
Make No Mistake, She's Mine - Ronnie Milsap and Kenny
Rogers |
Best Country Instrumental
Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist):
String of Pars - Asleep at the Wheel |
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Best Gospel Performance, Male:
The Father Hath Provided - Larnelle Harris
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Best Gospel Performance,
Female:
I Believe in You - Deniece Williams |
Best Gospel Performance
By a Duo, Group, Choir or Chorus:
Crack the Sky - Mylon LeFevre and Broken Heart |
Best Soul Gospel Performance,
Male:
Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Al Green |
Best Soul Gospel Performance,
Female:
For Always - CeCe Winans |
Best Soul Gospel Performance
By a Duo, Group, Choir or Chorus:
Ain't No Need to Worry - Winans and Anita Baker |
Best Latin Pop Performance:
Un Hombre Solo - Julio Iglesias |
Best Tropical Latin Performance:
La Verdad—The Truth - Eddie Palmieri |
Best Mexican/American
Performance:
Gracias! America sin Fronteras, Los Tigres Del Norte |
Best Traditional Blues
Recording:
Houseparty New Orleans Style - Professor Longhair (Rounder) |
Best Contemporary Blues
Recording:
Strong Persuader - Robert Cray Band (Mercury/Hightone) |
Best Traditional Folk
Recording:
Shaka Zulu, Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Warner Brothers) |
Best Contemporary Folk
Recording:
Unfinished Business - Steve Goodman (Red Pajamas) |
Best Reggae Recording:
No Nuclear War - Peter Tosh (EMI-America) |
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Best New Age Performance:
Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony - Yusef Lateef
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Best Polka Recording:
A Polka Just for Me - Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra (Starr) |
Best Arrangement on an
Instrumental:
Take the ”A“ Train - Bill Holman, arranger |
Best Instrumental Arrangement
Accompanying Vocal(s):
Deedle's Blues - Frank Foster, arranger |
Best Instrumental Composition:
Call Sheet Blues - Dexter Gordon, Wayne Shorter, Herbie
Hancock, Ron Carter and Billy Higgins, composers |
Best Musical Cast Show
Album:
Les Miserables (Geffen) |
Best Album of Original
Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture
or Television
The Untouchables (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- Ennio Morricone, composer (A&M) |
Best Song Written Specifically
for a Motion Picture or Television
Somewhere Out There (From the animated movie An American
Tale) - James Horner, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, songwriters |
Best Contemporary Composition:
Cello Concerto No. 2 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Composer |
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Best Classical Album:
Horowitz in Moscow - Vladimir Horowitz (Deutsche Grammophon)
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Best Orchestral
Recording:
Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (Choral) - Sir Georg
Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra (London) |
Best Chamber
Music Performance, Instrumental or Vocal:
Beethoven, The Complete Piano Trios - Itzhak Perlman,
Lynn Harrell and Vladimir Ashkenazy |
Best Classical
Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra):
Mozart, Violin Concertos nos. 2 and 4 in D - Itzhak Perlman;
James Levine conducting Vienna Philarmonic |
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Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s)
(Without Orchestra):
Horowitz in Moscow - Vladimir Horowitz, piano
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Best Opera
Recording:
Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos - James Levine conducting Vienna
Philharmonic; solos: Tomowa-Sintow, Battle, Baltsa, Lakes
and Prey (Deutsche Grammophon) |
Best Choral
Performance (Othen Than Opera):
Hindemith, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (A
Requiem for Those We Love) - Robert Shaw conducting Atlanta
Symphony Chorus and Orchestra |
Best Classical
Vocal Soloist Performance:
Kathleen Battle, Salzburg Recital - Kathleen Battle; James
Levine, accompanist |
Best Comedy
Recording:
A Night at The Met - Robin Williams (Columbia/CBS) |
Best Spoken
Word or Non-Musical Recording:
Lake Wobegon Days - Garrison Keillor (PHC) |
Best Recording
for Children:
The Elephant's Child - Jack Nicholson, narrator; Bobby
McFerrin, music (Windham Hill) |
Best Album
Package:
King's Record Shop - Bill Johnson, art director (Columbia/CBS) |
Best Album
Notes:
Thelonious Monk, the Complete Riverside Recordings - Orrin
Keepnews, annotator (Riverside) |
Best Historical
Album:
Thelonious Monk, the Complete Riverside Recordings - Thelonious
Monk (Riverside) |
Best Performance
Music Video:
The Prince's Trust All-Star Rock Concert - Elton John,
Tina Turner, Sting and others |
Best Concept
Music Video:
Land of Confusion - Genesis |
Producer of
the Year (Non-Classical):
Narada Michael Walden |
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Classical Producer of the Year:
Robert Woods
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