| 1988
Grammy Award Winners: |
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Record of the Year:
Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
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Album of the Year:
Faith, George Michael (Columbia/CBS) |
Song of the Year:
Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin, songwriter |
Best New Artist:
Tracy Chapman |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Male:
Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Female:
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman |
Best Pop Vocal Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Brasil - Manhattan Transfer |
Best Pop Instrumental
Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist):
Close-up - David Sanborn |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Male:
Simply Irresistible - Robert Palmer |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Female:
Tina Live in Europe - Tina Turner |
Best Rock Instrumental
Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Desire - U2 |
Best Rock Instrumental
Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist):
Blues for Salvador - Carlos Santana |
Best Hard Rock/Metal
Performance, Vocal or Instrumental:
Crest of a Knave - Jethro Tull |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Song:
Giving You the Best That I Got - Anita Baker, Skip Scarborough
and Randy Holland, songwriters |
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Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male:
Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent
D'Arby - Terence Trent D'Arby
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Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance, Female:
Giving You the Best That I Got - Anita Baker |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Love Overboard - Gladys Knight and the Pips |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist):
Light Years - Chick Corea |
Best Rap Performance:
Parents Just Don't Understand - D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the
Fresh Prince |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Male:
Brothers - Bobby McFerrin |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Female:
Look What I Got! - Betty Carter |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Duo or Group:
Spread Love - Take 6 |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Soloist on a Jazz Recording:
Don't Try This at Home - Michael Brecker |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Group:
Blues for Coltrane, A Tribute to John Coltrane - McCoy
Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, David Murray, Cecil McBee and
Roy Haynes |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Big Band
Bud and Bird - Gil Evans and the Monday Night Orchestra |
Best Jazz Fusion Performance:
Politics - Yellowjackets |
Best Country Song:
Hold Me - K.T. Oslin, songwriter |
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Best Country Vocal Performance, Female:
Hold Me - K.T. Oslin
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Best Country Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Give a Little Love - Judds |
Best Country Vocal Collaboration
Crying - Roy Orbison and k.d. lang |
Best Country Instrumental
Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloists):
Sugarfoot Rag - Asleep at the Wheel |
Best Bluegrass Recording
(Vocal or Instrumental):
Southern Flavor - Bill Monroe (MCA) |
Best Gospel Performance,
Male:
Christmas - Larnelle Harris |
Best Gospel Performance,
Female:
Lead Me On - Amy Grant |
Best Gospel Performance
By a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus:
The Winans Live at Carnegie Hall - Winans |
Best Soul Gospel Performance,
Male:
Abundant Life - BeBe Winans |
Best Soul Gospel Performance,
Female:
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism - Aretha Franklin |
Best Soul Gospel Performance
By a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
Take Six - Take 6 |
Best Latin Pop Performance:
Roberto Carlos - Roberto Carlos |
Best Tropical Latin Performance:
Antecedente - Rubén Blades |
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Best Mexican/American Performance:
Canciones de Mi Padre - Linda Ronstadt
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Best Traditional Blues
Recording:
Hidden Charms - Willie Dixon (Bug/Capitol) |
Best Contemporary Blues
Recording:
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Robert Cray Band (Mercury) |
Best Traditional Folk
Recording:
Folkways: A Vision Shared—A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and
Leadbelly - various artists (Columbia/CBS) |
Best Contemporary Folk
Recording:
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman (Elektra) |
Best Reggae Recording:
Conscious Party - Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers (Virgin) |
Best New Age Performance:
Folksongs for a Nuclear Village - Shadowfax |
Best Polka Recording:
Born to Polka - Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra (Starr) |
Best Arrangement on an
Instrumental:
Memos From Paradise - Roger Kellaway, arranger |
Best Instrumental Arrangement
Accompanying Vocal(s):
No One Is Alone - Jonathan Tunick, arranger |
Best Instrumental Composition:
The Theme From L.A. Law - Mike Post, Composer |
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Best Musical Cast Show Album:
Into the Woods - Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist
(RCA)
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Best Album
of Original Instrumental Background Score Written for
a Motion Picture or Television:
The Last Emperor - Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong
Su, composers (Virgin) |
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Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture
or Television:
Two Hearts” (From the motion picture Buster) - Phil
Collins and Lamont Dozier, songwriters (Atlantic)
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Best Contemporary
Composition:
Nixon in China - John Adams, Composer |
Best Classical
Album:
Verdi, Requiem and Operatic Choruses - Robert Shaw conducting
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (Telarc) |
Best Orchestral
Recording:
Rorem, String Symphony; Sunday Morning, Eagles - Robert
Shaw conducting Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: String Symphony,
Louis Lane conducting Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: Sunday
Morning and Eagles (New World) |
Best Chamber
Music Performance (Instrumental or Vocal):
Bartók, Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion; Brahms,
Variation on a Theme by Joseph Haydn for Two Pianos -
Murray Perahia and Sir Georg Solti, pianos; David Corkhill
and Evelyn Glennie, percussion |
Best Classical
Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra):
Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23 in A - Vladimir Horowitz,
piano; Giulini conducting LaScala Opera Orchestra |
Best Classical
Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra):
Albéniz, Iberia; Navarra; Suite Espagnola - Alicia
de Larrocha |
Best Opera
Recording:
Wagner, Lohengrin, Sir Georg Solti conducting Vienna State
Opera Choir and Vienna Philharmonic; solos: Domingo, Norman,
Randova, Nimsgern, Sotin and Fischer-Dieskau (London) |
Best Choral
Performance (Other Than Opera):
Verdi, Requiem and Operatic Choruses, Robert Shaw conducting
Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Orchestra |
Best Classical
Vocal Soloist Performance:
Luciano Pavarotti in Concert - Luciano Pavarotti |
Best Comedy
Recording:
Good Morning Vietnam - Robin Williams (A&M) |
Best Spoken
Word or Non-Musical Recording:
Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson (July 27) - Rev. Jesse Jackson
(Arista) |
Best Recording
for Children:
Pecos Bill - Robin Williams, narrator; Ry Cooder, music
(Windham Hill) |
Best Album
Package
Tired of Runnin' - Bill Johnson, art director (Columbia/CBS) |
Best Album
Notes:
Crossroads - Anthony DeCurtis, annotator (Polydor) |
Best Historical
Album:
Crossroads - Eric Clapton (Polydor): |
Best Performance
Music Video:
Where the Streets Have No Name - U2 |
Best Concept
Music Video:
Fat - “Weird Al” Yankovic |
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Producer of the Year (Non-Classical):
Neil Dorfsman
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Classical Producer of the Year:
Robert Woods
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