Home | News | PCM Lifestyle | Entertainment | Interviews | Pop Music | Trivia | Shop |
        January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December
1988 Grammy Award Winners
Sponsor This Page!
Be seen and advertise on Pop Culture Madness!


PCM Friends
Pop Culture dot NET
GotchaMovies
Celebrity Magnet
Alaska Jim
World Of Pop Culture
Weekly World News
WSTW 93.7
7890 Radio

(Links)

1988 Grammy Award Winners

Record of the Year:
Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin

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

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male:
Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, Terence Trent D'Arby

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

Best Country Vocal Performance, Male:
Old 8 × 10, Randy Travis

Best Country Vocal Performance, Female:
Hold Me - K.T. Oslin

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

Best Mexican/American Performance:
Canciones de Mi Padre, Linda Ronstadt

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

Best Musical Cast Show Album:
Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist (RCA)

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)

Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television:
Two Hearts (From the motion picture Buster), Phil Collins and Lamont Dozier, songwriters (Atlantic)

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

Producer of the Year (Non-Classical):
Neil Dorfsman

Classical Producer of the Year:
Robert Woods

 
 

navigation
links
column
will
go
here

Pop Culture Madness is your complete trivia resource. Click on our Home page for the latest pop culture news or our Trivia section for our ever-expanding organized trivia categories.
Our motto: "All The Pop Culture News That Fits, We Print!" We are adding more information daily.Well, semi-regularly. If you don't see a link for what you're looking for, then it's your responsibility to write something up, and send it in.
Everything else © copyright 1999-2011 Pop Culture Madness, unless stated otherwise.

By the way, PCM does NOT allow frequent Pop up ads, Pop under ads, or sneaky spyware. Nor do we link to sites that have excessive Pop-ups, spyware or inappropriate (all ages) material. If you find one, please let us know and they are toast!
Also, since we don't "sell out" to those Pop-up advertisers, and we're too proud (so far) to ask for donations, we'd like to proudly point out some of our carefully chosen advertisers throughout thesite. They have some cool stuff that should be sitting in your room, or wrapped like a present for a friend.
Please check 'em out!

 

pop, as in 'popular': (adjective) Pertaining to the common people, or the people as a whole as distinguished from any particular class.
Having characteristics attributed to the common people and intended for or suited to ordinary people.

culture: (noun) That which is excellent in the arts.
A particular stage of civilization. The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group.

madness: (noun) The state of being mad. insanity, senseless folly, intense excitement or enthusiasm.

College Students in the Northern Delaware area or willing to work from any other campus, check out our Internship Program!
Privacy Statement: We will not sell, give or share any personal information, including e-mail addresses, of any of our visitors to anyone outside of Pop Culture Madness.com or our affiliated sites. We do not accept any stealth or spyware advertisers or third party sponsors of such programs. Pop Culture Madness.com and affiliated sites do not send spam, offer get-rich-quick schemes, offer or suggest "enhancement" devices or medications via e-mail.
For purposes of review, we often (usually) get samples, previews, get press access and other 'inside information.'
Take that into account when you read a positive (or negative) review, on PCM or anywhere on the internet. We do not place stories up for payment unless it is a stated sponsor or a link that we believe will be helpful and relevant to our visitors.

PCM does use third-party advertising companies, such as google, to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

 

 

web stats
<