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1971 Grammy Award Winners |
Winners Announced: March 16, 1971 Table of Contents Award Highlights and Musical Milestones
Trivia and Little-Known Facts
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1971 Grammy Winners |
Record of the Year: Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkel |
Album of the Year: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel (Columbia) |
Song of the Year: Bridge Over Troubled Water – Paul Simon, songwriter |
Best New Artist of the Year: Carpenters |
Best Contemporary Song: Bridge Over Troubled Water – Paul Simon, songwriter |
Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Male: Everything Is Beautiful – Ray Stevens |
Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Female: I’ll Never Fall in Love Again, Dionne Warwick |
Best Contemporary Vocal Performance By a Group: Close to You – Carpenters |
Best Contemporary Instrumental Performance: Theme From Z and Other Film Music, Henry Mancini |
Best Rhythm and Blues Song: Patches – Ronald Dunbar and General Johnson, songwriters |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male: The Thrill Is Gone – B.B. King |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female: Don’t Play That Song – Aretha Franklin |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group: Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time) – Delfonics |
Best Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist With Small Group: Alone, Bill Evans |
Best Jazz Performance, Large Group or Soloist With Large Group: Bitches Brew, Miles Davis |
Best Country Song: My Woman, My Woman, My Wife – Marty Robbins, songwriter |
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male: For the Good Times – Ray Price |
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: Rose Garden – Lynn Anderson |
Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group: If I Were a Carpenter – Johnny Cash and June Carter |
Best Country Instrumental Performance: Me and Jerry, Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed |
Best Gospel Performance (Other Than Soul Gospel): Talk About the Good Times – Oak Ridge Boys |
Best Soul Gospel Performance: Every Man Wants to Be Free – Edwin Hawkins Singers |
Best Sacred Performance: Everything Is Beautiful – Jake Hess |
Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording: Good Feelin’ – T-Bone Walker (Polydor) |
Best Instrumental Arrangement: Theme From Z – Henry Mancini, arranger |
Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): Bridge Over Troubled Water – Paul Simon, Arthur Garfunkel, Jimmie Haskell, Ernie Freeman and Larry Knechtel, arrangers |
Best Instrumental Composition: Airport Love Theme – Alfred Newman, composer |
Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album: Company, Stephen Sondheim, composer (Columbia) |
Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special: Let It Be, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, composers |
Album of the Year, Classical: Berlioz, Les Troyens, Colin Davis conducting Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus; solos: Vickers, Veasey and Lindholm (Philips) |
Best Classical Performance, Orchestra: Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps, Pierre Boulez conducting Cleveland Orchestra |
Best Chamber Music Performance: Beethoven, The Complete Piano Trios, Eugene Istomin, Isaac Stern and Leonard Rose |
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With or Without Orchestra): Brahms, Double Concerto (Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Cello), David Oistrakh and Mstislav Rostropovich |
Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera): New Music of Charles Ives, Gregg Smith conducting Gregg Smith Singers and Columbia Chamber Ensemble |
Best Opera Recording: Berlioz, Les Troyens, Colin Davis conducting Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus; solos: Vickers, Veasey and Lindholm (Philips) |
Best Vocal Soloist Performance, Classical: Schubert, Lieder, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau |
Best Comedy Recording: The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress, Flip Wilson (Little David) |
Best Spoken Word Recording: Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Black Forum) |
Best Recording for Children: Sesame Street, Sesame Street cast (Columbia) |
Best Album Cover: Indianola Mississippi Seeds, Robert Lockart, cover design; Ivan Nagy, photography (ABC) |
Best Album Notes: The World’s Greatest Blues Singer, Chris Albertson, annotator (Columbia) |
