1977 Grammy Award Winners |
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1977 Grammy Winners |
Record of the Year: This Masquerade – George Benson |
Album of the Year: Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder (Tamla/Motown) |
Song of the Year: I Write the Songs – Bruce Johnston, songwriter |
Best New Artist of the Year: Starland Vocal Band |
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male: Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder |
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female: Hasten Down the Wind, Linda Ronstadt |
Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus: If You Leave Me Now – Chicago |
Best Pop Instrumental Performance: Breezin’, George Benson |
Best Rhythm and Blues Song: Lowdown – Boz Scaggs and David Paich, songwriters |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male: I Wish – Stevie Wonder |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female: Sophisticated Lady (She’s a Different Lady), Natalie Cole |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus: You Don’t Have to Be a Star (to Be in My Show), Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. |
Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance: Theme From Good King Bad – George Benson |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance: Fitzgerald and Pass Again, Ella Fitzgerald |
Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist: Basie and Zoot, Count Basie |
Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band: The Ellington Suites, Duke Ellington |
Best Country Song: Broken Lady – Larry Gatlin, songwriter |
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male: (I’m a) Stand By My Woman Man – Ronnie Milsap |
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: Elite Hotel, Emmylou Harris |
Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group: The End Is Not in Sight (The Cowboy Tune), Amazing Rhythm Aces |
Best Country Instrumental Performance: Chester and Lester, Chet Atkins and Les Paul |
Best Gospel Performance: Where the Soul Never Dies – Oak Ridge Boys |
Best Soul Gospel Performance: How I Got Over, Mahalia Jackson |
Best Latin Recording: Unfinished Masterpiece, Eddie Palmieri (Coco) |
Best Inspirational Performance: The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable, Different World of Gary S. Paxton, Gary S. Paxton |
Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording: Mark Twang, John Hartford (Flying Fish) |
Best Instrumental Arrangement: Leprechaun’s Dream – Chick Corea, arranger |
Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists: If You Leave Me Now – Jimmy Haskell and James William Guercio, arrangers |
Best Arrangement for Voices: Afternoon Delight – Starland Vocal Band, arrangers |
Best Instrumental Composition: Bellavia, Chuck Mangione, composer |
Best Cast Show Album: Bubbling Brown Sugar, various composers (H&L) |
Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special: Car Wash, Norman Whitfield, composer (MCA) |
Album of the Year, Classical: Beethoven, Five Piano Concertos, Artur Rubinstein; Daniel Barenboim conducting London Philharmonic (RCA) |
Best Classical Orchestral Performance: Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony |
Best Chamber Music Performance: The Art of Courtly Love, David Munrow conducting Early Music Consort of London |
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (With Orchestra): Beethoven, The Five Piano Concertos, Artur Rubinstein; Daniel Barenboim conducting London Philharmonic |
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (Without Orchestra): Horowitz Concerts 1975/76, Vladimir Horowitz |
Best Opera Recording: Gershwin, Porgy and Bess, Lorin Maazel conducting Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus (London) |
Best Choral Performance, Classical: Rachmaninoff, The Bells, Arthur Oldham, Chorus master of London Symphony Chorus; André Previn conducting London Symphony Orchestra |
Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance: Music of Victor Herbert, Beverly Sills |
Best Comedy Recording: Bicentennial Neggir, Richard Pryor (Warner Bros.) |
Best Spoken Word Recording: Great American Documents, Orson Welles, Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes and James Earl Jones (CBS) |
Best Recording for Children: Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf; Saint-Saëns, Carnival of the Animals; Hermione Gingold, narrator; Karl Bohm, conductor (Deutsche Grammophon) |
Best Album Package: Chicago X, John Berg, art director (Columbia) |
Best Album Notes: The Changing Face of Harlem, the Savoy Sessions, Dan Morgenstern, annotator (Savoy) |
Best Producer of the Year: Stevie Wonder |