1978 Grammy Award Winners |
Winners Announced: February 23, 1978 Trivia and Fascinating Facts
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1978 Grammy Winners |
Record of the Year: Hotel California – Eagles |
Album of the Year: Rumours, Fleetwood Mac (Warner Bros.) |
Song of the Year (tie): Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen), Barbra Streisand and Paul Williams, songwriters You Light Up My Life – Joe Brooks, songwriter |
Best New Artist of the Year: Debby Boone |
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male: Handy Man – James Taylor |
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female: Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen), Barbra Streisand |
Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus: How Deep Is Your Love – Bee Gees |
Best Pop Instrumental Performance: Star Wars, John Williams conducting London Symphony Orchestra |
Best Rhythm and Blues Song: You Make Me Feel Like Dancing – Leo Sayer and Vini Poncia, songwriters |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male: Unmistakably Lou, Lou Rawls |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female: Don’t Leave Me This Way – Thelma Houston |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus: Best of My Love – Emotions |
Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance: Q – Brothers Johnson |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance: Look to the Rainbow, Al Jarreau |
Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist: The Giants, Oscar Peterson |
Best Jazz Performance By a Group: The Phil Woods Six Live From the Showboat, Phil Woods |
Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band: Prime Time, Count Basie and His Orchestra |
Best Country Song: Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue – Richard Leigh, songwriter |
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male: Lucille – Kenny Rogers |
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue – Crystal Gayle |
Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group: Heaven’s Just a Sin Away – The Kendalls |
Best Country Instrumental Performance: Country Instrumentalist of the Year, Hargus Pig Robbins |
Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational: Sail On, Imperials |
Best Gospel Performance, Traditional: Just a Little Talk With Jesus – Oak Ridge Boys |
Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary: Wonderful, Edwin Hawkins and the Edwin Hawkins Singers |
Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional: James Cleveland Live at Carnegie Hall, James Cleveland |
Best Latin Recording: Dawn, Mongo Santamaria (Vaya) |
Best Inspirational Performance: Home Where I Belong, B.J. Thomas |
Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording: Hard Again, Muddy Waters (Blue Sky/CBS) |
Best Instrumental Arrangement: Nadia’s Theme (The Young and the Restless), Harry Betts, Perry Botkin, Jr. and Barry De Vorzon, arrangers |
Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen), lan Freebairn-Smith, arranger |
Best Arrangement for Voices: New Kid in Town – Eagles, arrangers |
Best Instrumental Composition: Main Title From Star Wars – John Williams, composer |
Best Cast Show Album: Annie, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, composers (Columbia) |
Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special: Star Wars, John Williams, composer (20th Century) |
Album of the Year, Classical: Concert of the Century, Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Isaac Stern, Mstislav Rostropovich, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Yehudi Menuhin and Lyndon Woodside (Columbia) |
Best Classical Orchestral Performance: Mahler, Symphony No. 9, Carlo Maria Giulini conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
Best Chamber Music Performance: Schoenberg, Quartets for Strings, Juilliard Quartet |
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra): Vivaldi, The Four Seasons, Itzhak Perlman, violin; Itzhak Perlman conducting London Philharmonic Orchestra |
Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra): Beethoven, Sonata for Piano No. 18; Schumann, Fantasiestücke, Artur Rubinstein, piano |
Best Opera Recording: Gershwin, Porgy and Bess, John De Main conducting Sherwin M. Goldman Houston Grand Opera Production; solos: Albert, Dale, Smith, Shakesnider, Lane, Brice and Smalls (RCA) |
Best Choral Performance, Classical (Other Than Opera): Verdi, Requiem, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Margaret Hillis, choral director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus |
Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance: Bach, Arias, Janet Baker; Neville Marriner conducting Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields |
Best Comedy Recording: Let’s Get Small, Steve Martin (Warner Bros.) |
Best Spoken Word Recording: The Belle of Amherst, Julie Harris (Credo) |
Best Recording for Children: Aren’t You Glad You’re You, Sesame Street cast and Muppets (Sesame Street) |
Best Album Package: Simple Dreams, Kosh, art director (Asylum) |
Best Album Notes: Bing Crosby: A Legendary Performer, George T. Simon, annotator (RCA) |
Best Producer of the Year: Peter Asher |