1980 Grammy Awards Winners
Winners Announced: February 27, 1980
Held at: Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
Host: Kenny Rogers
Eligibility Year: October 1, 1978 – September 30, 1979
1980 Grammy Winners
Record of the Year:
What a Fool Believes – Doobie Brothers
Album of the Year:
52nd Street, Billy Joel (Columbia)
Song of the Year:
What a Fool Believes – Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald, songwriters
Best New Artist:
Rickie Lee Jones
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male:
52nd Street, Billy Joel
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female:
I’ll Never Love This Way Again – Dionne Warwick
Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus:
Minute by Minute, Doobie Brothers
Best Pop Instrumental Performance:
Rise – Herb Alpert
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male:
Gotta Serve Somebody – Bob Dylan
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female:
Hot Stuff – Donna Summer
Best Rock Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group:
Heartache Tonight – Eagles
Best Rock Instrumental Performance:
Rockestra Theme – Wings
Best Rhythm and Blues Song:
After the Love Has Gone – David Foster, Jay Graydon and Bill Champlin, songwriters
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male:
Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough – Michael Jackson
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female:
Deja Vu – Dionne Warwick
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus:
After the Love Has Gone – Earth, Wind and Fire
Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance:
Boogie Wonderland – Earth, Wind and Fire
Best Disco Recording:
I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor (Polydor)
Best Jazz Vocal Performance:
Fine and Mellow, Ella Fitzgerald
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist:
Jousts, Oscar Peterson
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group:
Duet, Gary Burton and Chick Corea
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band:
At Fargo, 1940 Live, Duke Ellington
Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental:
8:30, Weather Report
Best Country Song:
You Decorated My Life – Debbie Hupp and Bob Morrison, songwriters
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male:
The Gambler – Kenny Rogers
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female:
Blue Kentucky Girl, Emmylou Harris
Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group:
The Devil Went Down to Georgia – Charlie Daniels Band
Best Country Instrumental Performance:
Big Sandy/Leather Britches – Doc and Merle Watson
Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational:
Heed the Call, Imperials
Best Gospel Performance, Traditional:
Lift Up the Name of Jesus, Blackwood Brothers
Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary:
I’ll Be Thinking of You, Andrae Crouch
Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional:
Changing Times, Mighty Clouds of Joy
Best Latin Recording:
Irakere, Irakere (Columbia)
Best Inspirational Performance:
You Gave Me Love (When Nobody Gave Me a Prayer), B.J. Thomas
Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording:
Muddy Mississippi Waters Live, Muddy Waters (Sky/CBS)
Best Instrumental Arrangement:
Soulful Strut – Claus Ogerman, arranger
Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s):
What a Fool Believes – Michael McDonald, arranger
Best Instrumental Composition:
Main Title Theme From Superman – John Williams, composer
Best Cast Show Album:
Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim, composer and Iyricist (RCA)
Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special:
Superman, John Williams, composer (Warner Bros.)
Best Classical Album:
Brahms, Symphonies Complete, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra (London)
Best Classical Orchestral Recording:
Brahms, Symphonies Complete, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra (London)
Best Chamber Music Performance:
Copland, Appalachian Spring, Dennis Russell Davies conducting St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental:
Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) Bartók, Concertos for Piano nos. 1 and 2, Maurizio Pollini; Abbado conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra):
The Horowitz Concerts 1978/79, Vladimir Horowitz
Best Opera Recording:
Britten, Peter Grimes, Colin Davis conducting Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; solos: Vickers, Harper and Summers (Philips)
Best Choral Performance, Classical (Other Than Opera):
Brahms, A German Requiem, Sir Georg Solti, conductor and Margaret Hillis, choral director, Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance:
O Sole Mio, Luciano Pavarotti
Best Comedy Recording:
Reality… What a Concept, Robin Williams (Casablanca)
Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording:
Ages of Man (Readings From Shakespeare), Sir John Gielgud (Caedmon)
Best Recording for Children:
The Muppet Movie, Jim Henson, creator (Atlantic)
Best Album Package:
Breakfast in America, Mike Doud and Mick Haggerty, art directors (A&M)
Best Album Notes:
Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy Sessions, Bob Porter and James Patrick, annotators (Savoy)
Best Historical Reissue:
Billie Holiday (Giants of Jazz) (Time Life)
Producer of the Year (Non-Classical):
Larry Butler
Classical Producer of the Year:
James Mallinson
