Trivia
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1985 Grammy Winners |
Record of the Year: What’s Love Got to Do With It – Tina Turner |
Album of the Year: Can’t Slow Down, Lionel Richie (Motown) |
Song of the Year: What’s Love Got to Do With It – Graham Lyle and Terry Britten, songwriters |
Best New Artist: Cyndi Lauper |
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male: Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) – Phil Collins |
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female: What’s Love Got to Do With It – Tina Turner |
Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal: Jump (For My Love) – Pointer Sisters |
Best Pop Instrumental Performance: Ghostbusters (instrumental version), Ray Parker, Jr. |
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male: Dancing in the Dark – Bruce Springsteen |
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female: Better Be Good to Me – Tina Turner |
Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal: Purple Rain?Music From the Motion Picture, Prince and the Revolution |
Best Rock Instrumental Performance: Cinema – Yes |
Best New Rhythm and Blues Song: I Feel for You – Prince, songwriter |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male: Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) – Billy Ocean |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female: I Feel for You – Chaka Khan |
Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal: Yah Mo B There – James Ingram and Michael McDonald |
Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance: Sound-System, Herbie Hancock |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance: Nothin’ but the Blues, Joe Williams |
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist: Hot House Flowers, Wynton Marsalis |
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group: New York Scene – Art Blakey |
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band: 88 Basie Street, Count Basie and His Orchestra |
Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental: First Circle, Pat Metheny Group |
Best Country Song: City of New Orleans – Steve Goodman, songwriter |
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male: That’s the Way Love Goes – Merle Haggard |
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: In My Dreams – Emmylou Harris |
Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal: Mama He’s Crazy – Judds |
Best Country Instrumental Performance: Wheel Hoss – Ricky Skaggs |
Best Gospel Performance, Male: Michael W. Smith, Michael W. Smith |
Best Gospel Performance, Female: Angels – Amy Grant |
Best Gospel Performance By a Duo or Group: Keep the Flame Burning – Debby Boone and Phil Driscoll |
Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male: Always Remember – Andrae Crouch |
Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female: Sailin’, Shirley Caesar |
Best Soul Gospel Performance By a Duo or Group: Sailin’ on the Sea of Your Love – Shirley Caeser and Al Green |
Best Latin Pop Performance: Always in My Heart (Siempre en mi Corazón), Placido Domingo |
Best Tropical Latin Performance: Palo Pa Rumba, Eddie Palmieri |
Best Mexican/American Performance: Me Gustas Tal Como Eres – Sheena Easton and Luis Miguel |
Best Inspirational Performance: Forgive Me – Donna Summer |
Best Traditional Blues Recording: Blues Explosion, John Hammond, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Sugar Blue, Koko Taylor and the Blues Machine, Luther Guitar Junior Johnson and J.B. Hutto and the New Hawks (Atlantic) |
Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording: Elizabeth Cotten Live!, Elizabeth Cotten (Arhoolie) |
Best Reggae Recording: Anthem, Black Uhuru (Island) |
Best Arrangement on an Instrumental: Grace (Gymnastics Theme), Quincy Jones and Jeremy Lubbock, arrangers |
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s): Hard Habit to Break – David Foster and Jeremy Lubbock, arrangers |
Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices: Automatic – Pointer Sisters, arrangers |
Best Instrumental Composition (tie): The Natural – Randy Newman, composer Olympic Fanfare and Theme – John Williams, composer |
Best Cast Show Album: Sunday in the Park With George, Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist (RCA) |
Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special: Purple Rain, Prince, John L. Nelson, Lisa and Wendy, songwriters (Warner Bros.) |
Best New Classical Composition: Antony and Cleopatra, Samuel Barber, composer |
Best Classical Album: Amadeus (Original Soundrack), Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Ambrosian Opera Chorus; Choristers of Westminster Abbey (Fantasy) |
Best Classical Orchestral Recording: Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat, Op. 100, Leonard Slatkin conducting Saint Louis Symphony (RCA) |
Best Chamber Music Performance: Beethoven, The Late String Quartets, Juilliard String Quartet |
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra): Wynton Marsalis, Edita Gruberova: Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, Molter, Wynton Marsalis and Edita Gruberova; Raymond Leppard conducting English Chamber Orchestra |
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra): Bach, The Unaccompanied Cello Suites, Yo-Yo Ma |
Best Opera Recording: Bizet, Carmen (Original Soundtrack), Lorin Maazel conducting Orchestre National de France; Choeurs et Maitrise de Radio France; solos: Johnson, Esham, Domingo and Raimondi (Erato) |
Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera): Brahms, A German Requiem, James Levine conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Margaret Hillis, choral director, Chicago Symphony Chorus |
Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance: Ravel, Songs of Maurice Ravel, Jessye Norman, Jose Van Dam and Heather Harper; Pierre Boulez conducting the Members of Ensemble Intercontemporain and BBC Symphony Orchestra |
Best Comedy Recording: Eat It, Weird Al Yankovic (Rock and Roll) |
Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording: The Words of Gandhi, Ben Kingsley (Caedmon) |
Best Recording for Children: Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein (Columbia) |
Best Album Package: She’s So Unusual, Janet Perr, art director (Portrait/CBS) |
Best Album Notes Big Band: Jazz, Gunther Schuller and Martin Williams, songwriters (Smithsonian) |
Best Historical Album Big Band: Jazz, Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and others (Smithsonian) |
Best Video, Short Form: David Bowie – David Bowie |
Best Video Album: Making Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Michael Jackson (Vestron Music Video) |
Producers of the Year: (Non-Classical) (tie) David Foster Lionel Richie and James Anthony Carmichael |
Classical Producer of the Year: Steven Epstein |