19th Annual Grammy Awards

The following are the winners and nominees of the 19th annual Grammy Awards. Winners appear first and highlighted in bold.

Record of the Year

• "This Masquerade" - George Benson
• Tommy LiPuma, producer
• "If You Leave Me Now" - Chicago
• James Guercio, producer
• "I Write the Songs" - Barry Manilow
• Ron Dante & Barry Manilow, producers
• "Afternoon Delight" - Starland Vocal Band
• Milton Okun, producer
• "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" - Paul Simon
• Phil Ramone & Paul Simon, producers

Album of the Year

• Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
• Stevie Wonder, producer
• Silk Degrees - Boz Scaggs
• Joe Wissert, producer
• Frampton Comes Alive! - Peter Frampton
• Peter Frampton, producer
• Chicago X - Chicago
• James William Guercio, producer
• Breezin' - George Benson
• Tommy LiPuma, producer

Song of the Year

• "I Write the Songs"
• Bruce Johnston, songwriter (Barry Manilow)
• "This Masquerade"
• Leon Russell, songwriter (George Benson)
• "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
• Gordon Lightfoot, songwriter (Gordon Lightfoot)
• "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"
• Howard Greenfield & Neil Sedaka, songwriters (Neil Sedaka)
• "Afternoon Delight"
• Bill Danoff, songwriter (Starland Vocal Band)

Best New Artist

• Starland Vocal Band
• Brothers Johnson
• Boston
• Wild Cherry
• Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band

Best Recording for Children

• Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals
• Karl Böhm & Hermione Gingold
• "Winnie The Pooh For President (Campaign Song)"
• Larry Groce & Sterling Holloway
• "The Adventures of Ali and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay"
• Muhammad Ali and His Gang
• "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs"
• Various Artists
• "Dickens' Christmas Carol"
• Various Artists

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• Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Georg Solti (conductor), Raymond Minshull (producer)
• The Fourth of July! (Ives: Symphony No. 2, Variations On America / Copland: Appalachian Spring / Bernstein: Overture to Candide / Gershwin: An American In Paris)
• Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
• Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloe (Complete Ballet)
• Orchestre de Paris
• Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
• New York Philharmonic
• Falla: Three Cornered Hat (Boulez Conducts Falla)
• New York Philharmonic
• Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E Flat Major
• London Philharmonic
• Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
• Orchestre National de l'ORTF

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance

• Beverly Sills
• Herbert: Music of Victor Herbert
• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
• Wolf - Mörike-Lieder
• Marni Nixon
• Schoenberg: Nine Early Songs; The Cabaret Songs of Arnold Schoenberg
• Margaret Price
• Mozart: Arias (La Clemenza di Tito, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Nozze di Figaro etc)
• Janet Baker, James King
• Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
• Jan DeGaetani
• Ives: Songs
• Carlo Bergonzi
• Carlo Bergonzi Sings Verdi
• Barbra Streisand
• Classical Barbra

Best Opera Recording

• Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
• Cleveland Orchestra - Lorin Maazel (conductor), Michael Woolcock (producer)
• Verdi: Macbeth
• La Scala Opera Orchestra & Chorus - Claudio Abbado (conductor), Rainer Brock (producer)
• Schoenberg: Moses Und Aaron
• BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC Symphony Singers & Orpheus Boys Choir) - Pierre Boulez (conductor), Paul Myers (producer)
• Massenet: Thaïs
• New Philharmonia Orchestra (John Choir Alldis) - Lorin Maazel (conductor), Christopher Bishop (producer)
• Joplin: Treemonisha
• Original Cast Orchestra & Chorus - Gunther Schuller (conductor), Tom Mowrey (producer)
• Bizet: Carmen
• London Philharmonic - Georg Solti (conductor), Christopher Raeburn (producer)

Best Choral Performance (other than opera)

• London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - André Previn (conductor), Arthur Oldham (choirmaster)
• Rachmaninoff: The Bells
• Chorus of La Scala-Milan; Orchestra of La Scala-Milan - Claudio Abbado (conductor), Romano Gandolfi (choir director)
• Verdi: Opera Choruses
• BBC Choral Society & BBC Symphony Singers; BBC Symphony Orchestra - Colin Davis (conductor)
• Tippett: A Child of Our Time
• Choir of the Monks of Saint-Pierre de Solesmes Abbey - Dom Jean Claire (choir director)
• Gregorian Chant
• Netherlands Radio Chorus; Rotterdam Philharmonic - Jean Fournet (conductor), Franz Muller (choir director)
• Fauré: Requiem
• London Philharmonic Choir; Orchestra - Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
• Elgar: The Kingdom, Op. 51
• King's College Choir-Cambridge - Phillip Ledger (choir director)
• Bernstein: Chichester Psalms/Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb
• Choeurs de Radio France; Orchestre National de France & Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France - Leonard Bernstein (choir director)
• Berlioz: Requiem
• New Philharmonia Chorus and London Philharmonic - Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor), Walter Hagen-Groll (choir director)
• Beethoven: Missa Solemnis

Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra)

• Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Arthur Rubinstein & the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos

Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra)

• Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz Concerts 1975/76

Best Chamber Music Performance

• David Munrow (conductor) & the Early Music Consort of London for The Art of Courtly Love

Best Classical Album

• Max Wilcox (producer), Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Arthur Rubinstein & the London Philharmonic for Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos

Best Comedy Recording

• Bicentennial Nigger - Richard Pryor
• You Gotta Wash Your Ass - Redd Foxx
• Sleeping Beauty - Cheech & Chong
• Goodbye Pop - National Lampoon
• Bill Cosby Is Not Himself These Days - Rat Own, Rat Own, Rat Own - Bill Cosby

• Best Instrumental Composition
• Chuck Mangione (composer) for Bellavia
• Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
• Norman Whitfield (composer) for Car Wash performed by Rose Royce
• Best Instrumental Arrangement
• Chick Corea (arranger) for "Leprechaun's Dream"
• Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
• James William Guercio & Jimmie Haskell (arrangers) for "If You Leave Me Now" performed by Chicago
• Best Arrangement for Voices (duo, group or chorus)
• Starland Vocal Band (arranger) for "Afternoon Delight"

• Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
• Emmylou Harris for Elite Hotel
• Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
• Ronnie Milsap for "(I'm a) Stand By My Woman Man"
• Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
• Amazing Rhythm Aces for "The End Is Not in Sight (The Cowboy Tune)"
• Best Country Instrumental Performance
• Chet Atkins & Les Paul for Chester and Lester
• Best Country Song
• Larry Gatlin (songwriter) for "Broken Lady"

• Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording
• John Hartford for Mark Twang

• Best Gospel Performance (other than soul gospel)
• The Oak Ridge Boys for "Where the Soul Never Dies"
• Best Soul Gospel Performance
• Mahalia Jackson for How I Got Over
• Best Inspirational Performance
• Gary S. Paxton for The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable, Different World of Gary S. Paxton

• Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist (Instrumental)
• Count Basie for Basie & Zoot
• Best Jazz Performance by a Group
• Chick Corea for The Leprechaun
• Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band
• Duke Ellington for The Ellington Suites
• Best Jazz Vocal Performance
• Ella Fitzgerald for Fitzgerald and Pass... Again

• Best Latin Recording
• Eddie Palmieri for Unfinished Masterpiece

• Best Cast Show Album
• Luigi Creatore & Hugo Peretti (producers) & various artists for Bubbling Brown Sugar

• Best Album Package
• John Berg (art director) for Chicago X performed by Chicago
• Best Album Notes
• Dan Morgenstern (notes writer) for The Changing Face of Harlem, the Savoy Sessions performed by Various Artists

• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
• Hasten Down the Wind (album) - Linda Ronstadt
• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male
• Songs in the Key of Life (album) - Stevie Wonder
• Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
• "If You Leave Me Now" - Chicago
• Best Pop Instrumental Performance
• Breezin' - George Benson

• Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
• Breezin' - Al Schmitt (engineer)
• Best Engineered Recording, Classical
• Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue - Edward (Bud) T. Graham, Milton Cherin, Ray Moore (engineers)
• Best Producer of the Year
• Stevie Wonder

• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
• Natalie Cole for "Sophisticated Lady (She's a Different Lady)"
• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male
• Stevie Wonder for "I Wish"
• Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
• Billy Davis Jr. & Marilyn McCoo for "You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)"
• Best R&B Instrumental Performance
• George Benson for "Theme From Good King Bad"
• Best Rhythm & Blues Song
• Boz Scaggs & David Paich (songwriters) for "Lowdown" performed by Boz Scaggs

• Best Spoken Word Recording
• Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones & Orson Welles for Great American Documents

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