1971 Grammy Awards |
Record of the Year “It's Too Late,” Carole King Album of the Year Tapestry, Carole King (Ode) Song of the Year “You've Got a Friend,” Carole King, songwriter Best New Artist of the Year Carly Simon Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male “You've Got a Friend,” James Taylor Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female Tapestry, Carole King Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Group Carpenters, Carpenters Best Pop Instrumental Performance Smackwater Jack, Quincy Jones Best Rhythm and Blues Song “Ain't No Sunshine,” Bill Withers, songwriter Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male “A Natural Man,” Lou Rawls Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Aretha Franklin Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Group “Proud Mary,” Ike and Tina Turner Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist The Bill Evans Album, Bill Evans Best Jazz Performance By a Group The Bill Evans Album, Bill Evans Trio Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band “New Orleans Suite,” Duke Ellington Best Country Song “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” Kris Kristofferson, songwriter Best Country Vocal Performance, Male “When You're Hot, You're Hot,” Jerry Reed Best Country Vocal Performance, Female “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” Sammi Smith Best Country Vocal Performance By a Group “After the Fire Is Gone,” Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn Best Country Instrumental Performance “Snowbird,” Chet Atkins Best Gospel Performance (Other Than Soul Gospel) “Let Me Live,” Charley Pride Best Soul Gospel Performance Put Your Hand in the Hand of the Man From Galilee, Shirley Caesar Best Sacred Performance Did You Think to Pray, Charley Pride Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording They Call Me Muddy Waters, Muddy Waters (Chess) Best Instrumental Arrangement “Theme From Shaft,” Isaac Hayes and Johnny Allen, arrangers Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey,” Paul McCartney, arranger Best Instrumental Compostion “Theme From Summer of '42,” Michel Legrand, composer Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album Godspell, Stephen Schwartz, composer and producer (Bell) Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special Shaft, Isaac Hayes, composer Album of the Year, Classical Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz (Columbia) Best Classical Performance, Orchestra Mahler, Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Carlo Maria Giulini conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra Best Chamber Music Performance Debussy, Quartet in G Minor, Ravel, Quartet in F Major, Juilliard Quartet Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) Villa-Lobos, Concerto for Guitar, Julian Bream; André Previn conducting London Symphony Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz Best Opera Recording Verdi, Aïda, Erich Leinsdorf conducting London Symphony Orchestra; solos: Price, Domingo, Milnes, Bumbry and Raimondi (RCA) Best Choral Performance, Classical (Other Than Opera) Berlioz, Requiem, Colin Davis conducting London Symphony Orchestra; Russell Burgess conducting Wandsworth School Boys Choir; Arthur Oldham conducting London Symphony Chorus Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann, Leontyne Price Best Comedy Recording This Is a Recording, Lily Tomlin (Polydor) Best Spoken Word Recording Desiderata, Les Crane (Warner Bros.) Best Recording for Children Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs, Bill Cosby (Uni) Best Album Cover Pollution, Dean O. Torrance, album design; Gene Brownell, art director (Prophesy) Best Album Notes Sam, Hard and Heavy, Sam Samudio, annotator (Atlantic) |