1976 Grammy Awards |
Record of the Year “This Masquerade,” George Benson Album of the Year Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder (Tamla/Motown) Song of the Year “I Write the Songs,” Bruce Johnston, songwriter Best New Artist of the Year Starland Vocal Band Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female Hasten Down the Wind, Linda Ronstadt Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus “If You Leave Me Now,” Chicago Best Pop Instrumental Performance Breezin', George Benson Best Rhythm and Blues Song “Lowdown,” Boz Scaggs and David Paich, songwriters Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male “I Wish,” Stevie Wonder Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female “Sophisticated Lady” (She's a Different Lady), Natalie Cole Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus “You Don't Have to Be a Star” (to Be in My Show), Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance “Theme From Good King Bad,” George Benson Best Jazz Vocal Performance Fitzgerald and Pass Again, Ella Fitzgerald Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist Basie and Zoot, Count Basie Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band The Ellington Suites, Duke Ellington Best Country Song “Broken Lady,” Larry Gatlin, songwriter Best Country Vocal Performance, Male (I'm a) “Stand By My Woman Man,” Ronnie Milsap Best Country Vocal Performance, Female Elite Hotel, Emmylou Harris Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group “The End Is Not in Sight” (The Cowboy Tune), Amazing Rhythm Aces Best Country Instrumental Performance Chester and Lester, Chet Atkins and Les Paul Best Gospel Performance “Where the Soul Never Dies,” Oak Ridge Boys Best Soul Gospel Performance How I Got Over, Mahalia Jackson Best Latin Recording Unfinished Masterpiece, Eddie Palmieri (Coco) Best Inspirational Performance The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable, Different World of Gary S. Paxton, Gary S. Paxton Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording Mark Twang, John Hartford (Flying Fish) Best Instrumental Arrangement “Leprechaun's Dream,” Chick Corea, arranger Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists “If You Leave Me Now,” Jimmy Haskell and James William Guercio, arrangers Best Arrangement for Voices “Afternoon Delight,” Starland Vocal Band, arrangers Best Instrumental Composition Bellavia, Chuck Mangione, composer Best Cast Show Album Bubbling Brown Sugar, various composers (H&L) Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special Car Wash, Norman Whitfield, composer (MCA) Album of the Year, Classical Beethoven, Five Piano Concertos, Artur Rubinstein; Daniel Barenboim conducting London Philharmonic (RCA) Best Classical Orchestral Performance Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Best Chamber Music Performance The Art of Courtly Love, David Munrow conducting Early Music Consort of London Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (With Orchestra) Beethoven, The Five Piano Concertos, Artur Rubinstein; Daniel Barenboim conducting London Philharmonic Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (Without Orchestra) Horowitz Concerts 1975/76, Vladimir Horowitz Best Opera Recording Gershwin, Porgy and Bess, Lorin Maazel conducting Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus (London) Best Choral Performance, Classical Rachmaninoff, The Bells, Arthur Oldham, Chorus master of London Symphony Chorus; André Previn conducting London Symphony Orchestra Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance Music of Victor Herbert, Beverly Sills Best Comedy Recording Bicentennial Nigger, Richard Pryor (Warner Bros.) Best Spoken Word Recording Great American Documents, Orson Welles, Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes and James Earl Jones (CBS) Best Recording for Children Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf; Saint-Saëns, Carnival of the Animals, Hermione Gingold, narrator; Karl Bohm, conductor (Deutsche Grammophon) Best Album Package Chicago X, John Berg, art director (Columbia) Best Album Notes The Changing Face of Harlem, the Savoy Sessions, Dan Morgenstern, annotator (Savoy) Best Producer of the Year Stevie Wonder |