1977 Grammy Awards

Record of the Year “Hotel California,” Eagles Album of the Year Rumours, Fleetwood Mac (Warner Bros.) Song of the Year (tie) “Love Theme From A Star Is Born” (Evergreen), Barbra Streisand and Paul Williams, songwriters “You Light Up My Life,” Joe Brooks, songwriter Best New Artist of the Year Debby Boone Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male “Handy Man,” James Taylor Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female “Love Theme From A Star Is Born” (Evergreen), Barbra Streisand Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus “How Deep Is Your Love,” Bee Gees Best Pop Instrumental Performance Star Wars, John Williams conducting London Symphony Orchestra Best Rhythm and Blues Song “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing,” Leo Sayer and Vini Poncia, songwriters Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male Unmistakably Lou, Lou Rawls Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female “Don't Leave Me This Way,” Thelma Houston Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus “Best of My Love,” Emotions Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance “Q,” Brothers Johnson Best Jazz Vocal Performance Look to the Rainbow, Al Jarreau Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist The Giants, Oscar Peterson Best Jazz Performance By a Group The Phil Woods Six—Live From the Showboat, Phil Woods Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band Prime Time, Count Basie and His Orchestra Best Country Song “Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue,” Richard Leigh, songwriter Best Country Vocal Performance, Male “Lucille,” Kenny Rogers Best Country Vocal Performance, Female “Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue,” Crystal Gayle Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group “Heaven's Just a Sin Away,” The Kendalls Best Country Instrumental Performance Country Instrumentalist of the Year, Hargus “Pig” Robbins Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational Sail On, Imperials Best Gospel Performance, Traditional “Just a Little Talk With Jesus,” Oak Ridge Boys Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary Wonderfull, Edwin Hawkins and the Edwin Hawkins Singers Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional James Cleveland Live at Carnegie Hall, James Cleveland Best Latin Recording Dawn, Mongo Santamaria (Vaya) Best Inspirational Performance Home Where I Belong, B.J. Thomas Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording Hard Again, Muddy Waters (Blue Sky/CBS) Best Instrumental Arrangement “Nadia's Theme” (The Young and the Restless), Harry Betts, Perry Botkin, Jr. and Barry De Vorzon, arrangers Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) “Love Theme From A Star Is Born” (Evergreen), lan Freebairn-Smith, arranger Best Arrangement for Voices “New Kid in Town,” Eagles, arrangers Best Instrumental Composition “Main Title From Star Wars,” John Williams, composer Best Cast Show Album Annie, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, composers (Columbia) Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special Star Wars, John Williams, composer (20th Century) Album of the Year, Classical Concert of the Century, Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Isaac Stern, Mstislav Rostropovich, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Yehudi Menuhin and Lyndon Woodside (Columbia) Best Classical Orchestral Performance Mahler, Symphony No. 9, Carlo Maria Giulini conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra Best Chamber Music Performance Schoenberg, Quartets for Strings, Juilliard Quartet Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) Vivaldi, The Four Seasons, Itzhak Perlman, violin; Itzhak Perlman conducting London Philharmonic Orchestra Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) Beethoven, Sonata for Piano No. 18; Schumann, Fantasiestücke, Artur Rubinstein, piano Best Opera Recording Gershwin, Porgy and Bess, John De Main conducting Sherwin M. Goldman Houston Grand Opera Production; solos: Albert, Dale, Smith, Shakesnider, Lane, Brice and Smalls (RCA) Best Choral Performance, Classical (Other Than Opera) Verdi, Requiem, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Margaret Hillis, choral director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance Bach, Arias, Janet Baker; Neville Marriner conducting Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Best Comedy Recording Let's Get Small, Steve Martin (Warner Bros.) Best Spoken Word Recording The Belle of Amherst, Julie Harris (Credo) Best Recording for Children Aren't You Glad You're You, Sesame Street cast and Muppets (Sesame Street) Best Album Package Simple Dreams, Kosh, art director (Asylum) Best Album Notes Bing Crosby: A Legendary Performer, George T. Simon, annotator (RCA) Best Producer of the Year Peter Asher