1987 Grammy Awards

Record of the Year “Graceland,” Paul Simon Album of the Year Joshua Tree, U2 (Island) Song of the Year “Somewhere Out There,” James Horner, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, songwriters Best New Artist Jody Watley Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male Bring on the Night, Sting Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me),” Whitney Houston Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal “(I've Had) The Time of My Life,” Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes Best Pop Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) “Minute by Minute,” Larry Carlton Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo Tunnel of Love, Bruce Springsteen Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal The Joshua Tree, U2 Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) Jazz From Hell, Frank Zappa Best Rhythm and Blues Song “Lean on Me,” Bill Withers, songwriter Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male “Just to See Her,” Smokey Robinson Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female Aretha, Aretha Franklin Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me),” Aretha Franklin and George Michael Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) “Chicago Song,” David Sanborn Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male “What Is This Thing Called Love,” Bobby McFerrin Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female Diane Schuur and the Count Basie Orchestra, Diane Schuur Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist The Other Side of Round Midnight, Dexter Gordon Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group Marsalis Standard Time, Volume 1, Wynton Marsalis Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band Digital Duke, Duke Ellington Orchestra conducted by Mercer Ellington Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental Still Life (Talking), Pat Metheny Group Best Country Song “Forever and Ever, Amen,” Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz, songwriters Best Country Vocal Performance, Male Always and Forever, Randy Travis Best Country Vocal Performance, Female “'80's Ladies,” K.T. Oslin Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal Trio, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris Best Country Vocal Performance, Duet “Make No Mistake, She's Mine,” Ronnie Milsap and Kenny Rogers Best Country Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) “String of Pars,” Asleep at the Wheel Best Gospel Performance, Male The Father Hath Provided, Larnelle Harris Best Gospel Performance, Female “I Believe in You,” Deniece Williams Best Gospel Performance By a Duo, Group, Choir or Chorus Crack the Sky, Mylon LeFevre and Broken Heart Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male “Everything's Gonna Be Alright,” Al Green Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female “For Always,” CeCe Winans Best Soul Gospel Performance By a Duo, Group, Choir or Chorus “Ain't No Need to Worry,” Winans and Anita Baker Best Latin Pop Performance Un Hombre Solo, Julio Iglesias Best Tropical Latin Performance La Verdad—The Truth, Eddie Palmieri Best Mexican/American Performance Gracias! America sin Fronteras, Los Tigres Del Norte Best Traditional Blues Recording Houseparty New Orleans Style, Professor Longhair (Rounder) Best Contemporary Blues Recording Strong Persuader, Robert Cray Band (Mercury/Hightone) Best Traditional Folk Recording Shaka Zulu, Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Warner Bros.) Best Contemporary Folk Recording Unfinished Business, Steve Goodman (Red Pajamas) Best Reggae Recording No Nuclear War, Peter Tosh (EMI-America) Best New Age Performance Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony, Yusef Lateef Best Polka Recording A Polka Just for Me, Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra (Starr) Best Arrangement on an Instrumental “Take the ”A“ Train,” Bill Holman, arranger Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) “Deedle's Blues,” Frank Foster, arranger Best Instrumental Composition “Call Sheet Blues,” Dexter Gordon, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Billy Higgins, composers Best Musical Cast Show Album Les Miserables (Geffen) Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television The Untouchables (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Ennio Morricone, composer (A&M) Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television “Somewhere Out There” (From the animated movie An American Tale), James Horner, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, songwriters Best Contemporary Composition Cello Concerto No. 2, Krzysztof Penderecki, composer Best Classical Album Horowitz in Moscow, Vladimir Horowitz (Deutsche Grammophon) Best Orchestral Recording Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (Choral), Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra (London) Best Chamber Music Performance, Instrumental or Vocal Beethoven, The Complete Piano Trios, Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell and Vladimir Ashkenazy Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) Mozart, Violin Concertos nos. 2 and 4 in D, Itzhak Perlman; James Levine conducting Vienna Philarmonic Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) Horowitz in Moscow, Vladimir Horowitz, piano Best Opera Recording Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos, James Levine conducting Vienna Philharmonic; solos: Tomowa-Sintow, Battle, Baltsa, Lakes and Prey (Deutsche Grammophon) Best Choral Performance (Othen Than Opera) Hindemith, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (A Requiem for Those We Love); Robert Shaw conducting Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance Kathleen Battle, Salzburg Recital, Kathleen Battle; James Levine, accompanist Best Comedy Recording A Night at The Met, Robin Williams (Columbia/CBS) Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor (PHC) Best Recording for Children The Elephant's Child, Jack Nicholson, narrator; Bobby McFerrin, music (Windham Hill) Best Album Package King's Record Shop, Bill Johnson, art director (Columbia/CBS) Best Album Notes Thelonious Monk, the Complete Riverside Recordings, Orrin Keepnews, annotator (Riverside) Best Historical Album Thelonious Monk, the Complete Riverside Recordings, Thelonious Monk (Riverside) Best Performance Music Video The Prince's Trust All-Star Rock Concert, Elton John, Tina Turner, Sting and others Best Concept Music Video “Land of Confusion,” Genesis Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) Narada Michael Walden Classical Producer of the Year Robert Woods