Grammy Awards Of 1977

Award winners:

• Record of the Year
• Tommy LiPuma (producer) & George Benson for "This Masquerade"

• Album of the Year
• Stevie Wonder (producer & artist) for Songs in the Key of Life

• Song of the Year
• Bruce Johnston (songwriter) for "I Write the Songs" performed by Barry Manilow

• Best New Artist
• Starland Vocal Band

Children's

• Best Recording for Children
• Karl Bohm (conductor) & Hermione Gingold for Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Saint-Sans: Carnival of the Animals

Classical

• Best Classical Orchestral Performance
• Raymond Minshull (producer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
• Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
• Beverly Sills for Herbert: Music of Victor Herbert
• Best Opera Recording
• Michael Woolcock (producer), Lorin Maazel (conductor), Leona Mitchell, Willard White & the Cleveland Orchestra for Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
• Best Choral Performance (other than opera)
• Andre Previn (conductor), Arthur Oldham (choir director) & the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Rachmaninoff: The Bells
• Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra)
• Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Artur 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), Artur Rubinstein & the London Philharmonic for Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos

Comedy

• Best Comedy Recording
• Richard Pryor for Bicentennial Nigger

Composing and arranging

• 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 various artists
• 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"

Country

• 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"

Folk

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

Gospel

• 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

Jazz

• Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist (Instrumental)
• Count Basie for Basie and 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

Latin

• Best Latin Recording
• Eddie Palmieri for Unfinished Masterpiece

Musical Show

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

Packaging and Notes

• 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

Pop

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

Production and engineering

• Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
• Al Schmitt (engineer) for Breezin' performed by George Benson
• Best Engineered Recording, Classical
• Edward (Bud) T. Graham, Milton Cherin, Ray Moore (engineers), Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), George Gershwin, & the Columbia Jazz Band for Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
• Best Producer of the Year
• Stevie Wonder

R&B

• 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

Spoken

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

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