
About The Show
This is truly the grand-daddy of all awards shows. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences recognizes outstanding musical achievements. The Grammys always prove to be a night of spectacle and performance that truly can't be missed.
Host: Andy Williams
Date: February 18, 1977
City: Los Angeles
The Nominees
Album Of The Year
Album Of The Year - Classical
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Winner:
Daniel Barenboim conducting the London Philharmonic (solo: Artur Rubinstein) Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos - Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Columbia Jazz Band / Gershwin: An American in Paris; Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the New York Philharmonic Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
- Sir Georg Solti conducting the London Philharmonic (solos: Troyanos, Domingo, Kanawa, van Dam) Bizet: Carmen
- Lorin Mazzael conducting the Cleveland Orchestra (solos: Mitchell, White) Gerswhin: Porgy and Bess
- David Munrow conducting the Early Music Consort of London The Art of Courtly Love
- Arturo Toscanini conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra Arturo Toscanini, the Philadelphia Orchestra
- (Schumann, Scriabin) (solo: Horowitz) Horowitz Concerts 1975/76
- Gunther Schuller conducting the original cast orchestra and chorus (solos: Balthrop, Allen, White) Joplin: Treemonisha
Best Album Notes
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Winner: Various Artists
The Changing Face of Harlem, Savoy Sessions
- Mort Goode The Complete Tommy Dorsey, Vol. 1 - 1935
- Bill & Earl Bolick The Blue Sky Boys
- Enrico Caruso Caruso: A Legendary Performer
- Baremboim conducting the London Philharmonic; solo: Rubinstein Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos
Best Album Of Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or Television Special
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Winner:
Car Wash Norman Whitefield - Omen Jerry Goldsmith
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Jack Nitzsche
- Three Days of the Condor Dave Grusin
- Taxi Drvier Bernard Herrmann
- Rich Man, Poor Man Alex North
Best Album Package
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Winner: Chicago
Chicago X
- Boz Scaggs Silk Degrees
- Richie Havens The End of the Beginning
- Charles Munch conducting the Boston Symphony Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B Flat, Op. 38; Manfred: Overture, Op. 115
- Peggy Lee Mirrors
- Lou Reed Coney Island Baby
- Chuck Mangione Bellavia
- Led Zeppelin Presence
Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
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Winner: Chicago
If You Leave Me Now
- Singers Unlimited Sentimental Journey
- Wings Let'em In
- Antonio Carlos Jobim Boto (Porpoise)
- Singers Unlimited Green Dolphin Street
Best Arrangement For Voices
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Winner: Starland Vocal Band
Afternoon Delight
- Singers Unlimited I Get Along Without You Very Well
- Earth Wind & Fire Can't Hide Love
- Queen Bohemian Rhapsody
- Quire Ain't Misbehavin'
Best Cast Show Album
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Winner:
Razaf, Goodman, Sampson, Webb, Strayhorn, Holgate, Kemp, Lopez, Rogers, Williams, Mills, Parish, Ellington, Hines, Sissle, Blake, Pinkard, Waller, Overstreet, Higgins, Herzog, Webster, Holiday Bubbling Brown Sugar - Stephen Sondheim Pacific Overtures
- Stephen Sondheim Side by Side by Sondheim
- Richard Rodgers, Sheldon Harnick Rex
- Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe My Fair Lady
Best Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental Or Vocal
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Winner:
David Munrow conducting the Early Music Consort of London The Art of Courtly Love - Fitzwilliam Quartet Shostakovich: Quartet No. 14 in F Sharp Major
- Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts
- Thomas Iglois, Alberni Quartet Schumbert: Quintet in C, Op. 163
- Tashi (Peter Serkin, Fred Sherry, Ida Kavafian, Richard Stoltzman) Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
- Jacqueline Du Pre, Daniel Barenboim Beethoven: Sonatas for Cello (Complete)
- Prague String Quartet Dvorak: Quartets, Opp. 96 and 105
- Glenn Gould, Philadelphia Brass Ensemble Hindemith: Sonatas for Brass and Piano (Complete)
- Cleveland Quartet Barber: Quartet for Strings, Op. 11 / Ives: Quartet No. 2 for Strings (Two American Masterpieces)
Best Classical Performance - Choral
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Winner:
Arthur Oldham, chorus master, London Symphony Chorus; Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony Rachmaninov: The Bells - Colin Davis conducting the BBC Singers and Choral Society and BBC Symphony Tippett: A Child of Our Time
- Romano Gandolfi, chorus master, Chorus of La Scala, Milan; Claudio Abbado conducting the Orchestra of La Scala, Milan Verdi: Opera Choruses (from Nabucco, Il Trovatore, Otello, Aida, etc)
- Dom Jean Claire conducting the Choir of the Monks of Saint-Pierre de Solesmes Abbey Gregorian Chant
- Franz Muller, chorus master, Netherlands Radio Chorus; Jean Fournet conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic Faure: Requiem
- Leonard Bernstein conducting the Choeurs de Radio France, Orchestre National de France and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (Burrows, tenor) Berlioz: Requiem
- Phillip Ledger conducting the Kings College Choir, Cambridge Bernstein: Chichester Psalms / Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb
- Sir Adrian Boult conducting the London Philharmonic Chorus and London Philharmonic Orchestra Elgar: The Kingdom, Op. 51
- Walter Hagen-Groll, chorus master, New Philharmonia Chorus; Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the London Philharmonic Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) With Orchestra
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Winner:
Artur Rubinstein, piano (Barenboim conducting the London Philharmonic) Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos - Mstislav Rostropovich, cello (von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic) Strauss: Don Quixote
- Aldo Ciecolini, piano (Martinon conducting the Orchestre de Paris) Ravel: Concerto in G Major for Piano and Orchestra and Concerto in D Major for Left Hand
- Nathan Milstein, violin (Jochum conducting the Vienna Philharmonic) Brahms: Concerto in D Major for Violin
- Stephen Bishop, piano (David conducting the London Symphony) Bartok: Concertos for Piano Nos. 1 and 3
- Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (Previn conducting the London Symphony) Profofiev: The 5 Piano Concertos
Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) Without Orchestra
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Winner:
Vladimir Horowitz, piano Horowitz Concerts 1975/76 - Andres Segovia, guitar The Intimate Guitar - 2
- Andre Watts, piano Watts by George: Andre Watts Plays George Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue, preludes for piano (3), 13 son
- Alfred Brendel, piano Schubert: Sonata in A Minor, Op. 42 / Hungarian Melody in B Minor (D. 817)
- Lazar Berman, piano Liszt: Legendary Soviet Pianist Lazar Berman Plays Liszt
- Itzhak Perlman, violin Itzhak Perlman Plays Fritz Kreisler
- Maurizio Pollini, piano Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28
- Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano Rachmaninov: 23 Preludes
Best Classical Performance - Orchestral
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Winner:
Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra - Jean Martinon conducting the Orchestre de Paris Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe (Complete)
- Zubin Mehta conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic The Fourth of July! Ives: Symphony No. 2, Variations on America / Copland: Appalachian Spring / Bern
- Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Columbia Jazz Band Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
- Pierre Boulez conducting the New York Philharmonic Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat (Boulez Conducts Falla)
- James Levine conducting the Chicago Symphony Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor
- Sir Georg Solti conducting the London Philharmonic Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E Flat Major
- Jean Martinon conducting the Orchestra National of the Orft Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
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Winner:
Beverly Sills (Kostelanetz conducting the London Symphony) Music of Victor Herbert (Kiss in the Dark, Italian Street Song, Kiss Me Again etc.) - Marni Nixon (Leonard Stein, accompanist) Schoenberg: 9 Early Songs; The Cabaret Songs of Arnold Schoenberg
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Sviatoslav Richter, accompanist) Wolfe: Morike Lieder
- Margaret Price (Lockhart conducting the English Chamber Orchestra) Mozart: Arias (La Clemenza di Tito, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Nozze di Figaro etc)
- Janet Baker, James King (Haitink conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra) Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
- Barbra Streisand (Ogerman conducting the Columbia Symphony) Classical Barbra (Debussy: Beau Soir; Canteloube: Berceuse; Wolf: Verschwiegene, etc)
- Jan DeGaetani (Gilbert Kalish, accompanist) Ives: Songs
- Carlo Bergonzi (Santi conducting the New Philharmonia, Gardelli conducting the Royal Philharmonic) Carlo Bergonzi Sings Verdi
Best Comedy Recording
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Winner:
Richard Pryor Bicentennial Nigger - Redd Foxx You Gotta Wash Your Ass
- National Lampoon Goodbye Pop
- Cheech And Chong Sleeping Beauty
- Bill Cosby Bill Cosby Is Not Himself These Days, Rat Own, Rat Own, Rat Own
Best Country Instrumental Performance
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Winner:
Chet Atkins, Les Paul Chester and Lester - Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass Texas
- The Marshall Tucker Band Long Hard Ride
- Floyd Cramer I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
- Ace Cannon Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
Best Country Song
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Winner: Larry Gatlin
Broken Lady
- Paul Craft Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life
- Paul Craft Dropkick Me, Jesus
- Bob McDill, Dickey Lees The Door Is Always Open
- Charlie Rich, Billy Sherrill Every Time You Touch Me (I Get High)
Best Country Vocal Performance - Duo Or Group
Best Country Vocal Performance - Female
Best Country Vocal Performance - Male
Best Engineered Recording - Classical
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Winner:
George Gershwin (1925 piano roll) and Thomas conducting the Columbia Jazz Band Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue - Mehta conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection)
- Mehta conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
- Barenboim conducting the Chicago Symphony Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor (Organ)
- Maazel conducting the Cleveland Orchestra (solos: Mitchell, White) Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
- Previn conducting the London Symphony Britten: 4 Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes
- Boulez conducting the New York Philharmonic (solo: de Gaetani) Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat (Boulez Conducts Falla)
- James Levine conducting the Chicago Symphony Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor
Best Engineered Recording Other Than Classical
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Winner: George Benson
Breezin'
- Harry James & His Big Band The King James Version
- Gary Wright Dream Weaver
- The Alan Parsons Project Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Edgar Allan Poe
- Ambrosia Somewhere I've Never Travelled
Best Ethnic Or Traditional Recording
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Winner:
John Hartford Mark Twang - Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band Bagpipe Marches and Music of Scotland
- Michael Bloomfield If You Love These Blues, Play 'Em as You Please
- Chief Dan George, Arliene Nofchissey Williams, Rick Brousseau Proud Earth
- Hound Dog Taylor Beware of the Dog
Best Gospel Performance
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Winner: Oak Ridge Boys
Where the Soul Never Dies
- Blackwood Brothers Learning to Lean
- Imperials Just Because
- Florida Boys Here They Come
- Speers Between the Cross and Heaven (There's a Whole Lot of Living Going On)
Best Inspirational Performance
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Winner:
Gary S. Paxton The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable, Different World of Gary S. Paxton - Pat Boone Something Super Natural
- Charley Pride Sunday Morning with Charley Pride
- Charlie Rich Silver Linings
- Ray Price Precious Memories
- Stevie Wonder Have A Talk With God
- Sonny James Just a Closer Walk with Thee
- Willie Nelson Amazing Grace
Best Instrumental Arrangement
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Winner: Chick Corea
Leprechaun's Dream (Chick Corea)
- Bob James Westchester Lady (Bob James)
- Henry Mancini, John Williams, Herb Spencer, Al Woodbury The Disaster Movie Suite (Henry Mancini conducting the London Symphony)
- Claus Ogerman Saudade do Brazil (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
- Stanley Clarke Band Life Is Just a Game (Stanley Clarke)
Best Instrumental Composition
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Winner:
Chuck Mangione Bellavia - Stevie Wonder Contusion
- Quincy Jones, Louis Johnson, Dave Grusin Midnight Soul Patrol
- Henry Mancini The White Dawn
- Chick Corea Leprechaun's Dream
- Maurie White, Skip Scarbrough Earth, Wind & Fire
Best Jazz Performance By A Big Band
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Winner: Duke Ellington
The Ellington Suites
- Phil Woods The New Phil Woods Album
- Thad Jones, Mel Lewis New Life
- Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band Long Yellow Road
- Dizzy Gillespie, Machito Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods
Best Jazz Performance By A Group
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Winner: Chick Corea
The Leprechaun
- Paul Desmond Quartet The Paul Desmond Quartet Live
- Bill Evans Trio Since We Met
- Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius
- Count Basie, Zoot Sims Basie & Zoot
Best Jazz Performance By A Soloist
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Winner: Count Basie
Basie and Zoot
- Art Tatum Works of Art
- Phil Woods The New Phil Woods Album
- Jim Hall Commitment
- Clark Terry Clark Terry and His Jolly Giants
- Jaco Pastorius Donna Lee
Best Jazz Vocal Performance
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Winner: Ella Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald and Pass... Again
- Irene Kral Where Is Love?
- Quire Quire
- Ray Charles, Cleo Laine Porgy and Bess
- Sarah Vaughan More Sarah Vaughan Live in Japan
Best Latin Recording
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Winner: Eddie Palmieri
Unfinished Masterpiece
- Mongo Santamaria Sofrito
- Johnny Pacheco El Maestro
- Fania All-Stars Salsa Soundtrack
- Eydie Gorme La Gorme
- Joe Cuba Cocianando la Salsa
Best Opera Recording
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Winner:
Lorin Maazel conducting the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Mitchell, White) Gershwin: Porgy and Bess - Sir Georg Solti conducting the London Philharmonic (solos: Troyanos, Domingo, Te Kanawa, van Dam) Bizet: Carmen
- Pierre Boulez conducting the BBC Symphony, BBC Symphony Singers, Orpheus Boys' Choir (solos: Reich, Cassilly, Angus, Palmer, Hermann) Schoenberg: Moses und Aron
- Loriz Maazel conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra, John Aldis Choir (solos: Sills, Milnes, Gedda) Massenet: Thais
- Claudio Abbado conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala (solos: Verrett, Domingo, Ghiaurov) Verdi: Macbeth
- Gunther Schuller conducting the original cast orchestra and chorus (solos: Balthrop, Allen, White) Joplin: Treemonisha
Best Pop Instrumental Performance
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Winner: George Benson
Breezin'
- Jeff Beck Wired
- Stevie Wonder Contusion
- Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band A Fifth of Beethoven
- Brecker Borthers Band Back to Back
Best Recording For Children
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Winner:
Hermione Gingold, narrator; Bohm conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf; Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals - Sterling Holloway Winnie-the-Pooh for President (Campaign Song)
- original soundtrack Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Muhammed Ali & His Gang The Adventures of Ali and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay
- Mickey Mouse and Scrooge McDuck Dickens' Christmas Carol
Best Rhythm & Blues Instrumental Performance
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Winner: George Benson
Theme from Good King Bad
- Crusaders Keep That Same Old Feeling
- Stanley Turrentine Hope That We Can Be Together Soon
- Herbie Hancock Doin' It
- Brass Construction Brass Construction
- Marvin Gaye After the Dance
Best Rhythm & Blues Song
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Winner:
Boz Scaggs, David Paich Lowdown - Pam Sawyer, Marilyn McLeod Love Hangover
- Harvey Scales, Al Vance, Don Davis Disco Lady
- H.W. Casey, Richard Finch (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty
- Bob Montgomery Misty Blue
Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Duo, Group Or Chorus
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Winner:
Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis Jr. You Don't Have to Be a Star (to Be in My Show) - The Spinners The Rubberband Man
- Wild Cherry Play That Funky Music
- Earth Wind & Fire Gratitude
- K.c. And The Sunshine Band Shake, Shake, Shake (shake Your Booty)
Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female
Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Male
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Winner: Stevie Wonder
I Wish
- Boz Scaggs Lowdown
- Marvin Gaye I Want You
- Joe Simon I Need You, You Need Me
- Lou Rawls Groovy People
- Johnnie Taylor Disco Lady
Best Soul Gospel Performance
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Winner: Mahalia Jackson
How I Got Over
- Inez Andrews War on Sin
- James Cleveland & the Charles Fold Singers Touch Me, Vol. 2
- Andrae Crouch & The Disciples This Is Another Day
- James Cleveland & the Southern California Community Choir Give It to Me
Best Spoken Word Recording
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Winner:
Orson Welles, Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones Great American Documents - William Shatner Asimov: Foundation: The Psychohistoricans
- Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
- Charlton Heston Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
- James Mason Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
Hall Of Fame
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Winner:
Wanda Landowska Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Complete) -
Winner:
Original Broadway Cast with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews My Fair Lady -
Winner:
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on Cornet Singin' the Blues -
Winner:
Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra (19 Beethoven: Symphonies -
Winner:
Artie Shaw & His Orchestra Begin the Beguine
New Artist
Pop Male Vocalist
Pop Vocal Group
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Winner: Chicago
If You Leave Me Now
- England Dan & John Ford Coley I'd Really Love To See You Tonight
- Elton John, Kiki Dee Don't Go Breaking My Heart
- Queen Bohemian Rhapsody
- Starland Vocal Band Afternoon Delight
Producer Of The Year
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Winner: Stevie Wonder
- Joe Wissert
- Richard Perry
- Lennie Waronker
Record Of The Year
Song Of The Year
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Winner:
Bruce Johnson I Write the Songs - Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
- Leon Russell This Masquerade
- Gordon Lightfoot The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
- Bill Danoff Afternoon Delight
Trustees Award
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Winner:
Leopold Stokowski -
Winner:
Thomas A. Edison
