1977 Grammy Awards

Awards
- 1977 Music Awards
-- Grammy Awards

--- 1977 Grammy Awards

Details & Performances

  • Host: Andy Williams
  • Venue: Hollywood Palladium
  • City: Los Angeles
  • Date: February 19, 1977

Awards

Album of the Year

Album of the Year - Classical

  • Daniel Barenboim conducting the London Philharmonic (solo: Artur Rubinstein) - Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos
  • (Schumann, Scriabin) (solo: Horowitz) - Horowitz Concerts 1975/76
  • Arturo Toscanini conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra - Arturo Toscanini, the Philadelphia Orchestra
  • David Munrow conducting the Early Music Consort of London - The Art of Courtly Love
  • Gunther Schuller conducting the original cast orchestra and chorus (solos: Balthrop, Allen, White) - Joplin: Treemonisha
  • Lorin Mazzael conducting the Cleveland Orchestra (solos: Mitchell, White) - Gerswhin: Porgy and Bess
  • 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

Best Album Notes

  • various artists - The Changing Face of Harlem, Savoy Sessions
  • Baremboim conducting the London Philharmonic; solo: Rubinstein - Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos
  • Enrico Caruso - Caruso: A Legendary Performer
  • Bill & Earl Bolick - The Blue Sky Boys
  • Mort Goode - The Complete Tommy Dorsey, Vol. 1 - 1935

Best Album of Original Score written for a Motion Picture or Television Special

  • Car Wash - Norman Whitefield
  • Rich Man, Poor Man - Alex North
  • Taxi Drvier - Bernard Herrmann
  • Three Days of the Condor - Dave Grusin
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Jack Nitzsche
  • The Omen - Jerry Goldsmith

Best Album Package

Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

Best Arrangement for Voices

Best Cast Show Album

  • 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
  • Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe - My Fair Lady
  • Richard Rodgers, Sheldon Harnick - Rex
  • Stephen Sondheim - Side by Side by Sondheim
  • Stephen Sondheim - Pacific Overtures

Best Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental or Vocal

  • David Munrow conducting the Early Music Consort of London - The Art of Courtly Love
  • The Cleveland Quartet - Barber: Quartet for Strings, Op. 11 / Ives: Quartet No. 2 for Strings (Two American Masterpieces)
  • 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)
  • Tashi (Peter Serkin, Fred Sherry, Ida Kavafian, Richard Stoltzman) - Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
  • Thomas Iglois, Alberni Quartet - Schumbert: Quintet in C, Op. 163
  • Fitzwilliam Quartet - Shostakovich: Quartet No. 14 in F Sharp Major
  • Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky - The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts

Best Classical Performance - Choral

  • Arthur Oldham, chorus master, London Symphony Chorus; Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony - Rachmaninov: The Bells
  • Walter Hagen-Groll, chorus master, New Philharmonia Chorus; Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the London Philharmonic - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
  • 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
  • Franz Muller, chorus master, Netherlands Radio Chorus; Jean Fournet conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic - Faure: Requiem
  • Dom Jean Claire conducting the Choir of the Monks of Saint-Pierre de Solesmes Abbey - Gregorian Chant
  • 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)

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) with Orchestra

  • Artur Rubinstein, piano (Barenboim conducting the London Philharmonic) - Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos
  • Stephen Bishop, piano (David conducting the London Symphony) - Bartok: Concertos for Piano Nos. 1 and 3
  • Nathan Milstein, violin (Jochum conducting the Vienna Philharmonic) - Brahms: Concerto in D Major for Violin
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (Previn conducting the London Symphony) - Profofiev: The 5 Piano Concertos
  • 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
  • Mstislav Rostropovich, cello (von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic) - Strauss: Don Quixote

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) without Orchestra

  • Vladimir Horowitz, piano - Horowitz Concerts 1975/76
  • Maurizio Pollini, piano - Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28
  • Itzhak Perlman, violin - Itzhak Perlman Plays Fritz Kreisler
  • Lazar Berman, piano - Liszt: Legendary Soviet Pianist Lazar Berman Plays Liszt
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano - Rachmaninov: 23 Preludes
  • Alfred Brendel, piano - Schubert: Sonata in A Minor, Op. 42 / Hungarian Melody in B Minor (D. 817)
  • 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

Best Classical Performance - Orchestral

  • Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony - Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
  • Jean Martinon conducting the Orchestra National of the Orft - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
  • 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
  • Pierre Boulez conducting the New York Philharmonic - Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat (Boulez Conducts Falla)
  • Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Columbia Jazz Band - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
  • 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

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist

  • Beverly Sills (Kostelanetz conducting the London Symphony) - Music of Victor Herbert (Kiss in the Dark, Italian Street Song, Kiss Me Again etc.)
  • Carlo Bergonzi (Santi conducting the New Philharmonia, Gardelli conducting the Royal Philharmonic) - Carlo Bergonzi Sings Verdi
  • Barbra Streisand (Ogerman conducting the Columbia Symphony) - Classical Barbra (Debussy: Beau Soir; Canteloube: Berceuse; Wolf: Verschwiegene, etc)
  • Jan DeGaetani (Gilbert Kalish, accompanist) - Ives: Songs
  • Janet Baker, James King (Haitink conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra) - Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
  • Margaret Price (Lockhart conducting the English Chamber Orchestra) - Mozart: Arias (La Clemenza di Tito, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Nozze di Figaro 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

Best Comedy Recording

  • Richard Pryor - Bicentennial Nigger
  • Bill Cosby - Bill Cosby Is Not Himself These Days, Rat Own, Rat Own, Rat Own
  • Cheech & Chong - Sleeping Beauty
  • National Lampoon - Goodbye Pop
  • Redd Foxx - You Gotta Wash Your Ass

Best Country Instrumental Performance

Best Country Song

  • Larry Gatlin - Broken Lady
  • Bob McDill, Dickey Lees - The Door Is Always Open
  • Charlie Rich, Billy Sherrill - Every Time You Touch Me (I Get High)
  • Paul Craft - Dropkick Me, Jesus
  • Paul Craft - Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life

Best Country Vocal Performance - Duo or Group

  • Amazing Rhythm Aces - The End Is Not in Sight (The Cowboy Tune)
  • George Jones, Tammy Wynette - Golden Ring
  • Asleep at the Wheel - Route 66
  • Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty - The Letter
  • Statler Brothers - Your Picture in the Paper

Best Country Vocal Performance - Female

Best Country Vocal Performance - Male

Best Engineered Recording - Classical

  • George Gershwin (1925 piano roll) and Thomas conducting the Columbia Jazz Band - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
  • James Levine conducting the Chicago Symphony - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor
  • 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)
  • Maazel conducting the Cleveland Orchestra (solos: Mitchell, White) - Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
  • Mehta conducting the Vienna Philharmonic - Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection)
  • Barenboim conducting the Chicago Symphony - Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor (Organ)
  • Mehta conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic - Strauss: An Alpine Symphony

Best Engineered Recording Other than Classical

  • George Benson - Breezin'
  • Ambrosia - Somewhere I've Never Travelled
  • Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Edgar Allan Poe
  • Gary Wright - Dream Weaver Lyrics
  • Harry James & His Big Band - The King James Version

Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording

  • John Hartford - Mark Twang
  • Chief Dan George, Arliene Nofchissey Williams, Rick Brousseau - Proud Earth
  • Hound Dog Taylor - Beware of the Dog
  • Michael Bloomfield - If You Love These Blues, Play 'Em as You Please
  • Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band - Bagpipe Marches and Music of Scotland

Best Gospel Performance

  • Oak Ridge Boys - Where the Soul Never Dies
  • Speers - Between the Cross and Heaven (There's a Whole Lot of Living Going On)
  • Florida Boys - Here They Come
  • Imperials - Just Because
  • Blackwood Brothers - Learning to Lean

Best Inspirational Performance

Best Instrumental Arrangement

  • Chick Corea - Leprechaun's Dream (Chick Corea)
  • Stanley Clarke - Life Is Just a Game (Stanley Clarke)
  • Claus Ogerman - Saudade do Brazil (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
  • Henry Mancini, John Williams, Herb Spencer, Al Woodbury - The Disaster Movie Suite (Henry Mancini conducting the London Symphony)
  • Bob James - Westchester Lady (Bob James)

Best Instrumental Composition

  • Chuck Mangione - Bellavia
  • Chick Corea - Leprechaun's Dream
  • Henry Mancini - The White Dawn
  • Maurie White, Skip Scarbrough - Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Quincy Jones, Louis Johnson, Dave Grusin - Midnight Soul Patrol
  • Stevie Wonder - Contusion Lyrics

Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band

  • Duke Ellington - The Ellington Suites
  • Dizzy Gillespie, Machito - Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods
  • Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band - Long Yellow Road
  • Thad Jones, Mel Lewis - New Life
  • Phil Woods - The New Phil Woods Album

Best Jazz Performance by a Group

  • Chick Corea - The Leprechaun
  • Count Basie, Zoot Sims - Basie & Zoot
  • Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
  • Bill Evans Trio - Since We Met
  • Paul Desmond Quartet - The Paul Desmond Quartet Live

Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist

  • Count Basie - Basie and Zoot
  • Clark Terry - Clark Terry and His Jolly Giants
  • Jim Hall - Commitment
  • Jaco Pastorius - Donna Lee
  • Phil Woods - The New Phil Woods Album
  • Art Tatum - Works of Art

Best Jazz Vocal Performance

  • Ella Fitzgerald - Fitzgerald and Pass... Again
  • Sarah Vaughan - More Sarah Vaughan Live in Japan
  • Ray Charles, Cleo Laine - Porgy and Bess
  • Quire - Quire
  • Irene Kral - Where Is Love?

Best Latin Recording

  • Eddie Palmieri - Unfinished Masterpiece
  • Eydie Gorme - La Gorme
  • Fania All-Stars - Salsa Soundtrack
  • Joe Cuba - Cocianando la Salsa
  • Johnny Pacheco - El Maestro
  • Mongo Santamaria - Sofrito

Best Opera Recording

  • Lorin Maazel conducting the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Mitchell, White) - Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
  • 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
  • Loriz Maazel conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra, John Aldis Choir (solos: Sills, Milnes, Gedda) - Massenet: Thais
  • Pierre Boulez conducting the BBC Symphony, BBC Symphony Singers, Orpheus Boys' Choir (solos: Reich, Cassilly, Angus, Palmer, Hermann) - Schoenberg: Moses und Aron
  • Sir Georg Solti conducting the London Philharmonic (solos: Troyanos, Domingo, Te Kanawa, van Dam) - Bizet: Carmen

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

  • George Benson - Breezin'
  • Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band - A Fifth of Beethoven
  • Brecker Borthers Band - Back to Back
  • Stevie Wonder - Contusion Lyrics
  • Jeff Beck - Wired

Best Recording for Children

  • Hermione Gingold, narrator; Bohm conducting the Vienna Philharmonic - Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf; Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals
  • Mickey Mouse and Scrooge McDuck - Dickens' Christmas Carol
  • Muhammed Ali & His Gang - The Adventures of Ali and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay
  • original soundtrack - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • Sterling Holloway - Winnie-the-Pooh for President (Campaign Song)

Best Rhythm & Blues Instrumental Performance

  • George Benson - Theme from Good King Bad
  • Marvin Gaye - After the Dance Lyrics
  • Brass Construction - Brass Construction
  • Herbie Hancock - Doin' It
  • Stanley Turrentine - Hope That We Can Be Together Soon
  • Crusaders - Keep That Same Old Feeling

Best Rhythm & Blues Song

  • Boz Scaggs, David Paich - Lowdown
  • Bob Montgomery - Misty Blue
  • H.W. Casey, Richard Finch - (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty
  • Harvey Scales, Al Vance, Don Davis - Disco Lady
  • Pam Sawyer, Marilyn McLeod - Love Hangover

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Duo, Group or Chorus

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female

  • Natalie Cole - Sophisticated Lady (She's a Different Lady)
  • Melba Moore - Lean On Me
  • Diana Ross - Love Hangover Lyrics
  • Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue
  • Aretha Franklin - Something He Can Feel

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Male

Best Soul Gospel Performance

  • Mahalia Jackson - How I Got Over
  • James Cleveland & the Southern California Community Choir - Give It to Me
  • Andrae Crouch & The Disciples - This Is Another Day
  • James Cleveland & the Charles Fold Singers - Touch Me, Vol. 2
  • Inez Andrews - War on Sin

Best Spoken Word Recording

  • Orson Welles, Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones - Great American Documents
  • Charlton Heston - Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
  • James Mason - Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
  • Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
  • William Shatner - Asimov: Foundation: The Psychohistoricans

Hall of Fame

  • Artie Shaw & His Orchestra - Begin the Beguine
  • Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra (19 - Beethoven: Symphonies
  • Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on Cornet - Singin' the Blues
  • Original Broadway Cast with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews - My Fair Lady
  • Wanda Landowska - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Complete)

New Artist

Pop Female Vocalist

Pop Male Vocalist

Pop Vocal Group

Producer of the Year

Record of the Year

Song of the Year

Trustees Award

  • Thomas A. Edison
  • Leopold Stokowski

Top Winning Artist

Most Nominated Artist

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