1979 Grammy Awards

Awards
- 1979 Music Awards
-- Grammy Awards

--- 1979 Grammy Awards

Details & Performances

  • Host: John Denver
  • Venue: Shrine Auditorium
  • City: Los Angeles
  • Date: February 15, 1979

Awards

Album of the Year

  • Soundtrack Album - Saturday Night Fever
  • Even Now - Barry Manilow
  • Running on Empty - Jackson Browne
  • Grease - Original Soundtrack Album
  • The Rolling Stones - Some Girls

Album of the Year - Classical

  • Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Chicago Symphony (solo: Itzhak Perlman) - Brahms: Concerto for Violin in D Major
  • Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Chicago Symphony - Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (New World)
  • Claudio Abbado conducting the Vienna Philharmonic - Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major
  • Colin Davis conducting the Boston Symphony - Sibelius: Symphonies (Complete)
  • Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic - Beethoven: Symphonies (9) (Complete)
  • John Frandsen conducting the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Hansen, Landy, Johansen, Plesner, Bastian, Sorens) - Nielsen: Maskarade
  • Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Bach: Mass in B Minor
  • Vladimir Horowitz with Eugene Ormandy conducting the New York Philharmonic - Rachmaninov: Concerto No. 3 in D Minor for Piano (Horowitz Golden Jubilee)

Best Album Notes

  • von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic - Beethoven: Symphonies (9)
  • various artists - Georgia Sea Island Songs
  • Los Angeles Philharmonic - Works of Carpenter/Gilbert/Weiss/Powell

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

  • John Williams - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Giorgio Moroder, Chris Bennett, David Castle, William Hayes, Oliver Stone - Midnight Express
  • Morton Gould - Holocaust: The Story of the Family Weiss
  • Stu Phillip, John Tartaglia, Sue Collins, Glen Larson - Battlestar Galactica

Best Album Package

  • Carly Simon - Boys in the Trees
  • Steven Kuhn - Non-Fiction
  • Oregon - Out of the Woods
  • The Cars - The Cars Lyrics
  • Bruce Roberts - Bruce Roberts
  • Chuck Mangione - Children of Sanchez
  • Bob James - Heads
  • Fandango - Last Kiss

Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

Best Arrangement for Voices

Best Cast Show Album

  • Thomas Fats Waller and others - Ain't Misbehavin'
  • Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Cy Coleman - On the Twentieth Century
  • Carol Hall - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
  • John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr - Beatlemania
  • Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II - The King and I

Best Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental or Vocal

  • Itzhak Perlman, Valdimir Ashkenazy - Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Complete)
  • Tokyo String Quartet - Bartok: Quartet No. 2 for Strings, Op. 17; Quartet No. 6
  • Itzhak Perlman, Pincas Zukerman - Duets for 2 Violins
  • John Williams, Carlos Bonell, Brian Gascoigne, Morris Pert, Keith Marjoram - John Williams and Friends
  • Artur Rubinstein, members of the Guarneri Quartet - Mozart: Quartets for Piano and Strings
  • Melos Quaret with Mstislav Rostropovich - Schubert: Quintet in C Major for Strings
  • David Munrow conducting the David Munrow Recorder Consort, members of the Early Music Consort of London - The Art of the Recorder

Best Classical Performance - Choral

  • Georg Solti, conductor, Margaret Hillis, choral director, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
  • Neville Marriner conducting the Chorus and Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Bach: Mass in B Minor
  • Maurice Abravancl conducting the Utah Chorale and Symphony Orchestra - Bloch: Sacred Service
  • Leonard Bernstein, conductor, Joseph Flummerfelt, choral director, Westminster Choir and New York Philharmonic Choir and New York Philharmonic - Haydn: Mass No. 9 in D Minor (Lord Nelson Mass)
  • Leonard Slatkin, conductor, Thomas Peck, choral director, St. Louis Symphony Chorus and Orchestra - Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
  • Leonard Bernstein conducting the Trinity Boys' Choir, English Bach Festival Chorus, English Bach Festival Orchestra - Stravinsky: Les Noces and Mass
  • Riccardo Muti, conductor, Norbert Balatsch, choral director, New Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra - Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major and Magnificat
  • Georg Solti, conductor, John Alldis, choral director, London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestera - Walton: Belshazzar's Feast

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) with Orchestra

  • Vladimir Horowitz, piano (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra) - Rachmaninov: Concerto No. 3 in D Minor for Piano (Horowitz Golden Jubilee)
  • Mstislav Rostropovich, cello (Giulini conducting the London Philharmonic) - Dvorak: Concerto for Cello in B Minor; Saint-Saens: Concerto for Cello No. 1 in A Minor
  • Murray Perahia, piano (Perahia conducting the English Chamber Orchestra) - Mozart: Concertos for Piano No. 21 in C Major and No. 9 in E Flat Major
  • Arnold Jacobs, tuba (Barenboim conducting the Chicago Symphony) - Vaughan Williams: Concerto for Tuba
  • Itzhak Perlman, violin (Giulini conducting the Chicago Symphony) - Brahms: Concerto for Violin in D Major
  • Emanuel Ax, piano (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra) - Chopin: Concerto No. 2 in F Minor for Piano

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) without Orchestra

  • Vladimir Horowitz, piano - The Horowitz Concerts 1977/78
  • Alfred Brendel, piano - Bach: Italian Concerto: Choral Prelude; Prelude S922; Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue; Fantasy and Fugue
  • Maurizio Pollini, piano - Beethoven: The Late Piano Sonatas
  • Charles Rosen, piano - Beethoven: Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli
  • Paul Jacobs, piano - Debussy: Preludes for Piano, Books I and II
  • Claudio Arrau, piano - Liszt: 12 Transcendenal Etudes and 3 Etudes de Concert
  • Rudolf Serkin, piano - Rudolf Serkin on Television

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra

  • Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic - Beethoven: Symphonies (9) (Complete)
  • Zubin Mehta conducting the New York Philharmonic - Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
  • Andre Previn conducting the Chicago Symphony - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
  • Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony - Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 in D Minor
  • Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra - Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony
  • Kurt Masur conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra - Mendelssohn: Symphonies (5) (Complete)
  • Claudio Abbado conducting the Vienna Philharmonic - Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D Major
  • Neville Marriner conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra - Holst: The Planets
  • Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Chicago Symphony - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor
  • Pierre Boulez conducting the New York Philharmonic - Varese: Ameriques; Arcana; Ionisation (Boulez Conducts Varese)

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist

  • Luciano Pavarotti (various accompanists) - Luciano Pavarotti, Hits from Lincoln Center
  • Maria Callas (various conductors and orchestras) - Maria Callas/The Legend: The Unreleased Recordings
  • Galina Vishnevskaya (Rostropovich conducting the London Philharmonic) - Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death
  • Marilyn Horne (Bernstein conducting the Orchestre National de France) - Ravel: Sheherazade
  • Teresa Berganza (Asensio conducting the English Chamber Orchestra) - Teresa Berganza, Favorite Zarzuela Arias
  • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Kubelik conducting the Bavarian Radio Orchestra) - Wagner: Arias
  • Christa Ludwig (Bohm conducting the Vienna Philharmonic) - Brahms: Spring Rhapsody

Best Comedy Recording

  • Steve Martin - A Wild and Crazy Guy
  • Lily Tomlin - On Stage
  • Martin Mull - Sex and Violins
  • Richard Pryor - The Wizard of Comedy
  • Rutles - The Rutles (All You Need Is Cash)

Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance

  • Asleep at the Wheel - One O'Clock Jump
  • Roy Clark, Buck Trent - Banjo Bandits
  • Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass - Cookin' Country
  • Roy Clark - Steel Guitar Rag
  • Doc Watson, Merle Watson - Under the Double Eagle

Best Country & Western Song

  • Don Schlitz - The Gambler
  • Archie Jordan, Naomi Martin - Let's Take the Long Way Around the World
  • David A. Coe - Take This Job and Shove It
  • Ed Bruce, Patsy Bruce - Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
  • Jan Dyer, Jeffrey Tweel - Every Time Two Fools Collide

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Duo or Group

  • Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson - Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
  • Kenny Rogers, Dottie West - Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight
  • Oak Ridge Boys - Cryin' Again
  • Statler Brothers - Do You Know You Are My Sunshine
  • Jim Ed Brown, Helen Cornelius - If the World Ran Out of Love Tonight
  • Charlie Rich with Janie Fricke - On My Knees

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female

  • Here You Come Again - Dolly Parton
  • Emmylou Harris - Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
  • Barbara Mandrell - Sleeping Single in a Double Bed
  • Crystal Gayle - Talkin' in Your Sleep
  • Anne Murray - Walk Right Back Lyrics

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male

Best Engineered Recording

  • Steely Dan - FM (No Static at All)
  • Diahann Carroll - A Tribute to Ethel Waters
  • Earth, Wind & Fire - All 'n' All
  • John Williams - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid
  • Quincy Jones - Sounds ...and Stuff Like That

Best Engineered Recording - Classical

  • Boulez Conducts Varese - Varese: Ameriques; Arcana; Ionisation
  • von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic - Beethoven: Symphonies (9) (Complete)
  • Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony and Chorus - Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
  • Previn conducting the London Symphony - Messiaen: Turangalilia Symphony
  • Marriner conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra - Holst: The Planets
  • Marriner conducting the Chorus and Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Bach: Mass in B Minor
  • Fredrick Fennell - Cleveland Symphonic Winds
  • von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major
  • Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
  • Leinsdorf conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic - Wagner: Die Walkure: Ride of the Valkyries; Tristan: Prelude Act 1; Gotterdammerung: Siegfried's Fun

Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording

  • Muddy Waters - I'm Ready
  • Clifton Chenier - Clifton Chenier and His Red Hot Louisiana Band in New Orleans
  • Fenton Robinson - I Hear Some Blues Downstairs
  • Louis Myers, John Littlejohn, Eddie Taylor, Jimmy Rogers, Johnny Shines, Homesick James Williamson, Bob Myers - Chicago Blues at Home
  • Memphis Slim & His House Rockers, featuring Matt Guitar Murphy - U.S.A.

Best Gospel Performance - Contemporary or Inspirational

  • Larry Hart - What a Friend
  • Evie - Come On, Ring Those Bells
  • Barry McGuire - Cosmic Cowboy
  • Barry McGuire - Destined to Be Yours
  • Imperials - Imperials Live
  • Reba - The Lady Is a Child

Best Gospel Performance - Traditional

  • Happy Goodman Family - Refreshing
  • J.D. Summer & the Stamps Quartet - Elvis' Favorite Gospel Songs
  • Blackwood Brothers - His Amazing Love
  • Cathedral Quartet - Sunshine and Roses
  • George Beverly Shea - The Old Rugged Cross

Best Historical Repackage Album

  • Edison - The First Recorded Sounds 1888 to 1929
  • Maria Callas - La Divina
  • Ravens - The Greatest Group of Them All

Best Inspirational Performance

  • B.J. Thomas - Happy Man
  • Billy Preston - Behold
  • Boones - First Class
  • Larry Hart - Goin' up in Smoke
  • Tennessee Ernie Ford - He Touched Me
  • Anita Kerr - Precious Memories

Best Instrumental Arrangement

  • Quincy Jones, Robert Freedman - Main Title (Overture Part One), The Wiz original soundtrack
  • Alan Broadbent - Aja (Woody Herman Band)
  • Joe Roccisano - Green Earrings (Woody Herman Band)
  • Chick Corea - Mad Hatter Rhapsody (Chick Corea)
  • Tom Tom 84 - Runnin' (Earth, Wind & Fire)

Best Instrumental Composition

  • John Williams - Theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Chick Corea - Friends
  • Chuck Mangione - Consuelo's Love Theme
  • Lee Ritenour - The Captain's Journey
  • Quincy Jones, Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson - End of the Yellow Brick Road

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band

  • Thad Jones, Mel Lewis - Live in Munich
  • Rob McConnell & the Boss Brass - Big Band Jazz
  • Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band - Insights
  • Dexter Gordon & Orchestra - Sophisticated Giant
  • Thad Jones - Thad Jones Greetings and Salutations

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Group

  • Chick Corea - Friends
  • Al Cohn, Jimmy Rowles - Heavy Love
  • Woody Shaw Concert Ensemble - Rosewood
  • Phil Woods Quintet - Song for Sisyphus
  • Stan Getz, Jimmy Rowles - The Peacocks

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Soloist

  • Oscar Peterson - Montreaux '77, Oscar Peterson Jam
  • Al Cohn - Heavy Love (Al Cohn, Jimmy Rowles)
  • Woody Shaw - Rosewood
  • Dexter Gordon - Sophisticated Giant
  • Stan Getz - Stan Getz Gold

Best Jazz Vocal Performance

  • Al Jarreau - All Fly Home
  • Irene Kral - Gentle Rain
  • Sarah Vaughan - How Long Has This Been Going On
  • Eddie Jefferson - The Main Man
  • Mel Torme - Together Again, for the First Time
  • Ray Charles - True to Life

Best Latin Recording

  • Tito Puente - Homenaje a Beny More
  • Eddie Palmieri - Lucumi, Macumba, Voodoo
  • Fania All Stars - Coro Miyare
  • Laurindo Almeida - Laurindo Almeida Trio
  • Mongo Santamaria - Mongo a la Carte
  • Orchestra Harlow - La Raza Latina

Best Opera Recording

  • Julius Rudel conducting the New York City Opera Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Sills, Titus) - Lehar: The Merry Widow
  • Carlos Kleiber conducting the Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra (solos: Cotrubas, Domingo, Milnes) - Verdi: La Traviata
  • Colin Davis conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (solos: Baker, Popp, Minton, von Stade, Burrows) - Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito
  • Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the Moscow Chamber Opera with soloists - Shostakovich: The Nose
  • Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic (solos: Behrens, van Dam) - R. Strauss: Salome
  • John Frandsen conducting the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Hansen, Landy, Johansen, Plesner, Bastian, Sorensen) - Nielsen: Maskarade
  • Julius Rudel conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the Paris Opera (solos: Sills, Gedda) - Charpentier: Louise
  • Zubin Mehta conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (solos: Neblett, Domingo, Milnes) - Puccini: La Fanciulla del West

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

  • Chuck Mangione - Children of Sanchez
  • Chet Atkins, Les Paul - Guitar Monsters
  • Zubin Mehta conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic - Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Henry Mancini - The Pink Panther Theme ('78)
  • John Williams - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (soundtrack)

Best Recording for Children

  • The Muppet Show - Muppets
  • Charlie Brown's All-Stars
  • Peter and the Wolf - David Bowie, Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra
  • Sesame Street Fever - Muppets
  • The Hobbit (soundtrack) - Orson Bean, John Huston, Hans Conried

Best Rhythm & Blues Instrumental Performance

  • Earth, Wind & Fire - Runnin'
  • Crusaders - Images
  • Stanley Clarke - Modern Man
  • Brothers Johnson - Streetwave
  • Average White Band - Sweet and Sour

Best Rhythm & Blues Song

  • Paul Jabara - Last Dance
  • Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff - Use Ta Be My Girl
  • Maurice White, Eddie de Barrio, Verdine White - Fantasy
  • Perry Kibble, Janice Johnson - Boogie Oogie Oogie
  • Bernard Edwards, Kenny Lehman, Nile Rogers - Dance, Dance, Dance

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

  • Earth, Wind & Fire - All 'n' All
  • A Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie
  • Diana Ross, Michael Jackson - Ease on Down the Road
  • Commodores - Natural High
  • O'Jays - Use ta Be My Girl

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Male

Best Soul Gospel Performance - Contemporary

  • Andrae Crouch & The Disciples - Live in London
  • Highland Park Community Choir, Inc. - Because He's Jesus
  • Danniebelle, Choralerna - Danniebelle Live in Sweden with Choralerna
  • Walter Hawkins - Love Alive II
  • Shirley Caeser - Reach Out and Touch
  • Loleatta Holloway - You Light Up My Life

Best Soul Gospel Performance - Traditional

  • Mighty Clouds of Joy - Live and Direct
  • Gladys McFadden, Loving Sisters - Amazing Grace
  • James Cleveland & the Salem Inspirational Choir, directred by Doretha Wade - I Don't Feel Noways Tired
  • Rev. Isaac Douglas, featuring the San Francisco Community Singers, 21st Century Singers - Special Appearance
  • James Cleveland & the Charles Fold Singers, directed by Charles Fold - Tomorrow

Best Spoken Word Recording

  • Orson Welles - Citizen Kane (original motion picture soundtrack)
  • original soundtrack for Television - Roots
  • Judith Anderson, Claire Bloom, James Mason, George Rose, Gordon Gould - Wuthering Heights
  • ready by Henry Fonda - John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath (excerpts)
  • Richard Nixon, David Frost - The Nixon Interviews with David Frost

Hall of Fame Inductees

  • Count Basie - One O'Clock Jump
  • Les Paul and Mary Ford - How High the Moon
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff (piano), Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra - Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

New Artist

Pop Female Vocalist

Pop Male Vocalist

Pop Vocal Group

Producer of the Year

  • Bee Gees, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson
  • Peter Asher
  • Phil Ramone
  • Quincy Jones Lyrics
  • Alan Parsons

Record of the Year

Song of the Year

Trustees Award

Top Winning Artist

Most Nominated Artist

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