About The Show

The Junos recognize excellence in the Canadian Music Industry by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Tune in to watch some of your favorite Canadian artists, with a few international stars mixed in.

Host: Andrea Martin
Date: February 4, 1981
City: Toronto, Ontario

The Nominees

Album Of The Year

Best Album Graphics

  • Winner:
    Downchild Blues Band
    We Deliver
  • Straight Lines Straight Lines
  • Loverboy Loverboy
  • Toronto Lookin' for Trouble
  • Doug & The Slugs Cognac and Bologna

Best Children's Album

  • Winner:
    Sharon, Lois & Bram
    Singing 'n Swinging
  • The Travellers Merry-Go-Round
  • The Free Rose Corporation You've Got To Be A Kid To Get In
  • Fred Penner The Cat Came Back
  • Jim & Rosalie Listen To Me

Best Classical Album Of The Year

Best Jazz Album

  • Winner:
    Rob MCConnell & The Boss Brass
    Present Perfect
  • Tommy Ambrose & Doug Riley Tommy Ambrose At Last
  • Glen Hall The Book of the Heart
  • Circles - Don Thompson Don Thompson
  • Bob Stroup Live In Jazz City
  • Bob Stroup Entre Amis

Canadian Music Hall Of Fame

Composer Of The Year

Country Female Vocalist Of The Year

Country Group Or Duo Of The Year

  • Winner:
    The Good Brothers
  • Family Brown
  • Carlton Showband
  • 6 Cylinder
  • R. Harlan Smith & Chris Nielsen

Country Male Vocalist Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Eddie Eastman
  • Wayne Rostad
  • Wilf Carter
  • Dallas Harms
  • Hank Snow

Female Vocalist Of The Year

Folk Artist Of The Year

Group Of The Year

Instrumental Artist(s) Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Frank Mills
  • Moe Koffman
  • Hagood Hardy
  • Liona Boyd
  • Claire Lawrence

Most Promising Female Vocalist Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Carole Pope
  • Laura Vinson
  • Shari Ulrich
  • Dianne Heatherington
  • Michaele Jordana

Most Promising Group Of The Year

Most Promising Male Vocalist Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Graham Shaw
  • Wayne Rostad
  • B.B. Gabor
  • Long John Baldry
  • Bryan Adams

Producer Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Bruce Cockburn / Carole Pope and Rough Trade
    Tokyo / High School Confidential
  • Prism Young & Restless, Satellite
  • Shari Ulrich Long Nights, Bad, Bad Girl
  • Fist Hot Spikes, What Am I To Do
  • Max Webster / Straight Lines Battle Scar / Heads Are Gonna Roll

Recording Engineer Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Instructions
    Factory, We're OK
  • Bruce Cockburn; High School Confidential Carole Pope and Rough Trade What About the Bond
  • Zero One The Invisible Man, Oh No
  • B.B. Gabor Metropolitan Life
  • Max Webster Battlescar

Single Of The Year

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