16th Annual Grammy Awards

Award winners

• Record of the Year
• *Joel Dorn & Roberta Flack for "Killing Me Softly With His Song"
• Album of the Year
• *Stevie Wonder for Innervisions
• Song of the Year
• *Charles Fox & Norman Gimbel for "Killing Me Softly With His Song" performed by Roberta Flack
• Best New Artist
• *Bette Midler

  Children's

• Best Recording for Children
• *Joe Raposo for Sesame Street Live performed by the Sesame Street cast

  Classical

• Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
• *Pierre Boulez & the New York Philharmonic for Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
• Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
• *Edward Downes, Leontyne Price & the New Philharmonia Orchestra for Puccini: Heroines
• Best Opera Recording
• *Tom Mowrey, Leonard Bernstein, Marilyn Horne, Tom Krause, Adriana Maliponte, James McCracken 7 the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Bizet: Carmen
• Best Choral Performance, Classical
• *André Previn, Arthur Oldham & the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
• *Georg Solti, Vladimir Ashkenazy & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven: Concerti for Piano and Orchestra
• Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists
• *Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz Plays Scriabin
• Best Chamber Music Performance
• *Gunther Schuller & the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble for Joplin: The Red Back Book
• Album of the Year, Classical
• *Thomas Z. Shepard, Pierre Boulez & the New York Philharmonic for Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

  Comedy

• Best Comedy Recording
• *Cheech and Chong for Los Cochinos

  Composing and arranging

• Best Instrumental Composition
• *Gato Barbieri for "Last Tango in Paris" performed by various artists
• Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special
• *Neil Diamond for Jonathan Livingston Seagull performed by various artists
• Best Instrumental Arrangement
• *Quincy Jones for "Summer in the City"
• Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist
• *George Martin for "Live and Let Die" performed by Paul McCartney & Wings

  Country

• Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
• *Olivia Newton-John for "Let Me Be There"
• Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
• *Charlie Rich for "Behind Closed Doors"
• Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
• *Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferson for "From the Bottle to the Bottom"
• Best Country Instrumental Performance
• *Steve Mandell & Eric Weissberg for "Dueling Banjos"
• Best Country Song
• *Kenny O'Dell for "Behind Closed Doors" performed by Charlie Rich

  Folk

• Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording
• *Doc Watson for Then and Now

  Gospel

• Best Gospel Performance
• *Blackwood Brothers for Release Me
• Best Soul Gospel Performance
• *Dixie Hummingbirds for "Loves Me Like a Rock"
• Best Inspirational Performance
• *The Bill Gaither Trio for Let's Just Praise the Lord

  Jazz

• Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist
• *Art Tatum for God Is in the House
• Best Jazz Performance by a Group
• *Supersax for Supersax Plays Bird
• Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band
• *Woody Herman for Giant Steps

  Musical show

• Best Score From the Original Cast Show Album
• *Stephen Sondheim, Goddard Lieberson & the original cast for A Little Night Music

  Packaging and notes

• Best Album Package
• *Wilkes & Braun for Tommy performed by the London Symphony Orchestra & Choir
• Best Album Notes
• *Dan Morgenstern for God Is in the House performed by Art Tatum
• Best Album Notes - Classical
• *Glenn Gould for Hindemith: Sonatas for Piano performed by Glenn Gould

  Pop

• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
• *Roberta Flack for "Killing Me Softly With His Song"
• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male
• *Stevie Wonder for "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
• Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
• *Gladys Knight & the Pips for "Neither One of Us "
• Best Pop Instrumental Performance
• *Eumir Deodato for "Also Sprach Zarathustra "

  Production and engineering

• Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
• *Malcolm Cecil & Robert Margouleff for Innervisions performed by Stevie Wonder
• Best Classical Engineered Recording
• *Edward T. Graham, Ray Moore, Pierre Boulez & the New York Philharmonic for Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

  R&B

• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
• *Aretha Franklin for "Master of Eyes"
• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male
• *Stevie Wonder for "Superstition"
• Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
• *Gladys Knight & the Pips for "Midnight Train to Georgia"
• Best R&B Instrumental Performance
• *Ramsey Lewis for "Hang On Sloopy"
• Best Rhythm & Blues Song
• *Stevie Wonder for "Superstition"

  Spoken

• Best Spoken Word Recording
• *Richard Harris for Jonathan Livingston Seagull