Record of the Year:
Hotel California - Eagles
Album of the Year:
Rumours, Fleetwood Mac (Warner Bros.)
Song of the Year (tie):
Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen), Barbra Streisand
and Paul Williams, songwriters
You Light Up My Life - Joe Brooks, songwriter
Best New Artist of the Year:
Debby Boone
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male:
Handy Man - James Taylor
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female:
Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen), Barbra Streisand
Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus:
How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees
Best Pop Instrumental Performance:
Star Wars, John Williams conducting London Symphony Orchestra
Best Rhythm and Blues Song:
You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - Leo Sayer and Vini Poncia,
songwriters
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male:
Unmistakably Lou, Lou Rawls
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female:
Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group
or Chorus:
Best of My Love - Emotions
Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance:
Q - Brothers Johnson
Best Jazz Vocal Performance:
Look to the Rainbow, Al Jarreau
Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist:
The Giants, Oscar Peterson
Best Jazz Performance By a Group:
The Phil Woods Six?Live From the Showboat, Phil Woods
Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band:
Prime Time, Count Basie and His Orchestra
Best Country Song:
Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Richard Leigh, songwriter
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male:
Lucille - Kenny Rogers
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female:
Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle
Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group:
Heaven's Just a Sin Away - The Kendalls
Best Country Instrumental Performance:
Country Instrumentalist of the Year, Hargus Pig Robbins
Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational:
Sail On, Imperials
Best Gospel Performance, Traditional:
Just a Little Talk With Jesus - Oak Ridge Boys
Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary:
Wonderfull, Edwin Hawkins and the Edwin Hawkins Singers
Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional:
James Cleveland Live at Carnegie Hall, James Cleveland
Best Latin Recording:
Dawn, Mongo Santamaria (Vaya)
Best Inspirational Performance:
Home Where I Belong, B.J. Thomas
Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording:
Hard Again, Muddy Waters (Blue Sky/CBS)
Best Instrumental Arrangement:
Nadia's Theme (The Young and the Restless), Harry Betts,
Perry Botkin, Jr. and Barry De Vorzon, arrangers
Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s):
Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen), lan Freebairn-Smith,
arranger
Best Arrangement for Voices:
New Kid in Town - Eagles, arrangers
Best Instrumental Composition:
Main Title From Star Wars - John Williams, composer
Best Cast Show Album:
Annie, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, composers (Columbia)
Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television
Special:
Star Wars, John Williams, composer (20th Century)
Album of the Year, Classical:
Concert of the Century, Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz,
Isaac Stern, Mstislav Rostropovich, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
Yehudi Menuhin and Lyndon Woodside (Columbia)
Best Classical Orchestral Performance:
Mahler, Symphony No. 9, Carlo Maria Giulini conducting Chicago
Symphony Orchestra
Best Chamber Music Performance:
Schoenberg, Quartets for Strings, Juilliard Quartet
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With
Orchestra):
Vivaldi, The Four Seasons, Itzhak Perlman, violin; Itzhak
Perlman conducting London Philharmonic Orchestra
Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without
Orchestra):
Beethoven, Sonata for Piano No. 18; Schumann, Fantasiestücke,
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Best Opera Recording:
Gershwin, Porgy and Bess, John De Main conducting Sherwin
M. Goldman Houston Grand Opera Production; solos: Albert,
Dale, Smith, Shakesnider, Lane, Brice and Smalls (RCA)
Best Choral Performance, Classical (Other Than Opera):
Verdi, Requiem, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony
Orchestra; Margaret Hillis, choral director of the Chicago
Symphony Chorus
Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance:
Bach, Arias, Janet Baker; Neville Marriner conducting Academy
of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Best Comedy Recording:
Let's Get Small, Steve Martin (Warner Bros.)
Best Spoken Word Recording:
The Belle of Amherst, Julie Harris (Credo)
Best Recording for Children:
Aren't You Glad You're You, Sesame Street cast and Muppets
(Sesame Street)
Best Album Package:
Simple Dreams, Kosh, art director (Asylum)
Best Album Notes:
Bing Crosby: A Legendary Performer, George T. Simon, annotator
(RCA)
Best Producer of the Year:
Peter Asher
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