Record of the Year
 Captain and Tennille
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"Love Will Keep Us Together", Captain and Tennille |
| Album of the Year |
Still Crazy After All These Years, Paul Simon (Columbia) |
| Song of the Year |
"Send in the Clowns", Stephen Sondheim, songwriter |
| Best New Artist of the Year |
Natalie Cole |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male |
Still Crazy After All These Years, Paul Simon |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female |
"At Seventeen", Janis lan |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus |
"Lyin' Eyes", Eagles |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance |
"The Hustle", Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Song |
"Where Is the Love", Harry Wayne Casey, Richard Finch, Willie Clarke and Betty Wright, songwriters |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male |
"Living for the City", Ray Charles |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female |
"This Will Be", Natalie Cole |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus |
"Shining Star", Earth, Wind and Fire |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance |
"Fly, Robin, Fly", Silver Convention |
| Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist |
Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy Gillespie |
| Best Jazz Performance By a Group |
No Mystery, Chick Corea and Return to Forever |
| Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band |
Images, Phil Woods with Michel Legrand and His Orchestra |
| Best Country Song |
(Hey Won't You Play) "Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song", Chips Moman and Larry Butler, songwriters |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male |
"Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain", Willie Nelson |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female |
"I Can't Help It” (If I'm Still in Love With You), Linda Ronstadt |
| Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group |
"Lover Please", Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance |
"The Entertainer", Chet Atkins |
| Best Gospel Performance |
No Shortage, Imperials |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance |
Take Me Back, Andrae Crouch and the Disciples |
| Best Latin Recording |
Sun of Latin Music, Eddie Palmieri (Coco) |
| Best Inspirational Performance |
Jesus, We Just Want to Thank You, Bill Gaither Trio |
| Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording |
The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album, Muddy Waters (Chess) |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement |
"The Rockford Files", Mike Post and Pete Carpenter, arrangers |
| Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists |
"Misty", Ray Stevens, arranger |
| Best Instrumental Composition |
"Images", Michel Legrand, composer |
| Best Cast Show Album |
The Wiz, Charlie Smalls, composer (Atlantic) |
| Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special |
Jaws, John Williams, composer (MCA) |
| Album of the Year, Classical |
Beethoven, Symphonies Complete, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra (London) |
| Best Classical Performance, Orchestra |
Ravel, Daphnis et Chloë (Complete Ballet), Pierre Boulez conducting New York Philharmonic |
| Best Chamber Music Performance (Instrumental or Vocal) |
Schubert, Trios nos. 1 in B-Flat Major, ops. 99 and 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 11 (The Piano Trios), Artur Rubinstein, Henryk Szeryng and Pierre Fournier |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (With Orchestra) |
Ravel, Concerto for Left Hand and Concerto for Piano in G Major; Fauré, Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra, Alicia de Lorrocha; De Burgos and Foster conducting London Philharmonic |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (Without Orchestra) |
Bach, Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Unaccompanied, Nathan Milstein |
| Best Opera Recording |
Mozart, Cosi fan tutte, Colin Davis conducting Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; principle solos: Caballé, Baker, Gedda, Ganzarolli, Van Allan and Cotrubas (Philips) |
| Best Choral Performance, Classical |
Orff, Carmina Burana, Robert Page directing the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and Boys Choir; Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Cleveland Orchestra; soloists: Blegen, Binder and Riegel |
| Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance |
Mahler, Kindertotenlieder, Janet Baker; Leonard Bernstein conducting Israel Philharmonic |
| Best Comedy Recording |
Is It Something I Said?, Richard Pryor (Reprise) |
| Best Spoken Word Recording |
Give 'Em Hell Harry, James Whitmore (United Artists) |
| Best Recording for Children |
The Little Prince, Richard Burton, narrator (RIP) |
| Best Album Package |
Honey, Jim Ladwig, art director (Mercury) |
| Best Album Notes (Non-Classical) |
Blood on the Tracks, Pete Hamill, annotator (Columbia) |
| Best Album Notes, Classical |
Footlifters, Gunther Schuller, annotator (Columbia) |
| Best Producer of the Year |
Arif Mardin |
