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AWARD WINNERS:

Record Of The Year

--- Joel Dorn (producer) & Roberta Flack for " Killing Me Softly With His Song"

Album Of The Year

--- Stevie Wonder (producer & artist) for ''Innervisions''

Song Of The Year

--- Charles Fox & Norman Gimbel (songwriters) for " Killing Me Softly With His Song " performed by Roberta Flack

Best New Artist

--- Bette Midler

Children's

Best Recording For Children

--- Joe Raposo (producer) for ''Sesame Street Live'' performed by the '' Sesame Street '' cast

Classical

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra

--- Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the New York Philharmonic for '' Bartók : Concerto for Orchestra''

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance

--- Edward Downes (conductor), Leontyne Price & the New Philharmonia Orchestra for '' Puccini : Heroines''

Best Opera Recording

--- Tom Mowrey (producer), Leonard Bernstein (conductor), Marilyn Horne , Tom Krause , Adriana Maliponte , James McCracken 7 the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus for '' Bizet : Carmen''

Best Choral Performance, Classical (other Than Opera)

--- Andre Previn (conductor), Arthur Oldham (choir director) & the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for '' Walton : Belshazzer's Feast''

--- Georg Solti (conductor), Vladimir Ashkenazy & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for '' Beethoven : Concerti (5) for Piano and Orchestra''

Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (without Orchestra)

--- Vladimir Horowitz for ''Horowitz Plays Scriabin ''

Best Chamber Music Performance

--- Gunther Schuller (conductor) & the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble for '' Joplin : The Red Back Book''

Album Of The Year, Classical

--- Thomas Z. Shepard (producer), Pierre Boulez (conductor) & 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 (composer) 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 (composer) for ''Jonathan Livingston Seagull'' performed by various artists

Best Instrumental Arrangement

--- Quincy Jones (arranger) for "Summer in the City"

Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

--- George Martin (arranger) 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 (songwriter) for "Behind Closed Doors" performed by Charlie Rich

Folk

Best Ethnic Or Traditional Recording (including Traditional Blues)

--- Doc Watson for ''Then and Now''

Gospel

Best Gospel Performance

--- Blackwood Brothers for ''Release Me (From My Sin)''

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 (composer), Goddard Lieberson (producer) & the original cast ( Glynis Johns , Len Cariou , Hermoine Gingold, Victoria Mallory, Patricia Elliott & Teri Ralston) for ''A Little Night Music''

Packaging and Notes

Best Album Package

--- Wilkes & Braun (art director) for ''Tommy'' performed by the London Symphony Orchestra & Choir

Best Album Notes

--- Dan Morgenstern (notes writer) for ''God Is in the House'' performed by Art Tatum

Best Album Notes - Classical

--- Glenn Gould (notes writer) for '' Hindemith : Sonatas for Piano (Complete)'' 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 (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)"

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

---)"

Production and engineering

Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical

--- Malcolm Cecil & Robert Margouleff (engineers) for ''Innervisions'' performed by Stevie Wonder

Best Classical Engineered Recording

--- Edward (Bud) T. Graham , Ray Moore (engineers), Pierre Boulez (conductor) & 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 (songwriter) for "Superstition"

Spoken

Best Spoken Word Recording

--- Richard Harris for ''Jonathan Livingston Seagull''

EXTERNAL LINKS

The 16th Grammy Awards , at the Internet Movie Database

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