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AWARD WINNERS:

Record Of The Year

--- Tommy LiPuma (producer) & George Benson for "This Masquerade"

Album Of The Year

--- Stevie Wonder (producer & artist) for ''Songs in the Key of Life''

Song Of The Year

--- Bruce Johnston (songwriter) for "I Write the Songs" performed by Barry Manilow

Best New Artist

--- Starland Vocal Band

Children's

Best Recording For Children

---: Carnival of the Animals''

Classical

Best Classical Orchestral Performance

--- Raymond Minshull (producer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for '' Strauss : Also Sprach Zarathustra''

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance

--- Beverly Sills for '' Herbert : Music of Victor Herbert''

Best Opera Recording

--- Michael Woolcock (producer), Lorin Maazel (conductor), Leona Mitchell , Willard White & the Cleveland Orchestra for '' Gershwin : Porgy and Bess''

Best Choral Performance (other Than Opera)

--- Andre Previn (conductor), Arthur Oldham (choir director) & the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for '' Rachmaninoff : The Bells''

Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (with Orchestra)

--- Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Arthur Rubinstein & the London Philharmonic Orchestra for '' Beethoven : The Five Piano Concertos''

Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (without Orchestra)

--- Vladimir Horowitz for ''Horowitz Concerts 1975/76''

Best Chamber Music Performance

--- David Munrow (conductor) & the Early Music Consort Of London for ''The Art of Courtly Love''

Best Classical Album

--- Max Wilcox (producer), Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Arthur Rubinstein & the London Philharmonic for '' Beethoven : The Five Piano Concertos''

Comedy

Best Comedy Recording

--- Richard Pryor for ''Bicentennial Nigger''

Composing and arranging

Best Instrumental Composition

--- Chuck Mangione (composer) for ''Bellavia''

Album Of Best Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or Television Special

--- Norman Whitfield (composer) for ''Car Wash'' performed by various artists

Best Instrumental Arrangement

--- Chick Corea (arranger) for "Leprechaun's Dream"

Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

--- James William Guercio & Jimmie Haskell (arrangers) for "If You Leave Me Now" performed by Chicago

Best Arrangement For Voices (duo, Group Or Chorus)

--- Starland Vocal Band (arranger) for "Afternoon Delight"

Country

Best Country Vocal Performance, Female

--- Emmylou Harris for ''Elite Hotel''

Best Country Vocal Performance, Male

--- Ronnie Milsap for "(I'm a) Stand By My Woman Man"

Best Country Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group

--- Amazing Rhythm Aces for "The End Is Not in Sight (The Cowboy Tune)"

Best Country Instrumental Performance

--- Chet Atkins & Les Paul for ''Chester and Lester''

Best Country Song

--- Larry Gatlin (songwriter) for "Broken Lady"

Folk

Best Ethnic Or Traditional Recording

--- John Hartford for ''Mark Twang''

Gospel

Best Gospel Performance (other Than Soul Gospel)

--- The Oak Ridge Boys for "Where the Soul Never Dies"

Best Soul Gospel Performance

--- Mahalia Jackson for ''How I Got Over''

Best Inspirational Performance

--- Gary S. Paxton for ''The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable, Different World of Gary S. Paxton''

Jazz

Best Jazz Performance By A Soloist (Instrumental)

--- Count Basie for ''Basie and Zoot''

Best Jazz Performance By A Group

--- Chick Corea for ''The Leprechaun''

Best Jazz Performance By A Big Band

--- Duke Ellington for ''The Ellington Suites''

Best Jazz Vocal Performance

--- Ella Fitzgerald for ''Fitzgerald and Pass...Again''

Latin

Best Latin Recording

--- Eddie Palmieri for ''Unfinished Masterpiece''

Musical Show

Best Cast Show Album

--- Luigi Creatore & Hugo Peretti (producers) & various artists for ''Bubbling Brown Sugar''

Packaging and Notes

Best Album Package

--- John Berg (art director) for ''Chicago X'' performed by Chicago

Best Album Notes

--- Dan Morgenstern (notes writer) for ''The Changing Face of Harlem, the Savoy Sessions'' performed by Various Artists

Pop

Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female

--- Linda Ronstadt for ''Hasten Down the Wind''

Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male

--- Stevie Wonder for ''Songs in the Key of Life''

Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus

--- Chicago for "If You Leave Me Now"

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

--- George Benson for ''Breezin' ''

Production and engineering

Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical

--- Al Schmitt (engineer) for ''Breezin' '' performed by George Benson

Best Engineered Recording, Classical

--- Edward (Bud) T. Graham , Milton Cherin , Ray Moore (engineers), Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), George Gershwin , & the Columbia Jazz Band for '' Gershwin : Rhapsody in Blue''

Best Producer Of The Year

--- Stevie Wonder

R&B

Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female

--- Natalie Cole for "Sophisticated Lady (She's a Different Lady)"

Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male

--- Stevie Wonder for "I Wish"

Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus

--- Billy Davis Jr. & Marilyn McCoo for "You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)"

Best R&B Instrumental Performance

--- George Benson for "Theme From ''Good King Bad''"

Best Rhythm & Blues Song

--- Boz Scaggs & David Paich (songwriters) for "Lowdown" performed by Boz Scaggs

Spoken

Best Spoken Word Recording

--- Henry Fonda , Helen Hayes , James Earl Jones & Orson Welles for ''Great American Documents''

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