1977 Grammy Awards

In 1977, music professionals in the USA were awarded the most important music prize, the Grammy , for the 19th time .

There were 49 categories out of 16 fields at the 1977 Grammy Awards .

Main categories

Single of the year (Record of the Year):

• "This Masquerade" by George Benson

Album of the Year:

• “ Songs in the Key of Life ” by Stevie Wonder

Song of the Year:

• "I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow (Author: Bruce Johnston )

Best New Artist:

• Starland Vocal Band

pop

Best female vocal performance - Pop (Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female):

• "Hasten Down the Wind" by Linda Ronstadt

Best Male Vocal Performance - Pop (Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male):

• “Songs in the Key of Life” by Stevie Wonder

Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal - Pop (Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals):

• "If You Leave Me Now" from Chicago

Best Pop Instrumental Performance - Pop :

• "Breezin '" by George Benson

Rhythm & Blues

Best female vocal performance - R&B (Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female):

• "Sophisticated Lady (She's A Different Lady)" by Natalie Cole

Best Male Vocal Performance - R&B (Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male):

• "I Wish" by Stevie Wonder

Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal - Pop (Best R & B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals):

• "You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show)" by Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.

Best instrumental performance - R&B (Best R&B Instrumental Performance):

• "Theme From 'Good King Bad" " by George Benson

Best R&B Song (Best R&B Song):

• "Lowdown" by Boz Scaggs (Authors: Boz Scaggs, David Paich )

Country

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance - Country (Best Country Vocal Performance, Female):

• Elite Hotel by Emmylou Harris

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance - Country (Best Country Vocal Performance, Male):

• (I'm A) Stand By My Woman Man by Ronnie Milsap

Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group (Best Country Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group):

• The End Is Not In Sight (The Cowboy Tune) by Amazing Rhythm Aces

Best Performance by a Country Instrumentals (Best Country Instrumental Performance):

• Chester And Lester by Chet Atkins & Les Paul

Best Country Song (Best Country Song):

• Broken Lady by Larry Gatlin

jazz

Best Jazz Vocal Performance (Best Jazz Vocal Performance):

• Fitzgerald And Pass ... Again by Ella Fitzgerald

Best Jazz Performance by a soloist (instrumental) (Best Jazz Performance By A Soloist, instrumental):

• Basie And Zoot by Count Basie

Best jazz performance group (Best Jazz Performance By A Group):

• The Leprechaun by Chick Corea

Best jazz performance a Big Band (Best Jazz Performance By A Big Band):

• The Ellington Suites by Duke Ellington

Gospel

Best gospel performance without soul gospel (Best Gospel Performance, Other Than Soul Gospel):

• Where The Soul Never Dies by the Oak Ridge Boys

Best Soul Gospel performance (Best Soul Gospel Performance):

• How I Got Over by Mahalia Jackson

Best Inspirational-performance (Best Inspirational Performance):

• The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable, Different World Of Gary S. Paxton by Gary S. Paxton

Latin

Best Latin Recording (Best Latin Recording)

• Unfinished Masterpiece by Eddie Palmieri

Folk

Best Ethnofolk- or traditional folk recording (Best Ethnic Or Traditional Recording):

• Mark Twang by John Hartford

For children

Best Recording for Children (Best Recording For Children):

• Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals by Hermione Gingold and the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Karl Bohm

language

Best Spoken Recording (Best Spoken Word Recording):

• Great American Documents by Henry Fonda , Helen Hayes , James Earl Jones, and Orson Welles

Comedy

Best Comedy Recording (Best Comedy Recording):

• Bicentennial Nigger by Richard Pryor

Musical show

Best Cast Show Album (Best Cast Show Album):

• Bubbling Brown Sugar by various artists (producers: Luigi Creatore , Hugo Peretti )

Composition / arrangement

Best Instrumental Composition (Best Instrumental Composition):

• Bellavia (Composer: Chuck Mangione )

Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special:

• Car Wash by Rose Royce (Composer: Norman Whitfield )

Best Instrumental Arrangement (Best Instrumental Arrangement):

• Leprechaun's Dream (Arranger: Chick Corea )

Best arrangement with vocal accompaniment (Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocals):

• If You Leave Me Now by Chicago (Arrangers: James William Guercio, Jimmie Haskell)

Best Vocal Arrangement (Duo, Group or Chorus) (Best Arrangement for Voices - Duo, Group or Chorus)

• Afternoon Delight by the Starland Vocal Band

Packages and album text

Best Album Package (Best Album Package):

• Chicago X of Chicago

Best Album Notes:

• The Changing Face Of Harlem, The Savoy Sessions by different artists (Author: Dan Morgenstern)

Production and technology

Best technical recording without classical music (Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical):

• Breezin ' by George Benson (Technique: Al Schmitt)

Best Technical classical recording (Best Engineered Recording, Classical):

• George Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue by George Gershwin and the Columbia Jazz Band under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas (Technique: Edward T. Graham, Milton Cherin, Ray Moore)

Producer of the Year (Best Producer Of The Year):

• Stevie Wonder

Classical music

Best classical album (Best Classical Album):

• Beethoven : The five piano concertos by Arthur Rubinstein and the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Daniel Barenboim

Best Classical Orchestral Performance (Best Classical Orchestral Performance):

• Strauss : “ Also sprach Zarathustra ” by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Georg Solti

Best Opera Recording (Best Opera Recording):

• Gershwin : " Porgy and Bess " by Leona Mitchell , Willard White and the Cleveland Orchestra under the direction of Lorin Maazel

Best choral performance, classical (without opera) (Best Choral Performance, Classical, Other Than Opera):

• Rachmaninoff : "The Bells" by the London Symphony Orchestra and Choir under the direction of André Previn

Best solo instrument performances with orchestra (Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Soloists with Orchestra):

• Beethoven: The five piano concertos by Arthur Rubinstein and the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Daniel Barenboim

Best solo instrument performance without orchestra (Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Soloists without Orchestra):

• "Horowitz Concerts 1975/76" by Vladimir Horowitz

Best chamber music performance (Best Chamber Music Performance):

• "The Art Of Courtly Love" by Early Music Consort Of London under the direction of David Munrow

Best classical solo vocal performance (Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance):

• "Music of Victor Herbert " by Beverly Sills

Special Merit Awards

The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award was not awarded in 1977.

Trustees Award

• Thomas Edison
• Leopold Stokowski