1973 Grammy Awards

1973 saw the 15th award of the most important US music prizes, the Grammys , in 47 categories from 15 fields of the music business.

Main categories

Single of the year (Record of the Year):

• "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack , producer Joel Dorn

Album of the Year:

• " The Concert for Bangla Desh " by various artists, including Phil Spector (producer), George Harrison (producer & interpreter), Eric Clapton , Bob Dylan , Billy Preston , Leon Russell , Ravi Shankar , Ringo Starr & Klaus Voormann

Song of the Year:

• "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack (Author: Ewan MacColl )

Best New Artist:

• America

pop

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

• "I Am Woman" by Helen Reddy

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

• "Without You" by Harry Nilsson

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

• "Where Is the Love" by Donny Hathaway & Roberta Flack

Best Pop Instrumental Performance - Pop :

• "Black Moses" by Isaac Hayes

Rhythm & Blues

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

• "Young, Gifted and Black" by Aretha Franklin

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

• " Me and Mrs. Jones " by Billy Paul

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

• " Papa Was a Rollin 'Stone " from the Temptations

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

• "Papa Was a Rollin 'Stone (Instrumental)" by the Temptations

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

• "Papa Was a Rollin 'Stone" by the Temptations (Authors: Barrett Strong , Norman Whitfield )

Country

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

• Happiest Girl In The Whole USA by Donna Fargo

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

• Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs by Charley Pride

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

• Class Of '57 by the Statler Brothers

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

• Charlie McCoy / The Real McCoy by Charlie McCoy

Best Country Song (Best Country Song):

• Kiss An Angel Good Mornin ' by Charley Pride (Author: Ben Peters)

jazz

Best Jazz Performance by a soloist (Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist):

• Alone at Last by Gary Burton

Best jazz performance group (Best Jazz Performance by a Group):

• First Light by Freddie Hubbard

Best jazz performance a Big Band (Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band):

• Toga Brava Suite by Duke Ellington

Gospel

Best gospel performance (Best Gospel Performance):

• LOVE from the Blackwood Brothers

Best Soul Gospel performance (Best Soul Gospel Performance):

• Amazing Grace by Aretha Franklin

Best Inspirational-performance (Best Inspirational Performance):

• He Touched Me by Elvis Presley

Folk

Best Ethnofolk- or traditional folk recording (including traditional Blues) (Best Ethnic Or Traditional Recording, Including Traditional Blues):

• The London Muddy Waters Session by Muddy Waters

For children

Best Recording for Children (Best Recording For Children):

• The Electric Company by Bill Cosby & Rita Moreno (Producers: Christopher Cerf , Lee Chamberlin, Joe Raposo)

language

Best Spoken Recording (Best Spoken Word Recording):

• Lenny of the original cast (Producer: Bruce Botnick )

Comedy

Best Comedy Recording (Best Comedy Recording):

• FM and AM by George Carlin

Musical show

Best music of an original cast show album (Best Score From An Original Cast Show Album):

• Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope from the original line-up with Alex Bradford, Hope Clarke and Bobby Hill (composer: Micki Grant ; producer: Jerry Ragavoy)

Composition / arrangement

Best Instrumental Composition (Best Instrumental Composition):

• Brian's Song (Composer: Michel Legrand )

Best Original Score written for a movie or a TV Special (Best Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or A Television Special):

• The Godfather (Composer: Nino Rota )

Best Instrumental Arrangement (Best Instrumental Arrangement):

• Theme From The French Connection by the Don Ellis Big Band (Arranger: Don Ellis )

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

• What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life by Sarah Vaughan (Arranger: Michel Legrand )

Packages and album text

Best album cover (Best Album Cover):

• The Siegel-Schwall Band from the Siegel-Schwall Band (artistic director: Acy R. Lehmann; graphic artist: Harvey Dinnerstein)

Best Album Notes:

• Tom T. Hall's Greatest Hits by Tom T. Hall

Best Album Notes - Classical:

• Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 (A London Symphony) by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by André Previn (author: James Lyons)

Production and technology

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

• Moods by Neil Diamond (Technique: Armin Steiner)

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

• Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Georg Solti (technique: Gordon Parry, Kenneth Wilkinson)

Classical music

Best classical album (Best Classical Album):

• Mahler : “ Symphony No. 8 in E flat major ” by various artists with the Vienna Boys' Choir , the Vienna Singing Society choirand the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Georg Solti

Best Classical Orchestral Performance (Best Classical Performance - Orchestra):

• Mahler: " Symphony No. 7 in E minor " by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Georg Solti

Best Opera Recording (Best Opera Recording):

• Berlioz : “ Benvenuto Cellini ” by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Colin Davis

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

• Mahler: “Symphony No. 8 in E flat major” by various artists with the Vienna Boys' Choir, the Vienna Singing Society choir and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Georg Solti

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

• Brahms : “ Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major ” by Arthur Rubinstein and the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Eugene Ormandy

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

• "Horowitz plays Chopin " by Vladimir Horowitz

Best chamber music performance (Best Chamber Music Performance):

• Julian and John (works by Lawes , Carulli , Albeniz , Granados ) by Julian Bream and John Williams

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

• Brahms: “ The beautiful Magelone ” by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Special Merit Awards

The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Trustees Award were not awarded in 1973.