Grammy Awards 1976

On February 28, 1976, the 1976 Grammy Awards were presented in 48 categories from 16 fields. It was the 18th award of the Grammy , the most important US music award.

Main categories

Single of the year (Record of the Year):

• " Love Will Keep Us Together " by Captain & Tennille

Album of the Year:

• " Still Crazy After All These Years " by Paul Simon

Song of the Year:

• "Send In the Clowns" by Judy Collins (Author: Stephen Sondheim )

Best New Artist:

• Natalie Cole

pop

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

• "At Seventeen" by Janis Ian

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

• "Still Crazy After All These Years" by Paul Simon

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

• "Lyin 'Eyes" from the Eagles

Best Pop Instrumental Performance - Pop :

• "The Hustle" by Van McCoy

Rhythm & Blues

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

• "This Will Be" by Natalie Cole

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

• "Living for the City" by Ray Charles

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

• " Shining Star " from Earth, Wind & Fire

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

• " Fly, Robin, Fly " from Silver Convention

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

• "Where Is the Love" by Betty Wright (writers: Harry Wayne Casey , Richard Finch , Willie Clarke )

Country

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

• I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You) by Linda Ronstadt

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

• Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain by Willie Nelson

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

• Lover Please by Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferson

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

• The Entertainer by Chet Atkins

Best Country Song (Best Country Song):

• (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song by BJ Thomas (writers: Larry Butler, Chips Moman)

jazz

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

• Oscar Peterson And Dizzy Gillespie for Dizzy Gillespie

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

• No Mystery by Chick Corea & Return to Forever

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

• Images by Michel Legrand & Phil Woods

Gospel

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

• No shortage from the Imperials

Best Soul Gospel performance (Best Soul Gospel Performance):

• Take Me Back by Andae Crouch & The Disciples

Best Inspirational-performance (Best Inspirational Performance):

• Jesus, We Just Want To Thank You from the Bill Gaither Trio

Latin

Best Latin Recording (Best Latin Recording)

• Sun Of Latin Music by Eddie Palmieri

Folk

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

• The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album by Muddy Waters

For children

Best Recording for Children (Best Recording For Children):

• The Little Prince by Richard Burton

language

Best Spoken Recording (Best Spoken Word Recording):

• Give 'Em Hell, Harry by James Whitmore

Comedy

Best Comedy Recording (Best Comedy Recording):

• ... Is It Something I Said? by Richard Pryor

Musical show

Best Cast Show Album (Best Cast Show Album):

• The Wiz from the original cast with Stephanie Mills and Dee Dee Bridgewater (Composer: Charlie Smalls; Producer: Jerry Wexler )

Composition / arrangement

Best Instrumental Composition (Best Instrumental Composition):

• Images by Michel Legrand & Phil Woods (Composer: Michel Legrand)

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

• Jaws (composer: John Williams )

Best Instrumental Arrangement (Best Instrumental Arrangement):

• The Rockford Files (Composers: Pete Carpenter , Mike Post )

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

• Misty by Ray Stevens

Packages and album text

Best Album Package (Best Album Package):

• Honey of the Ohio Players (Artistic Director: Jim Ladwig)

Best Album Notes:

• Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan (Author: Pete Hamill)

Best Album Notes - Classical:

• Footlifters by Gunther Schuller (Author: Gunther Schuller)

Production and technology

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

• Between The Lines by Janis Ian (Technique: Brooks Arthur, Larry Alexander, Russ Payne)

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

• Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé of the Camarata Singers and the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Pierre Boulez (Technique: Edwart T. Graham, Milton Cherin, Ray Moore)

Producer of the Year (with no classic) (Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical):

• Arif Mardin

Classical music

Best Classical Album of the Year (Album Of The Year, Classical):

• Beethoven : Symphonies 1-9 (complete recording) of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Georg Solti

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

• Ravel : “Daphnis et Chloé” by the Camarata Singers and the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Pierre Boulez

Best Opera Recording (Best Opera Recording):

• Mozart : “ Così fan tutte ” by Richard van Allan , Janet Baker , Montserrat Caballé , Ileana Cotrubaş , Vladimiro Ganzarolli , Nicolai Gedda and the Royal Opera House Orchestra under the direction of Colin Davis

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

• Orff : " Carmina Burana " by the Cleveland Boys Choir and the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas

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

• Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand and Concerto for Piano in G major / Fauré : Fantaisie pour piano et orchestre by Alicia de Larrocha and the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

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

• Bach : Sonatas and partitas for solo violin by Nathan Milstein

Best chamber music performance (Best Chamber Music Performance):

• Schubert : Trios No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 99, and No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 100 (piano trios) by Pierre Fournier , Arthur Rubinstein and Henryk Szeryng

Best Classical Vocal Performance (Best Classical Vocal Performance):

• Mahler : " Kindertotenlieder " by Janet Baker

Special Merit Awards

The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Trustees Award were not awarded in 1975.