1985 Grammy Awards

On February 26, 1985, the American Music Grammy was awarded for the 27th time.

At the 1985 Grammy Awards, 67 winners were spread across the 21 fields, and an honorary grammy was awarded for life's work.

Main categories

Single of the year (Record of the Year):

• What's Love Got to Do with It by Tina Turner

Album of the Year:

• Can't Slow Down by Lionel Richie

Song of the Year:

• What's Love Got to Do with It by Tina Turner (Authors: Terry Britten, Graham Lyle )

Best New Artist:

• Cyndi Lauper

pop

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

• What's Love Got to Do with It by Tina Turner

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

• Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) by Phil Collins

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

• Jump (For My Love) by the Pointer Sisters

Best Pop Instrumental Performance - Pop :

• Ghostbusters (instrumental) by Ray Parker Jr.

skirt

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

• Better Be Good to Me by Tina Turner

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

• Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen

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

• Purple Rain by Prince and The Revolution

Best performance of a rock instrumentals ( Best Rock Instrumental Performance ):

• Cinema by Yes

Rhythm & Blues

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

• I Feel for You by Chaka Khan

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

• Caribbean Queen by Billy Ocean

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

• Yah Mo B There by James Ingram & Michael McDonald

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

• Sound system of Herbie Hancock

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

• I Feel for You by Chaka Khan (Author: Prince )

Country

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

• In My Dreams by Emmylou Harris

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

• That's The Way Love Goes by Merle Haggard

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

• Mama He's Crazy from the Judds

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

• Wheel Hoss by Ricky Skaggs

Best Country Song (Best Country Song):

• City Of New Orleans by Willie Nelson (Author: Steve Goodman )

jazz

Best Jazz Vocal Performance (Best Jazz Vocal Performance):

• Nothin 'But The Blues by Joe Williams

Best Jazz Instrumental performance, soloist (Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist):

• Hot House Flowers by Wynton Marsalis

Best Jazz Instrumental performance, Group (Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group):

• New York Scene from Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Best Jazz Instrumental performance, Big Band (Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band):

• 88 Basie Street by Count Basie

Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Singing or Instrumental (Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal Or Instrumental):

• First Circle from the Pat Metheny Group

Gospel

Best female gospel performance (Best Gospel Performance, Female):

• Angels by Amy Grant

Best male gospel performance (Best Gospel Performance, Male):

• Michael W. Smith by Michael W. Smith

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

• Keep The Flame Burning by Debby Boone & Phil Driscoll

Best female soul gospel performance (Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female):

• Sailin ' by Shirley Caesar

Best male soul gospel performance (Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male):

• Always Remember by Andraé Crouch

Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group (Best Soul Gospel Performance By A Duo Or Group):

• Sailin 'On The Sea Of Your Love by Shirley Caesar & Al Green

Best Inspirational-performance (Best Inspirational Performance):

• Forgive Me by Donna Summer

Latin

Best Latin Pop Performance (Best Latin Pop Performance):

• Always In My Heart (Siempre en mi corazon) by Plácido Domingo

Best Tropical Latin performance (Best Tropical Latin Performance):

• Palo pa rumba by Eddie Palmieri

Best Mexican-American performance (Best Mexican-American Performance)

• Me gustas tal como eres by Sheena Easton & Luis Miguel

blues

Best Traditional Blues Recording (Best Traditional Blues Recording):

• Blues Explosion by Sugar Blue, John P. Hammond , JB Hutto & The New Hawks, Luther Johnson, Koko Taylor & The Blues Machine, and Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

Folk

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

• Elizabeth Cotten Live! by Elizabeth Cotten

reggae

Best Reggae Recording (Best Reggae Recording):

• Anthem from Black Uhuru

For children

Best Recording for Children (Best Recording For Children):

• Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (Producer: Ron Haffkine)

language

Best spoken or non-music recording (Best Spoken Word Or Non-Musical Recording):

• The Words of Gandhi by Ben Kingsley

Comedy

Best Comedy Recording (Best Comedy Recording):

• Eat It by Weird Al Yankovic

Musical show

Best Cast Show Album (Best Cast Show Album):

• Sunday in the Park with George by the original cast (music and lyrics: Stephen Sondheim ; producer: Thomas Z. Shepard )

Composition / arrangement

Best Instrumental Composition (Best Instrumental Composition):

• The Natural by Randy Newman
• Olympic Fanfare and Theme (the official music of the 23rd Olympic Games) by John Williams

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

• Purple Rain by Prince and The Revolution (Composers: Prince, Lisa Coleman , Wendy Melvoin , John L. Nelson)

Best Instrumental Arrangement (Best Arrangement On An Instrumental):

• Grace (Gymnastics Theme) by Quincy Jones (Arrangement: Jeremy Lubbock, Quincy Jones)

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

• Hard Habit To Break by Chicago (Arrangement: David Foster, Jeremy Lubbock)

Best Vocal Arrangement for two or more voices (Best Vocal Arrangement For Two Or More Voices):

• Automatic from the Pointer Sisters

Packages and album text

Best Album Package (Best Album Package):

• She's So Unusual by Cyndi Lauper (Artistic Direction: Janet Perr)

Best Album Notes:

• Big Band Jazz by Paul Whiteman , Fletcher Henderson , Chick Webb , Tommy Dorsey , Count Basie , Benny Goodman and others (Producer: JR Taylor)

Historical recordings

Best Historical Album (Best Historical Album):

• Big Band Jazz by Paul Whiteman , Fletcher Henderson , Chick Webb , Tommy Dorsey , Count Basie , Benny Goodman and others (authors: Gunther Schuller, Martin Williams)

Production and technology

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

• 17 from Chicago (Technique: Humberto Gatica)

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

• Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in Bes of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin (producer: Jay David Saks)

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

• James Anthony Carmichael and Lionel Richie
• David Foster

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

• Steven Epstein

Classical music

Best classical album (Best Classical Album):

• Amadeus (original soundtrack) from the Ambrosian Opera Chorus, the Choristers of Westminster Abbey and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

Best classical orchestral recording (Best Classical Orchestral Recording):

• Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in Bes of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra , conducted by Leonard Slatkin

Best Opera Recording (Best Opera Recording):

• Bizet: Carmen (original soundtrack) by the Choeur et Maîtrise de Radio France and the Orchester National de France under the direction of Lorin Maazel

Best choral performance (without opera) (Best Choral Performance other than opera):

• Brahms: A German Requiem by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Choir under the direction of James Levine

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

• Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, Molter by Wynton Marsalis and the English Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Raymond Leppard

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

• Bach: Cello suites without accompaniment by Yo-Yo Ma

Best chamber music performance (Best Chamber Music Performance):

• Beethoven: The late string quartets from the Juilliard String Quartet

Best Classical Vocal Performance (Best Classical Vocal Performance):

• Ravel: Songs of Maurice Ravel by Heather Harper , Jessye Norman , José van Dam , the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the L'Ensemble intercontemporain under the direction of Pierre Boulez

Best new classical composition (Best New Contemporary Composition):

• Antony And Cleopatra from the Spolet Festival Orchestra under the direction of Christian Badea (composer: Samuel Barber )

Music video

Best Music Short Video (Best Video, Short Form):

• David Bowie (video) by David Bowie

Best Video Album (Best Video Album):

• Making Michael Jackson's Thriller by Michael Jackson

Special Merit Awards

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

• Leonard Bernstein

Trustees Award

• Eldridge Johnson

literature

Tina, Lionel, Prince Take Major Honors at Grammy Awards . In: Jet Magazine . March 18, 1985, p. 54–56 ( books.google.de ).