18th Annual Grammy Awards

Award winners

• Record of the Year
• *"Love Will Keep Us Together" - Captain & Tennille & Daryl Dragon
• Album of the Year
• *Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon - Phil Ramone & Paul Simon
• Song of the Year
• *"Send In the Clowns" - Judy Collins - Stephen Sondheim
• Best New Artist
• *Natalie Cole

  Children's

• Best Recording for Children
• *Richard Burton for The Little Prince

  Classical

• Best Classical Performance – Orchestra
• *Pierre Boulez, the Camarata Singers & the New York Philharmonic for Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
• Best Classical Vocal Performance
• *Janet Baker for Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
• Best Opera Recording
• *Erik Smith, Colin Davis, Richard van Allan, Janet Baker, Montserrat Caballé, Ileana Cotrubas, Wladimiro Ganzarolli, Nicolai Gedda & the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House for Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte
• Best Choral Performance, Classical
• *Michael Tilson Thomas, Robert Page the Cleveland Boys Choir & Cleveland Orchestra Chorus- Orff: Carmina Burana
• Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists
• *Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Alicia de Larrocha & the London Philharmonic for Ravel: Concerto for Left Hand and Concerto for Piano in G/Fauré: Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra
• Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists
• *Nathan Milstein for Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Unaccompanied
• Best Chamber Music Performance
• *Pierre Fournier, Arthur Rubinstein & Henryk Szeryng for Schubert: Trios Nos. 1 in B Flat, Op. 99 and 2 in E Flat, Op. 100
• Album of the Year, Classical
• *Raymond Minshull, Georg Solti & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven: Symphonies Complete

  Comedy

• Best Comedy Recording
• *Richard Pryor for Is It Something I Said?

  Composing and arranging

• Best Instrumental Composition for Bellavia performed by Chuck Mangione
• Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special
• *John Williams for Jaws
• Best Instrumental Arrangement
• *Pete Carpenter & Mike Post for "The Rockford Files" performed by Mike Post
• Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist
• *Ray Stevens for "Misty"

  Country

• Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
• *Linda Ronstadt for "I Can't Help It "
• Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
• *Willie Nelson for "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"
• Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
• *Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferson for "Lover Please"
• Best Country Instrumental Performance
• *Chet Atkins for "The Entertainer"
• Best Country Song
• *Larry Butler & Chips Moman for " Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" performed by B. J. Thomas

  Folk

• Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording
• *Muddy Waters for The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album

  Gospel

• Best Gospel Performance
• *The Imperials for No Shortage
• Best Soul Gospel Performance
• *Andrae Crouch for Take Me Back performed by Andrae Crouch & the Disciples
• Best Inspirational Performance
• *The Bill Gaither Trio for Jesus, We Just Want to Thank You

  Jazz

• Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist
• *Dizzy Gillespie for Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie
• Best Jazz Performance by a Group
• *Chick Corea & Return to Forever for No Mystery
• Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band
• *Michel Legrand & Phil Woods for Images

  Latin

• Best Latin Recording
• *Eddie Palmieri for Sun of Latin Music

  Musical show

• Best Cast Show Album
• *Charlie Smalls, Jerry Wexler & the original cast with Stephanie Mills & Dee Dee Bridgewater for The Wiz

  Packaging and notes

• Best Album Package
• *Jim Ladwig for Honey performed by the Ohio Players
• Best Album Notes
• *Pete Hamill for Blood on the Tracks performed by Bob Dylan
• Best Album Notes – Classical
• *Gunther Schuller for Footlifters performed by Gunther Schuller

  Pop

• "At Seventeen"-Janis Ian

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

• "Lyin' Eyes"-The Eagles

• "The Hustle"-Van McCoy

  Production and engineering

• Between the Lines
• *Brooks Arthur, Larry Alexander & Russ Payne '

• *Edward T. Graham, Milton Cherin, Ray Moore, Pierre Boulez, the Camarata Singers & the New York Philharmonic for Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe

• Arif Mardin

  R&B

• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
• *Natalie Cole for "This Will Be"
• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male
• *Stevie Wonder for "Living for the City"
• Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
• *Earth, Wind & Fire for "Shining Star"
• Best R&B Instrumental Performance
• *Silver Convention for "Fly, Robin, Fly"
• Best Rhythm & Blues Song
• *Harry Wayne Casey, Willie Clarke, Richard Finch & Betty Wright for "Where Is the Love" performed by Betty Wright

  Spoken

• Best Spoken Word Recording
• *James Whitmore for Give 'Em Hell Harry