Grammy Awards of 1977 - Definition and Overview

The 19th Grammy Awards were held in 1977, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1976.

Award winners:

• Record of the Year
  • Tommy LiPuma (producer) & George Benson for "This Masquerade"

• Album of the Year
  • Stevie Wonder (producer & artist) for Songs in the Key of Life

• Song of the Year
  • Bruce Johnston (songwriter) for "I Write the Songs" performed by Barry Manilow

• Best New Artist
  • Starland Vocal Band

Children's

• Best Recording for Children
  • Karl Bohm (conductor) & Hermione Gingold for Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals

Classical

• Best Classical Orchestral Performance
  • Raymond Minshull (producer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
• Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
  • Beverly Sills for Herbert: Music of Victor Herbert
• Best Opera Recording
  • Michael Woolcock (producer), Lorin Maazel (conductor), Leona Mitchell, Willard White & the Cleveland Orchestra for Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
• Best Choral Performance (other than opera)
  • Andre Previn (conductor), Arthur Oldham (choir director) & the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Rachmaninoff: The Bells
• Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra)
  • Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Artur Rubinstein & the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos
• Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra)
  • Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz Concerts 1975/76
• Best Chamber Music Performance
  • David Munrow (conductor) & the Early Music Consort of London for The Art of Courtly Love
• Best Classical Album
  • Max Wilcox (producer), Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Artur Rubinstein & the London Philharmonic for Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos

Comedy

• Best Comedy Recording
  • Richard Pryor for Bicentennial Nigger

Composing and arranging

• Best Instrumental Composition
  • Chuck Mangione (composer) for Bellavia
• Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
  • Norman Whitfield (composer) for Car Wash performed by various artists
• Best Instrumental Arrangement
  • Chick Corea (arranger) for "Leprechaun's Dream"
• Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
  • James William Guercio & Jimmie Haskell (arrangers) for "If You Leave Me Now" performed by Chicago
• Best Arrangement for Voices (duo, group or chorus)
  • Starland Vocal Band (arranger) for "Afternoon Delight"

Country

• Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
  • Emmylou Harris for Elite Hotel
• Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
  • Ronnie Milsap for "(I'm a) Stand By My Woman Man"
• Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
  • Amazing Rhythm Aces for "The End Is Not in Sight (The Cowboy Tune)"
• Best Country Instrumental Performance
  • Chet Atkins & Les Paul for Chester and Lester
• Best Country Song
  • Larry Gatlin (songwriter) for "Broken Lady"

Folk

• Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording
  • John Hartford for Mark Twang

Gospel

• Best Gospel Performance (other than soul gospel)
  • The Oak Ridge Boys for "Where the Soul Never Dies"
• Best Soul Gospel Performance
  • Mahalia Jackson for How I Got Over
• Best Inspirational Performance
  • Gary S. Paxton for The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable, Different World of Gary S. Paxton

Jazz

• Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist (Instrumental)
  • Count Basie for Basie and Zoot
• Best Jazz Performance by a Group
  • Chick Corea for The Leprechaun
• Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band
  • Duke Ellington for The Ellington Suites
• Best Jazz Vocal Performance
  • Ella Fitzgerald for Fitzgerald and Pass...Again

Latin

• Best Latin Recording
  • Eddie Palmieri for Unfinished Masterpiece

Musical Show

• Best Cast Show Album
  • Luigi Creatore & Hugo Peretti (producers) & various artists for Bubbling Brown Sugar

Packaging and Notes

• Best Album Package
  • John Berg (art director) for Chicago X performed by Chicago
• Best Album Notes
  • Dan Morgenstern (notes writer) for The Changing Face of Harlem, the Savoy Sessions performed by Various Artists

Pop

• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
  • Linda Ronstadt for Hasten Down the Wind
• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male
  • Stevie Wonder for Songs in the Key of Life
• Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
  • Chicago for "If You Leave Me Now"
• Best Pop Instrumental Performance
  • George Benson for Breezin'

Production and engineering

• Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
  • Al Schmitt (engineer) for Breezin' performed by George Benson
• Best Engineered Recording, Classical
  • Edward (Bud) T. Graham, Milton Cherin, Ray Moore (engineers), Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), George Gershwin, & the Columbia Jazz Band for Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
• Best Producer of the Year
  • Stevie Wonder

R&B

• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
  • Natalie Cole for "Sophisticated Lady (She's a Different Lady)"
• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male
  • Stevie Wonder for "I Wish"
• Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
  • Billy Davis Jr. & Marilyn McCoo for "You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)"
• Best R&B Instrumental Performance
  • George Benson for "Theme From Good King Bad"
• Best Rhythm & Blues Song
  • Boz Scaggs & David Paich (songwriters) for "Lowdown" performed by Boz Scaggs

Spoken

• Best Spoken Word Recording
  • Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones & Orson Welles for Great American Documents