19th Annual Grammy Awards

Award winners

• Record of the Year
• *"This Masquerade" - George Benson & Tommy LiPuma
• Album of the Year
• *Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder & Stevie Wonder
• Song of the Year
• *"I Write the Songs" - Bruce Johnston
• Best New Artist
• *Starland Vocal Band

  Children's

• Best Recording for Children
• *Karl Böhm & Hermione Gingold for Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals

  Classical

• Best Classical Orchestral Performance
• *Raymond Minshull, Georg Solti & 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, Lorin Maazel, Leona Mitchell, Willard White & the Cleveland Orchestra for Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
• Best Choral Performance
• *André Previn, Arthur Oldham & the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Rachmaninoff: The Bells
• Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Soloists
• *Daniel Barenboim, Arthur Rubinstein & the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos
• Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Soloists
• *Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz Concerts 1975/76
• Best Chamber Music Performance
• *David Munrow & the Early Music Consort of London for The Art of Courtly Love
• Best Classical Album
• *Max Wilcox, Daniel Barenboim, Arthur 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 for Bellavia
• Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
• *Norman Whitfield for Car Wash performed by Rose Royce
• Best Instrumental Arrangement
• *Chick Corea for "Leprechaun's Dream"
• Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist
• *James William Guercio & Jimmie Haskell for "If You Leave Me Now" performed by Chicago
• Best Arrangement for Voices
• *Starland Vocal Band for "Afternoon Delight"

  Country

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

  Folk

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

  Gospel

• Best Gospel Performance
• *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
• *Count Basie for Basie & 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 & various artists for Bubbling Brown Sugar

  Packaging and notes

• Best Album Package
• *John Berg for Chicago X performed by Chicago
• Best Album Notes
• *Dan Morgenstern for The Changing Face of Harlem, the Savoy Sessions performed by Various Artists

  Pop

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

  Production and engineering

• Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
• *Breezin' - Al Schmitt
• Best Engineered Recording, Classical
• *Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue - Edward T. Graham, Milton Cherin, Ray Moore
• Best Producer of the Year
• *Stevie Wonder

  R&B

• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
• *Natalie Cole for "Sophisticated 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 "
• Best R&B Instrumental Performance
• *George Benson for "Theme From Good King Bad"
• Best Rhythm & Blues Song
• *Boz Scaggs & David Paich for "Lowdown" performed by Boz Scaggs

  Spoken

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