29th Annual Grammy Awards

Award winners

• Record of the Year
• *Russ Titelman, Steve Winwood for "Higher Love"
• Album of the Year
• *Paul Simon for Graceland
• Song of the Year
• *Burt Bacharach & Carole Bayer Sager for "That's What Friends Are For" performed by Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder
• Best New Artist
• *Bruce Hornsby & the Range

  Blues

• Best Traditional Blues Recording
• *Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland & Robert Cray for Showdown!

  Children's

• Best Recording for Children
• *Jim Henson, Kathryn King & Geri Van Rees for The Alphabet performed by the Sesame Street cast

  Classical

• Best Classical Orchestral Recording
• *Michael Haas, Georg Solti & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Liszt: A Faust Symphony
• Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
• *André Previn, Kathleen Battle & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart
• Best Opera Recording
• *Elizabeth Ostrow, John Mauceri, James Billings, Joyce Castle, Maris Clement, David Eisler, Jack Harrold, John Lankston, Erie Mills, Scott Reeve & the New York City Opera Orchestra for Bernstein: Candide
• Best Choral Performance
• *James Levine, Margaret Hillis & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Orff: Carmina Burana
• Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists
• *Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz - The Studio Recordings, New York 1985
• Best Chamber Music Performance
• *Emanuel Ax & Yo-Yo Ma for Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 4; Variations
• Best Contemporary Composition
• *Witold Lutosławski & Esa-Pekka Salonen for Lutosławski: Symphony No. 3
• Best Classical Album
• *Thomas Frost & Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz - The Studio Recordings, New York 1985

  Comedy

• Best Comedy Recording
• *Bill Cosby for Those of You With or Without Children, You'll Understand

  Composing and arranging

• Best Instrumental Composition
• *John Barry for Out of Africa
• Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
• *Patrick Williams for "Suite Memories" performed by Bill Watrous & Patrick Williams
• Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals
• *David Foster for "Somewhere" performed by Barbra Streisand

  Country

• Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
• *Reba McEntire for "Whoever's in New England"
• Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
• *Ronnie Milsap for Lost in the Fifties Tonight
• Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
• *The Judds for "Grandpa "
• Best Country Instrumental Performance
• *Ricky Skaggs for "Raisin' the Dickins"
• Best Country Song
• *Jamie O'Hara for "Grandpa " performed by The Judds

  Folk

• Best Traditional Folk Recording
• *Doc Watson for Riding the Midnight Train
• Best Contemporary Folk Recording
• *Al Bunetta, Dan Einstein & Hank Neuberger for Tribute to Steve Goodman performed by various artists

  Gospel

• Best Gospel Performance, Female
• *Sandi Patti for Morning Like This
• Best Gospel Performance, Male
• *Philip Bailey for Triumph
• Best Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
• *Deniece Williams & Sandi Patti for "They Say"
• Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female
• *Deniece Williams for "I Surrender All"
• Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male
• *Al Green for "Going Away"
• Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
• *The Winans for Let My People Go

  Historical

• Best Historical Album
• *Aziz Goksel & Bob Porter for Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947-1974, Vols. 1-7 performed by various artists

  Jazz

• Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female
• *Diane Schuur for Timeless
• Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male
• *Bobby McFerrin for "Round Midnight"
• Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group
• *2+2 Plus for Free Fall
• Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist
• *Miles Davis for Tutu
• Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group
• *Wynton Marsalis for J Mood
• Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band
• *Doc Severinsen for The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen
• Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental
• *Bob James & David Sanborn for Double Vision

  Latin

• Best Latin Pop Performance
• *José Feliciano for "Le Lo Lai"
• Best Tropical Latin Performance
• *Rubén Blades for Escenas
• Best Mexican-American Performance
• *Flaco Jiménez for Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio y Más!

  Musical show

• Best Cast Show Album
• *Thomas Z. Shepard & the original 1986 cast for Follies in Concert

  Music video

• Best Music Video, Short Form
• *Dire Straits for "Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms"
• Best Music Video, Long Form
• *Michael Apted & Sting for Bring on the Night

  New Age

• Best New Age Recording
• *Andreas Vollenweider for Down to the Moon

  Packaging and notes

• Best Album Package
• *Eiko Ishioka for Tutu performed by Miles Davis
• Best Album Notes
• *Andrew Sarris, Frank Conroy, Gary Giddins, Jonathan Schwartz, Murray Kempton, Stephen Holden & Wilfrid Sheed for The Voice - The Columbia Years 1943-1952 performed by Frank Sinatra

  Polka

• Best Polka Recording
• *Eddie Blazonczyk for Another Polka Celebration performed by Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones
• *Jimmy Sturr for I Remember Warsaw performed by Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra

  Pop

• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
• *Barbra Streisand for The Broadway Album
• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male
• *Steve Winwood for "Higher Love"
• Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
• *Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder for "That's What Friends Are For"
• Best Pop Instrumental Performance,
• *Harold Faltermeyer & Steve Stevens for "Top Gun Anthem"

  Production and engineering

• Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
• *Jason Corsaro, Mike Nicholson & Tom Lord-Alge for Back in the High Life performed by Steve Winwood
• Best Engineered Recording, Classical
• *Paul Goodman & Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz - The Studio Recordings, New York 1985
• Producer of the Year
• *Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
• Classical Producer of the Year
• *Thomas Frost

  R&B

• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
• *Anita Baker for Rapture
• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male
• *James Brown for "Living in America"
• Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
• *Prince and The Revolution for "Kiss"
• Best R&B Instrumental Performance
• *Yellowjackets for "And You Know That"
• Best Rhythm & Blues Song
• *Anita Baker, Gary Bias & Louis A. Johnson for "Sweet Love" performed by Anita Baker

  Reggae

• Best Reggae Recording
• *Steel Pulse for Babylon the Bandit

  Rock

• Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female
• *Tina Turner for "Back Where You Started"
• Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male
• *Robert Palmer for "Addicted to Love"
• Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
• *Eurythmics for "Missionary Man"
• Best Rock Instrumental Performance
• *Art of Noise & Duane Eddy for "Peter Gunn"

  Spoken

• Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Recording
• *Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chips Moman, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins & Sam Phillips for Interviews From the Class of '55 Recording Sessions