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Record of the Year

Joel Dorn (producer) & Roberta Flack for "Killing Me Softly With His Song"

Album of the Year

Stevie Wonder (producer & artist) for Innervisions

Song of the Year

Charles Fox & Norman Gimbel (songwriters) for "Killing Me Softly With His Song" performed by Roberta Flack

Best New Artist

Bette Midler

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Best Recording for Children

Joe Raposo (producer) for Sesame Street Live performed by the Sesame Street cast

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Best Classical Performance - Orchestra

Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the New York Philharmonic for Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance

Edward Downes (conductor), Leontyne Price & the New Philharmonia Orchestra for Puccini: Heroines

Best Opera Recording

Tom Mowrey (producer), Leonard Bernstein (conductor), Marilyn Horne, Tom Krause, Adriana Maliponte, James McCracken 7 the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Bizet: Carmen

Best Choral Performance, Classical (other than opera)

Andre Previn (conductor), Arthur Oldham (choir director) & the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Walton: Belshazzer's Feast

Georg Solti (conductor), Vladimir Ashkenazy & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven: Concerti (5) for Piano and Orchestra

Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra)

Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz Plays Scriabin

Best Chamber Music Performance

Gunther Schuller (conductor) & the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble for Joplin: The Red Back Book

Album of the Year, Classical

Thomas Z. Shepard (producer), Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the New York Philharmonic for Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

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Best Comedy Recording

Cheech and Chong for Los Cochinos

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Best Instrumental Composition

Gato Barbieri (composer) for "Last Tango in Paris" performed by various artists

Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special

Neil Diamond (composer) for Jonathan Livingston Seagull performed by various artists

Best Instrumental Arrangement

Quincy Jones (arranger) for "Summer in the City"

Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

George Martin (arranger) for "Live and Let Die" performed by Paul McCartney & Wings

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Best Country Vocal Performance, Female

Olivia Newton-John for "Let Me Be There"

Best Country Vocal Performance, Male

Charlie Rich for "Behind Closed Doors"

Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group

Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferson for "From the Bottle to the Bottom"

Best Country Instrumental Performance

Steve Mandell & Eric Weissberg for "Dueling Banjos"

Best Country Song

Kenny O'Dell (songwriter) for "Behind Closed Doors" performed by Charlie Rich

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Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording (including traditional blues)

Doc Watson for Then and Now

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Best Gospel Performance

Blackwood Brothers for Release Me (From My Sin)

Best Soul Gospel Performance

Dixie Hummingbirds for "Loves Me Like a Rock"

Best Inspirational Performance

The Bill Gaither Trio for Let's Just Praise the Lord

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Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist

Art Tatum for God Is in the House

Best Jazz Performance by a Group

Supersax for Supersax Plays Bird

Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band

Woody Herman for Giant Steps

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Best Score From the Original Cast Show Album

Stephen Sondheim (composer), Goddard Lieberson (producer) & the original cast (Glynis Johns, Len Cariou, Hermoine Gingold, Victoria Mallory, Patricia Elliott & Teri Ralston) for A Little Night Music

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Best Album Package

Wilkes & Braun (art director) for Tommy performed by the London Symphony Orchestra & Choir

Best Album Notes

Dan Morgenstern (notes writer) for God Is in the House performed by Art Tatum

Best Album Notes - Classical

Glenn Gould (notes writer) for Hindemith: Sonatas for Piano (Complete) performed by Glenn Gould

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Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female

Roberta Flack for "Killing Me Softly With His Song"

Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male

Stevie Wonder for "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"

Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus

Gladys Knight & the Pips for "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)"

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Eumir Deodato for "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001: A Space Odyssey)"

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Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical

Malcolm Cecil & Robert Margouleff (engineers) for Innervisions performed by Stevie Wonder

Best Classical Engineered Recording

Edward (Bud) T. Graham, Ray Moore (engineers), Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the New York Philharmonic for Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

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Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female

Aretha Franklin for "Master of Eyes"

Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male

Stevie Wonder for "Superstition"

Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus

Gladys Knight & the Pips for "Midnight Train to Georgia"

Best R&B Instrumental Performance

Ramsey Lewis for "Hang on Sloopy"

Best Rhythm & Blues Song

Stevie Wonder (songwriter) for "Superstition"

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Best Spoken Word Recording

Richard Harris for Jonathan Livingston Seagull