Record of the Year
This Masquerade
George Benson

Album of the Year
Songs in the Key of Life
Stevie Wonder

Song of the Year
I Write the Songs
Bruce Johnston - songwriter 

Best New Artist of the Year
Starland Vocal Band 

Best Pop Vocal Performance - Male
Songs in the Key of Life
Stevie Wonder 

Best Pop Vocal Performance - Female
Hasten Down the Wind
Linda Ronstadt 

Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus
If You Leave Me Now
Chicago 

Best Pop Instrumental Performance
Breezin'
George Benson 

Best Rhythm and Blues Song
Lowdown
Boz Scaggs and David Paich - songwriters 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance - Male
I Wish
Stevie Wonder 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance - Female
Sophisticated Lady (She's a Different Lady)
Natalie Cole 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance
By a Duo, Group or Chorus
You Don't Have to Be a Star (to Be in My Show)
Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. 

Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance
Theme From Good King Bad
George Benson 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance
Fitzgerald and Pass Again
Ella Fitzgerald 

Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist
Basie and Zoot
Count Basie 

Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band
The Ellington Suites
Duke Ellington 

Best Country Song
Broken Lady
Larry Gatlin - songwriter 

Best Country Vocal Performance - Male
(I'm a) Stand By My Woman Man
Ronnie Milsap 

Best Country Vocal Performance - Female
Elite Hotel
Emmylou Harris 

Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group
The End Is Not in Sight” (The Cowboy Tune)
Amazing Rhythm Aces 

Best Country Instrumental Performance
Chester and Lester
Chet Atkins and Les Paul 

Best Gospel Performance
Where the Soul Never Dies
Oak Ridge Boys 

Best Soul Gospel Performance
How I Got Over
Mahalia Jackson 

Best Latin Recording
Unfinished Masterpiece
Eddie Palmieri

Best Inspirational Performance
The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, 
Unbelievable, Different World of Gary S. Paxton
Gary S. Paxton 

Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording
Mark Twang
John Hartford

Best Instrumental Arrangement
Leprechaun's Dream
Chick Corea - arranger 

Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists
If You Leave Me Now
Jimmy Haskell and James William Guercio - arrangers 

Best Arrangement for Voices
Afternoon Delight
Starland Vocal Band - arrangers 

Best Instrumental Composition
Bellavia
Chuck Mangione - composer 

Best Cast Show Album
Bubbling Brown Sugar
various composers

Album of Best Original Score Written for a 
Motion Picture or a Television Special
Car Wash
Norman Whitfield - composer

Album of the Year - Classical
Beethoven - Five Piano Concertos
Artur Rubinstein
Daniel Barenboim - London Philharmonic

Best Classical Orchestral Performance
Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra
Sir Georg Solti - Chicago Symphony 

Best Chamber Music Performance
The Art of Courtly Love
David Munrow - Early Music Consort of London 

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist
(With Orchestra)
Beethoven - The Five Piano Concertos
Artur Rubinstein
Daniel Barenboim - London Philharmonic 

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist
(Without Orchestra)
Horowitz Concerts 1975/76
Vladimir Horowitz 

Best Opera Recording
Gershwin - Porgy and Bess
Lorin Maazel - Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus

Best Choral Performance - Classical
Rachmaninoff - The Bells
Arthur Oldham, Chorus master of London Symphony Chorus
André Previn - London Symphony Orchestra 

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
Music of Victor Herbert
Beverly Sills 

Best Comedy Recording
Bicentennial Nigger
Richard Pryor

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

Best Recording for Children
Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
Saint-Saëns - Carnival of the Animals
Hermione Gingold - narrator;
Karl Bohm - conductor

Best Album Package
Chicago X
John Berg - art director

Best Album Notes
The Changing Face of Harlem - the Savoy Sessions
Dan Morgenstern - annotator

Best Producer of the Year
Stevie Wonder

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