Record of the Year
What a Fool Believes
Doobie Brothers

Album of the Year
52nd Street
Billy Joel

Song of the Year
What a Fool Believes
Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald - songwriters

Best New Artist
Rickie Lee Jones

Best Pop Vocal Performance - Male
52nd Street
Billy Joel

Best Pop Vocal Performance - Female
I'll Never Love This Way Again
Dionne Warwick 

Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus
Minute by Minute
Doobie Brothers 

Best Pop Instrumental Performance
Rise
Herb Alpert 

Best Rock Vocal Performance - Male
Gotta Serve Somebody
Bob Dylan 

Best Rock Vocal Performance - Female
Hot Stuff
Donna Summer 

Best Rock Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group
Heartache Tonight
Eagles 

Best Rock Instrumental Performance
Rockestra Theme
Wings 

Best Rhythm and Blues Song
After the Love Has Gone
David Foster, Jay Graydon and Bill Champlin - songwriters

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance - Male
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Michael Jackson 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance - Female
Deja Vu
Dionne Warwick 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a
Duo, Group or Chorus
After the Love Has Gone
Earth, Wind and Fire 

Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance
Boogie Wonderland
Earth, Wind and Fire

Best Disco Recording
I Will Survive
Gloria Gaynor

Best Jazz Vocal Performance
Fine and Mellow
Ella Fitzgerald

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Soloist
Jousts
Oscar Peterson

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Group
Duet
Gary Burton and Chick Corea

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band
At Fargo, 1940 Live
Duke Ellington

Best Jazz Fusion Performance - Vocal or Instrumental
8:30
Weather Report

Best Country Song
You Decorated My Life
Debbie Hupp and Bob Morrison - songwriters

Best Country Vocal Performance - Male
The Gambler
Kenny Rogers

Best Country Vocal Performance - Female
Blue Kentucky Girl
Emmylou Harris

Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Charlie Daniels Band

Best Country Instrumental Performance
Big Sandy/Leather Britches
Doc and Merle Watson

Best Gospel Performance - Contemporary or Inspirational
Heed the Call
Imperials

Best Gospel Performance - Traditional
Lift Up the Name of Jesus
Blackwood Brothers

Best Soul Gospel Performance - Contemporary
I'll Be Thinking of You
Andrae Crouch

Best Soul Gospel Performance - Traditional
Changing Times
Mighty Clouds of Joy

Best Latin Recording
Irakere
Irakere

Best Inspirational Performance
You Gave Me Love (When Nobody Gave Me a Prayer)
B.J. Thomas

Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording
Muddy 'Mississippi' Waters Live
Muddy Waters

Best Instrumental Arrangement
Soulful Strut
Claus Ogerman - arranger

Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
What a Fool Believes
Michael McDonald - arranger

Best Instrumental Composition
Main Title Theme From Superman
John Williams - composer

Best Cast Show Album
Sweeney Todd
Stephen Sondheim - composer and Iyricist

Best Album of Original Score Written
for a Motion Picture or a Television Special
Superman
John Williams - composer

Best Classical Album
Brahms - Symphonies Complete
Sir Georg Solti - Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Best Classical Orchestral Recording
Brahms - Symphonies Complete
Sir Georg Solti - Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Best Chamber Music Performance
Copland - Appalachian Spring
Dennis Russell Davies - St. Paul Chamber Orchestra

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s)
(With Orchestra)
Bartók - Concertos for Piano nos. 1 and 2
Maurizio Pollini
Abbado - Chicago Symphony Orchestra 

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s)
(Without Orchestra)
The Horowitz Concerts 1978/79
Vladimir Horowitz

Best Opera Recording
Britten - Peter Grimes
Colin Davis - Orchestra and Chorus of the
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Solos: Vickers, Harper and Summers

Best Choral Performance - Classical (Other Than Opera)
Brahms - A German Requiem
Sir Georg Solti - conductor
Margaret Hillis - choral director
Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
O Sole Mio
Luciano Pavarotti 

Best Comedy Recording
Reality...What a Concept
Robin Williams

Best Spoken Word - Documentary or Drama Recording
Ages of Man (Readings From Shakespeare)
Sir John Gielgud

Best Recording for Children
The Muppet Movie
Jim Henson - creator

Best Album Package
Breakfast in America
Mike Doud and Mick Haggerty - art directors

Best Album Notes
Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy Sessions
Bob Porter and James Patrick - annotators

Best Historical Reissue
Billie Holiday (Giants of Jazz)

Producer of the Year (Non-Classical)
Larry Butler 

Classical Producer of the Year
James Mallinson

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