Record of the Year
Higher Love
Steve Winwood 

Album of the Year
Graceland
Paul Simon

Song of the Year
That's What Friends Are For
Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager - songwriters

Best New Artist
Bruce Hornsby and the Range 

Best Pop Vocal Performance Male
Higher Love
Steve Winwood 

Best Pop Vocal Performance Female
The Broadway Album
Barbra Streisand 

Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
That's What Friends Are For
Dionne Warwick and Friends Featuring Elton John, Gladys 
Knight and Stevie Wonder 

Best Pop Instrumental Performance
(Orchestra, Group or Soloist)
Top Gun Anthem
Harold Faltermeyer and Steve Stevens 

Best Rock Vocal Performance Male
Addicted to Love
Robert Palmer 

Best Rock Vocal Performance Female
Back Where You Started
Tina Turner 

Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
Missionary Man
Eurythmics 

Best Rock Instrumental Performance
(Orchestra, Group or Soloist)
Peter Gunn
Art of Noise featuring Duane Eddy 

Best Rhythm and Blues Song
Sweet Love
Anita Baker, Louis A. Johnson and Gary Bias - songwriters 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance Male
Living in America
James Brown 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance Female
Rapture
Anita Baker 

Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a
Duo or Group With Vocal
Kiss
Prince and the Revolution 

Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance
(Orchestra, Group or Soloist)
And You Know That
Yellowjackets 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance Male
Round Midnight
Bobby McFerrin 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance Female
Timeless
Diane Schuur 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance Duo or Group
Free Fall
2 + 2 Plus (Clare Fischer and His Latin Jazz Sextet) 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Soloist
Tutu
Miles Davis 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Group
J Mood
Wynton Marsalis 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Big Band
The Tonight Show Band With Doc Severinsen
The Tonight Show Band With Doc Severinsen

Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental
Double Vision
Bob James and David Sanborn 

Best Country Song
Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days)
Jamie O'Hara - songwriter 

Best Country Vocal Performance Male
Lost in the Fifties Tonight
Ronnie Milsap 

Best Country Vocal Performance Female
Whoever's in New England
Reba McEntire 

Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days)
Judds 

Best Country Instrumental Performance
(Orchestra, Group or Soloist)
Raisin' the Dickens
Ricky Skaggs 

Best Gospel Performance Male
Triumph
Philip Bailey 

Best Gospel Performance Female
Morning Like This
Sandi Patti 

Best Gospel Performance By a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
They Say
Sandi Patti and Deniece Williams 

Best Soul Gospel Performance Male
Going Away
Al Green 

Best Soul Gospel Performance Female
I Surrender All
Deniece Williams 

Best Soul Gospel Performance By a
Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
Let My People Go
Winans 

Best Latin Pop Performance
Lelolai
José Feliciano 

Best Tropical Latin Performance
Escenas
Ruben Blades 

Best Mexican/American Performance
Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio
Flaco Jimenez 

Best Traditional Blues Recording
Showdown!
Albert Collins, Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland

Best Traditional Folk Recording
Riding the Midnight Train
Doc Watson

Best Contemporary Folk Recording
Tribute to Steve Goodman
Arlo Guthrie, John Hartford, Richie Havens, Bonnie
Koloc, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John Prine and others

Best Reggae Recording
Babylon the Bandit
Steel Pulse

Best New Age Recording
Down to the Moon
Andreas Vollenweider

Best Polka Recording
Another Polka Celebration
Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones
I Remember Warsaw
Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra

Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
Suite Memories
Patrick Williams - arranger 

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
Somewhere
David Foster - arranger 

Best Instrumental Composition
Out of Africa (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
John Barry - composer 

Best Musical Cast Show Album
Follies in Concert

Best Classical Album
Horowitz: The Studio Recordings, New York 1985
Vladimir Horowitz

Best Contemporary Composition
Symphony No. 3
Witold Lutoslawski - composer 

Best Classical Orchestral Recording
Liszt - A Faust Symphony
Sir Georg Solti - the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Best Chamber Music Performance Instrumental or Vocal
Beethoven - Cello and Piano Sonata No. 4 in
C Major and Variations
Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax

Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s)
(With or Without Orchestra)
Horowitz: The Studio Recordings, New York 1985
Vladimir Horowitz 

Best Opera Recording
Bernstein - Candide
John Mauceri - New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Solos: Mills, Eisler, Lankston, Castle, Reeve, Harrold, 
Billings and Clement

Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera)
Orff - Carmina Burana
James Levine - Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus 

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
Mozart - Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart
Kathleen Battle 

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

Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording
Interviews From the Class of '55 Recording Sessions
Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Johnny 
Cash, Sam Phillips, Rick Nelson and Chips Moman

Best Recording for Children
The Alphabet
Sesame Street Muppets
Jim Henson

Best Album Package
Tutu
Eiko Ishioka - art director

Best Album Notes
The Voice - the Columbia Years 1943–1952
Gary Giddins, Wilfrid Sheed, Jonathan Schwartz, Murray 
Kempton, Andrew Sarris, Stephen Holden and Frank 
Conroy - annotators

Best Historical Album
Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947–1974 Vols. 1–7
Various artists

Best Music Video Short Form (Vhs)
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
Dire Straits 

Best Music Video Short Form (Vhs) (beta) (disk)
Bring on the Night
Sting 

Producers of the Year (Non-Classical)
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis 

Classical Producer of the Year
Thomas Frost

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