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The Grammys - 1987
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Record of the Year
Graceland
Paul Simon 

Album of the Year
Joshua Tree
U2

Song of the Year
Somewhere Out There
James Horner, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil - songwriters

Best New Artist
Jody Watley

Best Pop Vocal Performance Male
Bring on the Night
Sting 

Best Pop Vocal Performance Female
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Whitney Houston 

Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
(I've Had) The Time of My Life
Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes 

Best Pop Instrumental Performance
(Orchestra, Group or Soloist)
Minute by Minute
Larry Carlton 

Best Rock Vocal Performance Solo
Tunnel of Love
Bruce Springsteen 

Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
The Joshua Tree
U2 

Best Rock Instrumental Performance
(Orchestra, Group or Soloist)
Jazz From Hell
Frank Zappa 

Best Rhythm and Blues Song
Lean on Me
Bill Withers - songwriter 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance Male
Just to See Her
Smokey Robinson 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance Female
Aretha
Aretha Franklin 

Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a
Duo or Group With Vocal
I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
Aretha Franklin and George Michael 

Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance
(Orchestra, Group or Soloist)
Chicago Song
David Sanborn 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance Male
What Is This Thing Called Love
Bobby McFerrin 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance Female
Diane Schuur and the Count Basie Orchestra
Diane Schuur 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Soloist
The Other Side of Round Midnight
Dexter Gordon 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Group
Marsalis Standard Time, Volume 1
Wynton Marsalis 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Big Band
Digital Duke
Duke Ellington Orchestra conducted by Mercer Ellington

Best Jazz Fusion Performance Vocal or Instrumental
Still Life (Talking)
Pat Metheny Group 

Best Country Song
Forever and Ever, Amen
Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz - songwriters 

Best Country Vocal Performance Male
Always and Forever
Randy Travis 

Best Country Vocal Performance Female
'80's Ladies
K.T. Oslin 

Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
Trio
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris

Best Country Vocal Performance Duet
Make No Mistake, She's Mine
Ronnie Milsap and Kenny Rogers 

Best Country Instrumental Performance
(Orchestra, Group or Soloist)
String of Pars
Asleep at the Wheel 

Best Gospel Performance Male
The Father Hath Provided
Larnelle Harris 

Best Gospel Performance Female
I Believe in You
Deniece Williams 

Best Gospel Performance By a Duo, Group, Choir or Chorus
Crack the Sky
Mylon LeFevre and Broken Heart 

Best Soul Gospel Performance Male
Everything's Gonna Be Alright
Al Green 

Best Soul Gospel Performance Female
For Always
CeCe Winans 

Best Soul Gospel Performance By a
Duo, Group, Choir or Chorus
Ain't No Need to Worry
Winans and Anita Baker 

Best Latin Pop Performance
Un Hombre Solo
Julio Iglesias 

Best Tropical Latin Performance
La Verdad - The Truth
Eddie Palmieri 

Best Mexican/American Performance
Gracias! America sin Fronteras
Los Tigres Del Norte 

Best Traditional Blues Recording
Houseparty New Orleans Style
Professor Longhair

Best Contemporary Blues Recording
Strong Persuader
Robert Cray Band

Best Traditional Folk Recording
Shaka Zulu
Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Best Contemporary Folk Recording
Unfinished Business
Steve Goodman

Best Reggae Recording
No Nuclear War
Peter Tosh

Best New Age Performance
Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony
Yusef Lateef 

Best Polka Recording
A Polka Just for Me
Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra

Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
Take the 'A' Train
Bill Holman - arranger 

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
Deedle's Blues
Frank Foster - arranger 

Best Instrumental Composition
Call Sheet Blues
Dexter Gordon, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter
and Billy Higgins - composers 

Best Musical Cast Show Album
Les Miserables

Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score
Written for a Motion Picture or Television
The Untouchables (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Ennio Morricone - composer

Best Song Written Specifically for a 
Motion Picture or Television
Somewhere Out There
(From the animated movie An American Tale)
James Horner, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil - songwriters

Best Contemporary Composition
Cello Concerto No. 2
Krzysztof Penderecki - composer 

Best Classical Album
Horowitz in Moscow
Vladimir Horowitz

Best Orchestral Recording
Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (Choral)
Sir Georg Solti - Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Best Chamber Music Performance Instrumental or Vocal
Beethoven - The Complete Piano Trios
Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell and Vladimir Ashkenazy 

Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s)
(With Orchestra)
Mozart - Violin Concertos nos. 2 and 4 in D
Itzhak Perlman
James Levine - Vienna Philarmonic 

Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s)
(Without Orchestra)
Horowitz in Moscow
Vladimir Horowitz - piano 

Best Opera Recording
Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos
James Levine - Vienna Philharmonic
Solos: Tomowa-Sintow, Battle, Baltsa, Lakes and Prey

Best Choral Performance (Othen Than Opera)
Hindemith - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
(A Requiem for Those We Love)
Robert Shaw - Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
Kathleen Battle - Salzburg Recital
Kathleen Battle
James Levine - accompanist 

Best Comedy Recording
A Night at The Met
Robin Williams

Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording
Lake Wobegon Days
Garrison Keillor

Best Recording for Children
The Elephant's Child
Jack Nicholson - narrator
Bobby McFerrin - music

Best Album Package
King's Record Shop
Bill Johnson - art director

Best Album Notes
Thelonious Monk - the Complete Riverside Recordings
Orrin Keepnews - annotator

Best Historical Album
Thelonious Monk - the Complete Riverside Recordings
Thelonious Monk

Best Performance Music Video
The Prince's Trust All-Star Rock Concert
Elton John, Tina Turner, Sting and others

Best Concept Music Video
Land of Confusion
Genesis 

Producer of the Year (Non-Classical)
Narada Michael Walden 

Classical Producer of the Year
Robert Woods

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