The 1970 Grammy Awards The awards given in 1971 were for recordings made in 1970. Notes & Highlights: The Carpenters top Elton John for Best New Artist. They also top The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Chicago, and The Jackson 5 for Best Vocal Group. Simon & Garfunkel take the top three awards. Five nominations went to James Taylor - he won none. << p r e v h o m e n e x t >>
	Album of the Year Simon & Garfunkel For: Bridge Over Troubled Water Record of the Year Simon & Garfunkel For: Bridge Over Troubled Water Song of the Year Paul Simon (songwriter) For: Bridge Over Troubled Water Best New Artist Carpenters Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Male Ray Stevens For: Everything is Beautiful Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Female Dionne Warwick For: I'll Never Fall in Love Again Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group Carpenters For: Close to You Best Contemporary Song Paul Simon (songwriter) For: Bridge Over Troubled Water Best Contemporary Instrumental Performance Henry Mancini For: Theme from "Z" and other music Best Rhythm and Blues Song Ron Dunbar, General Johnson (songwriters) For: Patches Best Rhythm and Blues Solo Vocal Performance, male B.B. King For: The Thrill is Gone Best Rhythm and Blues Solo Vocal Performance, female Aretha Franklin For: Don't Play That Song Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group Delfonics For: Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Solo or Soloist, Small Group Bill Evans For: Alone Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Solo or Soloist, Large Group Miles Davis For: Bitches Brew Best Sacred Recording, musical Jake Hess For: Everything Is Beautiful Best Gospel Performance Oak Ridge Boys For: Talk About the Good Times Best Country & Western Song Marty Robbins (songwriter award) For: My Woman, My Woman, My Wife Best Country & Western Vocal Performance, Male Ray Price For: For the Good Times Best Country & Western Vocal Performance, Female Lynn Anderson For: Rose Garden Best Country & Western Performance by duo or group Johnny Cash, June Carter For: If I Were a Carpenter Best Country Instrumental Performance Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed For: Me and Jerry Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording T-Bone Walker For: Good Feelin' Best Soul Gospel Performance Edwin Hawkins Singers For: Every Man Wants to be Free Best Instrumental Composition Alfred Neuman (composer) For: "Airport" Love Theme Best Instrumental Arrangement Henry Mancini (composer) For: Theme From "Z" Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) Paul Simon, Art Garfunkle, Jimmie Haskell, Ernie Freeman, Larry Knetchel For: Bridge Over Troubled Water Best Original Cast Show Album Steven Sondheim (composer) For: Company Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or TV Show The Beatles For: Let It Be Album of the Year, Classical Colin Davis For: Berloiz: Les Troyens Best Classical Performance, (conductors award) Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra For: Stavinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps Best Chamber Music Performance Eugene Istomin, Isaac Stern, Leonar Rose For: Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (with or without orchestral accompaniment) David Oistrach, Mstislav Rostropovich For: Brahms: Double Concerto (Concerto in A Minor for violin and cello) Best Opera Recording Collin Davis conducting the Royal Opera House Orchestra and chorus For: Berloiz: Les Troyens Best Classical Performance, Choral (other than opera) Gregg Smith conducting the Gregg Smith Singers For: New Music of Charles Ives Best Classical Performance, Vocal Soloist Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau For: Schubert: Lieder Best Engineered Recording, Classical Fred Plaut, Roy Moore, Arthur Kendy For: Stavinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps Best Spoken Word Recording Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. For: Why I Oppose the War in Viet Nam Best Comedy Performance Flip Wilson For: The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress Best Engineered Recording Roy Halee For: Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel) Best Recording for Children Children's Television Workshop For: Sesame Street Best Album Cover Robert Lockart, Ivan Nagy For: Indianola Mississippi Seed (B.B. King) Best Album Notes Chris Albertson For: The World's Greatest Blues Singer (Bessie Smith)
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