The 1980 Grammy Awards The awards given in 1981 were for recordings made in 1980. << p r e v h o m e n e x t >>
	Album of the Year Christopher Cross For: Christopher Cross Record of the Year Christopher Cross For: Sailing Song of the Year Christopher Cross For: Sailing Best New Artist Christopher Cross Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male Kenny Loggins For: This Is It Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female Bette Midler For: The Rose Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group Barbra Streisand, Barry Gibb For: Guilty Best Pop Instrumental Performance Bob James, Earl Klugh For: One on One Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male Billy Joel For: Glass Houses Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female Pat Benatar For: Crimes of Passion Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band For: Against the Wind Best Rock Instrumental Performance Police For: Regatta de Blanc Best Rhythm and Blues Song Reggie Lucas, James Mume (songwriters) For: Never Knew Love Like This Before Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, male George Benson For: Give Me the Night Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, female Stephanie Mills For: Never Knew Love Like This Before Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group Manhattans For: Shining Star Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance George Benson For: On Broadway Best Jazz Fusion Performance (vocal or instrumental) Manhattan Transport For: Birdland Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male George Benson For: Moody's Mood Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female Ella Fitzgerald For: A Perfect Match/Ella and Basie Best Jazz Instrumental by a Soloist Bill Evans For: I Will Say Goodbye Best Jazz Instrumental by a Group Bill Evans For: We Will Meet Again Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band Count Basie and His Orchestra For: On the Road Best Country Song Willie Nelson (songwriter award) For: On the Road Again Best Country Vocal Performance, Male George Jones For: He Stopped Loving Her Today Best Country Vocal Performance, Female Anne Murray For: Could I Have This Dance Best Country Performance by duo or group Roy Orbison, Emmylou Harris For: That Lovin' You Feelin' Again Best Country Instrumental Performance Gilly's Urban Cowboy Band For: Orange Blossom Special/Hoedown Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational Reba Rambo, Dony McGuire, B.J. Thomas, Andrae Crouch, Archers, Walter & Tramaine Hawkins, Cynthia Clawson For: The Lord's Prayer Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary Shirley Caesar For: Rejoice Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional James Cleveland & the Charles Fold Singers For: Lord, Let Me be an Instrument Best Gospel Performance, Traditional Blackwood Brothers For: We Come to Worship Best Inspirational Recording Debbie Boone For: With My Song I Will Praise Him Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording Dr. Isaiah Ross, Maxwell Street Jimmy, Big Joe Williams, Son House, Rev. Robert Wilkins, Little Brother Montgomery, Sunnyland Slim For: Rare Blues Best Latin Recording Cal Tjader Sextet For: La Onda Va Bien Best Instrumental Arrangement Quincy Jones, Jerry Hay For: Dinorah, Dinorah (George Benson) Best Instrumental Composition John Williams (composer) For: The Empire Strikes Back (Main Title) Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) Michael Omartian For: Sailing (Christopher Cross) Best Arrangement for Voices Janis Siegel For: Birdland (Manhattan Transfer) Best Cast Show Album Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice For: Evita Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or TV Show John Williams For: The Empire Strikes Back Best Classical Album Pierre Boulez conducting the Orchestre de l'Opera de Paris For: Berg: Lulu (Complete) Best Classical Orchestral Recording, (conductors award) Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony For: Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major Best Chamber Music Performance (instrumental or solo) Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zuckerman For: Music for 2 Violins (Moszkowski: Suite for 2 Violins; Shostakovich; Duets: Prokofiev: Sonata for 2 Violins) Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (with orchestra) Itzhak Perlman (Seiji Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony) For: Berg: Concerto for violin and Orchestra; Stravinsky: Concerto in D Major for violin and Orchestra Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (without orchestra) Itzhak Perlman For: The Spanish Album Best Opera Recording Pierre Boulez conducting the Orchestre de l'Opera de Paris For: Berg: Lulu (Complete) Best Classical Performance, Choral (other than opera) Norbert Balatsch, chorus master; Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra For: Mozart: Requiem Best Classical Performance, Vocal Soloist Leontyne Price For: Prima Donna, Vol. 5, Great Soprano Arias from Handel to Britten Best Engineered Recording, Classical Karl-August Naegler For: Berg: Lulu (Complete) (Pierre Boulez conducting the Orchestre de l'Opera de Paris) Classical Producer of the Year Robert Woods Best Spoken Word: Documentary or Drama Recording Pat Carroll For: Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein Best Comedy Recording Rodney Dangerfield For: No Respect Best Recording for Children Doobie Brothers, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Bette Midler, Muppets, Al Jarreau, Linda Ronstadt, Wendy Waldman, Libby Titus & Dr. John, Livingston Taylor, George Benson & Pauline Wilson, Lucy Simon, Kate Taylor and the Simon/Taylor Family For: In Harmony/A Sesame Street Record Best Engineered Recording James Guthrie For: The Wall (Pink Floyd) Best Album Package Roy Kohara For: Against the Wind (Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band) Best Album Notes David McClintock For: Trilogy: Past, Present and Future (Frank Sinatra) Best Historical Reissue Segovia, The EMI Recordings 1927-39 Producer of the Year Phil Ramone
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