The 1981 Grammy Awards The awards given in 1982 were for recordings made in 1981. Notes & Highlights: One-time Monkee Michael Nesmith wins the first video category award. << p r e v h o m e n e x t >>
	Album of the Year John Lennon & Yoko Ono For: Double Fantasy Record of the Year Kim Carnes For: Bette Davis Eyes Song of the Year Donna Weiss, Jackie DeShannon (songwriters) For: Bette Davis Eyes Best New Artist Sheena Easton Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male Al Jarreau For: Breaking Away Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female Lena Horne For: Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music Live on Broadway Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group Manhattan Transfer For: Boy From New York City Best Pop Instrumental Performance Mike Post featuring Larry Carlton For: Theme from "Hill Street Blues" Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male Rick Springfield For: Jessie's Girl Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female Pat Benatar For: Crimes of Passion Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group Police For: Don't Stand So Close to Me Best Rock Instrumental Performance Police For: Behind My Camel Best Rhythm and Blues Song Bill Withers, William Salter, Ralph MacDonald (songwriters) For: Just the Two of Us Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, male James Ingram For: One Hundred Ways Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, female Aretha Franklin For: Hold On, I'm Comin' Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group Quincy Jones For: The Dude Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance David Sanborn For: All I Need is You Best Jazz Fusion Performance (vocal or instrumental) Grover Washington, Jr. For: Winelight Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male Al Jarreau For: Blue Rondo a la Turk Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female Ella Fitzgerald For: Digital III at Montreux Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group Manhattan Transfer For: Until I Met You (Corner Pocket) Best Jazz Instrumental by a Soloist John Coltrane For: Bye Bye Blackbird Best Jazz Instrumental by a Group Chick Corea, Gary Burton For: Chick Corea and Gary Burton in Concert, Zurich, October 28 1979 Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band Gerry Mulligan and his Orchestra For: Walk on the Water Best Country Song Dolly Parton (songwriter award) For: 9 to 5 Best Country Vocal Performance, Male Ronnie Milsap For: (There's) No Gettin' Over Me Best Country Vocal Performance, Female Dolly Parton For: 9 to 5 Best Country Performance by duo or group Oakridge Boys For: Elvira Best Country Instrumental Performance Chet Atkins For: Country, After All These Years Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational Imperials For: Priority Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary Andrae Crouch For: Don't Give Up Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional Al Green For: The Lord Will Make a Way Best Gospel Performance, Traditional J. D. Sumner, James Blackwood, Hovie Lister, Rosie Rozell, Jake Hess For: The Masters V Best Inspirational Recording B. J. Thomas For: Amazing Grace Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording B. B. King For: There Must Be a Better World Somewhere Best Latin Recording Clare Fischer For: Guajira pa la Jeva Best Instrumental Arrangement Quincy Jones For: Velas (Quincy Jones) Best Instrumental Composition Mike Post (composer) For: Theme from Hill Street Blues Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) Quincy Jones, Jerry Hey For: Ai No Corrida (Quincy Jones) Best Arrangement for Voices Gene Puerling For: A Nightengale Sang in Berkeley Square (Manhattan Transfer) Best Cast Show Album various composers and lyricists For: Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music Live on Broadway Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or TV Show John Williams For: Raiders of the Lost Ark Best Classical Album Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus For: Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor Best Classical Orchestral Recording, (conductors award) Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus For: Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor Best Chamber Music Performance (instrumental or solo) Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell, Vladimir Ashkenazy For: Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (with orchestra) Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zuckerman For: Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (without orchestra) Vladimir Horowitz For: The Horowitz Concerts 1979/80 Best Opera Recording Sir Charles Mackerras conducting the Vienna Philharmonic For: Janacek: From the House of the Dead Best Classical Performance, Choral (other than opera) Neville Marriner conducting the Chorus of the Acadamy of St. Martin-in-the Fields and the Acadamy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields For: Haydn: The Creation Best Classical Performance, Vocal Soloist Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti For: Live from Lincoln Center, Sutherland, Horne, Pavarotti Best Engineered Recording, Classical Bud Graham, Ray Moore, Andrew Kazdin For: Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration Classical Producer of the Year James Mallinson Best Spoken Word: Documentary or Drama Recording Orson Welles For: Donovan's Brain Best Comedy Recording Richard Pryor For: Rev. Du Rite Best Recording for Children Muppets, Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker For: Sesame Country Best Engineered Recording Roger Nichols, Elliot Scheiner, Bill Schnee, Jerry Garsza For: Gaucho (Steely Dan) Best Album Package Peter Carriston For: Tatoo You (Rolling Stones) Best Album Notes Dan Morgenstern For: Erroll Garner: Master of the Keyboard Best Historical Album Hoagy Carmichael: from the "Star Dust" to "Ole Buttermilk Sky" (Hoagy Carmichael) Producer of the Year Quincy Jones Video for the Year Michael Nesmith For: Michael Nesmith in Elephant Parts
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