The 1984 Grammy Awards The awards given in 1985 were for recordings made in 1984. << p r e v h o m e n e x t >>
	Album of the Year Lionel Richie For: Can't Slow Down Record of the Year Tina Turner For: What's Love Got to Do With It Song of the Year Graham Lyle, Terry Britten (songwriters) For: What's Love Got to Do With It Best New Artist Cyndi Lauper Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male Phil Collins For: Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female Tina Turner For: What's Love Got to Do With It Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group Pointer Sisters For: Jump (for My Love) Best Pop Instrumental Performance Ray Parker, Jr. For: Ghostbusters Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male Bruce Springsteen For: Dancing in the Dark Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female Tina Turner For: Better Be Good to Me Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Prince and the Revolution For: Purple Rain Best Rock Instrumental Performance Yes For: Cinema Best Rhythm and Blues Song Prince (songwriter) For: I Feel For You Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, male Billy Ocean For: Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, female Chaka Kahn For: I Feel For You Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group James Ingram, Michael McDonald For: Yah Mo B There Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance Herbie Hancock For: Sound-System Best Jazz Fusion Performance (vocal or instrumental) Pat Metheny Group For: First Circle Best Jazz Vocal Performance Joe Williams For: Nothin' but the Blues Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Soloist Wynton Marsalis For: Hot House Flowers Best Jazz Instrumental by a Group Art Blakely & the Jazz Messengers For: New York Scene Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band Count Basie & His Orchestra For: 88 Basie Street Best Country Song Steve Goodman (songwriter award) For: City of New Orleans Best Country Vocal Performance, Male Merle Haggard For: That's the Way Love Goes Best Country Vocal Performance, Female Emmylou Harris For: In My Dreams Best Country Performance by duo or group Judds For: Mama He's Crazy Best Country Instrumental Performance Ricky Skaggs For: Wheel Hoss Best Gospel Performance, Male Michael W. Smith For: Michael W. Smith 2 Best Gospel Performance, Female Amy Grant For: Angels Best Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group Debbie Boone, Phil Driscoll For: Keep the Flame Burning Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male Andrae Crouch For: Always Remember Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female Shirley Caesar For: Sailin' Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group Shirley Caesar, Al Green For: Sailin' on the Sea of Your Love Best Inspirational Performance Donna Summer For: Forgive Me Best Traditional Blues Recording John Hammond, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Sugar Blue, Koko Taylor & the Blues Machine, Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, J.B. Hutto & the New Hawks For: Blues Explosion Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording Elizabeth Cotten For: Elizabeth Cotten Live! Best Latin Pop Recording Placido Domingo For: Always in My Heart (Siempre en Mi Corazon) Best Tropical Latin Performance Eddie Palmieri For: Palo Pa Rumba Best Mexican-American Performance Sheena Easton, Luis Miguel For: Me Gustas Tal Como Eres Best Reggae Recording Black Uhuru For: Anthem Best Instrumental Arrangement Quincy Jones, Jeremy Lubbock For: Grace (Gymnastics theme) Best Instrumental Composition Randy Newman For: The Natural (track from The Natural) Best Arrangement for Two or More Voices Pointer Sisters For: Automatic (Pointer Sisters) Best Cast Show Album Stephen Sondheim For:Sunday in the Park with George Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or TV Show Prince & the Revolution For: Purple Rain Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) David Foster, Jeremy Lubbock For: Hard Habit to Break (Chicago) Best Classical Album Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields For: Amadeus (soundtrack) Best Classical Orchestral Recording, (conductors award) Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony For: Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B. Flat, Op. 100 Best Chamber Music Performance (instrumental or solo) Julliard String Quartet For: Beethoven: The Late Spring Quartets Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (with orchestra) Wynton Marsalis, Edita Gruberova (Leppard conducting the National Philharmonic Orchestra) For: Wynton Marsalis, Edita Gruberova: Handel, Parcell, Torelli, Fasch, Molter Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (without orchestra) Yo Yo Ma For: Bach: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites Best Opera Recording Lorin Maazel conducting the Orchestre National de France; Choeurs et Maitrise de Radio France For: Bizet: Carmen Best Classical Performance, Choral (other than opera) Margaret Hillis, chorus master, Chicago Symphony Orchestra; James Levin conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra For: Brahms: A German Requiem Best Classical Performance, Vocal Soloist Jessy Norman, Jose van Dam, Heather Harper For: Ravel: Songs of Maurice Ravel Best New Classical Composition Samuel Barber (composer) For: Antony and Cleopatra Best Engineered Recording, Classical Paul Goodman For: Prokofiev: Symphony No.5 in B Flat, Op. 100 Classical Producer of the Year Steven Epstein Best Spoken Word: Documentary or Drama Recording Ben Kingsley For: The Words of Gandhi Best Comedy Recording Weird Al Yankovic For: Eat It from Weird Al Yankovic in 3-D Best Recording for Children Shel Silverstein For: Where the Sidewalk Ends Best Engineered Recording Humberto Gatica For: Chicago 17 (Chicago) Best Album Package Janet Perr For: She's So Unusual (Cyndi Lauper) Best Album Notes Gunther Schuller, Martin Williams For: Big Band Jazz (Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, others) Best Historical Album Big Band Jazz (Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, others) Producer of the Year Tie David Foster Lionel Richie, James Anthony Carmichael Best Video, Short Form David Bowie For: David Bowie Best Video Album Michael Jackson For: Making Michael Jackson's "Thriller"
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