The 1985 Grammy Awards The awards given in 1986 were for recordings made in 1985. << p r e v h o m e n e x t >>
	Album of the Year Phil Collins For: No Jacket Required Record of the Year USA for Africa For: We Are the World Song of the Year Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie (songwriters) For: We Are the World Best New Artist Sade Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male Phil Collins For: No Jacket Required Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female Whitney Houston For: Saving All My Love For You Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group USA for Africa For: We Are the World Best Pop Instrumental Performance Jan Hammer For: Theme from Miami Vice Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male Don Henley For: Boys of Summer Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female Tina Turner For: Out of the Living Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Dire Straits For: Money for Nothing Best Rock Instrumental Performance Jeff Beck For: Escape (track from Flash) Best Rhythm and Blues Song Narada Michael Walden (songwriter) For: Freeway of Love Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, male Stevie Wonder For: In Square Circle Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, female Aretha Franklin For: Freeway of Love Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group Commodores For: Nightshift Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance Ernie Watts For: Musician Best Jazz Fusion Performance (vocal or instrumental) David Sanborn For: Straight to the Heart Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male Jon Hendricks, Bobby McFerrin For: Another Night in Tunisia (track from Vocalese) Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female Cleo Laine For: Cleo at Carnegie the 10th Anniversary Concert Best Jazz Vocal Performance by a duo or group Manhattan Transfer For: Vocalese Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Soloist Wynton Marsalis For: Black Codes from the Underground (track from Black Codes from the Underground) Best Jazz Instrumental by a Group Wynton Marsalis Group For: Black Codes from the Underground Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band John Barry, Bob Wilber For: The Cotton Club (film soundtrack) Best Country Song Jimmy L. Webb (songwriter award) For: Highwayman Best Country Vocal Performance, Male Ronnie Milsap For: Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night) Best Country Vocal Performance, Female Rosanne Cash For: I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me Best Country Performance by duo or group with vocal Judds For: Why Not Me Best Country Instrumental Performance Chet Atkins, Mark Knoffler For: Cosmic Square Dance (track from Stay Tuned) (Chet Atkins) Best Gospel Performance, Male Larnell Harris For: How Excellent is Thy Name (track from I've Just Seen Jesus) Best Gospel Performance, Female Amy Grant For: Unguarded Best Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group Larnell Harris, Sandi Patti For: How Excellent is Thy Name (track from I've Just Seen Jesus) Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male Marvin Winans For: Bring Back the Days of Yea and Nay (track from Tomorrow) Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female Shirley Caesar For: Martin Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group Winans For: Tomorrow Best Inspirational Performance Jennifer Holliday For: Come Sunday (track from Say You Love Me) Best Traditional Blues Recording B.B. King For: My Guitar Sings the Blues (track from Six Silver Strings) Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording Rockin' Sidney For: My Toot Toot Best Latin Pop Recording Lani Hall For: Es Facil Amar Best Tropical Latin Performance Tito Puente and His Latin Ensemble For: Mambo Diablo Best Mexican-American Performance Vikki Carr For: Simplemente Mufer Best Reggae Recording Jimmy Cliff For: Cliff Hanger Best Polka Recording Frank Yankovic For: 70 Years of Hits Best Arrangement on an Instrumental David Grusin, Lee Ritenour For: Early A.M. Attitude (track from Harlequin) Best Instrumental Composition Jan Hammer For: Miami Vice Theme Best Arrangement for Two or More Voices Cheryl Bentyne, Bobby McFerrin For: Another Night in Tunisia (Manhattan Transfer) Best Cast Show Album Stephen Sondheim For: West Side Story Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or TV Show various artists For: Beverly Hills Cop Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) Nelson Riddle For: Lush Life (Linda Ronstadt) Best Classical Album Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony For: Berlioz: Requiem Best Classical Orchestral Recording, (conductors award) Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony For: Faure: Pelleas et Melisande Best New Classical Artist Chicago Pro Musica Best Chamber Music Performance Emmauel Ax, Yo Yo Ma For: Brahms: Cello and Piano Sonatas in E Major and F Major Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (with orchestra) Yo Yo Ma (Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra) For: Elgar: Cello concerto, Op. 85; Walton: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (without orchestra) Vladimir Ashkenazy For: Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit, Pavanhe pour une Infante Defunte, Valses Nobles et Sentimentales Best Opera Recording Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symnphony Orchestra and Chorus For: Schoenberg: Moses und Aron Best Classical Performance, Choral (other than opera) Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony and Chorus For: Berlioz: Requiem Best Classical Performance, Vocal Soloist John Aler (Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony) For: Berlioz: Requiem Best Contemporary Composition Andrew Lloyd Webber (composer) For: Requiem Best Engineered Recording, Classical Jack Renner For: Berlioz: Requiem (Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony) Classical Producer of the Year Robert E. Woods Best Spoken Word: Documentary or Drama Recording Broadway Cast For: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Best Comedy Recording Whoopi Goldberg For: Whoopi Goldberg (Original Broadway Show Recording) Best Recording for Children Jim Henson's Muppets and the Sesame Street cast For: Follow That Bird Best Engineered Recording Neil Dorfsman For: Brothers in Arms (Dire Straits) Best Album Package Kosh, Ron Larson For: Lush Life (Linda Ronstadt) Best Album Notes Peter Guralnick For: Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club Best Historical Album RCA/Met - 100 Singers, 100 Years Producer of the Year Phil Collins, Hugh Padgham Best Video, Short Form USA for Africa For: We Are the World, the Video Event Best Video, Long Form Huey Lewis and the News For: Huey Lewis and the News: The Heart of Rock 'n' Roll
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