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Grammy Awards of 1974

Award winners:

* Album of the Year
o Stevie Wonder (producer & artist) for Innervisions

* Song of the Year
o Charles Fox & Norman Gimbel (songwriters) for "Killing Me Softly With His Song" performed by Roberta Flack

* Best New Artist
o Bette Midler

Children's

* Best Recording for Children
o Joe Raposo (producer) for Sesame Street Live performed by the Sesame Street cast

Classical

* Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
o Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the New York Philharmonic for Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
* Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
o Edward Downes (conductor), Leontyne Price & the New Philharmonia Orchestra for Puccini: Heroines
* Best Opera Recording
o Tom Mowrey (producer), Leonard Bernstein (conductor), Marilyn Horne, Tom Krause, Adriana Maliponte, James McCracken 7 the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Bizet: Carmen
* Best Choral Performance, Classical (other than opera)
o Andre Previn (conductor), Arthur Oldham (choir director) & the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Walton: Belshazzer's Feast
o Georg Solti (conductor), Vladimir Ashkenazy & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven: Concerti (5) for Piano and Orchestra
* Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra)
o Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz Plays Scriabin
* Best Chamber Music Performance
o Gunther Schuller (conductor) & the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble for Joplin: The Red Back Book
* Album of the Year, Classical
o Thomas Z. Shepard (producer), Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the New York Philharmonic for Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

Comedy

* Best Comedy Recording
o Cheech and Chong for Los Cochinos

Composing and arranging

* Best Instrumental Composition
o Gato Barbieri (composer) for "Last Tango in Paris" performed by various artists
* Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special
o Neil Diamond (composer) for Jonathan Livingston Seagull performed by various artists
* Best Instrumental Arrangement
o Quincy Jones (arranger) for "Summer in the City"
* Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
o George Martin (arranger) for "Live and Let Die" performed by Paul McCartney & Wings

Country

* Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
o Olivia Newton-John for "Let Me Be There"
* Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
o Charlie Rich for "Behind Closed Doors"
* Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
o Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferson for "From the Bottle to the Bottom"
* Best Country Instrumental Performance
o Steve Mandell & Eric Weissberg for "Dueling Banjos"
* Best Country Song
o Kenny O'Dell (songwriter) for "Behind Closed Doors" performed by Charlie Rich

Folk

* Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording (including traditional blues)
o Doc Watson for Then and Now

Gospel

* Best Gospel Performance
o Blackwood Brothers for Release Me (From My Sin)
* Best Soul Gospel Performance
o Dixie Hummingbirds for "Loves Me Like a Rock"
* Best Inspirational Performance
o The Bill Gaither Trio for Let's Just Praise the Lord

Jazz

* Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist
o Art Tatum for God Is in the House
* Best Jazz Performance by a Group
o Supersax for Supersax Plays Bird
* Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band
o Woody Herman for Giant Steps

Musical Show

* Best Score From the Original Cast Show Album
o Stephen Sondheim (composer), Goddard Lieberson (producer) & the original cast (Glynis Johns, Len Cariou, Hermoine Gingold, Victoria Mallory, Patricia Elliott & Teri Ralston) for A Little Night Music

Packaging and Notes

* Best Album Package
o Wilkes & Braun (art director) for Tommy performed by the London Symphony Orchestra & Choir
* Best Album Notes
o Dan Morgenstern (notes writer) for God Is in the House performed by Art Tatum
* Best Album Notes - Classical
o Glenn Gould (notes writer) for Hindemith: Sonatas for Piano (Complete) performed by Glenn Gould

Pop

* Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
o Roberta Flack for "Killing Me Softly With His Song"
* Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male
o Stevie Wonder for "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
* Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
o Gladys Knight & the Pips for "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)"
* Best Pop Instrumental Performance
o Eumir Deodato for "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)"

Production and engineering

* Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
o Malcolm Cecil & Robert Margouleff (engineers) for Innervisions performed by Stevie Wonder
* Best Classical Engineered Recording
o Edward (Bud) T. Graham, Ray Moore (engineers), Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the New York Philharmonic for Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

R&B

* Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
o Aretha Franklin for "Master of Eyes"
* Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male
o Stevie Wonder for "Superstition"
* Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
o Gladys Knight & the Pips for "Midnight Train to Georgia"
* Best R&B Instrumental Performance
o Ramsey Lewis for "Hang on Sloopy"
* Best Rhythm & Blues Song
o Stevie Wonder (songwriter) for "Superstition"

Spoken

* Best Spoken Word Recording
o Richard Harris for Jonathan Livingston Seagull