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Grammy Awards of 1977

Award winners:

* Album of the Year
o Stevie Wonder (producer & artist) for Songs in the Key of Life

* Song of the Year
o Bruce Johnston (songwriter) for "I Write the Songs" performed by Barry Manilow

* Best New Artist
o Starland Vocal Band

Children's

* Best Recording for Children
o Karl Bohm (conductor) & Hermione Gingold for Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals

Classical

* Best Classical Orchestral Performance
o Raymond Minshull (producer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
* Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
o Beverly Sills for Herbert: Music of Victor Herbert
* Best Opera Recording
o Michael Woolcock (producer), Lorin Maazel (conductor), Leona Mitchell, Willard White & the Cleveland Orchestra for Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
* Best Choral Performance (other than opera)
o Andre Previn (conductor), Arthur Oldham (choir director) & the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Rachmaninoff: The Bells
* Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra)
o Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Arthur Rubinstein & the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos
* Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra)
o Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz Concerts 1975/76
* Best Chamber Music Performance
o David Munrow (conductor) & the Early Music Consort of London for The Art of Courtly Love
* Best Classical Album
o Max Wilcox (producer), Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Arthur Rubinstein & the London Philharmonic for Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos

Comedy

* Best Comedy Recording
o Richard Pryor for Bicentennial Nigger

Composing and arranging

* Best Instrumental Composition
o Chuck Mangione (composer) for Bellavia
* Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
o Norman Whitfield (composer) for Car Wash performed by various artists
* Best Instrumental Arrangement
o Chick Corea (arranger) for "Leprechaun's Dream"
* Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
o James William Guercio & Jimmie Haskell (arrangers) for "If You Leave Me Now" performed by Chicago
* Best Arrangement for Voices (duo, group or chorus)
o Starland Vocal Band (arranger) for "Afternoon Delight"

Country

* Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
o Emmylou Harris for Elite Hotel
* Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
o Ronnie Milsap for "(I'm a) Stand By My Woman Man"
* Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
o Amazing Rhythm Aces for "The End Is Not in Sight (The Cowboy Tune)"
* Best Country Instrumental Performance
o Chet Atkins & Les Paul for Chester and Lester
* Best Country Song
o Larry Gatlin (songwriter) for "Broken Lady"

Folk

* Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording
o John Hartford for Mark Twang

Gospel

* Best Gospel Performance (other than soul gospel)
o The Oak Ridge Boys for "Where the Soul Never Dies"
* Best Soul Gospel Performance
o Mahalia Jackson for How I Got Over
* Best Inspirational Performance
o Gary S. Paxton for The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable, Different World of Gary S. Paxton

Jazz

* Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist (Instrumental)
o Count Basie for Basie and Zoot
* Best Jazz Performance by a Group
o Chick Corea for The Leprechaun
* Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band
o Duke Ellington for The Ellington Suites
* Best Jazz Vocal Performance
o Ella Fitzgerald for Fitzgerald and Pass...Again

Latin

* Best Latin Recording
o Eddie Palmieri for Unfinished Masterpiece

Musical Show

* Best Cast Show Album
o Luigi Creatore & Hugo Peretti (producers) & various artists for Bubbling Brown Sugar

Packaging and Notes

* Best Album Package
o John Berg (art director) for Chicago X performed by Chicago
* Best Album Notes
o Dan Morgenstern (notes writer) for The Changing Face of Harlem, the Savoy Sessions performed by Various Artists

Pop

* Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
o Linda Ronstadt for Hasten Down the Wind
* Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male
o Stevie Wonder for Songs in the Key of Life
* Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
o Chicago for "If You Leave Me Now"
* Best Pop Instrumental Performance
o George Benson for Breezin'

Production and engineering

* Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
o Al Schmitt (engineer) for Breezin' performed by George Benson
* Best Engineered Recording, Classical
o Edward (Bud) T. Graham, Milton Cherin, Ray Moore (engineers), Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), George Gershwin, & the Columbia Jazz Band for Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
* Best Producer of the Year
o Stevie Wonder

R&B

* Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
o Natalie Cole for "Sophisticated Lady (She's a Different Lady)"
* Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male
o Stevie Wonder for "I Wish"
* Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
o Billy Davis Jr. & Marilyn McCoo for "You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)"
* Best R&B Instrumental Performance
o George Benson for "Theme From Good King Bad"
* Best Rhythm & Blues Song
o Boz Scaggs & David Paich (songwriters) for "Lowdown" performed by Boz Scaggs

Spoken

* Best Spoken Word Recording
o Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones & Orson Welles for Great American Documents