19th Annual Grammy Awards
Date	February 19, 1977
Location	Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, California
Hosted by	Andy Williams
Most awards	Stevie Wonder (4)
Most nominations	Stevie Wonder (7)
Television/radio coverage
Network	CBS
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The 19th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 19, 1977, and were broadcast live on American television ( CBS). It was the seventh and final year Andy Williams hosted the telecast. The ceremony recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1976. ^{[1] [2]}

Helen Hayes's win made her the second person to become an EGOT.

Winners and nominees

The following are the winners and nominees of the 19th annual Grammy Awards. ^[2] Winners appear first and highlighted in bold.

General field

Record of the Year

• " This Masquerade" - George Benson
  • Tommy LiPuma, producer
• " If You Leave Me Now" - Chicago
  • James Guercio, producer
• " I Write the Songs" - Barry Manilow
  • Ron Dante & Barry Manilow, producers
• " Afternoon Delight" - Starland Vocal Band
  • Milton Okun, producer
• " 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" - Paul Simon
  • Phil Ramone & Paul Simon, producers

Album of the Year

• Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
  • Stevie Wonder, producer
• Silk Degrees - Boz Scaggs
  • Joe Wissert, producer
• Frampton Comes Alive! - Peter Frampton
  • Peter Frampton, producer
• Chicago X - Chicago
  • James William Guercio, producer
• Breezin' - George Benson
  • Tommy LiPuma, producer

Song of the Year

• " I Write the Songs"
  • Bruce Johnston, songwriter (Barry Manilow)
• " This Masquerade"
  • Leon Russell, songwriter (George Benson)
• " The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
  • Gordon Lightfoot, songwriter (Gordon Lightfoot)
• " Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"
  • Howard Greenfield & Neil Sedaka, songwriters (Neil Sedaka)
• " Afternoon Delight"
  • Bill Danoff, songwriter (Starland Vocal Band)

Best New Artist

• Starland Vocal Band
• Brothers Johnson
• Boston
• Wild Cherry
• Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band

Children's

Best Recording for Children

• Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/ Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals
  • Karl Böhm & Hermione Gingold
• "Winnie The Pooh For President (Campaign Song)"
  • Larry Groce & Sterling Holloway
• " The Adventures of Ali and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay"
  • Muhammad Ali and His Gang
• "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs"
  • Various Artists
• "Dickens' Christmas Carol"
  • Various Artists

Classical

Best Classical Orchestral Performance ^[3]

• Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Georg Solti (conductor), Raymond Minshull (producer)
• The Fourth of July! ( Ives: Symphony No. 2, Variations On America / Copland: Appalachian Spring / Bernstein: Overture to Candide / Gershwin: An American In Paris)
  • Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
• Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloe (Complete Ballet)
  • Orchestre de Paris
• Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
  • New York Philharmonic
• Falla: Three Cornered Hat (Boulez Conducts Falla)
  • New York Philharmonic
• Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E Flat Major
  • London Philharmonic
• Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor
  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
  • Orchestre National de l'ORTF

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance

• Beverly Sills
  • Herbert: Music of Victor Herbert
• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  • Wolf - Mörike-Lieder
• Marni Nixon
  • Schoenberg: Nine Early Songs; The Cabaret Songs of Arnold Schoenberg
• Margaret Price
  • Mozart: Arias (La Clemenza di Tito, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Nozze di Figaro etc)
• Janet Baker, James King
  • Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
• Jan DeGaetani
  • Ives: Songs
• Carlo Bergonzi
  • Carlo Bergonzi Sings Verdi
• Barbra Streisand
  • Classical Barbra

Best Opera Recording

• Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
  • Cleveland Orchestra - Lorin Maazel (conductor), Michael Woolcock (producer)
• Verdi: Macbeth
  • La Scala Opera Orchestra & Chorus - Claudio Abbado (conductor), Rainer Brock (producer)
• Schoenberg: Moses Und Aaron
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra ( BBC Symphony Singers & Orpheus Boys Choir) - Pierre Boulez (conductor), Paul Myers (producer)
• Massenet: Thaïs
  • New Philharmonia Orchestra (John Choir Alldis) - Lorin Maazel (conductor), Christopher Bishop (producer)
• Joplin: Treemonisha
  • Original Cast Orchestra & Chorus - Gunther Schuller (conductor), Tom Mowrey (producer)
• Bizet: Carmen
  • London Philharmonic - Georg Solti (conductor), Christopher Raeburn (producer)

Best Choral Performance (other than opera)

• London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - André Previn (conductor), Arthur Oldham (choirmaster)
  • Rachmaninoff: The Bells
• Chorus of La Scala-Milan; Orchestra of La Scala-Milan - Claudio Abbado (conductor), Romano Gandolfi (choir director)
  • Verdi: Opera Choruses
• BBC Choral Society & BBC Symphony Singers; BBC Symphony Orchestra - Colin Davis (conductor)
  • Tippett: A Child of Our Time
• Choir of the Monks of Saint-Pierre de Solesmes Abbey - Dom Jean Claire (choir director)
  • Gregorian Chant
• Netherlands Radio Chorus; Rotterdam Philharmonic - Jean Fournet (conductor), Franz Muller (choir director)
  • Fauré: Requiem
• London Philharmonic Choir; Orchestra - Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
  • Elgar: The Kingdom, Op. 51
• King's College Choir-Cambridge - Phillip Ledger (choir director)
  • Bernstein: Chichester Psalms/Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb
• Choeurs de Radio France; Orchestre National de France & Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France - Leonard Bernstein (choir director)
  • Berlioz: Requiem
• New Philharmonia Chorus and London Philharmonic - Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor), Walter Hagen-Groll (choir director)
  • Beethoven: Missa Solemnis

Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra)

• Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Arthur Rubinstein & the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos

Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra)

• Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz Concerts 1975/76

Best Chamber Music Performance

• David Munrow (conductor) & the Early Music Consort of London for The Art of Courtly Love

Best Classical Album

• Max Wilcox (producer), Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Arthur Rubinstein & the London Philharmonic for Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos

Comedy

Best Comedy Recording

• Bicentennial Nigger - Richard Pryor
• You Gotta Wash Your Ass - Redd Foxx
• Sleeping Beauty - Cheech & Chong
• Goodbye Pop - National Lampoon
• Bill Cosby Is Not Himself These Days - Rat Own, Rat Own, Rat Own - Bill Cosby

Composing and arranging

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

Country

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

Folk

• Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording
  • John Hartford for Mark Twang

Gospel

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

Jazz

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

Latin

• Best Latin Recording
  • Eddie Palmieri for Unfinished Masterpiece

Musical show

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

Packaging and notes

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

Pop

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

Production and engineering

• Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
  • Breezin' - Al Schmitt (engineer)
• Best Engineered Recording, Classical
  • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue - Edward (Bud) T. Graham, Milton Cherin, Ray Moore (engineers)
• Best Producer of the Year
  • Stevie Wonder

R&B

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

Spoken

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

References