20th Annual Grammy Awards

Presenters

• Aretha Franklin & Cheech & Chong - Appeared via videotape to wish the Grammy's a happy 20th birthday
• Steve Martin & Chicago - Best New Artist
• David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash - Album of the Year
• Minnie Pearl & Jerry Clower - Best Country Performance Male & Female
• Stephen Bishop & Andy Gibb - Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

Performers

• Shaun Cassidy - That's Rock 'n' Roll
• Count Basie - Sweet Georgia Brown
• Joe Tex - Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)

Award winners

• Record of the Year
• *Bill Szymczyk & The Eagles for "Hotel California"
• Album of the Year
• *Ken Caillat, Richard Dashut & Fleetwood Mac for Rumours
• Song of the Year
• *Barbra Streisand & Paul Williams for "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" performed by Barbra Streisand
• *Joe Brooks for "You Light Up My Life" performed by Debby Boone
• Best New Artist
• *Debby Boone

Children's

• Best Recording for Children
• *Christopher Cerf & Jim Timmens for Aren't You Glad You're You performed by various artists

Classical

• Best Classical Orchestral Performance
• *Gunther Breest, Carlo Maria Giulini & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D
• Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
• *Neville Marriner, Janet Baker & the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields for Bach: Arias
• Best Opera Recording
• *Thomas Z. Shepard, John De Main, Donnie Albert, Carol Brice, Clamma Dale & the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra for Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
• Best Choral Performance (other than opera)
• *Georg Solti, Margaret Hillis & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Verdi: Requiem
• Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra)
• *Itzhak Perlman & the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
• Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra)
• *Arthur Rubinstein for Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 in E Flat/Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12
• Best Chamber Music Performance
• *The Juilliard String Quartet for Schoenberg: Quartets for Strings
• Best Classical Album
• *Thomas Frost, Leonard Bernstein, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern, Lyndon Woodside & the New York Philharmonic for ''Concert of the Century''

Comedy

• Best Comedy Recording
• *Steve Martin for ''Let's Get Small''

Composing and arranging

• Best Instrumental Composition
• *John Williams for "Main Title From Star Wars"
• Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special
• *John Williams for Star Wars
• Best Instrumental Arrangement
• *Harry Betts, Perry Botkin Jr. & Barry De Vorzon for "Nadia's Theme " performed by Barry De Vorzon
• Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
• *Ian Freebairn-Smith for "Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)" performed by Barbra Streisand
• Best Arrangement For Voices
• *The Eagles for "New Kid in Town"

Country

• Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
• *Crystal Gayle for "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue"
• Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
• *Kenny Rogers for "Lucille"
• Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
• *The Kendalls for "Heaven's Just a Sin Away"
• Best Country Instrumental Performance
• *Hargus "Pig" Robbins for Country Instrumentalist of the Year
• Best Country Song
• *Richard Leigh for "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" performed by Crystal Gayle

Folk

• Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording
• *Muddy Waters for ''Hard Again''

Gospel

• Best Gospel Performance, Traditional
• *The Oak Ridge Boys for "Just a Little Talk With Jesus"
• Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational
• *The Imperials for Sail On
• Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional
• *James Cleveland for James Cleveland Live at Carnegie Hall
• Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary
• *Edwin Hawkins for Wonderful!
• Best Inspirational Performance
• *B. J. Thomas for ''Home Where I Belong''

Jazz

• Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist
• *Oscar Peterson for The Giants
• Best Jazz Performance by a Group
• *Phil Woods for The Phil Woods Six - Live From the Showboat
• Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band
• *Count Basie for Prime Time
• Best Jazz Vocal Performance
• *Al Jarreau for ''Look to the Rainbow''

Latin

• Best Latin Recording
• *Mongo Santamaría for ''Dawn''

Musical show

• Best Cast Show Album
• * Martin Charnin, Charles Strouse, Larry Morton & the original cast with Andrea McCardle & Dorothy Loudon for ''Annie''

Packaging and notes

• Best Album Package
• *John Kosh for Simple Dreams performed by Linda Ronstadt
• Best Album Notes
• *George T. Simon for Bing Crosby - A Legendary Performer performed by Bing Crosby

Pop

• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
• *Barbra Streisand for "Evergreen "
• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male
• *James Taylor for "Handy Man"
• Best Pop Performance by a Group
• *Bee Gees for "How Deep Is Your Love"
• Best Pop Instrumental Performance
• *John Williams for ''Star Wars Soundtrack''

Production and engineering

• Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
• *Al Schmitt, Bill Schnee, Elliot Scheiner & Roger Nichols for Aja performed by Steely Dan
• Best Engineered Recording, Classical
• *Kenneth Wilkinson, Georg Solti & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Maurice Ravel: Bolero
• Producer of the Year
• *Peter Asher

R&B

• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
• *Thelma Houston for "Don't Leave Me This Way"
• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male
• *Lou Rawls for Unmistakably Lou
• Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
• *The Emotions for "Best of My Love"
• Best R&B Instrumental Performance
• *The Brothers Johnson for "Q"
• Best Rhythm & Blues Song
• *Leo Sayer & Vini Poncia for "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" performed by Leo Sayer

Spoken

• Best Spoken Word Recording
• *Julie Harris for ''The Belle of Amherst''