18th Annual Grammy Awards

1976 US music awards ceremony February 2025 18th Annual Grammy Awards February 28, 1976 Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, California Andy Williams CBS Phil Woods, Michel Legrand, Janis Ian and Paul Simon (2) – 17th Grammy Awards 19th The 18th Annual Grammy Awards were held February 28, 1976, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1975.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UuQNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gm0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4276,49187&dq=grammy&hl=en Album Wins Simon 2 Grammy Awards 1 March 1976 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 1 May 2011http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=&title=&year=1975&genre=All 1975 Grammy Award Winners Grammy.com 1 May 2011 Natalie Cole is the first African American to win Best New Artist. Performers Natalie Cole - This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover Barry Manilow - Mandy/Could It Be Magic Ella Fitzgerald & Mel Torme - Jazz scat performance The Eagles - Lyin' Eyes Janis Ian - At Seventeen Captain & Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together Bert and Ernie - I Refuse to Sing Along Presenters Stevie Wonder & Joan Baez - Record of the Year Captain & Tennille - Album of the Year Ella Fitzgerald & Mel Torme - Best Jazz Performance by a Group Helen Reddy & Neil Sedaka - Best New Artist Henry Mancini - Narrated a tribute to the music of Chicago Aretha Franklin & The Lockers - Best R&B Performance by a Duo Or Group Lily Tomlin - Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Gladys Knight & The Pips - Song Of The Year Waylon Jennings & Jessi Colter Award winners Record of the Year "Love Will Keep Us Together" - Captain & Tennille (artist) & Daryl Dragon (producer) Album of the Year Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon (artist) - Phil Ramone & Paul Simon (producers) Song of the Year "Send In the Clowns" - Judy Collins (artist) - Stephen Sondheim (songwriter) Best New Artist Natalie Cole (1st African American to win) Children's Best Recording for Children Richard Burton for The Little Prince Classical Best Classical Performance – Orchestra Pierre Boulez (conductor), the Camarata Singers & the New York Philharmonic for Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Complete Ballet) Best Classical Vocal Performance Janet Baker for Mahler: Kindertotenlieder Best Opera Recording Erik Smith (producer), Colin Davis (conductor), Richard van Allan, Janet Baker, Montserrat Caballé, Ileana Cotrubas, Wladimiro Ganzarolli, Nicolai Gedda & the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House for Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte Best Choral Performance, Classical (other than opera) Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), Robert Page (choir director) the Cleveland Boys Choir & Cleveland Orchestra Chorus- Orff: Carmina Burana Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra) Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor), Alicia de Larrocha & the London Philharmonic for Ravel: Concerto for Left Hand and Concerto for Piano in G/Fauré: Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra) Nathan Milstein for Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Unaccompanied Best Chamber Music Performance Pierre Fournier, Arthur Rubinstein & Henryk Szeryng for Schubert: Trios Nos. 1 in B Flat, Op. 99 and 2 in E Flat, Op. 100 (Piano Trios) Album of the Year, Classical Raymond Minshull (producer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven: Symphonies (9) Complete Comedy Best Comedy Recording Richard Pryor for Is It Something I Said? Composing and arranging Best Instrumental Composition Michel Legrand for Images performed by Michel Legrand & Phil Woods Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special John Williams (composer) for Jaws Best Instrumental Arrangement Pete Carpenter & Mike Post (arrangers) for "The Rockford Files" performed by Mike Post Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) Ray Stevens (arranger) for "Misty" Country Best Country Vocal Performance, Female Linda Ronstadt for "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)" Best Country Vocal Performance, Male Willie Nelson for "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferson for "Lover Please" Best Country Instrumental Performance Chet Atkins for "The Entertainer" Best Country Song Larry Butler & Chips Moman (songwriters) for "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" performed by B. J. Thomas Folk Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording Muddy Waters for The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album Gospel Best Gospel Performance (other than soul gospel) The Imperials for No Shortage Best Soul Gospel Performance Andrae Crouch for Take Me Back performed by Andrae Crouch & the Disciples Best Inspirational Performance The Bill Gaither Trio for Jesus, We Just Want to Thank You Jazz Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist Dizzy Gillespie for Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie Best Jazz Performance by a Group Chick Corea & Return to Forever for No Mystery Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band Michel Legrand & Phil Woods for Images Latin Best Latin Recording Eddie Palmieri for Sun of Latin Music Musical show Best Cast Show Album Charlie Smalls (composer), Jerry Wexler (producer) & the original cast with Stephanie Mills & Dee Dee Bridgewater for The Wiz Packaging and notes Best Album Package Jim Ladwig (art director) for Honey performed by the Ohio Players Best Album Notes Pete Hamill (notes writer) for Blood on the Tracks performed by Bob Dylan Best Album Notes – Classical Gunther Schuller (notes writer) for Footlifters performed by Gunther Schuller Pop Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female "At Seventeen"-Janis Ian Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male "Still Crazy After All These Years"-Paul Simon Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus "Lyin' Eyes"-The Eagles Best Pop Instrumental Performance "The Hustle"-Van McCoy Production and engineering Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical Brooks Arthur, Larry Alexander & Russ Payne for Janis Ian's Between the Lines Best Engineered Recording, Classical Edward (Bud) T. Graham, Milton Cherin, Ray Moore (engineers), Pierre Boulez (conductor), the Camarata Singers & the New York Philharmonic for Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe (Complete Ballet) Producer of the Year, Non-Classical Arif Mardin R&B Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female Natalie Cole for "This Will Be" Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male Ray Charles for "Living for the City" Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus Earth, Wind & Fire for "Shining Star" Best R&B Instrumental Performance Silver Convention for "Fly, Robin, Fly" Best Rhythm & Blues Song Harry Wayne Casey, Willie Clarke, Richard Finch & Betty Wright (songwriters) for "Where Is the Love" performed by Betty Wright Spoken Best Spoken Word Recording James Whitmore for Give 'Em Hell Harry References External links The 18th Grammy Awards https://web.archive.org/web/20060212230147/http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Grammy_Awards/1976 2006-02-12 , at the Internet Movie Database 018 Category:1976 in California Category:1976 music awards Category:1976 in Los Angeles Category:1976 in American music Category:1976 awards in the United States Category:February 1976 in the United States