16th Annual Grammy Awards

1974 award ceremony for music February 2025 16th Annual Grammy Awards March 2, 1974 Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, California Andy Williams CBS Stevie Wonder (5) Stevie Wonder (7) 15th Grammy Awards 17th The 16th Annual Grammy Awards were held March 2, 1974, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognised accomplishments by musicians from the year 1973.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vW1kAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Qn0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1177,1288048&dq=grammy&hl=en Blind Musician wins 4 Grammy awards 4 March 1974 The Calgary Herald 1 May 201116th Annual Grammy Awards 1974 Grammy January 1, 1974 https://www.grammy.com/awards/16th-annual-grammy-awards/ August 19, 2026 Performers Gladys Knight & The Pips - "Midnight Train to Georgia" Charlie Rich - "Behind Closed Doors" Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell - "Dueling Banjos" Al Green - "Call Me (Come Back Home)" Little Richard - "Rip It Up" Chuck Berry - "Johnny B. Goode" Maureen McGovern - "The Morning After" Tony Orlando and Dawn - "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" Andy Williams - best songs medley Cleveland Quartet Stevie Wonder - "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" Presenters Shelly Manne & The Jackson 5 - Best R&B Recording by a Duo or Group Loretta Lynn & The DeFranco Family - Best Country Vocal Performance, Male Loggins & Messina & Glen Campbell - Best Country Instrumental Performance Chuck Berry & Little Richard - Best R&B Performance, Male Andy Williams - Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special The Carpenters - Best New Artist Andy Williams - Tribute to Jim Croce Helen Reddy & Alice Cooper - Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male Henry Mancini - Presented the Grammy Hall of Fame Kris Kristofferson & Moms Mabley - Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group Roberta Flack - Announced the winners before the telecast Andy Williams - Song of the Year Isaac Hayes & Lily Tomlin - Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female Zubin Mehta - Announced winners in the Classical category Cher & Telly Savalas - Album of the Year Diana Ross - Record of the Year Award winners Record of the Year Joel Dorn (producer) & Roberta Flack for "Killing Me Softly with His Song" Album of the Year Stevie Wonder (producer & artist) for Innervisions Song of the Year Charles Fox & Norman Gimbel (songwriters) for "Killing Me Softly with His Song" performed by Roberta Flack Best New Artist Bette Midler Children's Best Recording for Children Joe Raposo (producer) for Sesame Street Live performed by the Sesame Street cast Classical Best Classical Performance - Orchestra Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the New York Philharmonic for Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance Edward Downes (conductor), Leontyne Price & the New Philharmonia Orchestra for Puccini: Heroines Best Opera Recording Tom Mowrey (producer), Leonard Bernstein (conductor), Marilyn Horne, Tom Krause, Adriana Maliponte, James McCracken & the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Bizet: Carmen Best Choral Performance, Classical (other than opera) André Previn (conductor), Arthur Oldham (choirmaster) & the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Walton: Belshazzar's Feast Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra) 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) Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz Plays Scriabin Best Chamber Music Performance Gunther Schuller (conductor) & the New England Ragtime Ensemble for Scott Joplin: The Red Back Book Album of the Year, Classical Thomas Z. Shepard (producer), Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the New York Philharmonic for Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra Comedy Best Comedy Recording Cheech and Chong for Los Cochinos Composing and arranging Best Instrumental Composition Gato Barbieri (composer) for "Last Tango in Paris" performed by Gato Barbieri Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special Neil Diamond (composer) for Jonathan Livingston Seagull performed by Neil Diamond Best Instrumental Arrangement Quincy Jones (arranger) for "Summer in the City" performed by Quincy Jones Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) George Martin (arranger) for "Live and Let Die" performed by Paul McCartney & Wings Country Best Country Vocal Performance, Female Olivia Newton-John for "Let Me Be There" Best Country Vocal Performance, Male Charlie Rich for "Behind Closed Doors" Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferson for "From the Bottle to the Bottom" Best Country Instrumental Performance Steve Mandell & Eric Weissberg for "Dueling Banjos" Best Country Song Kenny O'Dell (songwriter) for "Behind Closed Doors" performed by Charlie Rich Folk Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording (including traditional blues) Doc Watson for Then and Now Gospel Best Gospel Performance Blackwood Brothers for Release Me (From My Sin) Best Soul Gospel Performance Dixie Hummingbirds for "Loves Me Like a Rock" Best Inspirational Performance The Bill Gaither Trio for Let's Just Praise the Lord Jazz Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist Art Tatum for God Is in the House Best Jazz Performance by a Group Supersax for Supersax Plays Bird Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band Woody Herman for Giant Steps Musical show Best Score From the Original Cast Show Album Stephen Sondheim (composer), Goddard Lieberson (producer) & the original cast (Glynis Johns, Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold, Victoria Mallory, Patricia Elliott & Teri Ralston) for A Little Night Music Packaging and notes Best Album Package Wilkes & Braun (art director; Tom Wilkes and Craig Braun) for Tommy (1972 orchestral version) performed by the London Symphony Orchestra & Choir Best Album Notes Dan Morgenstern (notes writer) for God Is in the House performed by Art Tatum Best Album Notes - Classical Glenn Gould (notes writer) for Hindemith: Sonatas for Piano (Complete) performed by Glenn Gould Pop Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female Roberta Flack for "Killing Me Softly With His Song" Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male Stevie Wonder for "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus Gladys Knight & the Pips for "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)" Best Pop Instrumental Performance Eumir Deodato for "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001: A Space Odyssey)" Production and engineering Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical Malcolm Cecil & Robert Margouleff (engineers) for Innervisions performed by Stevie Wonder Best Classical Engineered Recording 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 Aretha Franklin for "Master of Eyes" Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male Stevie Wonder for "Superstition" Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus Gladys Knight & the Pips for "Midnight Train to Georgia" Best R&B Instrumental Performance Ramsey Lewis for "Hang On Sloopy" Best Rhythm & Blues Song Stevie Wonder (songwriter) for "Superstition" Spoken Best Spoken Word Recording Richard Harris for Jonathan Livingston Seagull References External links The 16th Grammy Awards, at the Internet Movie Database 016 Category:1974 music awards Category:1974 in Los Angeles Category:1974 in American music Grammy Category:March 1974 in the United States