1975 Grammy Awards
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
| “Love Will Keep Us Together,” Captain and Tennille | |
Album of the Year | Still Crazy After All These Years, Paul Simon (Columbia) | |
Song of the Year | “Send in the Clowns,” Stephen Sondheim, songwriter | |
Best New Artist of the Year | Natalie Cole | |
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male | Still Crazy After All These Years, Paul Simon | |
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female | “At Seventeen,” Janis lan | |
Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus | “Lyin' Eyes,” Eagles | |
Best Pop Instrumental Performance | “The Hustle,” Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony | |
Best Rhythm and Blues Song | “Where Is the Love,” Harry Wayne Casey, Richard Finch, Willie Clarke and Betty Wright, songwriters | |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male | “Living for the City,” Ray Charles | |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female | “This Will Be,” Natalie Cole | |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus | “Shining Star,” Earth, Wind and Fire | |
Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance | “Fly, Robin, Fly,” Silver Convention | |
Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist | Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy Gillespie | |
Best Jazz Performance By a Group | No Mystery, Chick Corea and Return to Forever | |
Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band | Images, Phil Woods with Michel Legrand and His Orchestra | |
Best Country Song | (Hey Won't You Play) “Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song,” Chips Moman and Larry Butler, songwriters | |
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male | “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain,” Willie Nelson | |
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female | “I Can't Help It” (If I'm Still in Love With You), Linda Ronstadt | |
Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group | “Lover Please,” Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge | |
Best Country Instrumental Performance | “The Entertainer,” Chet Atkins | |
Best Gospel Performance | No Shortage, Imperials | |
Best Soul Gospel Performance | Take Me Back, Andrae Crouch and the Disciples | |
Best Latin Recording | Sun of Latin Music, Eddie Palmieri (Coco) | |
Best Inspirational Performance | Jesus, We Just Want to Thank You, Bill Gaither Trio | |
Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording | The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album, Muddy Waters (Chess) | |
Best Instrumental Arrangement | “The Rockford Files,” Mike Post and Pete Carpenter, arrangers | |
Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists | “Misty,” Ray Stevens, arranger | |
Best Instrumental Composition | “Images,” Michel Legrand, composer | |
Best Cast Show Album | The Wiz, Charlie Smalls, composer (Atlantic) | |
Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | Jaws, John Williams, composer (MCA) | |
Album of the Year, Classical | Beethoven, Symphonies Complete, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra (London) | |
Best Classical Performance, Orchestra | Ravel, Daphnis et Chloë (Complete Ballet), Pierre Boulez conducting New York Philharmonic | |
Best Chamber Music Performance (Instrumental or Vocal) | Schubert, Trios nos. 1 in B-Flat Major, ops. 99 and 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 11 (The Piano Trios), Artur Rubinstein, Henryk Szeryng and Pierre Fournier | |
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (With Orchestra) | Ravel, Concerto for Left Hand and Concerto for Piano in G Major; Fauré, Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra, Alicia de Lorrocha; De Burgos and Foster conducting London Philharmonic | |
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (Without Orchestra) | Bach, Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Unaccompanied, Nathan Milstein | |
Best Opera Recording | Mozart, Cosi fan tutte, Colin Davis conducting Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; principle solos: Caballé, Baker, Gedda, Ganzarolli, Van Allan and Cotrubas (Philips) | |
Best Choral Performance, Classical | Orff, Carmina Burana, Robert Page directing the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and Boys Choir; Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Cleveland Orchestra; soloists: Blegen, Binder and Riegel | |
Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance | Mahler, Kindertotenlieder, Janet Baker; Leonard Bernstein conducting Israel Philharmonic | |
Best Comedy Recording | Is It Something I Said?, Richard Pryor (Reprise) | |
Best Spoken Word Recording | Give 'Em Hell Harry, James Whitmore (United Artists) | |
Best Recording for Children | The Little Prince, Richard Burton, narrator (RIP) | |
Best Album Package | Honey, Jim Ladwig, art director (Mercury) | |
Best Album Notes (Non-Classical) | Blood on the Tracks, Pete Hamill, annotator (Columbia) | |
Best Album Notes, Classical | Footlifters, Gunther Schuller, annotator (Columbia) | |
Best Producer of the Year | Arif Mardin |
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