Grammy Awards Of 1985

The 27th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 26, 1985, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, and were broadcast live in the United States by CBS. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1984.

Award winners

Record of the Year
*"What's Love Got To Do With It" – Tina Turner
**Terry Britten, producer
*"Hard Habit To Break" – Chicago (band), Chicago
**David Foster, producer
*"Girls Just Want To Have Fun" – Cyndi Lauper
**Rick Chertoff, producer
*"The Heart Of Rock And Roll" – Huey Lewis and the News
**Huey Lewis and the News, producers
*"Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen song), Dancing In The Dark" – Bruce Springsteen
**Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin, Steven Van Zandt, Little Steven & Bruce Springsteen, producers

Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Album of the Year
*''Can't Slow Down (Lionel Richie album), Can't Slow Down'' – Lionel Richie
**James Anthony Carmichael & Lionel Richie, producers
*''She's So Unusual'' – Cyndi Lauper
**Rick Chertoff, producer
*''Purple Rain (album), Purple Rain'' – Prince (musician), Prince & The Revolution (band), The Revolution
**Prince & The Revolution, producers
*''Born in the U.S.A.'' – Bruce Springsteen
**Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin & Bruce Springsteen, producers
*''Private Dancer'' – Tina Turner
**Terry Britten, John S. Carter, Carter, Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, Wilton Felder, Rupert Hine, Joe Sample, Greg Walsh & Martyn Ware, producers

Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Song of the Year
*"What's Love Got To Do With It"
**Terry Britten and Graham Lyle, songwriters (Tina Turner)
*"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"
**Phil Collins, songwriter (Phil Collins)
*"Hello (Lionel Richie song), Hello"
**Lionel Richie, songwriter (Lionel Richie)
*"I Just Called to Say I Love You"
**Stevie Wonder, songwriter (Stevie Wonder)
*"Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper song), Time After Time"
**Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman, songwriters (Cyndi Lauper)

Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Best New Artist
*Cyndi Lauper
*Sheila E.
*Frankie Goes to Hollywood
*Corey Hart (singer), Corey Hart
*The Judds

Blues

*Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album, Best Traditional Blues Recording
**Sugar Blue, John P. Hammond, J. B. Hutto, J.B. Hutto & the New Hawks, Luther Johnson (Guitar Junior), Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson, Koko Taylor, Koko Taylor & the Blues Machine & Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble for ''Blues Explosion''

Children's

*Grammy Award for Best Album for Children, Best Recording for Children
**Ron Haffkine (producer) & Shel Silverstein for ''Where the Sidewalk Ends''

Classical

*Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance, Best Classical Orchestral Recording
**Jay David Saks (producer), Leonard Slatkin (conductor) & the St. Louis Symphony for ''Sergei Prokofiev, Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat''
*Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance, Best Classical Vocal Performance
**Pierre Boulez (conductor), Heather Harper, Jessye Norman & José van Dam, the BBC Symphony Orchestra & the Ensemble InterContemporain for ''Maurice Ravel, Ravel: Songs of Maurice Ravel''
*Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, Best Opera Recording
**Michel Glotz (producer), Lorin Maazel (conductor), Julia Migenes-Johnson, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Faith Esham, the Choeur de Radio France and Maîtrise de Radio France & the Orchestre National de France for ''Georges Bizet, Bizet: Carmen (1984 film), Carmen (Original Soundtrack)''
*Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance, Best Choral Performance (other than opera)
**James Levine (conductor), Margaret Hillis (choir director) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for ''Johannes Brahms, Brahms: A German Requiem''
*Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra), Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra)
**Raymond Leppard (conductor), Wynton Marsalis & the English Chamber Orchestra for ''Wynton Marsalis, Edita Gruberova: George Frideric Handel, Handel, Henry Purcell, Purcell, Giuseppe Torelli, Torelli, Johann Friedrich Fasch, Fasch, Johann Melchior Molter, Molter''
*Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra), Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra)
**Yo-Yo Ma for ''Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites''
*Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance, Best Chamber Music Performance
**The Juilliard String Quartet for ''Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven: The Late String Quartets''
*Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition, Best New Classical Composition
**Samuel Barber (composer) & Christian Badea (conductor) for ''Antony and Cleopatra''
*Grammy Award for Best Classical Album, Best Classical Album
**John Strauss (producer), Neville Marriner (conductor), the Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Choristers of Westminster Abbey & the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for ''Amadeus (film), Amadeus (Original Soundtrack)''

Comedy

*Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, Best Comedy Recording
**"Weird Al" Yankovic for "Eat It"

Composing and arranging

*Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, Best Instrumental Composition (tie)
**Randy Newman (composer) for "The Natural"
**John Williams (composer) for "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" the official music of the 1984 Summer Olympics, XXIII Olympiad
*Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or A Television Special
**Lisa Coleman (musician), Lisa Coleman, John L. Nelson, Prince (musician) & Wendy Melvoin (composers) for ''Purple Rain'' performed by Prince
*Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement, Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
**Quincy Jones & Jeremy Lobbock (arrangers) for "Grace (Gymnastics Theme)" performed by Quincy Jones
*Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s), Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
**David Foster & Jeremy Lubbock (arrangers) for "Hard Habit To Break" performed by Chicago (band)
* Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices, Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices
**Anita Pointer, June Pointer & Ruth Pointer (arrangers) for "Automatic" performed by The Pointer Sisters

Country

*Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
**Emmylou Harris for "In My Dreams"
*Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance, Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
**Merle Haggard for "That's the Way Love Goes"
*Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
**The Judds for "Mama He's Crazy"
*Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance, Best Country Instrumental Performance
**Ricky Skaggs for "Wheel Hoss"
*Grammy Award for Best Country Song, Best Country Song
**Steve Goodman (songwriter) for "City of New Orleans" performed by Willie Nelson

Folk

*Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording, Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
**Elizabeth Cotten for ''Elizabeth Cotten Live!''

Gospel

*Grammy Award for Best Gospel Vocal Performance, Female, Best Gospel Performance, Female
**Amy Grant for "Angels"
*Grammy Award for Best Gospel Vocal Performance, Male, Best Gospel Performance, Male
**Michael W. Smith for ''Michael W. Smith 2''
*Grammy Award for Best Gospel Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus, Best Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group
**Debby Boone & Phil Driscoll for "Keep The Flame Burning"
*Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female, Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female
**Shirley Caesar for ''Sailin' ''
*Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male, Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male
**Andrae Crouch for "Always Remember"
*Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus, Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group
**Shirley Caesar & Al Green for "Sailin' on the Sea of Your Love"
*Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance, Best Inspirational Performance
**Donna Summer for "Forgive Me"

Historical

*Grammy Award for Best Historical Album, Best Historical Album
**J.R. Taylor (producer) for ''Big Band Jazz'' performed by Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Paul Whiteman & others

Jazz

*Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist
**Wynton Marsalis for "Hot House Flowers"
*Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group
**Art Blakey for ''New York Scene'' performed by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
*Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band
**Count Basie for ''88 Basie Street''
*Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental
**Pat Metheny Group for ''First Circle (album), First Circle''
*Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Best Jazz Vocal Performance
**Joe Williams (jazz singer), Joe Williams for ''Nothin' but the Blues (Joe Williams album), Nothin' but the Blues''

Latin

*Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album, Best Latin Pop Performance
**Plácido Domingo for ''Siempre en Mi Corazón—Always in My Heart''
*Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album, Best Tropical Latin Performance
**Eddie Palmieri for ''Palo Pa Rumba''
*Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album, Best Mexican-American Performance
**Sheena Easton & Luis Miguel for "Me Gustas Tal Como Eres"

Musical show

*Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, Best Cast Show Album
**Stephen Sondheim (composer & lyricist), Thomas Z. Shepard (producer) & the original cast for ''Sunday in the Park with George''

Music video

*Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video, Best Video, Short Form
**David Bowie for ''Jazzin' for Blue Jean''
*Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video, Best Video Album
**Michael Jackson for ''Michael Jackson's Thriller (music video)#Making Michael Jackson's Thriller, Making Michael Jackson's Thriller''

Packaging and notes

*Grammy Award for Best Recording Package, Best Album Package
**Janet Perr (art director) for ''She's So Unusual'' performed by Cyndi Lauper
*Grammy Award for Best Album Notes, Best Album Notes
**Gunther Schuller & Martin Williams (writer), Martin Williams (notes writers) for ''Big Band Jazz'' performed by Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Benny Goodman & others

Pop

*Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
**Tina Turner for "What's Love Got to Do with It (song), What's Love Got to Do with It"
*Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male
**Phil Collins for "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)"
*Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
**The Pointer Sisters for "Jump (For My Love)"
*Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, Best Pop Instrumental Performance
**Ray Parker Jr. for "Ghostbusters (song), Ghostbusters (Instrumental)"

Production and engineering

*Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
**Humberto Gatica (engineer) for ''Chicago 17'' performed by Chicago (band), Chicago
*Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical, Best Engineered Recording, Classical
**Paul Goodman (sound engineer), Paul Goodman (engineer), Leonard Slatkin (conductor) & the Saint Louis Symphony for ''Sergei Prokofiev, Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat, Op. 100''
*Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, Producer of the Year, Non-Classical (Tie)
**James Anthony Carmichael & Lionel Richie
**David Foster
*Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Classical, Producer of the Year, Classical
**Steven Epstein (music producer), Steven Epstein

R&B

*Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
**Chaka Khan for "I Feel for You"
*Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male
**Billy Ocean for "Caribbean Queen"
*Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
**James Ingram & Michael McDonald (singer), Michael McDonald for "Yah Mo B There"
*Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance, Best R&B Instrumental Performance
**Herbie Hancock for "Sound-System (album), Sound System"
*Grammy Award for Best R&B Song, Best Rhythm & Blues Song
**Prince (musician), Prince, songwriter for "I Feel for You" performed by Chaka Khan

Reggae

*Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album, Best Reggae Recording
**Black Uhuru for ''Anthem (Black Uhuru album), Anthem''

Rock

*Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female
**Tina Turner for "Better Be Good to Me"
*Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male
**Bruce Springsteen for "Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen song), Dancing in the Dark"
*Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
**Prince (musician), Prince The Revolution (band), and The Revolution for ''Purple Rain (song), Purple Rain''
*Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, Best Rock Instrumental Performance
**Yes (band), Yes for "Cinema (Yes song), Cinema"

Spoken

*Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Recording
**Ben Kingsley for ''The Words of Gandhi''

References

External links

27th Grammy Awards
at the Internet Movie Database

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