16th Annual Grammy Awards

1974 music awards ceremony

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.^[1][2]

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 (Maureen McGovern song)
• 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 - Paid 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 (award presented by Cher and Telly Savalas)
• 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 7 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 Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble for 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 various artists
• Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special
  • Neil Diamond (composer) for Jonathan Livingston Seagull performed by various artists
• Best Instrumental Arrangement
  • Quincy Jones (arranger) for "Summer in the City"
• 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 (rock opera) (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

• 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

1. "Blind Musician wins 4 Grammy awards". The Calgary Herald. 4 March 1974. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
2. "1973 Grammy Award Winners". Grammy.com. Retrieved 1 May 2011.

External links

• The 16th Grammy Awards, at the Internet Movie Database