Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The 27th Grammy Awards were held in 1985, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1984. Record of the Year Terry Britten (producer) & Tina Turner for "What's Love Got to Do With It" Album of the Year James Anthony Carmichael (producer) & Lionel Richie (producer & artist) for Can't Slow Down Song of the Year Terry Britten & Graham Lyle (songwriters) for "What's Love Got to Do With It" performed by Tina Turner Best New Artist Cyndi Lauper Blues Best Traditional Blues Recording Sugar Blue, John Hammond, J.B. Hutto & the New Hawks, Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson, Koko Taylor & the Blues Machine & Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble for Blues Explosion Children's Best Recording for Children Ron Haffkine (producer) & Shel Silverstein for Where the Sidewalk Ends Classical Best Classical Orchestral Recording Jay David Saks (producer), Leonard Slatkin (conductor) & the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Best Classical Vocal Performance Pierre Boulez (conductor), Heather Harper, Jessye Norman & Jose Van Dam, the BBC Symphony Orchestra & the Ensemble Intercontemporain for Ravel: Songs of Maurice Ravel Best Opera Recording Michel Glotz (producer), Lorin Maazel (conductor), the Choeurs et Maitrise de Radio France & the Orchestre National de France for Bizet: Carmen (Original Soundtrack) Best Choral Performance (other than opera) James Levine (conductor), Margaret Hillis (choir director) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Brahms: A German Requiem Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra) Raymond Leppard (conductor), Wynton Marsalis & the English Chamber Orchestra for Wynton Marsalis, Edita Gruberova: Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, Molter Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra) Yo-Yo Ma for Bach: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites Best Chamber Music Performance The Juilliard String Quartet for Beethoven: The Late String Quartets Best New Classical Composition Samuel Barber (composer) & Christian Badea (conductor) for Antony and Cleopatra 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 (Original Soundtrack) Comedy Best Comedy Recording Weird Al Yankovic for "Eat It" Composing and arranging Best Instrumental Composition Randy Newman (composer) for "The Natural" John Williams (composer) for "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" the official music of the XXIII Olympiad Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or A Television Special Lisa Coleman, John L. Nelson, Prince & Wendy Melvoin (composers) for Purple Rain performed by Prince & the Revolution Best Arrangement on an Instrumental Jeremy Lubbock & Quincy Jones (arrangers) for "Grace (Gymnastics Theme)" performed by Quincy Jones Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) David Foster & Jeremy Lubbock (arrangers) for "Hard Habit to Break" performed by Chicago Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices The Pointer Sisters (arrangers) for "Automatic" Country Best Country Vocal Performance, Female Emmylou Harris for "In My Dreams" Best Country Vocal Performance, Male Merle Haggard for "That's the Way Love Goes" Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal The Judds for "Mama He's Crazy" Best Country Instrumental Performance Ricky Skaggs for "Wheel Hoss" Best Country Song Steve Goodman (songwriter) for "City of New Orleans" performed by Willie Nelson Folk Best Traditional Folk Album incl. Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording/Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording Elizabeth Cotton for Elizabeth Cotten Live! Gospel Best Gospel Performance, Female Amy Grant for "Angels" Best Gospel Performance, Male Michael W. Smith for Michael W. Smith Best Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus Phil Driscoll for "Keep The Flame Burning" performed by Debby Boone & Phil Driscoll Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female Shirley Caesar for Sailin' Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male Andrae Crouch for "Always Remember" Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus Al Green & Shirley Caesar for "Sailin' on the Sea of Your Love" Best Inspirational Performance Donna Summer for "Forgive Me" Historical Best Historical Album J.R. Taylor (producer) for Big Band Jazz performed by Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Benny Goodman & Others Jazz Best Jazz Vocal Album Joe Williams for Nothin' But the Blues Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist Wynton Marsalis for Hot House Flowers Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group Art Blakey for New York Scene performed by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance Count Basie for 88 Basie Street Best Jazz Fusion Performance Pat Metheny Group for First Circle Latin Best Latin Pop Performance Placido Domingo for Always in My Heart (Siempre en Mi Corazon) Best Tropical Latin Performance Eddie Palmieri for Palo Pa Rumba Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance Sheena Easton for "Me Gustas Tal Como Eres" performed by Sheena Easton & Luis Miguel Musical Show Best Musical Show Album Stephen Sondheim (lyricist) & Thomas Z. Shepard (producer) for Sunday In The Park With George performed by the original cast Music Video Best Music Video, Short Form David Bowie for David Bowie Best Music Video, Long Form Michael Jackson for Making Michael Jackson's Thriller Packaging and Notes Best Album Package - Incl. Album Cover, Graphic Arts, Photography Janet Perr (art director) for She's So Unusual performed by Cyndi Lauper Best Album Notes Martin Williams (notes writer) for Big Band Jazz performed by Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Benny Goodman & Others Pop Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Tina Turner for "What's Love Got to Do With It" Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Phil Collins for "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal The Pointer Sisters for "Jump (For My Love)" Best Pop Instrumental Performance Ray Parker Jr for "Ghostbusters (Instrumental)" Production and engineering Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical Humberto Gatica (engineer) for 17 performed by Chicago Producer of the Year, Non-Classical James Anthony Carmichael & Lionel Richie David Foster Best Classical Engineered Recording Paul Goodman (engineer) for Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat, Op. 100 conducted by Leonard Slatkin Classical Producer of the Year Steven Epstein R&B Best Female R&B Vocal Performance Chaka Khan for "I Feel For You" Best Male R&B Vocal Performance Billy Ocean for "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)" Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal James Ingram & Michael McDonald for "Yah Mo B There" Best R&B Song Prince (songwriter) for "I Feel For You" performed by Chaka Khan Best R&B Instrumental Performance Herbie Hancock for Sound System Reggae Best Reggae Album Black Uhuru for Anthem Rock Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Tina Turner for "Better Be Good to Me" Best Male Rock Vocal Performance Bruce Springsteen for "Dancing in the Dark" Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Prince & the Revolution for Purple Rain - Music From The Motion Picture Best Rock Instrumental Performance Yes for "Cinema" Spoken Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album Ben Kingsley for The Words of Gandhi Other Grammy Award Years 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 This article is from Wikipedia. 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