1974 Grammy Awards
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
Record of the Year | “I Honestly Love You,” Olivia Newton-John |
Album of the Year | Fulfillingness' First Finale, Stevie Wonder (Tamla/Motown) |
Song of the Year | “The Way We Were,” Marilyn and Alan Bergman and Marvin Hamlisch, songwriters |
Best New Artist of the Year | Marvin Hamlisch |
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male | Fulfillingness' First Finale, Stevie Wonder |
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female | “I Honestly Love You,” Olivia Newton-John |
Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus | “Band on the Run,” Paul McCartney and Wings |
Best Pop Instrumental Performance | “The Entertainer,” Marvin Hamlisch |
Best Rhythm and Blues Song | “Living for the City,” Stevie Wonder, songwriter |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male | “Boogie on Reggae Woman,” Stevie Wonder |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female | “Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing,” Aretha Franklin |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus | “Tell Me Something Good,” Rufus |
Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance | “TSOP” (The Sound of Philadelphia), MFSB |
Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist | First Recordings!, Charlie Parker |
Best Jazz Performance By a Group | The Trio, Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass and Niels Pedersen |
Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band | Thundering Herd, Woody Herman |
Best Country Song | “A Very Special Love Song,” Norris Wilson and Billy Sherrill, songwriters |
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male | “Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends,” Ronnie Milsap |
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female | Love Song, Anne Murray |
Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group | “Fairytale,” Pointer Sisters |
Best Country Instrumental Performance | The Atkins-Travis Traveling Show, Chet Atkins and Merle Travis |
Best Gospel Performance | “The Baptism of Jesse Taylor,” Oak Ridge Boys |
Best Soul Gospel Performance | In the Ghetto, James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir |
Best Inspirational Performance | “How Great Thou Art,” Elvis Presley |
Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording | Two Days in November, Doc and Merle Watson |
Best Instrumental Arrangement | “Threshold,” Pat Williams, arranger |
Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists | “Down to You,” Joni Mitchell and Tom Scott, arrangers |
Best Instrumental Composition | “Tubular Bells” (Theme From The Exorcist), Mike Oldfield, composer |
Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album | Raisin, Judd Woldin and Robert Britten, composers (Columbia) |
Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | The Way We Were, Marvin Hamlisch and Alan and Marilyn Bergman, composers (Columbia) |
Album of the Year, Classical | Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony (London) |
Best Classical Performance, Orchestra | Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony |
Best Chamber Music Performance | Brahms and Schumann Trios, Artur Rubinstein, Henryk Szeryng and Pierre Fournier |
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) | Shostakovich, Violin Concerto No. 1, David Oistrakh |
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) | Albeniz, Iberia, Alicia de Larrocha |
Best Opera Recording | Puccini, La Bohème, Sir Georg Solti conducting London Philharmonic; solos: Caballé, Domingo, Milnes, Blegen and Raimondi (RCA) |
Best Choral Performance, Classical (Other Than Opera) | Berlioz, The Damnation of Faust, Colin Davis conducting London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Ambrosian Singers and Wandsworth School Boys' Choir; solos: Gedda, Bastin, Veasey and Van Allen |
Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance | Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss, Leontyne Price |
Best Comedy Recording | That Nigger's Crazy, Richard Pryor (Partee/Stax) |
Best Spoken Word Recording | Good Evening, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (Island) |
Best Recording for Children | Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, Sebastian Cabot, Sterling Holloway and Paul Winchell (Disneyland) |
Best Album Package | Come and Gone, Ed Thrasher and Christopher Whorf, art directors (Warner Bros.) |
Best Album Notes (tie) | For the Last Time, Charles R. Townsend, annotator (United Artists) |
The Hawk Flies, Dan Morgenstern, annotator (Milestone) | |
Best Album Notes, Classical | The Classic Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Rory Guy, annotator (Angel) |
Best Producer of the Year | Thom Bell |
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