Grammy Awards for 1973

By Patrick Mondout

The big winner at the 16th annual Grammy Awards was Stevie Wonder, who won the first of a remarkable three Album of the Year awards in four years.

Note: All nominees are listed and denotes the Grammy winner(s).

Record of the Year
	"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" - Jim Croce
	"Behind Closed Doors" - Charlie Rich
	"Killing Me Softly with His Song" - Roberta Flack
	"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" - Stevie Wonder
	"You're So Vain" - Carly Simon

Song of the Year
	"Behind Closed Doors" - Kenny O'Dell
	"Killing Me Softly with His Song" - Norman Gimbel, Charles Fox
	"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" - Irwin Levine, L. Russell Brown
	"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" - Stevie Wonder
	"You're So Vain" - Carly Simon

Album of the Year
	Behind Closed Doors - Charlie Rich
	The Divine Miss M - Bette Midler
	Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
	Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack
	There Goes Rhymin' Simon - Paul Simon

New Artist
	Eumit Deodato
	Maureen McGovern
	Bette Midler
	Marie Osmond
	Barry White

Pop Male Vocalist
	Perry Como - "And I Love You So"
	Jim Croce - "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
	Elton John - "Daniel"
	Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon
	Stevie Wonder - "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"

Pop Female Vocalist
	Roberta Flack - "Killing Me Softly with His Song"
	Bette Midler - "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"
	Anne Murray - "Danny's Song"
	Diana Ross - "Touch Me in the Morning"
	Carly Simon - "You're So Vain"

Pop Vocal Group
	The Carpenters - "Sing"
	Tony Orlando and Dawn - "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree"
	Gladys Knight and the Pips - "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)"
	Paul McCartney and Wings - "Live and Let Die"
	Seals and Croft - "Diamond Girl"

Best Pop Instrumental Performance
	Eumir Deodato - "Also Sprach Zarathurstra (2001)"
	Quincy Jones - You've Got It Bad Girl
	Mahavishnu Orchestra - "Bird of Fire"
	Billy Preston - "Space Race"
	Edgar Winter - "Frankenstein"

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Male
	Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"
	Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
	Al Green - "Call Me (Come Back Home)"
	Eddie Kendricks - "Keep On Truckin'"
	Barry White - "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby"

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female
	Aretha Franklin - "Master of Eyes"
	Etta James - Etta James
	Ann Peebles - "I Can't Stand the Rain"
	Esther Phillips - Alone Again (Naturally)
	Sylvia - "Pillow Talk"

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Duo, Group or Chorus
	Gladys Knight & the Pips - "Midnight Train to Georgia"
	O'Jays - "Love Train"
	Spinners - "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love"
	Staple Singers - "Be What You Are"
	War - "The Cisco Kid"

Best Rhythm & Blues Instrumental Performance
	Ramsey Lewis - "Hang on Sloopy"
	Donald Byrd  - Black Byrd
	Crusaders - 2nd Crusade
	Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa
	Young-Holt Unlimited - "Yes We Can Can"

Best Rhythm & Blues Song
	"Superstition" - Stevie Wonder
	"The Cisco Kid" - War
	"Family Affair" - Sylvester Stewart
	"Love Train" - Ken Gamble, Leon Huff
	"Midnight Train to Georgia" - Jim Weatherly

Best Jazz Performance - Soloist
	Art Tatum - God Is in the House
	Clifford Brown - The Beginning and the End
	Ray Brown (Milt Jackson Quintet) - "The Very Thought of You"
	Freddie Hubbard - "In a Mist"
	Hubert Laws - Morning Star

Best Jazz Performance - Group
	Supersax - Supersax Plays Bird
	Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Inside Straight
	Chick Corea, Return to Forever - Light as a Feather
	Jim Hall, Ron Carter - Alone Together
	Oregon - Music of Another Present Era

Best Jazz Performance - Big Band
	Woody Herman - Giant Steps
	Don Ellis - Soaring
	Gil Evans - Svengali
	Oliver Nelson - Swiss Suite
	Randy Weston - Tanjah

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male
	Charlie Rich - "Behind Closed Doors"
	Tom T. Hall - "(Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine"
	Kris Kristofferson - "Why Me"
	Charley Pride - "Amazing Love"
	Johnny Russell - "Rednecks, White Socks & Blue Ribbon Beer"

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female
	Olivia Newton-John - "Let Me Be There"
	Barbara Fairchild - "Teddy Bear Song"
	Marie Osmond - "Paper Roses"
	Dottie West - "Country Sunshine"
	Tammy Wynette - "Kids Say the Darndest Things"

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Duo or Group
	Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge - "From the Bottle to the Bottom"
	Dolly Parton, Porter Waggoner - "If Teardrops Were Pennies"
	Statler Brothers - Carry Me Back
	Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn - "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man"
	Tammy Wynette, George Jones - "We're Gonna Hold On"

Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance
	Eric Weissberg, Steve Mandell - "Dueling Banjos"
	Chet Atkins - "Fiddlin' Around"
	Chet Atkins - Superpickers
	Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass - I'll Fly Away
	Charlie McCoy - Good Time Charlie

Best Country & Western Song
	"Behind Closed Doors" - Kenny O'Dell
	"Country Sunshine" - Billy Davis, Dottie West
	"The Most Beautiful Girl" - Rory Bourke, Billy Sherrill, Norris Wilson
	"(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine" - Tom T. Hall
	"Why Me" - Kris Kristofferson

Best Inspirational Performance
	Bill Gaither Trio - Let's Just Praise the Lord
	Anita Bryant - Anita Bryant ...Naturally
	Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - In the Sweet By and By
	George Beverly Shea - There's Something About That Name
	Connie Smith - All the Praises

Best Soul Gospel Performance
	Dixie Hummingbirds - "Loves Me Like a Rock"
	James Cleveland - "Down Memory Lane"
	Jessy Dixon - "He Ain't Heavy"
	Edwin Hawkins Singers - New World
	Swan Silverstones - You've Got a Friend

Best Gospel Performance
	Blackwood Brothers - Release Me (from My Sin)
	Andrae Crouch - Just Andrae
	The Imperials - Live
	Oak Ridge Boys - Street Gospel
	Statesmen - I Believe in Jesus

Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording
	Then and Now - Doc Watson
	Blues at Montreux - King Curtis, Champion Jack Dupree
	Can't Get No Grindin' - Muddy Waters
	John Lee Hooker's Detroit (1948-1952) - John Lee Hooker
	Leadbelly (Live in Concert) - Leadbelly

Best Instrumental Composition
	Gato Barbieri - "Last Tango in Paris"
	Manu Dibango - "Soul Makossa"
	Billy Preston - "Space Race"
	Thus van Leer, Jan Akkerman - "Hocus Pocus"
	Edgar Winter - "Frankenstein"

Best Instrumental Arrangement
	Quincy Jones - "Summer in the City"
	Chick Corea - "Spain"
	Lee Holdridge - "Prologue/Crunchy Granola Suite"
	Bill Holman - "The Daily Dance" (Stan Kenton & His Orchestra)
	Bob James - "Easy Living/Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do (Medley)" (Grover Washington Jr.)

Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
	George Martin - "Live and Let Die" (Paul McCartney & Wings)
	Tom Baird, Gene Page - "Touch Me in the Morning" (Diana Ross)
	Richard Carpenter - "Sing" (Carpenters)
	Dave Grusin - "Lady Love" (Jon Lucien)
	Dave Grusin - "Rashida" (Jon Lucien)
	Gene Puerling - "Michelle" (Singers Unlimited)

Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album
	A Little Night Music - Stephen Sondheim
	Cyrano - Anthony Burgess, Michael J. Lewis
	Man from the East - Stomu Yamashita
	Pippin - Stephen Schwartz
	Seesaw - Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields

Best Album of Original Score written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
	Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Neil Diamond
	Last Tango in Paris - Gato Barbieri
	Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, George Martin
	Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid - Bob Dylan
	Sounder - Taj Mahal

Album of the Year - Classical
	Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra - Pierre Boulez conducting the New York Philharmonic
	Beethoven: Concertos (5) for Piano and Orchestra - Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony (solo: Vladimir Ashkenazy)
	Bizet: Carmen - Leonard Bernstein conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Manhattan Opera Chorus (solos: Marilyn Horne, James McCracken, Adriana Maliponte, Tom Krause)
	Joplin: The Red Back Book - Gunther Schuller conducting the Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble
	Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - Lorin Maazel conducting the Cleveland Orchestra
	Puccini: Heroines (La Boheme, La Rondine, Tosca, Manon Lescant) - Esward Downes conducting the New Philharmonic (solo: Leontyne Price)
	Rachmaninov: The Complete Rachmaninov, Vols. 1-3 (solo: Sergei Rachmaninov)
	Rachmaninov: Concerto No. 2 in C Minor for Piano - Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra (solo: Artur Rubinstein)

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
	Pierre Boulez conducting the New York Philharmonic - Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
	Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic - Holst: The Planets
	Lorin Maazel conducting the Cleveland Orchestra - Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
	Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra - Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major
	Seiji Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
	Seiji Ozawa conducting the San Francisco Symphony (Seigel-Schwall Band) - Russo: 3 Pieces for Blues Band and Orchestra
	Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony - Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (Complete)
	Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor

Best Chamber Music Performance
	Gunther Schuller, New England Ragtime Ensemble - Joplin: The Red Back Book
	Janet Backer, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Schubert: Duets
	Julian Bream, Melos Ensemble of London, David Atherton - Bennett: Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Ensemble
	Cleveland Quartet - Brahms: Quartets for Strings
	Concord String Quartet - Rochberg: Quartet No. 3 for Strings
	Artur Rubinstein, Guarneri Quartet - Dvorak: Piano Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 87
	Western Wind Vocal Ensemble - Early American Vocal Music

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) with Orchestra
	Vladimir Ashkenazy (Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony) - Beethoven: Concertos (5) for Piano and Orchestra
	Stephen Bishop (Davis conducting the London Symphony) - Mozart: Concertos No. 21 in C Major and No. 25 in C Major
	Aldo Ciccolini (Baudo conducting the Orchestre de Paris) - Saint-Saens: Concertos for Piano (Complete)
	Emil Gilels (Jochum conducting the Berlin Philharmonic) - Brahms: Concertos No. 1 in D Minor for Piano and Orchestra and No.  2 in B Flat Major for Piano and Orchestra
	Artur Rubinstein (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra) - Rachmaninov: Concerto No. 2 in C Minor for Piano
	John Williams (Previn conducting the London Symphony) - Previn: Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra; Ponce: Concierto del Sur for Guitar and Orchestra
	Pinchas Zukerman (Zukerman conducting the English Chamber Orchestra) - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) - without Orchestra
	Vladimir Horowitz - Scriabin: Horowitz Plays Scriabin
	Julian Bream - The Woods So Wild
	Alfred Brendel - Schubert: Sonata in B Flat, Op. 960
	Virgil Fox - Heavy Organ at Carnegie Hall
	Glenn Gould - Bach: French Suites, 1-4
	Maurizio Pollini - Chopin: Etudes
	Sviatoslav Richter - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier

Best Opera Recording
	Bizet: Carmen - Leonard Bernstein conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Manhattan Opera Chours (solos: Horne, McCracken, Maliponte, Krause)
	Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet - Meredith Davies conducting the Royal Philharmonic and John Alldis Choir (solos: Tear, Harwood)
	Puccini: Turandot - Zubin Mehta conducting the London Philharmonic, John Alldis Choir and Wandsworth School Choir (solos: Sutherland, Pavarotti, Caballe, Ghiaurov, Krause, Pears)
	Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen - Karl Bohm conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra (solos: Nilsson, Rysanek, Burmaister, Windgassen, King, Wohlfart, Adam, Stewart, Talvela, Greindl, Neidlinger)
	Wagner: Parsifal - Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Boys' Choir (solos: Kollo, Ludwig, Fischer-Dieskau, Frick, Keleman, Hotter)
	Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic (solos: Vickers, Dernesch)

Best Classical Choral Performance
	Arthur Oldham conducting the London Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony - Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
	Helmuth Froschauer conducting the Vienna Singverein; Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic - Bach: St. Matthew Passion
	Eugen Jochum conducting the Netherlands Radio Chorus and Concertgebouw Orchestra (solos: Giebel, Hoffgen, Hafliger, Ridderbusch) - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
	Raymond Leppard conducting the Glyndebourne Opera Chorus - Monteverdi: Madrigals, Books 3 and 4
	Norman Scribner directing the Norman Scribner Choir; Leonard Bernstein conducting the Orchestra - Haydn: Mass in Time of War (Leonard Bernstein's Concert for Peace)
	Herbert von Karajan conducting the Chorus of the Deutsche Opera Berlin, and Berlin Philharmonic - Haydn: The Seasons
	David Willcocks conducting the Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Benjamin Britten conducting the London Symphony - Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
	Leontyne Price (Downes conducting the New Philharmonia) - Puccini: Heroines (La Boheme, La Rondine, Tosca, Manon Lescaut)
	Janet Baker (Gerald Moore, accompanist) - Schubert: Songs
	Cathy Berberian (Berio conducting the London Sinfonietta) - Berio: Recital 1 ("For Cathy")
	Placido Domingo (Santi conducting the New Philharmonia) - La Voce d'Oro
	Heather Harper (Boulez conducting the BBC Symphony) - Berg: 7 Early Songs
	Marilyn Horne (Lewis conducting the Royal Philharmonic) - Marilyn Horne sings Rossini (Excerpts from "Siege of Corinth" and "La Donna del Lago")
	Yvonne Minton, Rene Kollo (Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony) - Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
	Martti Talvela (Irwin Gage, accompanist) - Martti Talvela - A Lieder Recital (Schumann)

Best Engineered Recording - Classical
	Edward T. Graham, Raymond Moore - Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (Boulez conducting the New York Philharmonic)
	Paul Goodman - Bach's Greatest Fugues (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra)
	Edward T. Graham, Larry Keyes - Holst: The Planets (Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic)
	Gunther Hermanns - Bizet: Carmen (Bernstein conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and soloists)
	Jack Law, Colin Moortoot, Grodon Parry - Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (Maazel conducting the Cleveland Orchestra)
	Tony Salvatore - Puccini: Heroines - (Downes conducting the New Philharmonia; solo: Leontyne Price)
	Hans Schweigmann - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony)
	Kenneth Wilkinson, Gordon Parry - Wagner: Parsifal (Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and soloists)

Best Album Notes - Classical
	Glenn Gould - Hindemith: Sonatas for Piano (Complete)
	Misha Donat - Berio: Recital 1 ("For Cathy") (Berio conducting the London Sinfonietta; solo: Berberian)
	Tom Eastwood - The Woods So Wild (Julian Bream)
	Irving Kolodin - Dvorak: Piano Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 87 (Guarneri Quartet; solo: Artur Rubinstetin)
	Harvey Phillips - Bizet: Carmen (Bernstein conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; solos: Horne, McCracken, Maliponte, Krause)
	Alan Rich - Rachmaninov: Concerto No. 2 in C Minor for Piano (Ormandy conducting the Philadelhpia Orchestra; solo: Rubinstein)
	H.C. Robbins Landon - Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 36 and 48 (Dorati conducting the Philharmonia Hungarica)
	H.C. Robins Landon - Haydn: Symphonies No. 20 in C Major and No. 35 in B Flat Major (Dorati conducting the Philharmonica Hungarica)
	Erik Smith - Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (Marriner conducting the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields)
	Clair Van Ausdall - Debussy: La Mer/Perlude a l'Apres-Midi d'un Faune; Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2 (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra)

Best Spoken Word Recording
	Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Harris
	America, Why I Love Her - John Wayne
	Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
	Songs and Conversations - Billie Holliday
	Witches, Ghosts and Goblins - Vincent Price

Best Comedy Recording
	Los Cochinos - Cheech & Chong
	Fat Albert - Bill Cosby
	Occupation: Foole - George Carlin
	Richard Nixon: A Fantasy - David Frye
	Lemmings - National Lampoon
	Child of the 50s - Robert Klein

Best Recording for Children
	Sesame Street Live - Sesame Street cast
	Free to Be ...You and Me - Marlo Thomas & Friends
	The Little Prince - Peter Ustinov
	Multiplication Rock - Bob Dorough
	Songs from "The Electric Company" TV Show

Best Engineered Recording
	Robert Margouleff, Malcolm Cecil - Innervisions (Stevie Wonder)
	Alan Parsons - The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
	David Hentschel - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)
	Donn Landee - "Long Train Runnin'" (Doobie Brothers)
	Robin Geoffrey Cable, Bill Schnee - No Secrets (Carly Simon)

Best Album Package
	Wilkes & Braun, Inc. - Tommy (London Symphony/Chambre Choir)
	John Berg - Chicago VI (Chicago)
	Hipgnosis - Houses of the Holy (Led Zeppelin)
	Jim Ladwig/AGI - Ooh La La (Faces)
	Ode Visuals, Inc. - Los Cochinos (Cheech & Chong)
	Pacific Eye & Ear - Billion Dollar Babies (Alice Cooper)
	Mike Salisbury - The World of Ike and Tina (Ike & Tina Turner)
	Al Steckler - Chubby Checker's Greatest Hits (Chubby Checker)

Best Album Notes
	Dan Morgenstern - God Is in the House (Art Tatum)
	Stan Cornyn - Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back (Frank Sinatra)
	Chet Flippo - Lonesome, On'ry and Mean (Waylon Jennings)
	William Ivey - This Is Jimmie Rodgers (Jimmie Rodgers)
	Lionel Newman - Remember Marilyn (Marilyn Monroe)

Hall of Fame
	"Body and Soul" - Coleman Hawkins (1939)
	"The Christmas Song" - Nat King Cole (1946)
	Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin with Paul Whiteman (1927)
	"West End Blues" - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five (1928)
	"White Christmas" - Bing Crosby, The Ken Darby Singers (1942)