Music: Grammy Awards
This list includes winners of Grammy Awards in major categories. “Album of the Year” awards the artist who
performed the album. “Record of the Year” awards the producer and artist, while “Song of the Year” awards
the songwriter. An asterisk (*) following a name or group indicates the presence of a full-length entry inThe
Eighties in America.
1980
Album of the Year:Christopher Cross, Christopher
Cross
Record of the Year: “Sailing,” Michael Omartian
(producer), Christopher Cross (artist)
Song of the Year: “Sailing,” Christopher Cross
(songwriter and artist)
Best New Artist: Christopher Cross
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female: “The Rose,”
Bette Midler
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male: “This Is It,”
Kenny Loggins
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Guilty,” Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female: Crimes of
Passion, Pat Benatar
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male:Glass Houses,
Billy Joel
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal:Against the Wind, Bob Seger and the Silver
Bullet Band
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female: “Never
Knew Love Like This Before,” Stephanie Mills
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male: “Give Me the
Night,” George Benson
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Shining Star,” Manhattans
Best R&B Song: “Never Knew Love Like This
Before,” James Mtume and Reggie Lucas
(songwriters), Stephanie Mills (artist)
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: “Could I
Have This Dance?,” Anne Murray
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male: “He
Stopped Loving Her Today,” George Jones
Best Country Performance, Duo or Group: “That
Lovin’ You Feeling Again,” Emmylou Harris
and Roy Orbison
Best Country Song: “On the Road Again,” Willie
Nelson (songwriter and artist)
Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Instrumental or
Vocal: “Birdland,” The Manhattan Transfer
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:A Perfect
Match: Ella and Basie, Ella Fitzgerald
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male: “Moody’s
Mood,” George Benson
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist:I Will
Never Say Goodbye, Bill Evans
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group:We
Will Meet Again, Bill Evans
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band:On
the Road Again, Count Basie1981
Album of the Year:Double Fantasy, Jack Douglas,
John Lennon*, and Yoko Ono (producers),
John Lennon* and Yoko Ono (artists)
Record of the Year: “Bette Davis Eyes,” Val Garay
(producer), Kim Carnes (artist)
Song of the Year: “Bette Davis Eyes,” Donna Weiss
and Jackie DeShannon (songwriters), Kim
Carnes (artist)
Best New Artist: Sheena Easton
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female:Lena Horne:
The Lady and Her Music, Lena Horne (artist)
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male:Breakin’ Away,
Al Jarreau
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Boy from New York City,” The
Manhattan Transfer
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female: “Fire and
Ice,” Pat Benatar
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male: “Jessie’s Girl,”
Rick Springfield
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Don’t Stand So Close to Me,” The
Police
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female: “Hold On,
I’m Comin’,” Aretha Franklin
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male: “One
Hundred Ways,” James Ingram
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal:The Dude, Quincy Jones
Best R&B Song: “Just the Two of Us,” Bill Withers,
Ralph MacDonald, and William Salter
(songwriters), Grover Washington, Jr., and Bill
Withers (artists)