The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: “9 to 5,”
Dolly Parton
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male: “(There’s)
No Getting Over Me,” Ronnie Milsap
Best Country Performance, Duo or Group:
“Elvira,” The Oak Ridge Boys
Best Country Song: “9 to 5,” Dolly Parton
(songwriter and artist)
Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Instrumental or
Vocal:Winelight, Grover Washington, Jr.
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:Digital III at
Montreaux, Ella Fitzgerald
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male: “Blue Rondo a
la Turk,” Al Jarreau
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group:
“Until I Met You (Corner Pocket),” The
Manhattan Transfer
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist:Bye
Bye Blackbird, John Coltrane
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group:Chick
Corea and Gar y Burton in Concert, Zurich, October,
28, 1979, Chick Corea and Gary Burton
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band:
Walk on the Water, Gerry Mulligan
Video of the Year:Michael Nesmith in Elephant Parts,
Michael Nesmith

1982
Album of the Year:Toto IV, Toto (producer and
artist)
Record of the Year: “Rosanna,” Toto (producer
and artist)
Song of the Year: “Always on My Mind,” Johnny
Christopher, Mark James, and Wayne Carson
(songwriters), Willie Nelson (artist)
Best New Artist: Men at Work
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female: “You Should
Hear How She Talks About You,” Melissa
Manchester
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male: “Truly,” Lionel
Richie
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Up Where We Belong,” Joe Cocker and
Jennifer Warnes (artists)
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female: “Shadows
of the Night,” Pat Benatar
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male: “Hurts So
Good,” John Cougar Mellencamp
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Eye of the Tiger,” Survivor

Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female: “And I

Am Telling You I’m Not Going,” Jennifer

Holliday

Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male: “Sexual

Healing,” Marvin Gaye

Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with

Vocal (tie): “Let It Whip,” Dazz Band, and

“Wanna Be with You,” Earth, Wind, & Fire

Best R&B Song: “Turn Your Love Around,” Bill

Champlin, Jay Graydon, and Steve Lukather

(songwriters), George Benson (artist)

Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: “Break

It to Me Gently,” Juice Newton

Best Country Vocal Performance, Male: “Always on

My Mind,” Willie Nelson

Best Country Performance, Duo or Group:

Mountain Music, Alabama

Best Country Song: “Always on My Mind,” Johnny

Christopher, Mark James, and Wayne Carson

(songwriters), Willie Nelson (artist)

Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Instrumental or

Vocal:Offramp, Pat Metheny

Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:Gershwin

Live!, Sarah Vaughn

Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male:An Evening with

George Shearing and Mel Tormé, Mel Tormé

Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group:

“Route 66,” The Manhattan Transfer

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist:We

Want Miles, Miles Davis

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group:More

Live, Phil Woods Quartet

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band:

Warm Breeze, Count Basie

Video of the Year:Physical, Olivia Newton-John

1983

Album of the Year:Thriller, Michael Jackson* and

Quincy Jones (producers), Michael Jackson*

(artist)

Record of the Year: “Beat It,” Michael Jackson*

and Quincy Jones (producers), Michael

Jackson* (artist)

Song of the Year: “Every Breath You Take,” Sting*

(songwriter), The Police (artists)

Best New Artist: Culture Club*

Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female: “Flashdance:

What a Feeling,” Irene Cara

Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male:Thriller,

Michael Jackson*

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