The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

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1985
Album of the Year:No Jacket Required, Hugh
Padgham and Phil Collins (producers), Phil
Collins (artist)
Record of the Year: “We Are the World,” Quincy
Jones (producer) and USA for Africa
(artist)
Song of the Year: “We Are the World,” Lionel
Richie
and Michael Jackson (songwriters),
USA for Africa
(artist)
Best New Artist: Sade
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female: “Saving All
My Love for You,” Whitney Houston
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male:No Jacket
Required, Phil Collins
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “We Are the World,” Quincy Jones
(producer), USA for Africa
(artist)
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female: “One of the
Living,” Tina Turner*
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male: “The Boys of
Summer,” Don Henley
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Money for Nothing,” Dire Straits
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female: “Freeway of
Love,” Aretha Franklin
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male:In Square
Circle, Stevie Wonder
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Nightshift,” Commodores
Best R&B Song: “Freeway of Love,” Jeffrey Cohen
and Narada Michael Walden (songwriters),
Aretha Franklin (artist)
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: “I Don’t
Know Why You Don’t Want Me,” Roseanne
Cash
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male: “Lost in
the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night),”
Ronnie Milsap
Best Country Performance, Duo or Group:Why
Not Me, The Judds
Best Country Song: “Highwayman,” Jimmy L.
Webb (songwriter), Waylon Jennings, Willie
Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson
(artists)
Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Instrumental or
Vocal:Straight to the Heart, David Sanborn
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:Cleo Laine at
Carnegie: The Tenth Anniversar y Concert, Cleo
Laine


Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male: “Another
Night in Tunisia,” Bobby McFerrin and Jon
Hendricks
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group:
Vocalese, The Manhattan Transfer
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist:Black
Codes from the Underground, Wynton Marsalis
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group:Black
Codes from the Underground, Wynton Marsalis
Group
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band:
The Cotton Club: Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack, Bob Wilber and John Barry
Best Music Video, Short Form: “We Are the World:
The Video Event,” Tom Trbovich (director),
Quincy Jones (producer), USA for Africa*
(artist)
Best Music Video, Long Form:Huey Lewis and the
News: The Heart of Rock and Roll, Bruce Gowers
(director), Huey Lewis and the News (artist)

1986
Album of the Year:Graceland, Paul Simon
(producer and artist)
Record of the Year: “Higher Love,” Russ Titleman
and Steve Winwood (producers), Steve
Winwood (artist)
Song of the Year: “That’s What Friends Are For,”
Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager
(songwriters), Dionne Warwick, Elton John,
Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder (artists)
Best New Artist: Bruce Hornsby and the Range
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female:The Broadway
Album, Barbra Streisand
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male: “Higher Love,”
Steve Winwood
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “That’s What Friends Are For,” Dionne
Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie
Wonder (artists)
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female: “Back
Where You Started,” Tina Turner*
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male: “Addicted to
Love,” Robert Palmer
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Missionary Man,” Eurythmics
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female:Rapture,
Anita Baker
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male: “Living in
America,” James Brown

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