Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Kiss,” Prince and the Revolution
Best R&B Song: “Sweet Love,” Anita Baker, Gary
Bias, and Louis A. Johnson (songwriters), Anita
Baker (artist)
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female:
“Whoever’s in New England,” Reba McEntire
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male:Lost in the
Fifties Tonight, Ronnie Milsap
Best Country Performance, Duo or Group:
“Grandpa (Tell Me ’bout the Good Old Days),”
The Judds
Best Country Song: “Grandpa (Tell Me ’bout the
Good Old Days),” Jamie O’Hara (songwriter),
The Judds (artist)
Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Instrumental or
Vocal:Double Vision, David Sanborn and Bob
James
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:Timeless,
Diane Schuur
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male: “’Round
Midnight,” Bobby McFerrin
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group: “Free
Fall,” 2 + 2 Plus
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist:Tutu,
Miles Davis
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group:
J Mood, Wynton Marsalis
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band:
The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen, The
Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen
Best Music Video, Short Form: “Brothers in Arms,”
Dire Straits
Best Music Video, Long Form:Bring on the Night,
Michael Apted (director), Sting (producer and
artist)
1987
Album of the Year:The Joshua Tree, Brian Eno and
Daniel Lanois (producers), U2 (artist)
Record of the Year: “Graceland,” Paul Simon
(producer and artist)
Song of the Year: “Somewhere out There,” Barry
Mann, Cynthia Weil, and James Horner
(songwriters), Linda Ronstadt and James
Ingram (artists)
Best New Artist: Jody Watley
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female: “I Wanna
Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me),”
Whitney Houston
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male:Bring on the
Night, Sting*
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “I’ve Had (The Time of My Life),”
Jennifer Warnes and Bill Medley
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo:Tunnel of Love,
Bruce Springsteen*
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal:The Joshua Tree, U2*
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female:Aretha,
Aretha Franklin
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male: “Just to See
Her,” Smokey Robinson
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me), ”
Aretha Franklin and George Michael*
Best R&B Song: “Lean on Me,” Bill Withers
(songwriter), Club Nouveau (artist)
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: “’80’s
Ladies,” K. T. Oslin
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male:Always and
Forever, Randy Travis
Best Country Performance, Duo or Group:Trio,
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou
Harris
Best Country Performance, Duet: “Make No
Mistake, She’s Mine,” Ronnie Milsap and Kenny
Rogers
Best Country Song: “Forever and Ever, Amen,”
Don Schlitz and Paul Overstreet (songwriters),
Randy Travis (artist)
Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Instrumental or
Vocal:Still Life (Talking), Pat Metheny Group
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:Diane Schuur
and the Count Basie Orchestra, Diane Schuur
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male:”What Is This
Thing Called Love,” Bobby McFerrin
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist:The
Other Side of Round Midnight, Dexter Gordon
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group:
Marsalis Standard Time, Volume I, Wynton
Marsalis
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band:
Digital Duke, Mercer Ellington
Best Performance, Music Video:The Prince’s Trust
All-Star Rock Concert, Anthony Eaton (producer),
various artists
Best Concept, Music Video: “Land of Confusion,”
Jim Yukich and John Lloyd (directors), Jon
Blair (producer), Genesis (artist)1134 Music: Grammy Awards The Eighties in America