1988
Album of the Year:Faith, George Michael
(producer and artist)
Record of the Year: “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,”
Linda Goldstein (producer), Bobby McFerrin
(artist)
Song of the Year: “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” Bobby
McFerrin (songwriter and artist)
Best New Artist: Tracy Chapman
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female: “Fast Car,”
Tracy Chapman
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male: “Don’t Worry,
Be Happy,” Bobby McFerrin
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal:Brasil, The Manhattan Transfer
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female:Tina Live in
Europe, Tina Turner
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male: “Simply
Irresistible,” Robert Palmer
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Desire,” U2*
Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance, Vocal or
Instrumental:Crest of a Knave, Jethro Tull
Best Rap Performance: “Parents Just Don’t
Understand,” DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh
Prince
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female: “Giving You
the Best That I Got,” Anita Baker
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male:Introducing the
Hardline According to Terence Trent D’Arby,
Terence Trent D’Arby
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Love Overboard,” Gladys Knight and the
Pips
Best R&B Song: “Giving You the Best That I Got,”
Anita Baker, Randy Holland, and Skip
Scarborough (songwriters) and Anita Baker
(artist)
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: “Hold
Me,” K. T. Oslin
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male:Old 8 × 10,
Randy Travis
Best Country Performance, Duo or Group: “Give a
Little Love,” The Judds
Best Country Vocal Collaboration: “Crying,” Roy
Orbison and k. d. lang
Best Country Song: “Hold Me,” K. T. Oslin
(songwriter and artist)
Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Instrumental or
Vocal:Politics, Yellowjackets
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:Look What I
Got!, Betty Carter
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male: “Brothers,”
Bobby McFerrin
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group:
“Spread Love,” Take 6
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist:Don’t
Tr y This at Home, Michael Brecker
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group:Blues
for Coltrane: A Tribute to John Coltrane, Cecil
McBee, David Murray, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah
Sanders, and Roy Haynes
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band:
Bud and Bird, Gil Evans and the Monday Night
Orchestra
Best Performance, Music Video: “Where the
Streets Have No Name,” Meiert Avis (director),
Ben Dossett and Michael Hamlyn (producers),
U2* (artists)
Best Concept, Music Video: “Fat,” Jay Levey
(director), Susan Zwerman (producer), Weird
Al Yankovic* (artist)1989
Album of the Year:Nick of Time, Don Was
(producer), Bonnie Raitt (artist)
Record of the Year: “Wind Beneath My Wings,”
Arif Mardin (producer), Bette Midler (artist)
Song of the Year: “Wind Beneath My Wings,” Jeff
Silbar and Larry Henley (songwriters) and
Bette Midler (artist)
Best New Artist: Milli Vanilli (revoked)
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female: “Nick of
Time,” Bonnie Raitt
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male: “How Am I
Supposed to Live Without You,” Michael Bolton
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Don’t Know Much,” Linda Ronstadt and
Aaron Neville
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female:Nick of
Time, Bonnie Raitt
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male:The End of the
Innocence, Don Henley
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal:Traveling Wilbur ys, Volume I, Traveling
Wilburys
Best Hard Rock Performance: “Cult of
Personality,” Living Colour
Best Metal Performance: “One,” Metallica
Best Rap Performance: “Bust a Move,” Young MCThe Eighties in America Music: Grammy Awards 1135