Grammy Awards for 1972

By Patrick Mondout

Roberta Flack won Record of the Year for The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and the writer of the song, Ewan MacColl won for Song of the Year over Don McLean and American Pie. The Eagles lost out to America for Best New Artist.

George Harrison, whose All Things Must Pass lost the previous year to Carole King's Tapestry, shared the Album of the Year award with his friends (including Ravi Shankar, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and Ringo Starr) for the Concert for Bangla-Desh.

Note: All nominees are listed and denotes the Grammy winner(s).

Record of the Year
	"Alone Again (Naturally)" - Gilbert O'Sullivan
	"American Pie" - Don McLean
	"The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face" - Roberta Flack
	"Song Sung Blue" - Neil Diamond
	"Without You" - Nilsson

Song of the Year
	"Alone Again (Naturally)" - Gilbert O'Sullivan
	"American Pie" - Don McLean
	"The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face" - Ewan MacColl
	"Song Sung Blue" - Neil Diamond
	"The Summer Knows" - Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman, Michel Legrand

Album of the Year
	American Pie - Don McLean
	The Concert for Bangladesh - George Harrison and Friends
	Jesus Christ Superstar - Original Broadway Cast
	Moods - Neil Diamond
	Nilsson Schmilsson - Nilsson

New Artist
	America
	Harry Chapin
	Eagles
	Loggins and Messina
	John Prine

Pop Male Vocalist
	Mac Davis - "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me"
	Sammy Davis Jr. - "Candy Man"
	Don McLean - "American Pie"
	"Nilsson - "Without You"
	Gilbert O'Sullivan - "Alone Again (Naturally)"

Pop Female Vocalist
	Robert Flack - Quiet Fire
	Aretha Franklin - "Day Dreaming"
	Helen Reddy - "I Am Woman"
	Carly Simon - Anticipation
	Barbra Streisand - "Sweet Inspiration/Where You Lead"

Pop Vocal Group
	America - "A Horse with No Name"
	Bread - Baby I'm-a Want You
	Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway - "Where Is the Love"
	The New Seekers - "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (in Perfect Harmony)"
	Seals and Croft - "Summer Breeze"

Best Pop Instrumental Peformance - Instrumental Performer
	Billy Preston - "Outa-Space"
	Apollo 100 - "Joy"
	Doc Severinsen - Doc
	Pipes & Drums & Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - Amazing Grace
	Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin - The Inner Mounting Flame

Best Pop Instrumental Performance - With Vocal Coloring
	Isaac Hayes - Black Moses
	Cy Coleman - "Theme from The Garden of the Finzi Continis"
	Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition
	Quincy Jones - "Money Runner"
	Henry Mancini, Doc Severinsen - Brass on Ivory
	Santana - Caravanserai

Best Rhythm & Blues Song
	"Papa Was a Rolling Stone" - Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield
	"Back Stabbers" - Leon Huff, Gene McFadden, John Whitehead
	"Everybody Plays the Fool" - Rudy Clark, J.R. Bailey, Kenny Williams
	"Freddie's Dead" - Curtis Mayfield
	"Me and Mrs. Jones" - Ken Gamble, Leon Huff, Cary Gilbert

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Male
	Billy Paul - "Me and Mrs. Jones"
	Ray Charles - "What Have They Done to My Song Ma"
	Curtis Mayfield - "Freddie's Dead"
	Joe Simon - "Drowning in the Sea of Love"
	Joe Tex - "I Gotcha"

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female
	Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted and Black
	Merry Clayton - "Oh, No Not My Baby"
	Esther Phillips - From a Whisper to a Scream
	Candi Staton - "In the Ghetto"
	Betty Wright - "Clean Up Woman"

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Duo, Group or Chorus
	Temptations - "Papa Was a Rolling Stone"
	Gladys Knight & the Pips - "Help Me Make It Through the Night"
	Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - "If You Don't Know Me by Now"
	Spinners - "I'll Be Around"
	Staple Singers - "I'll Take You There"

Best Rhythm & Blues Instrumental Performance
	Temptations, Paul Riser - "Papa Was a Rolling Stone"
	Crusaders - Crusaders I
	King Curtis - "Everybody's Talkin'"
	Isaac Hayes - "Let's Stay Together"
	Curtis Mayfield - "Junkie Chase"

Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist
	Gary Burton - Alone at Last
	Freddie Hubbard - The Hub of Hubbard
	Tom Scott - Great Scott
	Sonny Stitt - Tune-Up!
	McCoy Tyner - Sahara

Best Jazz Performance - Group
	Freddie Hubbard - First Light
	George Benson - White Rabbit
	Joe Farrell - Outback
	Chuck Mangione - The Chuck Mangione Quartet
	McCoy Tyner - Sahara
	Weather Report - I Sing the Body Electric

Best Jazz Performance - Big Band
	Duke Ellington - "Togo Brava Suite"
	Kenny Clark, Francy Boland Big Band - All Smiles
	Don Ellis - Connection
	Maynard Ferguson - M.F. Horn Two
	Gerry Mulligan - The Age of Steam

Best Country & Western Song
	"Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'" - Ben Peters
	"Delta Dawn" - Alex Harvey, Larry Collins
	"Funny Face" - Donna Fargo
	"Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A." - Donna Fargo
	"Woman (Sensuous Woman)" - Gary S. Paxton

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male
	Charley Pride - Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs
	Merle Haggard - "It's Not Love (but I'ts Not Bad)"
	Waylon Jennings - "Good Hearted Woman"
	Jerry Lee Curtis - "Chantilly Lace"
	Charlie Rich - "I Take It on Home"

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female
	Donna Fargo - "Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A."
	Skeeter Davis - "One Tin Soldier"
	Loretta Lynn - "One's on the Way"
	Dolly Parton - "Touch Your Woman"
	Tanya Tucker - "Delta Dawn"
	Tammy Wynette - "My Man"

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Duo or Group
	Statler Brothers - "Class of '57"
	Mother Maybelle Carter, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, Roy Acuff, Merle Travis, Jimmy Martin, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will the Circle Be Unbroken
	Johnny Cash, June Carter - "If I Had a Hammer"
	George Jones, Tammy Wynette - "Take Me"
	Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn - Lead Me On

Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance
	Charlie McCoy - The Real McCoy
	Chet Atkins - Chet Atkins Picks on the Hits
	Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed - Me and Chet
	Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass - Flowers on the Wall
	Lester Flatt - "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"

Best Inspirational Performance
	Elvis Presley - He Touched Me
	Little Jimmy Dempsey - Award Winning Guitar
	Merle Haggard - Land of Many Churches
	Danny Lee & the Children of Truth - Spread a Little Love Around
	Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra and Chorus - The Greatest Hits of Christmas
	Pipes & Drums & Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - "Amazing Grace" track
	Ray Stevens - "Love Lifted Me"

Best Soul Gospel Performance
	Aretha Franklin - "Amazing Grace"
	B.C. & M. Choir - My Sweet Lord
	Aretha Franklin, James Cleveland - "Precious Memories"
	Edwin Hawkins Singers - "Jesu"
	Clara Ward - "Last Mile of the Way"

Best Gospel Performance
	Blackwood Brothers - L-O-V-E
	Wendy Bagwell & the Sunliters - By Your Request
	Oak Ridge Boys - Light
	Rambos - Soul in the Family
	Thrasher Brothers - America Sings

Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording
	The London Muddy Waters Session - Muddy Waters
	Blues Piano Orgy - Little Brother Montgomery, Roosevelt Sykes, Sunnyland Slim, Speckled Red, Otis Spann, Curtis Jones
	Lightnin' Strikes - Lightnin' Hopkins
	Live at Soledad Prison - John Lee Hooker
	Walking the Blues - Otis Spann

Best Instrumental Composition
	Michel Legrand - "Brian's Song"
	Don Ellis - "Theme from The French Connection"
	Henry Mancini - "Brass on Ivory"
	Billy Preston, Joe Greene - "Outa-Space"
	Nino Rota - "Theme from The Godfather"

Best Instrumental Arrangement
	Don Ellis - "Theme from The French Connection" (Don Ellis)
	Richard Carpenter - "Flat Baroque" (Carpenters)
	Quincy Jones - "Money Runner" (Quincy Jones)
	Henry Mancini - "Theme from The Mancini Generation" (Henry Mancini)
	Don Sebesky - "Lonely Town" (Freddie Hubbard)

Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album
	Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope - Micki Grant
	Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death - Melvin Van Peebles
	Grease - Warren Casey, Jim Jacobs
	Sugar - Jule Styne, Bob Merrill
	Two Gentlemen of Verona - John Guare, Galt MacDermott

Best Original Score written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
	The Godfather - Nino Rota
	$ soundtrack - Quincy Jones
	The Garden of the Finzi Continis - Manuel DeSica
	Nicholas and Alexandra - Richard Rodney Bennett
	Superfly - Curtis Mayfield

Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
	Michel Legrand - "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life" (Sarah Vaughan)
	Thom Bell - "Betcha by Golly, Wow" (Stylistics)
	Michel Legrand - "The Summer Knows" (Sarah Vaughan)
	Don Sebesky - "Day by Day" (Jackie & Roy)
	Don Sebesky - "Lazy Afternoon"

Album of the Year - Classical
	Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E Flat Major ("Symphony of a Thousand") - Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony, Vienna Boys' Choir, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Singverein Chorus and soloists
	Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini - Colin Davis conducting the BBC Symphony; Chorus of Covent Garden (solos: Gedda, Eda-Pierre, Soyer, Berbie)
	Bernstein: Mass - Leonard Bernstein conducting ensemble orchestra and the Norman Scribner and Berkshire Boys' Choir
	Brahms: Concerto No. 2 in B Flat Major for Piano - Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra (solo: Rubinstein)
	Horowitz Plays Chopin (Polonaise in A Flat Major Introduction and Rondo, Op. 16, etc.) (solo: Horowitz)
	Wagner: Tannhauser - Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Kolio, Dernesch, Ludwig, Braun, Sotin)

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
	Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony - Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E Minor
	Pierre Boulez conducting the New York Philharmonic - Boulez Conducts Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin and Dance Suite
	Antal Dorati conducting the Philharmonic Hungarica - Haydn: Symphonies (Complete), Vols. 4 and 5
	Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra - Gliere: Ilya Murometz (Symphony No. 3)
	Maksim Shostakovich conducting the Moscow Radio Symphony - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15
	Leopold Stokowski conducting the London Symphony - Ives: Orchestral Set No. 2
	Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Boston Symphony - Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps)
	Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic - Schumann: Symphonies (4)

Best Chamber Music Performance
	Julian Bream, John Williams - Julian and John (selections by Lawes, Carulli, Albeniz, Granados)
	Guarneri Quartet - Schubert: Quartet No. 13 in A Minor
	Igor Kipnis, Thurston Dart - Music for Two Harpsichords (Mozart, Byrd, Farnably, etc.)
	La Salle Quartet - String Quartets of the New Viennese School
	David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter - Shostakovich: Sonata for Violin and Piano
	Artur Rubinstein, Guarneri Quartet - Dvorak: Quintet in A Major for Piano
	Isaac Stern, Alexander Zakin - Bartok: Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 for Violin and Piano
	John Williams, Rafael Puyana - Music for Guitar and Harpsichord (works by Straube, Ponce, Dodgson)

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist with Orchestra
	Artur Rubinstein (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra) - Brahms: Concerto No. 2 in B Flat Major for Piano
	Philippe Entremont (Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra) - Ravel: Concerto in D Major for Left Hand
	Heinz Holliger (de Waart conducting the New Philharmonia) - Strauss: Concerto in D Major for Oboe
	David Oistrakh (Berlin Philharmonic) - Mozart: Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra
	E. Power Biggs (Peress conducting the Columbia Brass Percussion Ensemble) - Music for Organ, Brass and Percussion
	Barry Tuckwell (Marriner conducting the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields) - Mozart: The 4 Horn Concertos

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist without Orchestra
	Vladimir Horowitz - Horowitz Plays Chopin
	Laurindo Almeida - The Art of Laurindo Almeida
	Rudolf Firkusny - Janacek: Piano Works (Complete)
	William Masselos - Schumann: Davidsbundletanze; Brahms: Sonata No. 1
	Arturo Beneditti Michelangeli - Debussy: Images, Books 1 and 2, Children's Corner Suite
	Itzhak Perlman - Paganini: The 24 Caprices
	Rafael Puyana - Couperin: Harpsichord Pieces
	Charles Rosen - Beethoven: The Late Sonatas for Piano

Best Opera Recording
	Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini - Colin Davis conducting the BBC Symphony; Chorus of Covent Garden (solos: Gedda, Eda-Pierre, Soyer, Berbie)
	Britten: Owen Wingrave - Benjamin Britten conducting the English Chamber Orchestra (solos: Baker, Pears, Luson, Harper)
	Mussorgsky: Bor is Godunov - Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Boys' Choir, Vienna State Opera Chorus (solos: Ghiaurov, Vishnevskaya, Spiess, Talvela, Maslennikov)
	Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - Leonard Bernstein conducting the Vienna State Opera Chorus; Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Ludwig, Berry, Popp, Jones)
	Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen - Wilhelm Furtwangler conducting the Rome Symphony; RAI Chorus (solos: Modl, Suthaus, Frantz)
	Wagner: Tannhauser - Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Kollo, Dernesch, Ludwig, Braun, Sotin)

Best Classical Performance - Choral
	Georg Solti conducting the Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Singverein Chorus, Vienna Boys' Choir, Chicago Symphony, soloists - Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E Flat Major ("Symphony of a Thousand")
	Leonard Bernstein conducting ensemble orchestra and the Norman Scribner and Berkshire Boys' Choirs - Bernstein: Mass
	Charles Groves conducting the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra - Delius: A Mass of Life
	Raymond Leppard conducting the Glyndebourne Opera Chorus, Ambrosian Singers, English Chamber Orchestra - Monteverdi: Madrigals, Books 8-10
	E. Power Biggs, Gregg Smith Singers, Texas Boys' Choir, Gregg Smith; Vittorio Negri conducting the Tarr Brass Ensemble - The Glory of Venice (Gabrielli in San Marco - Music for Multiple Choirs, Brass and Organ)
	Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra - Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
	Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Richter, accompanist) - Brahms: Die Schone Magelone
	Janet Baker (Barbirolli conducting the London Symphony) - Elgar: Sea Pictures
	Jan DeGaetani (Kalish, accompanist) - Songs by Stephen Foster
	Anna Moffo (Robert Casadesus, accompanist) - Songs of Debussy
	Birgit Nilsson (Davis conducting the London Symphony) - Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder
	Leontyne Price (Cleva conducting the London Symphony) - 5 Great Operatic Scenes (Verdi: La Traviata, Don Carlo; Tchaikovsky: Onegin; Strauss: Ariadne, etc.)

Best Engineered Recording - Classical
	Gordon Parry, Kenneth Wilkinson - Mahler: Symphony No. 8 ("Symphony of a Thousand") (Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony)
	Paul Goodman - Gliere: Ilya Murometz (Symphony No. 3) (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra)
	Edward Graham, Raymond Moore - Boulez Conducts Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin (Complete) and Dance Suite (Boulez conducting the New York Philharmonic; Hugh Ross directing Schola Cantorum)
	Hans Lauterslager - Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (Davis conducting the BBC Symphony, Chorus of Covent Garden)
	Raymond Moore, Edward Graham - Boulez Conducts Stravinsky (Petrushka) (Boulez conducting the New York Philharmonic)
	Gordon Parry, James Lock, Colin Moorfoot - Wagner: Tannhauser (Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic)
	Don Puluse - Bernstein: Mass (Bernstein conducting the choirs and orchestra)

Best Spoken Word Recording
	Lenny - original cast
	Angela Davis Speaks - Angela Davis
	Cannonball Adderley Presents Soul Zodiac - Rick Holmes, narrator
	The Word - Rod McKuen
	Yevtushenko - Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Best Comedy Recording
	FM & AM - George Carlin
	All in the Family - Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers, Rob Reiner
	Big Bambu - Cheech & Chong
	Geraldine - Flip Wilson

Best Recording for Children
	The Electric Company - Lee Chamberlin, Bill Cosby, Rita Moreno
	Kukla, Fran and Ollie - Kukla, Fran & Ollie
	The Muppet Alphabet Album - Muppets (Jim Henson)
	Sesame Street II - original TV cast
	Snoopy, Come Home - Robert B. Sherman, Richard M. Sherman, composers

Best Engineered Recording
	Armin Steiner - Moods (Neil Diamond)
	Robin Cable, Ken Scott, Phillip MacDonald - Son of Schmilsson (Nilsson)
	Eddy Offord - Fragile (Yes)
	Ken Scott - Honky Chateau (Elton John)
	Armin Steiner - Baby I'm-a Want You (Bread)

Best Album Cover
	Acy Lehman, art director; Harvey Dinnerstein, artist - The Siegel-Schwall Band (Siegel-Schwall Band)
	Hipgnosis, design; Poe, photographer - Flash (Flash)
	Ron Levine, Pacific Eye & Ear, Robert Rodriguez - Five Dollar Shoes (Five Dollar Shoes)
	Bill Levy, Fred Marcellino - Virgin (The Mission)
	Aaron Schumaker for Tumbleweed Graphics - Chief (Dewey Terry)
	Norman Seef - Historical Figures and Ancient Heads (Canned Heat)
	Ed Thrasher, Chris Wolf, art directors; Dave Willardson, illustrator; John & Barbara Casado, graphics - Sunset Ride (Zephyr)
	Wilkes & Braun, Inc. & Sound Packaging Corp., album design; Robert Otter, photographer - School's Out (Alice Cooper)

Best Album Notes - Classical
	James Lyons - Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 ("A London Symphony") (Previn conducting the London Symphony)
	David Cairns - Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (Davis conducting the BBC Symphony)
	Tom Eastwood - Julian and John (Julian Bream, John Williams)
	Karolynne Gee - Michael Rabin - in Memoriam (Michael Rabin)
	H.C. Robbins Landon - Hadyn: Symphonies (Complete), Vols. 4 and 5 (Dorati conducting the Philharmonia Hungarica)
	Sacheverell Sitwell - John Ogdon Plays Alkan (John Ogdon)
	Ursula Von Rauchhaupt - String Quartets of the New Viennese School (La Salle Quartet)

Best Album Notes
	Tom T. Hall - Tom T. Hall's Greatest Hits (Tom T. Hall)
	Michael Brooks - Super Chief (Count Basie)
	Albert Goldman - Lenny Bruce/Carnegie Hall (Lenny Bruce)
	Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music (Charles Mingus)
	Dan Morgenstern - Bunny Berigan, His Trumpet and His Orchestra, Vol. 1 (Bunny Berigan)

Lifetime Achievement Award
	Louis Armstrong
	Mahalia Jackson