Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The 31st Grammy Awards were held in 1989. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Record of the Year Linda Goldstein (producer) & Bobby McFerrin for "Don't Worry, Be Happy" Album of the Year George Michael (producer & artist) for Faith Song of the Year Bobby McFerrin for "Don't Worry, Be Happy" Best New Artist Tracy Chapman Blues Best Traditional Blues Recording Willie Dixon for Hidden Charms Best Contemporary Blues Recording The Robert Cray Band for "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark " Children's Best Recording for Children Ry Cooder (producer & composer), Mark Sottnick (producer) & Robin Williams for Pecos Bill Classical Best Orchestral Recording Robert Woods (producer), Louis Lane, Robert Shaw (conductors) & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for Rorem: String Symphony; Sunday Morning; Eagles Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance Emerson Buckley (conductor), Luciano Pavarotti & the Symphony Orchestra of Amelia Romangna for Luciano Pavarotti in Concert Best Opera Recording Christopher Raeburn (producer), Georg Solti (conductor), Plácido Domingo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Siegmund Nimsgern, Jessye Norman, Eva Randova, Hans Sotin, & the Vienna State Opera Orchestra for Wagner: Lohengrin Best Choral Performance (other than opera) Robert Shaw (conductor) & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) (with orchestra) Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor), Vladimir Horowitz & the La Scala Opera Orchestra for Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist (without orchestra) Alicia De Larrocha for Albeniz: Iberia, Navarra, Suite Espagnola Best Chamber Music Performance David Corkhill, Evelyn Glennie, Murray Perahia & Georg Solti for Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion Best Contemporary Composition John Adams (composer), Edo De Waart (conductor) & the San Francisco Symphony for Adams: Nixon in China Best Classical Album Robert Woods (producer), Robert Shaw (conductor) & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses Comedy Best Comedy Recording Robin Williams for Good Morning Vietnam Composing and arranging Best Instrumental Composition Mike Post (composer) for "The Theme From LA Law" Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television Phil Collins and Lamont Dozier (songwriters) for "Two Hearts" performed by Phil Collins Best Album or Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television David Byrne, Cong Su, and Ryuichi Sakamoto (composers) for The Last Emperor Best Arrangement on an Instrumental Roger Kellaway (arranger) for "Memos From Paradise" performed by Eddie Daniels Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) Jonathan Tunick (arranger) for "No One Is Alone" performed by [Cleo Laine Country Best Country Vocal Performance, Female K.T. Oslin for "Hold Me" Best Country Vocal Performance, Male Randy Travis for Old 8x10 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal The Judds for "Give a Little Love" Best Country Vocal Collaboration k.d. lang & Roy Orbison for "Crying" Best Country Instrumental Performance (orchestra, group or soloist) Asleep at the Wheel for "Sugarfoot Rag" Best Country Song K.T. Oslin (songwriter) for "Hold Me" Best Bluegrass Recording (vocal or instrumental) Bill Monroe for Southern Flavor Folk Best Traditional Folk Recording Don DeVito, Harold Leventhal, Joe McEwen & Ralph Rinzler (producers) for Folkways - A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly performed by various artists Best Contemporary Folk Recording Tracy Chapman for Tracy Chapman Gospel Best Gospel Performance, Female Amy Grant for Lead Me On Best Gospel Performance, Male Larnelle Harris for Christmas Best Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus The Winans for The Winans Live at Carnegie Hall Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female Aretha Franklin for One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male BeBe Winans for "Abundant Life" Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus Take 6 for Take 6 Historical Best Historical Album Bill Levenson (producer) for Crossroads performed by Eric Clapton Jazz Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female Betty Carter for Look What I Got! Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male Bobby McFerrin for Brothers Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group Take 6 for "Spread Love" Best Jazz Fusion Performance Yellowjackets for Politics Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist Michael Brecker for Don't Try This at Home Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Group David Murray, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Cecil McBee & Roy Haynes for Blues for Coltrane: A Tribute to John Coltrane Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Big Band Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra for Bud & Bird Latin Best Latin Pop Performance Roberto Carlos for Roberto Carlos Best Tropical Latin Performance Rubén Blades for Antecedente Best Mexican-American Performance Linda Ronstadt for Canciones de Mi Padre Musical Show Best Musical Cast Show Album Jay David Saks (producer), Stephen Sondheim (composer & lyricist) & various artists for Into the Woods Music Video Best Concept Music Video Susan Zwerman (video producer), Jay Levey (video director) & Weird Al Yankovic for "I'm Fat" Best Performance Music Video Michael Hamlyn, Ben Dossett (video producers), Meiert Avis (video director) & U2 for "Where the Streets Have No Name" New Age Best New Age Performance Shadowfax for Folksongs for a Nuclear Village Packaging and Notes Best Album Package - Incl. Album Cover, Graphic Arts, Photography Bill Johnson (art director) for Tired of Runnin' performed by O'Kanes Best Album Notes Anthony DeCurtis (notes writer) for Crossroads performed by Eric Clapton Polka Best Polka Album Jimmy Sturr for Born to Polka Pop Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female Tracy Chapman for "Fast Car" Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male Bobby McFerrin for "Don't Worry, Be Happy" Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal The Manhattan Transfer for Brasil Best Pop Instrumental Performance, Orchestra, Group or Soloist David Sanborn for Close-up Production and engineering Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical Tom Lord-Alge (engineer) for Roll With It performed by Steve Winwood Producer of the Year, Non-Classical Neil Dorfsman Best Classical Engineered Recording Jack Renner (engineer), Robert Shaw (conductor) & the Vienna Philharmonic for Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses Classical Producer of the Year Robert Woods R&B Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female Anita Baker for "Giving You the Best That I Got" Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male Terence Trent D'arby for Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'arby Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Gladys Knight & The Pips for Love Overboard Best R&B Instrumental Performance Chick Corea for "Light Years" Best R&B Song Anita Baker, Skip Scarborough & Randy Holland (songwriters) for "Giving You the Best That I Got" performed by Anita Baker Rap Best Rap Performance D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince (Jeff Thowes and Will Smith) for "Parent's Just Don't Understand" Reggae Best Reggae Recording Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers for Conscious Party Rock Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female Tina Turner for Tina Live in Europe Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male Robert Palmer for "Simply Irresistible" Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal U2 for "Desire" Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) Carlos Santana for Blues for Salvador Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental Jethro Tull for Crest of a Knave Spoken Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album Jesse Jackson for Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson Other Grammy Award Years 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.