28th Annual Grammy Awards

28th Annual Grammy Awards
Date February 25, 1986
Location Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles
Host Kenny Rogers
Television/Radio coverage
Network CBS

The 28th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 25, 1986 at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year, 1985.[1][2]

Album of the Year went to Hugh Padgham and Phil Collins for No Jacket Required, and Song of the Year went to Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie for We Are the World.

The night's big winner was USA For Africa's "We Are The World", which won four awards, including Song of the Year. The latter was awarded to its songwriters, Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson. This was a sweet victory for both, as it marked the first time in their respective careers that they won the coveted Song of the Year category. For Richie, it was his sixth attempt in eight years. The other three awards for the charity single were not given to the performing artist (as is usually the case), but to the song's producer, Quincy Jones. These three Grammy's brought his career total to 19, just one shy of the (then) record holder in the popular genres, Henry Mancini.

Another big winner was Phil Collins, whose No Jacket Required LP amassed three wins: Album of the Year, Producer of the Year and Best Pop Vocal (Male).

There were a number of remarkable wins in the classical field. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's recording of Berlioz: Requiem won three awards, while a different recording by the same orchestra won the Best Orchestral Performance award. These four wins were the result of an unusually large number of nominations for the orchestra (12 in total), including four in the Best Classical Album category which normally holds five nominees (the Recording Academy decided to add a number of nominations to this list to lessen the domination of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in this category). Several sources from the American classical community - including record labels - expressed their dismay with the situation, suggesting that this was the result of many members of the orchestra and other associates joining the Recording Academy in force to be able to vote on nominations and Grammy winners.[3] Despite the controversy, the orchestra's conductor Robert Shaw and their album producer (and record label owner) Robert Woods won three Grammy's each.

Another success story was that of the Manhattan Transfer and their album Vocalese. It had received twelve nominations, which was the second highest number of nominations ever for an album, three fewer than the then-record holder Thriller by Michael Jackson, which was nominated fifteen times in 1984. Their twelve nominations eventually resulted in three Grammy wins, including two for the song "Another Night in Tunisia" (performed and arranged on the album by guest vocalists Jon Hendricks and Bobby McFerrin)

Stevie Wonder finally managed to add another Grammy to his total. After winning fifteen awards in the mid-1970s, he won his first Grammy in nine years for his album In Square Circle. Songwriter Jimmy Webb had to wait even longer as his song "Highwayman" won him his first Grammy in 17 years (after 1969's Up, Up and Away).

There was one posthumous Grammy, for orchestra leader and arranger Nelson Riddle, for his arrangements on Linda Ronstadt's album Lush Life.

There was one new category, Best Polka Recording. It would run until 2009. Of the 24 winning albums, eighteen were made by polka legend Jimmy Sturr.


Performers

Artist(s) Song(s)
Sting "Russians"
Whitney Houston "Saving All My Love for You
Starship "We Built This City"
Ronnie Milsap
The Five Satins
Carl Perkins
Huey Lewis and the News		 Medley:
"Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)"
"Blue Suede Shoes"
"Flip, Flop and Fly"
Phil Collins "Sussudio"
Stevie Wonder "Part-Time Lover"
A-ha "Take On Me"
B.B.King
Tony Williams
Stanley Clarke
Ron Carter
Michel Petrucciani
Herbie Hancock
Kenny Burrell
Stanley Jordan
Bobby Hutcherson
Gary Burton
Jon Faddis
Dizzy Gillespie
Gerry Mulligan
David Sanborn
Buddy Rich
Sarah Vaughan
Diane Schuur
Bobby McFerrin
Joe Williams
The Manhattan Transfer		 "Groovin' High"
"How High the Moon"
Christopher Parkening Tribue to Andrés Segovia
"Canarios" by Gaspar Sanz
Huey Lewis and the News "The Power of Love"

Award winners

Blues

Best Traditional Blues Recording

Children's

Classical

Comedy

Composing and arranging

Country

Folk

Gospel

Historical

Jazz

Latin

Musical show

Music video

Packaging and notes

Polka

Pop

Production and engineering

R&B

Reggae

Rock

Spoken

References

  1. ↑ ""World" gets four Grammys". The Milwaukee Sentinel. 26 February 1986. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  2. ↑ "1985 Grammy Award Winners". Grammy.com. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  3. ↑ Billboard's "Keeping Score", 1 February 1986

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