28th Annual Grammy Awards

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28th Annual Grammy Awards
DateFebruary 25, 1986
Location
USA for Africa
(4)
Television/radio coverage
NetworkCBS
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The 28th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 25, 1986, at

Record of the Year) for the latter single were given to the song's producer, Quincy Jones
.

Another big winner was Phil Collins, whose No Jacket Required LP amassed three wins:

Manhattan Transfer also won three awards, including two for the song "Another Night in Tunisia" (performed and arranged on the album by guest vocalists Jon Hendricks and Bobby McFerrin
).

Best Polka Recording
. It would run until 2009.

Controversy

There were a number of remarkable wins in the classical field. 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 Grammys each.

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"
"Groovin' High"
"How High the Moon"
Christopher Parkening Tribute to Andrés Segovia
"Canarios" by Gaspar Sanz
Huey Lewis and the News "The Power of Love"

Award winners

Record of the Year

Album of the Year

Song of the Year

Best New Artist

Blues

Best Traditional Blues Recording
  • "My Guitar Sings the Blues" -
    B.B. King

Children's

Classical

Comedy

Composing and arranging

Country

Folk

Gospel

Historical

Jazz

Latin

Musical show

Music video

  • Best Music Video, Short Form
    • USA for Africa
  • Best Music Video, Long Form

Packaging and notes

Polka

Pop

Production and engineering

R&B

Reggae

Rock

Spoken

  • Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Recording
    • Mike Berniker (producer) & the original Broadway cast for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Special awards

References

  1. ^ ""World" gets four Grammys". The Milwaukee Sentinel. 26 February 1986. Retrieved 1 May 2011.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "1985 Grammy Award Winners". Grammy.com. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  3. ^ "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1 February 1986. Retrieved 1 August 2017 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Prince". GRAMMY.com. 2019-11-19. Retrieved 2019-11-24.

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