1971 Grammy Awards
Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
| “It's Too Late,” Carole King | |
| Album of the Year | Tapestry, Carole King (Ode) | |
| Song of the Year | “You've Got a Friend,” Carole King, songwriter | |
| Best New Artist of the Year | Carly Simon | |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male | “You've Got a Friend,” James Taylor | |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female | Tapestry, Carole King | |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Group | Carpenters, Carpenters | |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance | Smackwater Jack, Quincy Jones | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Song | “Ain't No Sunshine,” Bill Withers, songwriter | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male | “A Natural Man,” Lou Rawls | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female | “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Aretha Franklin | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Group | “Proud Mary,” Ike and Tina Turner | |
| Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist | The Bill Evans Album, Bill Evans | |
| Best Jazz Performance By a Group | The Bill Evans Album, Bill Evans Trio | |
| Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band | “New Orleans Suite,” Duke Ellington | |
| Best Country Song | “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” Kris Kristofferson, songwriter | |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male | “When You're Hot, You're Hot,” Jerry Reed | |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female | “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” Sammi Smith | |
| Best Country Vocal Performance By a Group | “After the Fire Is Gone,” Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn | |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance | “Snowbird,” Chet Atkins | |
| Best Gospel Performance (Other Than Soul Gospel) | “Let Me Live,” Charley Pride | |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance | Put Your Hand in the Hand of the Man From Galilee, Shirley Caesar | |
| Best Sacred Performance | Did You Think to Pray, Charley Pride | |
| Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording | They Call Me Muddy Waters, Muddy Waters (Chess) | |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement | “Theme From Shaft,” Isaac Hayes and Johnny Allen, arrangers | |
| Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) | “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey,” Paul McCartney, arranger | |
| Best Instrumental Compostion | “Theme From Summer of '42,” Michel Legrand, composer | |
| Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album | Godspell, Stephen Schwartz, composer and producer (Bell) | |
| Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special | Shaft, Isaac Hayes, composer | |
| Album of the Year, Classical | Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz (Columbia) | |
| Best Classical Performance, Orchestra | Mahler, Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Carlo Maria Giulini conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra | |
| Best Chamber Music Performance | Debussy, Quartet in G Minor, Ravel, Quartet in F Major, Juilliard Quartet | |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) | Villa-Lobos, Concerto for Guitar, Julian Bream; André Previn conducting London Symphony | |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) | Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz | |
| Best Opera Recording | Verdi, Aïda, Erich Leinsdorf conducting London Symphony Orchestra; solos: Price, Domingo, Milnes, Bumbry and Raimondi (RCA) | |
| Best Choral Performance, Classical (Other Than Opera) | Berlioz, Requiem, Colin Davis conducting London Symphony Orchestra; Russell Burgess conducting Wandsworth School Boys Choir; Arthur Oldham conducting London Symphony Chorus | |
| Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance | Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann, Leontyne Price | |
| Best Comedy Recording | This Is a Recording, Lily Tomlin (Polydor) | |
| Best Spoken Word Recording | Desiderata, Les Crane (Warner Bros.) | |
| Best Recording for Children | Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs, Bill Cosby (Uni) | |
| Best Album Cover | Pollution, Dean O. Torrance, album design; Gene Brownell, art director (Prophesy) | |
| Best Album Notes | Sam, Hard and Heavy, Sam Samudio, annotator (Atlantic) |
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