The17th Annual Grammy Awards were presented March 1, 1975, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1974.^[1][2]

• The Spinners - "Mighty Love"
• Marvin Hamlisch &Andy Williams - "The Way We Were"
• Les Hooper - big band performance
• Anne Murray - "A Love Song"
• Harry Chapin - "Cat's in the Cradle"
• Aretha Franklin - "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"
• Stevie Wonder - "You Haven't Done Nothin'"
• Waylon Jennings - "I'm a Ramblin' Man"

• David Bowie - Best R&B Performance, Female
• Bette Midler - Album of the Year
• Paul Simon &John Lennon - Record of the Year
• Tony Orlando & Dawn - Best New Artist
• Gladys Knight & The Pips - Song of the Year
• Kate Smith - Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male
• Moms Mabley - Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
• Righteous Brothers &Aretha Franklin - Best R&B Performance by Duo or Group with Vocal

• Record of the Year
  • John Farrar (producer) &Olivia Newton-John for "I Honestly Love You" (accepted byArt Garfunkel)
• Album of the Year
  • Stevie Wonder (producer & artist) forFulfillingness' First Finale
• Song of the Year
  • Alan and Marilyn Bergman &Marvin Hamlisch (songwriters) for "The Way We Were" performed byBarbra Streisand
• Best New Artist
  • Marvin Hamlisch

• Best Recording for Children
  • Sebastian Cabot,Sterling Holloway &Paul Winchell forWinnie the Pooh and Tigger Too

• Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
  • Georg Solti (conductor) & theChicago Symphony Orchestra forBerlioz:Symphonie fantastique
• Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
  • Leontyne Price forLeontyne Price SingsRichard Strauss
• Best Opera Recording
  • Richard Mohr (producer),Georg Solti (conductor),Judith Blegen,Montserrat Caballé,Plácido Domingo,Sherrill Milnes,Ruggero Raimondi & theLondon Philharmonic forPuccini:La bohème
• Best Choral Performance, Classical (other than opera)
  • Colin Davis (conductor) theAmbrosian Singers, theWandsworth School Boys Choir & theLondon Symphony Orchestra & Chorus forBerlioz:La Damnation de Faust
• Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra)
  • Maxim Shostakovich (conductor),David Oistrakh & theNew Philharmonia forShostakovich:Violin Concerto No. 1
• Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra)
  • Alicia de Larrocha forAlbéniz:Iberia
• Best Chamber Music Performance
  • Pierre Fournier,Arthur Rubinstein &Henryk Szeryng forBrahms: Trios (Complete)/Schumann:Trio No. 1 in D Minor
• Album of the Year, Classical
  • David Harvey (producer),Georg Solti (conductor) & theChicago Symphony Orchestra forBerlioz:Symphonie fantastique

• Best Comedy Recording
  • Richard Pryor forThat Nigger's Crazy

• Best Instrumental Composition
  • Mike Oldfield (composer) for "Tubular Bells - Theme FromThe Exorcist"
• Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special
  • Alan and Marilyn Bergman &Marvin Hamlisch (composers) forThe Way We Were performed byBarbra Streisand
• Best Instrumental Arrangement
  • Patrick Williams (arranger) forThreshold
• Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists
  • Joni Mitchell &Tom Scott (arrangers) for "Down to You" performed byJoni Mitchell

• Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
  • Anne Murray forLove Song
• Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
  • Ronnie Milsap for "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends"
• Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
  • ThePointer Sisters for "Fairytale"
• Best Country Instrumental Performance
  • Chet Atkins &Merle Travis forThe Atkins–Travis Traveling Show
• Best Country Song
  • Billy Sherrill &Norro Wilson (songwriters) for "A Very Special Love Song" performed byCharlie Rich

• Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording
  • Doc Watson &Merle Watson forTwo Days in November

• Best Gospel Performance
  • The Oak Ridge Boys for "The Baptism of Jesse Taylor"
• Best Soul Gospel Performance
  • James Cleveland forIn the Ghetto performed byJames Cleveland & theSouthern California Community Choir
• Best Inspirational Performance (non-classical)
  • Elvis Presley forHow Great Thou Art

• Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist
  • Charlie Parker forFirst Recordings!
• Best Jazz Performance by a Group
  • Joe Pass,Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen &Oscar Peterson forThe Trio
• Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band
  • Woody Herman forThundering Herd

• Best Score From the Original Cast Show Album
  • Robert Brittan,Judd Woldin (composers),Thomas Z. Shepard (producer) & the original cast (Virginia Capers,Joe Morton,Ernestine Jackson, Robert Jackson,Deborah Allen &Helen Martin) forRaisin

• Best Album Package
  • Christopher Whorf &Ed Thrasher (art directors) forCome and Gone performed byMason Proffit
• Best Album Notes
  • Charles R. Townsend (notes writer) forFor the Last Time performed byBob Wills & His Texas Playboys
  • Dan Morgenstern (notes writer) forThe Hawk Flies performed byColeman Hawkins
• Best Album Notes - Classical
  • Angus Scrimm (as Rory Guy) (notes writer) forKorngold: The Classic Erich Wolfgang Korngold conducted byUlf Hoelscher/Willy Mattes

• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
  • Olivia Newton-John for "I Honestly Love You"
• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male
  • Stevie Wonder forFulfillingness' First Finale
• Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
  • Paul McCartney &Wings for "Band on the Run"
• Best Pop Instrumental Performance
  • Marvin Hamlisch for "The Entertainer"

• Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
  • Geoff E. Emerick (engineer) forBand on the Run performed byPaul McCartney &Wings
• Best Engineered Recording, Classical
  • Kenneth Wilkinson (engineer),Georg Solti (conductor) & theChicago Symphony Orchestra forBerlioz:Symphonie fantastique
• Best Producer of the Year
  • Thom Bell

• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
  • Aretha Franklin for "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"
• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male
  • Stevie Wonder for "Boogie on Reggae Woman"
• Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
  • Rufus for "Tell Me Something Good"
• Best R&B Instrumental Performance
  • MFSB for "The Sound of Philadelphia"
• Best Rhythm & Blues Song
  • Stevie Wonder (songwriter) for "Living for the City"

• Best Spoken Word Recording
  • Peter Cook &Dudley Moore forGood Evening

• 17th Grammy Awards at the Internet Movie Database

• Grammy Awards ceremonies
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• 1975 in American music
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