1973 Grammy Awards
Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
| “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” Roberta Flack | |
| Album of the Year | Innervisions, Stevie Wonder (Tamla/Motown) | |
| Song of the Year | “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox, songwriters | |
| Best New Artist of the Year | Bette Midler | |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male | “You Are the Sunshine of My Life,” Stevie Wonder | |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female | “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” Roberta Flack | |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus | “Neither One of Us” (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye), Gladys Knight and the Pips | |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance | “Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001),” Eumir Deodato | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Song | “Superstition,” Stevie Wonder, songwriter | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male | “Superstition,” Stevie Wonder | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female | “Master of Eyes,” Aretha Franklin | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus | “Midnight Train to Georgia,” Gladys Knight and the Pips | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance | “Hang on Sloopy,” Ramsey Lewis | |
| Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist | God Is in the House, Art Tatum | |
| Best Jazz Performance By a Group | Supersax Plays Bird, Supersax | |
| Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band | Giant Steps, Woody Herman | |
| Best Country Song | “Behind Closed Doors,” Kenny O'Dell, songwriter | |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male | “Behind Closed Doors,” Charlie Rich | |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female | “Let Me Be There,” Olivia Newton-John | |
| Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group | “From the Bottle to the Bottom,” Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge | |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance | “Dueling Banjos,” Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell | |
| Best Gospel Performance | Release Me (From My Sin), Blackwood Brothers | |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance | “Loves Me Like a Rock,” Dixie Hummingbirds | |
| Best Inspirational Performance | Let's Just Praise the Lord, Bill Gaither Trio | |
| Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording | Then and Now, Doc Watson (United Artists) | |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement | “Summer in the City,” Quincy Jones, arranger | |
| Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist | “Live and Let Die,” George Martin, arranger | |
| Best Instrumental Composition | “Last Tango in Paris,” Gato Barbiera, composer | |
| Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album | A Little Night Music, Stephen Sondheim, composer | |
| Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Neil Diamond, composer | |
| Album of the Year, Classical | Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra, Pierre Boulez conducting New York Philharmonic Orchestra (Columbia) | |
| Best Classical Performance, Orchestra | Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra, Pierre Boulez conducting New York Philharmonic Orchestra | |
| Best Chamber Music Performance | Joplin, The Red Back Book, Gunther Schuller and the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble | |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (With Orchestra) | Beethoven, Concerti (5) for Piano and Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy; Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony | |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (Without Orchestra) | Scriabin, Horowitz Plays Scriabin, Vladimir Horowitz | |
| Best Opera Recording | Bizet, Carmen, Leonard Bernstein conducting The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Manhattan Opera Chorus; solos: Horne, McCracken, Maliponte and Krause (Deutsche Grammophon/Polydor) | |
| Best Choral Performance, Classical | Walton, Belshazzar's Feast, André Previn conducting London Symphony Orchestra; Arthur Oldham conducting London Symphony Orchestra Chorus | |
| Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance | Puccini, Heroines (La Bohème, Tosca, Manon Lescaut), Leontyne Price; Downes conducting New Philharmonia | |
| Best Comedy Recording | Los Cochinos, Cheech and Chong (Ode) | |
| Best Spoken Word Recording | Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Harris (Columbia) | |
| Best Recording for Children | Sesame Street Live, Sesame Street cast (Columbia) | |
| Best Album Package | Tommy, Wilkes and Braun, Inc., art director (Ode) | |
| Best Album Notes | God Is in the House, Dan Morgenstern, annotator (Onyx) | |
| Best Album Notes, Classical | Hindemith, Sonatas for Piano (Complete), Glenn Gould, annotator (Columbia) |
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