17th Annual Grammy Awards

The 17th Annual Grammy Awards were presented March 1, 1975, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1974.

Performers

• 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"

Presenters

• 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

Award winners

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

Children's

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

Classical

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

Comedy

• Best Comedy Recording
• Richard Pryor for That Nigger's Crazy

Composing and arranging

• Best Instrumental Composition
• Mike Oldfield (composer) for "Tubular Bells - Theme From The Exorcist"
• Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special
• Alan and Marilyn Bergman & Marvin Hamlisch (composers) for ' performed by Barbra Streisand
• Best Instrumental Arrangement
• Patrick Williams (arranger) for Threshold
• Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists
• Joni Mitchell & Tom Scott (arrangers) for "Down to You" performed by Joni Mitchell