1972 Grammy Awards

Record of the Year “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Roberta Flack Album of the Year The Concert for Bangla Desh, George Harrison, Ravi Shanker, Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Eric Clapton and Klaus Voormann (Apple) Song of the Year “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Ewan MacColl, songwriter Best New Artist of the Year America Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male “Without You,” Nilsson Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female “I Am Woman,” Helen Reddy Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus “Where Is the Love,” Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway Best Pop Instrumental Performance By an Instrumental Performer “Outa-Space,” Billy Preston Best Pop Instumental Performance With Vocal Coloring Black Moses, Isaac Hayes Best Rhythm and Blues Song “Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield, songwriters Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male “Me and Mrs. Jones,” Billy Paul Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female Young, Gifted and Black, Aretha Franklin Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group, or Chorus “Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” Temptations Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist “Alone at Last,” Gary Burton Best Jazz Performance By a Group “First Light,” Freddie Hubbard Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band “Toga Brava Suite,” Duke Ellington Best Country Vocal Performance, Female “Happiest Girl in the Whole USA,” Donna Fargo Best Country Vocal Performance, Male Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs, Charley Pride Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group “Class of '57,” Statler Brothers Best Country Instrumental Performance Charlie McCoy/The Real McCoy, Charlie McCoy Best Country Song “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin',” Ben Peters, songwriter Best Gospel Performance L-O-V-E, Blackwood Brothers Best Soul Gospel Performance “Amazing Grace,” Aretha Franklin Best Inspirational Performance He Touched Me, Elvis Presley Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording The London Muddy Waters Session, Muddy Waters (Chess) Best Instrumental Arrangement “Theme From The French Connection,” Don Ellis, arranger Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life,” Michel Legrand, arranger Best Instrumental Composition “Brian's Song,” Michel Legrand, composer Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, Micki Grant, composer (Polydor) Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special The Godfather, Nino Rota, composer Album of the Year, Classical Mahler, Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major (Symphony of a Thousand), Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Boys Choir, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Singverein Chorus and Soloists (London) Best Classical Performance, Orchestra Mahler, Symphony No. 7 in E Minor, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra Best Chamber Music Performance Julian and John, Julian Bream and John Williams Best Instrumental Soloist Performance, Classical (With Orchestra) Brahms, Concerto No. 2, Artur Rubinstein Best Instrumental Soloist Performance, Classical (Without Orchestra) Horowitz Plays Chopin, Vladimir Horowitz Best Opera Recording Berlioz, Benvenuto Cellini, Colin Davis conducting BBC Symphony and Chorus of Covent Garden (Philips) Best Choral Performance, Classical Mahler, Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major (Symphony of a Thousand), Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Boys Choir, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Singverein Chorus and Soloists Best Vocal Soloist Performance, Classical Brahms, Die Schöne Magelone, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Best Comedy Recording FM and AM, George Carlin (Little David) Best Spoken Word Recording Lenny, Original Cast (Blue Thumb) Best Recording for Children The Electric Company, Lee Chamberlin, Bill Cosby and Rita Moreno (Warner Bros.) Best Album Cover The Siegel Schwall Band, Acy Lehman, art director; Harvey Dinnerstein, artist (Wooden Nickel) Best Album Notes Tom T. Hall's Greatest Hits, Tom T. Hall, annotator (Mercury) Best Album Notes, Classical Williams, Symphony No. 2, James Lyons, annotator (RCA)