Future performed by Frank Sinatra Pop Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female The Rose-Bette Midler Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male This Is It-Kenny Loggins Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Guilty-Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb Best Pop Instrumental Performance One on One-Bob James & Earl Klugh Production and engineering Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical James Guthrie (engineer) for The Wall performed by Pink Floyd Best Engineered Recording, Classical Karl-August Naegler (engineer), Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the Orchestre de l'Opera de Paris for Berg: Lulu (Complete Version) Producer of the Year, (Non-Classical) Phil Ramone Classical Producer of the Year Robert Woods R&B Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female Stephanie Mills for "Never Knew Love Like This Before" Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male George Benson for Give Me the Night Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal The Manhattans for "Shining Star" Best R&B Instrumental Performance George Benson for "Off Broadway" Best Rhythm & Blues Song James Mtume & Reggie Lucas (songwriters) for "Never Knew Love Like This Before" performed by Stephanie Mills Rock Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female Pat Benatar for Crimes of Passion Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male Billy Joel for Glass Houses Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band for Against the Wind Best Rock Instrumental Performance The Police for "Reggatta de Blanc" Spoken word Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording Pat Carroll for Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein Trivia Christopher Cross became the first artist to win all four general-field awards in one night: Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist. References External links 23rd Grammy Awards at the Internet Movie Database 023 1981 music awards 1981 in New York City Radio City Music Hall 1981 in American music Grammy February 1981 events in the United States