Grammy Award For Best R&B Song - 1980s

1980s

  • 1989
    • Anita Baker, Randy Holland and Skip Scarborough for "Giving You the Best That I Got"
    • Babyface, L.A. Reid and Daryl Simmons for "Don't Be Cruel"
    • Jimmy George for "I'll Always Love You
    • Johnny Kemp and Gene Griffin for "Just Got Paid"
    • Luther Vandross and Marcus Miller for "Any Love"
  • 1988
    • Bill Withers for "Lean on Me"
    • Jimmy George and Lou Pardini for "Just to See Her"
    • Prince for "U Got the Look"
    • Reggie Calloway for "Casanova"
    • Stevie Wonder for "Skeletons"
  • 1987
    • Anita Baker, Louis A. Johnson and Gary Bias for "Sweet Love"
    • Dan Hartman and Charlie Midnight for "Living in America"
    • James Harris III, Terry Lewis and Janet Jackson for "What Have You Done For Me Lately"
    • Luther Vandross and Nat Adderley, Jr. for "Give Me the Reason"
    • Prince & the Revolution for "Kiss"
  • 1986
    • Jeffrey Cohen and Narada Michael Walden for "Freeway of Love"
    • David Foster, Tom Keane and Cynthia Weil for "Through the Fire"
    • LaLa for "You Give Good Love"
    • Sharon Robinson, Jon Gilutin and Bunny Hull for "New Attitude"
    • Walter Orange, Dennis Lambert and Franne Golde for Nightshift
  • 1985
    • Prince for "I Feel For You"
    • Bill Wolfer and Dean Pitchford for "Dancing in the Sheets"
    • James Ingram, Michael McDonald, Rod Temperton and Quincy Jones for "Yah Mo B There"
    • Keith Diamond and Billy Ocean for "Caribbean Queen"
    • Sheila E. for Glamorous Life
  • 1984
    • Michael Jackson for "Billie Jean"
    • Eddy Grant for "Electric Avenue (song)"
    • Hawk Wolinski for "Ain't Nobody"
    • James Ingram and Quincy Jones for "PYT (Pretty Young Thing)"
    • Michael Jackson for "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
  • 1983
    • Jay Graydon, Steve Lukather and Bill Champlin for "Turn Your Love Around"
    • Marvin Gaye, Odell Brown and David Ritz for "Sexual Healing"
    • Reggie Andrews and Leon "Ndugu" Chancler and "Let It Whip"
    • Stevie Wonder for "That Girl"
    • Stevie Wonder for "Do I Do"
    • Teddy Randazzo, Bobby Weinstein and Lou Staliman for "It's Gonna Take a Miracle"
  • 1982
    • Bill Withers, William Salter and Ralph MacDonald for "Just the Two of Us"
    • Chas Jankel and Kenny Young for "Ai No Corrida"
    • Harold Hudson, William King and Shirley King for "Lady (You Bring Me Up)"
    • Leon Haywood for "She's a Bad Mama Jama"
    • Marc Blatte and Larry Gottlieb for "When She Was My Girl"
  • 1981
    • Reggie Lucas and James Mtume for "Never Knew Love Like This Before"
    • Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards for "Upside Down"
    • Lee Garrett and Stevie Wonder for "Let's Get Serious"
    • Leo Graham and Paul Richmond for "Shining Star"
    • Rod Temperton and "Give Me the Night"
  • 1980
    • David Foster, Jay Graydon and Bill Champlin for "After the Love Has Gone"
    • Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren for "Reunited"
    • Gene McFadden, John Whitehead and Jerry Cohen for "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"
    • Isaac Hayes and Adrienne Anderson for "Deja Vu
    • Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards for "We Are Family"

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