1970s
- Grammy Awards of 1979
- Orson Welles for Citizen Kane Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
- original soundtrack for Television - Roots
- Judith Anderson, Claire Bloom, James Mason, George Rose, Gordon Gould for Wuthering Heights
- Henry Fonda for John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
- Richard Nixon, David Frost for The Nixon Interviews with David Frost
- Grammy Awards of 1978
- Julie Harris for The Belle of Amherst
- Alex Haley for Alex Haley Tells the Story of His Search for Roots
- Harry Truman speaking with Ben Gradus The Truman Tapes
- original cast, Ntozake Shange (writer) For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf
- Christopher Tolkien for J.R.R. Tolkien: The Silmarillion of Beren and Luthien
- Grammy Awards of 1977
- Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones & Orson Welles for Great American Documents
- Charlton Heston for Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
- James Mason for Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
- Ray Bradbury for Fahrenheit 451
- William Shatner for Asimov: Foundation: The Psychohistoricans
- Grammy Awards of 1976
- James Whitmore for Give 'em Hell, Harry!
- Alistair Cooke for Talk About America
- Claudia McNeil for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Maureen Stapleton for To Kill a Mockingbird
- Orson Welles for Immortal Sherlock Holmes Mercury Theatre on the Air
- Richard Harris for The Prophet
- Grammy Awards of 1975
- Peter Cook & Dudley Moore for Good Evening
- Eric Sevareid for An Ear to the Sounds of Our History
- Rod McKuen for Autumn
- Sam Ervin for Senator Sam at Home
- Grammy Awards of 1974
- Richard Harris for Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Billie Holiday for Songs and Conversations
- John Wayne for America, Why I Love Her
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. for Slaughterhouse Five
- Vincent Price for Witches, Ghosts and Goblins
- Grammy Awards of 1973
- Bruce Botnick (producer) for Lenny performed by the original Broadway cast
- Angela Davis for Angela Davis Speaks
- Rod McKuen for The Word
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko for Yevtushenko
- Grammy Awards of 1972
- Les Crane for Desiderata
- James Whitmore for Will Rogers' U.S.A.
- Richard Chamberlain for Hamlet
- Stacy Keach, Robert Ryan, Geraldine Fitzgerald for Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Walter Cronkite for I Can Hear It Now/The Sixties
- Grammy Awards of 1971
- Martin Luther King, Jr. for Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam
- Apollo 8, 11, 12 astronauts, Presidents Kennedy and Nixon for In the Beginning
- Ambrose, Dryden, Hecht, Molloy, Seeger for Poems and Ballads from 100-Plus American Poets
- Bill Cosby for Grover Henson Feels Forgotten
- Everett Dirksen for Everett Dirksen's America
- Grammy Awards of 1970
- Art Linkletter & Diane Linkletter for We Love You Call Collect
- James Earl Jones for The Great White Hope
- Walter Cronkite for Man On The Moon
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