Best Rhythm & Blues Song

15th Annual Grammy Awards • 1973

Honoring recordings released between October 16, 1971 – October 15, 1972

The Temptations won the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Song with "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone"

Winners & Nominees 1973

Winner

Nominees

Papa Was A Rollin' Stone

Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield
Back Stabbers (Single)

Leon Huff, Gene McFadden, John Whitehead
Everybody Plays The Fool (Single)

J. R. Bailey, Rudy Clark, Kenny Williams

Freddie's Dead (Single)

Curtis Mayfield
Me And Mrs. Jones (Single)

Kenny Gamble, Cary Gilbert, Leon Huff

Previous Years

Year	Winner	Title
2000	Kevin "Shekspere" Briggs, Kandi Burruss, Tameka Cottle	No Scrubs	All Nominees
1999	Lauryn Hill	Doo Wop (That Thing)	All Nominees
1998	R. Kelly	I Believe I Can Fly	All Nominees
1997	Babyface	Exhale (Shoop Shoop)	All Nominees
1996	Stevie Wonder	For Your Love	All Nominees
1995	Babyface	I'll Make Love To You	All Nominees
1994	Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis	That's The Way Love Goes	All Nominees
1993	Babyface, L.A. Reid, Daryl Simmons	End Of The Road	All Nominees
1992	Marcus Miller, Luther Vandross, Teddy Vann	Power Of Love/Love Power	All Nominees
1991	M.C. Hammer, Rick James, Alonzo Miller	U Can't Touch This	All Nominees
1990	Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff	If You Don't Know Me By Now	All Nominees
1989	Anita Baker, Randy Holland, Skip Scarborough	Giving You The Best That I Got	All Nominees
1988	Bill Withers	Lean On Me	All Nominees
1987	Anita Baker, Gary Bias, Louis A. Johnson	Sweet Love	All Nominees
1986	Jeffrey Cohen, Narada Michael Walden	Freeway Of Love	All Nominees
1985	Prince	I Feel For You	All Nominees
1984	Michael Jackson	Billie Jean	All Nominees
1983	Bill Champlin, Jay Graydon, Steve Lukather	Turn Your Love Around	All Nominees
1982	Ralph MacDonald, William Salter, Bill Withers	Just The Two Of Us	All Nominees
1981	Reggie Lucas, James Mtume	Never Knew Love Like This Before	All Nominees
1980	Bill Champlin, David Foster, Jay Graydon	After The Love Has Gone	All Nominees
1979	Paul Jabara	Last Dance	All Nominees
1978	Vini Poncia, Leo Sayer	You Make Me Feel Like Dancing	All Nominees
1977	David Paich, Boz Scaggs	Lowdown	All Nominees
1976	Harry Wayne Casey, Willie Clarke, Richard Finch, Betty Wright	Where Is The Love	All Nominees
1975	Stevie Wonder	Living For The City	All Nominees
1974	Stevie Wonder	Superstition	All Nominees
1973	Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield	Papa Was A Rollin' Stone	All Nominees
1972	Bill Withers	Ain't No Sunshine	All Nominees
1971	Ronald Dunbar, General Johnson	Patches	All Nominees
1970	Richard Spencer	Color Him Father	All Nominees
1969	Steve Cropper, Otis Redding	(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay	All Nominees