About The Show

This is truly the grand-daddy of all awards shows. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences recognizes outstanding musical achievements. The Grammys always prove to be a night of spectacle and performance that truly can't be missed.


City: Los Angeles

The Nominees

Album Of The Year - Classical

  • Winner:
    Vladimir Horowitz
    Horowitz at Carnegie Hall, an Historic Return
  • Leopold Stokowski conducting the American Symphony Ives: Symphony No. 4
  • Karl Bohm conducting the Orchestra of German Opera, Berlin Berg: Wozzeck
  • Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony (solo: Leontyne Price) Strauss: Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils, Interlude and Final Scene); The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene)
  • Artur Rubinstein Chopin: 8 Polonaises and 4 Impromptus

Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts

  • Winner:
    Silverstein, Lenisdorf, Boston Symphony
    Bartok: Concerto No. 2 for Violin; Stravnisky: Concerto for Violin
  • Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic William Tell and Other Favorite Overtures
  • Thelonious Monk Solo Monk
  • Gould conducting the Chicago Symphony Gould: Spirituals for Orchestra; Copland: Dance Symphony
  • Duke Ellington Concert in the Virgin Islands
  • Horowitz at Carnegie Hall Horowitz at Carnegie Hall

Best Album Cover, Photography

Best Album Notes

Best Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental Or Vocal

  • Winner:
    Juilliard String Quartet
    Bartok: The 6 String Quartets
  • Joseph Szigeti, Bela Bartok Sonata Recital by Szigeti and Bartok (Bartok, Beethoven, Debussy)
  • Isaac Stern, Eugene Istomin, Leonard Rose Schubert: Trio No. 1 in B Flat for Piano
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy, Malcolm Frager Mozart/Schumann Recital
  • Yehudi Menuhin and members of the Bath Festival Orchestra A Purcell Anthology
  • Erick Friedman, Bruce Prince-Joseph Bach: The 6 Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord

Best Classical Performance - Choral

  • Winner:
    Robert Shaw conducting the Robert Shaw Chorale, RCA Victor Symphony
    Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms; Poulenc: Gloria
  • Wolfgang Schubert conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus; Rafael Kubelik conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
  • Wilhelm Pitz, chorus master, Philharmonia Chorus; Otto Klemperer conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra Handel: Messiah
  • Benjamin Britten conducting the London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Britten: Cantata Misericordium
  • Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Singverein and Berlin Philharmonic Brahms: A German Requiem
  • Robert Page conducting the Temple University Chori; Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra Berlioz: Requiem

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) With Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Artur Rubinstein (Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony)
    Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 in G Major for Piano and Orchestra
  • Gary Graffman (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra) Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 2 in G Major for Piano and Orchestra; Concerto No. 3 in E Flat Major for P
  • Leonard Pennario (Previn conducting the Royal Philharmonic) Rachmaninov: Concerto No. 1 in F Sharp for Piano; Concerto No. 4 in G Minor for Piano
  • Rudolf Serkin (Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony) Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 in G Major for Piano and Orchestra
  • Isaac Stern (Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic) Barber: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Hindemith: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
  • Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose, Eugene Istomin (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra) Beethoven: Triple Concerto

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) Without Orchestra

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Leopold Stokowski conducting the American Symphony
    Ives: Symphony No. 4
  • Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 in E Flat Minor
  • Jean Martinon conducting the Chicago Symphony Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2; Roussel: Bacchus and Ariadne, Suite No. 2
  • Morton Gould conducting the Chicago Symphony Gould: Spirituals for Orchestra; Copland: Dance Symphony
  • Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette
  • Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Bach: Brandenburg Concertos

Best Classical Vocal Performance With Or Without Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Leontyne Price (Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony)
    Strauss: Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene); The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Sc
  • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Moore, pianist) Schumann: Liederkreis
  • Nicolai Ghiaurov (Downes conducting the London Symphony) Russian and French Arias
  • Galina Vishnevskaya (Markevitch conducting the Russian State Symphony Mussorgsky: Songs
  • Shirley Verrett Falla: Seven Popular Spanish Songs
  • Mirella Freni (Ferraris conducting the Rome Opera House Orchestra) Mirella Freni, Operatic Arias
  • Anna Moffo (Stokowski conducting the American Symphony) Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne; Rachmaninov: Vocalise; Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5

Best Comedy Performance

  • Winner:
    Bill Cosby
    Why Is There Air?
  • various artists, written by Bob Booker, George Foster You Don't Have to Be Jewish
  • Earl Doud, Allen Robin Welcome to the L.B.J. Ranch
  • Godfrey Cambridge Them Cotton Pickin' Days Is Over
  • Smothers Brothers Mom Always Liked You Best

Best Composition By A Contemporary Classical Composer

  • Winner:
    Charles Ives
    Symphony No. 4
  • William Walton Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
  • Morton Gould World War I Suite
  • David Diamond String Quartet No. 4
  • Leonard Bernstein Chichester Psalms
  • Benjamin Britten Cantata Misericordium

Best Country & Western Album

  • Winner:
    The Return of Roger Miller
    Roger Miller
  • Father and Son: Hank Williams and Hank Williams Jr. Hank Williams, Hank Williams Jr.
  • My World Eddy Arnold
  • More of That Guitar Country Chet Atkins
  • The Jim Reeves Way Jim Reeves

Best Country & Western Song

  • Winner: Roger Miller King Of The Road
  • Ted Harris Crystal Chandelier
  • Neal Merritt May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose
  • Lewis Dewitt Flowers on the Wall
  • Carl Belew, B.J. Moore, Eddie Busch What's He Doing in My World

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female

Best Engineered Recording

  • Winner:
    Larry Levine
    A Taste of Honey (Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass)
  • Chuck Seitz, William Vandevort That Honey Horn Sound (Al Hirt)
  • Lowell Frank September of My Years (Frank Sinatra)
  • Al Pachucki, Chuck Seitz More of That Guitar Country (Chet Atkins)
  • Richard Bogert, James Malloy Latin Sounds of Henry Mancini (Henry Mancini)
  • Frank Laico My Name Is Barbra (Barbra Streisand)

Best Engineered Recording - Classical

  • Winner:
    Fred Plaut
    Horowitz at Carnegie Hall, an Historic Return (Vladimir Horowitz)
  • Bernard Keville Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (Robert Shaw Chorale, RCA Symphony)
  • Anthony Salvatore Strauss: Salome; The Egyptian Helen (Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony; solo: Leontyne Price)
  • Edward T. Graham Ives: Symphony No. 4 (Stokowski conducting the American Symphony Orchestra)
  • Bernard Keville Gould: Spirituals for Orchestra; Copland: Dance Symphony (Gould conducting the Chicago Symphony)

Best Folk Recording

Best Gospel Or Other Religious Recording

  • Winner:
    George Beverly Shea & Anita Kerr Quartet
    Southland Favorites
  • Statesmen Quartet with Hovic Lister All Day Sing and Dinner on the Ground
  • Tennessee Ernie Ford Let Me Walk with Thee
  • Ralph Carmichael Singers & Orchestra Bob Ashton's Songs of Living Faith
  • Kate Smith How Great Thou Art
  • Happy Goodman Family What a Happy Time
  • Blackwood Brothers Something Old, Something New
  • Marian Anderson Just Keep on Singing

Best Instrumental Arrangement

Best Instrumental Performance (non-jazz)

Best Jazz Performance - Large Group Or Soloist With Large Group

  • Winner:
    Duke Ellington Orchestra
    Ellington '66
  • Stan Getz Mickey One
  • Dizzy Gillespie (Fuller, Monterey Jazz Festival) Theme from The Sandpiper
  • Kenny Burrell, Gil Evans Orchestra Kenny Burrell: Guitar Forms
  • Paul Horn Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts
  • Rod Levitt Insight
  • Wes Montgomery with String Orchestra Bumpin'

Best Jazz Performance - Small Group Or Soloist With Small Group

  • Winner:
    Ramsey Lewis Trio
    The In Crowd
  • Clark Terry, Bob Brookmeyer Quintet The Power of Positive Swinging
  • Bill Evans Trio Trio '65
  • Cal Tjader Soul Sauce
  • Gary McFarland Group Soft Samba
  • Paul Horn Cycle
  • Paul Desmond, Jim Hall Glad to Be Unhappy
  • John Coltrane A Love Supreme

Best New Country & Western Artist

Best Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    Karl Bohm conducting the Orchestra of German Opera, Berlin (solos: Fischer-Dieskau, Lear, Wunderlich)
    Berg: Wozzeck
  • Thomas Schippers conducting the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra & Chorus (solos: Price, Tucker, Verrett, Merrill, Tozzi, Flagello) Verdi: La Forza del Destino
  • Richard Bonynge conducting the London Symphony and Chorus (solos: Sutherland, Horne, Alexander, Cross) Bellini: Norma
  • Fausto Cleva conducting the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra & Chorus (solos: Moffo, Bergonzi, Verrett, MacNeil, Tozzi, Flagello) Verdi: Luisa Miller
  • Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Nilsson, Windgassen, Fischer-Dieskau) Wagner: Gotterdammerung

Best Original Jazz Composition

Best Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or Television Show

  • Winner:
    Robert Armbruster Orchestra
    The Sandpiper
  • Mikis Theodorakis Orchestra Zorba the Greek
  • Michel Legrand Orchestra The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  • Hugo Montenergo Orchestra The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
  • Beatles Help

Best Performance By A Chorus

  • Winner: Swingle Singers Anyone for Mozart?
  • Robert Shaw Chorale & Orchestra Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra on Broadway
  • Paul Horn and Chorus Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts
  • Henry Mancini Chorus & Orchestra Dear Heart and Other Songs About Love
  • New Christy Minstrels Chim Chim Cher-ee and Other Happy Songs

Best Recording For Children

  • Winner:
    Dr. Seuss Presents Fox in Sox and Green Eggs and Ham
    Marvin Miller
  • Winnie-the-Pooh and the Honey Tree Sterling Holloway, Sebastian Cabot
  • Love Songs for Children: A You're Adorable Diahann Carroll
  • Supercalifragelistic Expialidocious Chipmunks (David Seville)
  • Patrick Muldoon and His Magic Balloon Carmel Quinn

Best Score From An Original Cast Show

  • Winner:
    Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane
    On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
  • Walter Marks Bajour
  • Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim Do I Hear a Waltz?
  • Marian Grudeff, Raymond Jessell Baker Street
  • David Heneker Half a Sixpence

Best Spoken Word Or Drama Recording

  • Winner:
    John F. Kennedy
    As We Remember Him
  • National Theatre of Great Britain Much Ado About Nothing
  • Margaret Webster The Brontes
  • Alec Guinness A Personal Choice
  • Adlai Stevenson The Voice of the Uncommon Man
  • Chet Huntley, David Brinkley A Time to Keep: 1964

Most Promising New Recording Artist

  • Winner:
    Peter Serkin, pianist
  • Nicolai Ghiaurov, bass
  • Evelyn Lear, soprano
  • Raymond Lewenthal, pianist
  • Shirley Verrett, mezzo

Song Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Paul Francis Webster, Johnny Mandel
    The Shadow of Your Smile
  • Roger Miller King Of The Road
  • Michel Legrand, Norman Gimbel, Jacques Demy I Will Wait for You
  • John Lennon, Paul McCartney Yeterday
  • Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn September of My Years

Vocal Group Performance

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