1966 Grammy Awards

Awards
- 1966 Music Awards
-- Grammy Awards

--- 1966 Grammy Awards

Details & Performances

  • Host: Info Missing
  • Venue: Beverly Hilton
  • City: Los Angeles
  • Date:

Awards

Album of the Year

  • Frank Sinatra - September of My Years
  • Barbra Streisand - My Name Is Barbra
  • Eddy Arnold - My World
  • Julie Andrews and cast - The Sound of Music
  • The Beatles - Help!

Album of the Year - Classical

  • Vladimir Horowitz - Horowitz at Carnegie Hall, an Historic Return
  • Artur Rubinstein - Chopin: 8 Polonaises and 4 Impromptus
  • 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)
  • Karl Bohm conducting the Orchestra of German Opera, Berlin - Berg: Wozzeck
  • Leopold Stokowski conducting the American Symphony - Ives: Symphony No. 4

Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts

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

Best Album Cover, Photography

  • Paul Horn - Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts
  • Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
  • Kenny Burrell & Gil Evans Orchestra - Kenny Burrell: Guitar Forms
  • Thelonious Monk - Monk
  • Barbra Streisand - My Name Is Barbra
  • Charles Aznavour - The Aznavour Story
  • Charles Aznavour - Whipped Cream and Other Delights

Best Album Notes

  • Frank Sinatra - September of My Years
  • Karl Bohm conducting the German Opera - Berg: Wozzeck
  • Earl Hines - Grand Terrace Band
  • Adlai Stevenson - The Voice of the Uncommon Man

Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist

Best Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental or Vocal

  • Juilliard String Quartet - Bartok: The 6 String Quartets
  • 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
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy, Malcolm Frager - Mozart/Schumann Recital
  • Isaac Stern, Eugene Istomin, Leonard Rose - Schubert: Trio No. 1 in B Flat for Piano
  • Joseph Szigeti, Bela Bartok - Sonata Recital by Szigeti and Bartok (Bartok, Beethoven, Debussy)

Best Classical Performance - Choral

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

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) with Orchestra

  • Artur Rubinstein (Leinsdorf conducting the Boston 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
  • Rudolf Serkin (Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony) - Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 in G Major for Piano and Orchestra
  • Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose, Eugene Istomin (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra) - Beethoven: Triple Concerto
  • Leonard Pennario (Previn conducting the Royal Philharmonic) - Rachmaninov: Concerto No. 1 in F Sharp for Piano; Concerto No. 4 in G Minor for Piano
  • 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

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) without Orchestra

  • Vladimir Horowitz - Horowitz at Carnegie Hall, an Historic Return
  • Raymond Lewenthal - Alkan: Piano Music
  • Glenn Gould - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Vol. 3 (17-24)
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy - Chopin Ballades (1-4)
  • Artur Rubinstein - Chopin: 8 Polonaises and 4 Impromptus
  • Julian Bream - Julian Bream in Concert

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra

  • Leopold Stokowski conducting the American Symphony - Ives: Symphony No. 4
  • Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic - Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
  • Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony - Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette
  • Morton Gould conducting the Chicago Symphony - Gould: Spirituals for Orchestra; Copland: Dance Symphony
  • 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

Best Classical Vocal Performance with or without Orchestra

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

Best Comedy Performance

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

Best Composition by a Contemporary Classical Composer

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

Best Country & Western Album

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

Best Country & Western Single

Best Country & Western Song

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

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male

Best Engineered Recording

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

Best Engineered Recording - Classical

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

Best Folk Recording

  • Harry Belafonte, Miriam Makeba - An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba
  • Joan Baez - There But For Fortune Lyrics
  • Miriam Makeba - Makeba Sings
  • Pete Seeger - Strangers and Cousins
  • Peter, Paul & Mary - A Song Will Rise
  • Roscoe Holcomb - Roscoe Holcomb: The High Lonesome Sound
  • Womenfolk - The Womefolk at the Hungry 1

Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording

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

Best Instrumental Arrangement

Best Instrumental Performance (Non-Jazz)

Best Jazz Performance - Large Group or Soloist with Large Group

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

Best Jazz Performance - Small Group or Soloist with Small Group

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

Best New Country & Western Artist

Best Opera Recording

  • Karl Bohm conducting the Orchestra of German Opera, Berlin (solos: Fischer-Dieskau, Lear, Wunderlich) - Berg: Wozzeck
  • 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
  • Richard Bonynge conducting the London Symphony and Chorus (solos: Sutherland, Horne, Alexander, Cross) - Bellini: Norma
  • Thomas Schippers conducting the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra & Chorus (solos: Price, Tucker, Verrett, Merrill, Tozzi, Flagello) - Verdi: La Forza del Destino

Best Original Jazz Composition

  • Lalo Schifrin - Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts
  • John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
  • Wes Montgomery - Bumpin'
  • Oscar Peterson - Canadiana Suite
  • Eddie Sauter - Mickey One
  • Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn - Virgin Islands Suite

Best Original Score written for a Motion Picture or Television Show

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

Best Performance by a Chorus

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

Best Recording for Children

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

Best Score from an Original Cast Show

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

Best Spoken Word or Drama Recording

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

Contemporary Rock & Roll Female Vocal Performance

Contemporary Rock & Roll Group Vocal Performance

Contemporary Rock & Roll Male Vocal Performance

Contemporary Rock & Roll Single

Female Vocal Performance

Lifetime Achievement Award

Male Vocal Performance

Most Promising New Recording Artist

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

New Artist

Record of the Year

Rhythm & Blues Recording

Song of the Year

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

Vocal Group Performance

Top Winning Artist

Most Nominated Artist

Comments