[1966 Grammy Awards] – Complete List of Winners and Nominees (8th) ♪

[1966 Grammy Awards] – Complete List of Winners and Nominees (8th) ♪

On March 15, 1966, the 8th Grammy Awards celebrated music from October 1, 1964, to September 30, 1965. Frank Sinatra continued to demonstrate his enduring reign as a musical titan, with his classic "Strangers in the Night" winning Record of the Year and his reflective album September of My Years securing Album of the Year.
Tom Jones, with his charismatic stage presence and powerful voice, was deservedly named Best New Artist. Other notable recipients included Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.
This ceremony largely reflected a continued emphasis on traditional pop and vocal artistry, even as the global phenomenon of rock and roll was gaining unstoppable momentum. The Grammys were in a fascinating transitional phase, striving to balance the rich legacy of established genres with the raw energy and innovation of emerging sounds.

Record Of The Year

ArtistWork
🏆Herb Alpert And The Tijuana BrassA Taste Of Honey
The BeatlesYesterday
Tony BennettThe Shadow Of Your Smile (Love Theme From /The Sandpiper/)
Ramsey Lewis TrioThe /In/ Crowd
Roger MillerKing Of The Road

Album Of The Year

ArtistWork
🏆Frank SinatraSeptember Of My Years
Herb Alpert And The Tijuana BrassWhipped Cream And Other Delights
Julie Andrews And CastThe Sound Of Music (Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Eddy ArnoldMy World
Barbra StreisandMy Name Is Barbra
The BeatlesHelp!

Album Of The Year -- Classical

ArtistWork
🏆Vladimir Horowitz, artist; Thomas Frost, producerHorowitz At Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return
Erich Leinsdorf & Leontyne Price, artists; Richard Mohr, producerStrauss: Salome (Dance Of The Seven Veils, Interlude And Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene)
Leopold Stokowski, artist; John McClure, producerIves: Symphony No. 4
Artur Rubinstein, artist; Max Wilcox, producerChopin: 8 Polonaises, 4 Impomptus (Andante Spianato, Grand Polonaise, Polonaises 1 And 7, Fantasie-Impromptu)
Karl Bohm, artist; Otto Gerdes, producerBerg: Wozzeck

Song Of The Year

ArtistWork
🏆Tony BennettThe Shadow Of Your Smile (Love Theme From /The Sandpiper/)
The BeatlesYesterday
Frank SinatraSeptember Of My Years
Roger MillerKing Of The Road
Michel LegrandI Will Wait For You - Theme From The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg

Best Vocal Performance, Female

ArtistWork
🏆Barbra StreisandMy Name Is Barbra
Jackie DeShannonWhat The World Needs Now Is Love
Astrud GilbertoThe Astrud Gilberto Album
Nancy WilsonGentle Is My Love
Petula ClarkDowntown

Best Vocal Performance, Male

ArtistWork
🏆Frank SinatraIt Was A Very Good Year
Paul McCartneyYesterday
Tony BennettThe Shadow Of Your Smile (Love Theme From /The Sandpiper/)
Roger MillerKing Of The Road
Glenn YarbroughBaby The Rain Must Fall

Best Instrumental Performance, Non-Jazz

ArtistWork
🏆Herb Alpert And The Tijuana BrassA Taste Of Honey
Chet AtkinsYakety Axe
Horst JankowskiWalk In The Black Forest
Henry ManciniThe Great Race
Neal HeftiGirl Talk

Best Performance By A Vocal Group

ArtistWork
🏆Anita Kerr SingersWe Dig Mancini
We FiveYou Were On My Mind
Herman's HermitsMrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
The BeatlesHelp!
The Statler BrothersFlowers On The Wall

Best Performance By A Chorus

ArtistWork
🏆Ward Swingle (The Swingle Singers)Anyone For Mozart?
Robert Shaw ChoralsThe Robert Shaw Chorale And Orchestra On Broadway
Paul Horn And chorusJazz Suite On The Mass Texts
Henry ManciniDear Heart And Other Songs About Love
The New Christy MinstrelsChim Chim Cher-ee And Other Happy Songs

Best Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or Television Show

ArtistWork
🏆Johnny Mandel, composer (Robert Armbruster Orchestra)The Sandpiper
Mikis Theodorakis, composer (Various Artists)Zorba The Greek (Motion Picture)
Jacques Demy & Michel Legrand, composers (Jacques Demy)The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg
Jerry Goldsmith, Walter Scharf, Lalo Schifrin & Mort Stevens, composers (Various Artists)The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Television Show)
George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney & Ken Thorne, composers (The Beatles)Help! (Motion Picture)

Best Score From An Original Cast Show Album

ArtistWork
🏆Burton Lane & Alan J. Lerner, composers (Barbara Harris, John Cullum, Tito Vandis, Byron Webster, William Daniels)On A Clear Day
David Heneker, composer (Original Cast)Half A Sixpence
Richard Rodgers & Stephen Sondheim, composers (Original Cast)Do I Hear A Waltz?
Marian Grudeff & Raymond Jessel, composers (Original Cast)Baker Street
Walter Marks, composer (Original Cast)Bajour

Best Comedy Performance

ArtistWork
🏆Bill CosbyWhy Is There Air?
(Various Artists)You Don't Have To Be Jewish
Earl Doud And Alen RobinWelcome To The L.B.J. Ranch
Godfrey CambridgeThem Cotton Pickin' Days Is Over (Recorded Live At The Hungry I)
The Smothers BrothersMom Always Liked You Best

Best Spoken Word Or Drama Recording

ArtistWork
🏆(John F. Kennedy)John F. Kennedy - As We Remember Him
Adlai StevensonThe Voice Of The Uncommon Man
Margaret WebsterThe Brontes
National Theatre Of Great BritainShakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
Chet Huntley And David BrinkleyA Time To Keep: 1964
Alec GuinnessA Personal Choice

Best New Artist

Artist
🏆Tom Jones
The Byrds
Glenn Yarbrough
Horst Jankowski
Herman's Hermits
Sonny And Cher
Marilyn Maye

Best Recording For Children

ArtistWork
🏆Marvin MillerDr. Seuss Presents /Fox In Sox/ And /Green Eggs And Ham/
Sterling Holloway And Sebastian CabotWinnie The Pooh And The Honey Tree
David Seville And The ChipmunksSupercalifragelistic Expialidocius
Carmel QuinnPatrick Muldoon And His Magic Balloon
Diahann CarrollLove Songs For Children: /A/ You're Adorable

Best Album Notes

ArtistWork
🏆Stan Cornyn, album notes writer (Frank Sinatra)September Of My Years
Dom Cerulli, album notes writer (Adali Stevenson)The Voice Of The Uncommon Man
Stanley Dance, album notes writer (Earl Hines)Grand Terrace Band
Charles Lamb, album notes writer (Hank Williams Sr., Hank Williams Jr.)Father And Son - Hank Williams Sr. And Hank Williams Jr.
Otto Gerdes & Gustav Rudolf Sellner, album notes writers (Karl Bohm, conducting Orchestra Of German Opera - Berlin)Berg: Wozzeck

Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Small Group Or Soloist With Small Group

ArtistWork
🏆Ramsey Lewis TrioThe /In/ Crowd
Bill Evans TrioTrio '65
Clark Terry And The Bob Brookmeyer QuintetThe Power Of Positive Swinging
Cal TjaderSoul Sauce
Gary McFarland GroupSoft Samba
Paul Desmond And Jim HallGlad To Be Unhappy
Paul HornCycle
John ColtraneA Love Supreme

Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group Or Soloist With Large Group

ArtistWork
🏆Duke EllingtonEllington '66
Stan GetzMickey One
Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Fuller Conducting Monterey Jazz Festival OrchestraLove Theme From /The Sandpiper/
Kenny Burrell, Gil Evans OrchestraKenny Burrell/Guitar Forms
Paul HornJazz Suite On The Mass Texts
Rod LevittInsight
Wes Montgomery With String OrchestraBumpin'

Best Original Jazz Composition

ArtistWork
🏆Lalo Schifrin, composer (Paul Horn)Jazz Suite On The Mass Texts
Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn, composers (Duke Ellington)Virgin Islands Suite
Eddie Sauter, composer (Stan Getz)Mickey One
Oscar Peterson, composer (Oscar Peterson)Canadiana Suite
Wes Montgomery, composer (Wes Montgomery)Bumpin'
John Coltrane, composer (John Coltrane)A Love Supreme

Best Instrumental Arrangement

ArtistWork
🏆Herb Alpert, arranger (Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass)A Taste Of Honey
Horst Jankowski, arranger (Horst Jankowski)Walk In The Black Forest
Johnny Mandel, arranger (Robert Armbruster)The Shadow Of Your Smile
Bob Florence, arranger (Si Zentner)Mission To Moscow
Neal Hefti, arranger (Neal Hefti)Girl Talk
Jack Mason, arranger (Arthur Fiedler, Conducting Boston Pops)A Hard Day's Night

Best Arrangement Accompanying A Vocalist Or Instrumentalist

ArtistWork
🏆Gordon Jenkins, arranger (Frank Sinatra)It Was A Very Good Year
George Martin, arranger (The Beatles)Yesterday
Burt Bacharach, arranger (Jackie De Shannon)What The World Needs Now Is Love
Les Reed, arranger (Tom Jones)It's Not Unusual
Don Costa, arranger (Barbra Streisand)He Touched Me
Gil Evans, arranger (Kenny Burrell)Greensleeves
Bob Florence, arranger (Vikki Carr)Everything I've Got
Claus Ogerman, arranger (Astrud Gilberto)Day By Day

Best Contemporary (R&R) Single

ArtistWork
🏆Roger MillerKing Of The Road
The BeatlesYesterday
Jackie DeShannonWhat The World Needs Now Is Love
Tom JonesIt's Not Unusual
Glenn YarbroughBaby The Rain Must Fall

Best Contemporary (R&R) Vocal Performance, Female

ArtistWork
🏆Petula ClarkI Know A Place
Jackie DeShannonWhat The World Needs Now Is Love
Lesley GoreSunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows
Fontella BassRescue Me
Barbara LewisBaby I'm Yours

Best Contemporary (R&R) Vocal Performance - Male

ArtistWork
🏆Roger MillerKing Of The Road
Paul McCartneyYesterday
Tom JonesWhat's New Pussycat
Johnny TillotsonHeartaches By The Number
Len Barry1-2-3

Best Contemporary (R&R) Performance - Group (Vocal Or Instrumental)

ArtistWork
🏆The Statler BrothersFlowers On The Wall
Sam The Sham And The PharoahsWooly Bully
The SupremesStop In The Name Of Love
Herman's HermitsMrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
The BeatlesHelp!

Best Rhythm & Blues Recording

ArtistWork
🏆James BrownPapa's Got A Brand New Bag
Junior Walker And The All StarsShotgun
Sam CookeShake
The TemptationsMy Girl
Wilson PickettIn The Midnight Hour

Best Folk Recording

ArtistWork
🏆Harry Belafonte & Miriam MakebaAn Evening With Belafonte/Makeba
Joan BaezThere But For Fortune
The WomenfolkThe Womenfolk At The Hungry I
Pete SeegerStrangers And Cousins
Roscoe HolcombRoscoe Holcomb: The High Lonesome Sound
Miriam MakebaMakeba Sings
Peter, Paul And MaryA Song Will Rise

Best Gospel Or Other Religious Recording (Musical)

ArtistWork
🏆George Beverly Shea And The Anita Kerr SingersSouthland Favorites
The Happy Goodman FamilyWhat A Happy Time
Blackwood BrothersSomething Old, Something New
Tennessee Ernie FordLet Me Walk With Thee
Marian AndersonJust Keep On Singing
Kate SmithHow Great Thou Art
Ralph Carmichael Singers And OrchestraBos Ashton's Songs Of Living Faith
Statesmen Quartet With Hovie ListerAll Day Sing And Dinner On The Ground

Best Country & Western Single

ArtistWork
🏆Roger MillerKing Of The Road
Chet AtkinsYakety Axe
Little Jimmy DickensMay The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose
Eddy ArnoldMake The World Go Away
Jim ReevesIs It Really Over
The Statler BrothersFlowers On The Wall

Best Country & Western Album

ArtistWork
🏆Roger MillerThe Return Of Roger Miller
Jim ReevesThe Jim Reeves Way
Eddy ArnoldMy World
Chet AtkinsMore Of That Guitar Country
Hank Williams Sr. And Hank Williams Jr.Father And Son

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female

ArtistWork
🏆Jody MillerQueen Of The House
Skeeter DavisSunglasses
Molly BeeSingle Girl Again
Dottie WestBefore The Ring On Your Finger Turns Green
Wilma BurgessBaby

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male

ArtistWork
🏆Roger MillerKing Of The Road
Bobby BareTalk Me Some Sense
Eddy ArnoldMake The World Go Away
Jim ReevesIs It Really Over
Carl BelewCrystal Chandelier

Best Country & Western Song

ArtistWork
🏆Roger MillerKing Of The Road
Eddy ArnoldWhat's He Doing In My World
Little Jimmy DickensMay The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose
Statler BrothersFlowers On The Wall
Carl BelewCrystal Chandelier

Best New Country & Western Artist

Artist
🏆The Statler Brothers
Del Reeves
Norma Jean
Wilma Burgess
Jody Miller

Best Engineered Recording - Non-Classical

ArtistWork
🏆Larry Levine, engineer (Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass)A Taste Of Honey
Chuck Seitz & William Vandevort, engineers (Al Hirt)That Honey Horn Sound
Lowell Frank, engineer (Frank Sinatra)September Of My Years
Frank Laico, engineer (Barbra Streisand)My Name Is Barbra
Al Pachucki & Chuck Seitz, engineers (Chet Atkins)More Of That Guitar Country
Richard Bogert & James Malloy, engineers (Henry Mancini)Latin Sound Of Henry Mancini

Best Engineered Recording, Classical

ArtistWork
🏆Fred Plaut, engineer (Vladimir Horowitz, piano)Horowitz At Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return
Bernie(Bernard) Keville, engineer (Robert Shaw, conductor)Stravinsky: Symphony Of Psalms
Anthony Salvatore, engineer (Erich Leinsdorf, conductor; Leontyne Price, soprano)Strauss: Salome/the Egyptian Helen
Anthony Salvatore, engineer (Erich Leinsdorf, conductor)Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 In E Flat Minor
Edward (Bud) T. Graham, engineer (Leopold Stokowski, conductor)Ives: Symphony No. 4
Bernie(Bernard) Keville, engineer (Morton Gould, conductor)Gould: Spirituals For Orchestra/Copland: Dance Symphony

Best Album Cover - Photography

ArtistWork
🏆Ken Whitmore, photographer; Robert M. Jones, art director (Paul Horn)Jazz Suite On The Mass Texts
Peter Whorf, photographer (Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass)Whipped Cream And Other Delights
Sherman Weisburd, photographer; Ed Thrasher, art director (Charles Aznavour)The Aznavour Story
Sheldon Streisand, photographer; Bob (Robert) Cato, art director (Barbra Streisand)My Name Is Barbra
W. Eugene Smith, photographer; Jerry Smokley, art director (Thelonious Monk)Monk
Rudolph Regname, photographer; Acy R. Lehman, art director (Kenny Burrell)Kenny Burrell/Guitar Forms
Dan Kramer, photographer; John Berg, art director (Bob Dylan)Bringing It All Back Home

Best Album Cover - Graphic Arts

ArtistWork
🏆George Estes, art director (Erich Leinsdorf, conductor; Joseph Silverstein, violin)Bartók: Concerto No. 2 For Violin/Stravinsky: Concerto For Violin
John Berg, art director (Leonard Bernstein, conductor)William Tell And Other Favorite Overtures
Jerry Smokley, art director (Thelonious Monk)Solo Monk
John Berg, art director (Vladimir Horowitz, piano)Horowitz At Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return
(Morton Gould, conductor)Gould: Spirituals For Orchestra/Copland: Dance Symphony
Ed Thrasher, art director (Duke Ellington)Concert In The Virgin Islands

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra

ArtistWork
🏆(American Symphony Orchestra)Ives: Symphony No. 4
(Chicago Symphony Orchestra)Ravel: Daphnis And Chloe Suite No. 2/Roussel:Bacchus And Ariadne, Suite No. 2
(Boston Symphony Orchestra)Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 In E Flat Minor
(Chicago Symphony Orchestra)Gould: Spirituals For Orchestra/Copland: Dance Symphony
(NBC Symphony Orchestra)Berlioz: Romeo And Juliet
(Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)Bach: Brandenberg Concertos

Best Classical Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental Or Vocal

ArtistWork
🏆Juilliard String Quartet (Claus Adam, Isidore Cohen, Raphael Hillyer & Robert Mann), artistsBartók: The Six String Quartets - Nos. 1-6
Béla Bartók & Joseph Szigeti, artistsSonata Recital By Szigeti And Bartók (Bartók/ Beethoven/ Debussy)
Eugene Istomin, Leonard Rose & Isaac Stern, artistsSchubert: Piano Trio No. 1 In B Flat For Piano
Vladimir Ashkenazy & Malcolm Frager, artistsMozart/Schumann Recital
Erick Friedman & Bruce Prince-Joseph, artistsBach: The Six Sonatas For Violin And Harpsichord
Yehudi Menuhin, artistA Purcell Anthology

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (With Orchestra)

ArtistWork
🏆Artur Rubinstein, artist (Boston Symphony Orchestra)Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 In G
Gary Graffman, artistTchaikovsky Concerto No. 2 In G Major For Piano And Orchestra/ Concerto No. 3 In E-Flat Major For Piano And Orchestra
Leonard Pennario, artistRachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 In F Sharp For Piano/ Concerto No. 4 In G Minor For Piano
Eugene Istomin, Leonard Rose & Isaac Stern, artistsBeethoven: Triple Concerto (Concerto In C Major For Violin, Cello And Piano)
Rudolf Serkin, artistBeethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 In G Major For Piano And Orchestra
Isaac Stern, artistBarber: Concerto For Violin And Orchestra/ Hindemith: Concerto For Violin And Orchestra

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (Without Orchestra)

ArtistWork
🏆Vladimir Horowitz, artistHorowitz At Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return
Julian Bream, artistJulian Bream In Concert
Artur Rubinstein, artistChopin: 8 Polonaises And 4 Impromptus
Vladimir Ashkenazy, artistChopin Ballades (1, 2, 3, 4)
Glenn Gould, artistBach: Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Volume 3 (17-24)
Raymond Lewenthal, artistAlkan: Piano Music

Best Opera Recording

ArtistWork
🏆Karl Bohm (German Opera Chorus; German Opera Orchestra)Berg: Wozzeck
Georg Solti (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra)Wagner: Gotterdammerung
Fausto Cleva (RCA Italiana Opera Chorus; RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra)Verdi: Luisa Miller
Thomas Schippers (RCA Italiana Opera Chorus; RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra)Verdi: La Forza Del Destino
Richard Bonynge (London Symphony Chorus; London Symphony Orchestra)Bellini: Norma

Best Classical Choral Performance (Other Than Opera)

ArtistWork
🏆(Robert Shaw Chorale; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra)Stravinsky: Symphony Of Psalms/Poulenc: Gloria
(Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra)Schoenberg: Gurre Lieder
(Philharmonia Chorus; Philharmonia Orchestra)Handel: Messiah
(London Symphony Chorus; London Symphony Orchestra)Britten: Cantata Misericordium
(Vienna Singverein Chorus; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)Brahms: German Requiem
(Temple University Choir; Philadelphia Orchestra)Berlioz: Requiem

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance

ArtistWork
🏆(Boston Symphony Orchestra)Strauss: Salome (Dance Of The Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene)
Nicolai GhiaurovSchumann: Liederkreis
(London Symphony)Russian And French Arias
(Russian State Symphony)Moussorgsky: Songs
(Rome Opera House Orchestra)Mirella Freni - Operatic Arias
Anna MoffoFalla: Seven Popular Spanish Songs
-Canteloube: Songs Of The Auvergne/ Rachmaninoff: Vocalise/ Villa Lobos: Bachianas Brasilieras #5

Best Classical Contemporary Composition

ArtistWork
🏆Charles Ives, composerIves: Symphony No. 4
William Walton, composerVariations On A Theme By Hindemith
Morton Gould, composerGould: World War I Suite
David Diamond, composerDiamond: String Quartet No. 4
Benjamin Britten, composerBritten: Cantata Misericordium
Leonard Bernstein, composerBernstein: Chichester Psalms