8th Annual Grammy Awards
The 8th Annual Grammy Awards were held March 15, 1966, at Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville and New York. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1965. Roger Miller topped off the Grammys by winning 5 awards, whereas Herb Alpert and Frank Sinatra each won 4 awards.
Bob Hope opened the show.
Performers
Award winners
The following awards were the winners and nominees of the 8th annual awards ceremony:- Record of the Year
- *Jerry Moss & Herb Alpert for "A Taste of Honey" performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
- *George Martin for "Yesterday" performed by The Beatles
- *Ernie Altschuler & Al Stanton for "The Shadow Of Your Smile (Love Theme From The Sandpiper)" performed by Tony Bennett
- *Esmond Edwards for "The 'In' Crowd" performed by Ramsey Lewis Trio
- *Jerry Kennedy for "King Of The Road" performed by Roger Miller
- Album of the Year
- *Sonny Burke & Frank Sinatra for September of My Years
- *Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass for Whipped Cream And Other Delights
- *Julie Andrews & cast for The Sound Of Music (Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- *Eddy Arnold for My World
- *Barbra Streisand for My Name Is Barbra
- *The Beatles for Help!
- Song of the Year
- *Johnny Mandel & Paul Francis Webster for "The Shadow of Your Smile" performed by Tony Bennett
- *John Lennon & Paul McCartney for "Yesterday" performed by The Beatles
- *Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van Heusen for "September Of My Years" performed by Frank Sinatra
- *Roger Miller for "King Of The Road"
- *Jacques Demy, Norman Gimbel & Michel Legrand for "I Will Wait For You - Theme From The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg" performed by Michel Legrand
- Best New Artist
- *Tom Jones
- *The Byrds
- *Glenn Yarbrough
- *Horst Jankowski
- *Herman's Hermits
- *Sonny & Cher
- *Marilyn Maye
Children's
- Best Recording for Children
- *Marvin Miller for Dr. Seuss Presents "Fox in Socks" and "Green Eggs and Ham"
- *Sterling Holloway & Sebastian Cabot for Winnie The Pooh And The Honey Tree
- *David Seville & The Chipmunks for "Supercalifragelistic Expialidocious"
- *Carmel Quinn for Patrick Muldoon And His Magic Balloon
- *Diahann Carroll for ''Love Songs For Children: "A" You're Adorable''
Classical
- Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
- *Leopold Stokowski & the American Symphony Orchestra for Ives: Symphony No. 4
- Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
- *Erich Leinsdorf, Leontyne Price & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Strauss: Salome /The Egyptian Helen
- Best Opera Recording
- *Karl Böhm, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Evelyn Lear, Fritz Wunderlich & the German Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Berg: Wozzeck
- Best Classical Choral Performance (other than opera)
- *Robert Shaw, the Robert Shaw Chorale & the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra for Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms/Poulenc: Gloria
- Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra)
- *Erich Leinsdorf, Arthur Rubinstein & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G
- Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra)
- *Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz at Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return
- Best Classical Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental or Vocal
- *The Juilliard String Quartet for Bartók: The Six String Quartets
- Best Composition by a Contemporary Classical Composer
- *Charles Ives for Ives: Symphony No. 4 conducted by Leopold Stokowski
- Album of the Year - Classical
- *Thomas Frost & Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz at Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return
- Most Promising New Classical Recording Artist
- *Peter Serkin
Comedy
- Best Comedy Performance
- *Bill Cosby for Why Is There Air?
- *Various artists for You Don't Have To Be Jewish
- *Earl Doud & Alen Robin for Welcome To The L.B.J. Ranch
- *Godfrey Cambridge for Them Cotton Pickin' Days Is Over
- *The Smothers Brothers for ''Mom Always Liked You Best''
Composing and arranging
- Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show
- *Johnny Mandel for The Sandpiper performed by the Robert Armbruster Orchestra
- *Mikis Theodorakis for Zorba The Greek (Motion Picture) performed by various artists
- *Jacques Demy & Michel Legrand for The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg performed by Jacques Demy
- *Jerry Goldsmith, Walter Scharf, Lalo Schifrin & Mort Stevens for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Television Show) performed by various artists
- *George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney & Ken Thorne for Help! (Motion Picture) performed by The Beatles
- Best Instrumental Arrangement
- *Herb Alpert for "A Taste of Honey" performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
- *Horst Jankowski for "Walk In The Black Forest"
- *Johnny Mandel for "The Shadow Of Your Smile" performed by Robert Armbruster
- *Bob Florence for "Mission To Moscow" performed by Si Zentner
- *Neal Hefti for "Girl Talk"
- *Jack Mason for "A Hard Day's Night" performed by Arthur Fielder and the Boston Pops
- Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist
- *Gordon Jenkins for "It Was a Very Good Year" performed by Frank Sinatra
- *George Martin for "Yesterday" performed by The Beatles
- *Burt Bacharach for "What The World Needs Now Is Love" performed by Jackie De Shannon
- *Les Reed for "It's Not Unusual" performed by Tom Jones
- *Don Costa for "He Touched Me" performed by Barbra Streisand
- *Gil Evens for "Greensleeves" performed by Kenny Burrell
- *Bob Florence for "Everything I've Got" performed by Vikki Carr
- *Claus Ogerman for "Day By Day" performed by Astrud Gilberto
Country
- Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female
- *Jody Miller for "Queen of the House"
- *Skeeter Davis for "Sunglasses"
- *Molly Bee for "Single Girl Again"
- *Dottie West for "Before The Ring On Your Finger Turns Green"
- *Wilma Burgess for "Baby"
- Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Male
- *Roger Miller for "King of the Road"
- *Bobby Bare for "Talk Me Some Sense"
- *Eddy Arnold for "Make The World Go Away"
- *Jim Reeves for "Is It Really Over"
- *Carl Belew for "Crystal Chandelier"
- Best Country & Western Single
- *Roger Miller for "King of the Road"
- *Carl Belew, Eddie Busch & B.J. Moore for "What's He Doing In My World" performed by Eddy Arnold
- *Neal Merritt for "May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" performed by Little Jimmy Dickens
- *Lewis DeWitt for "Flowers On The Wall" performed by the Statler Brothers
- *Ted Harris for "Crystal Chandelier" performed by Carl Belew
- Best Country & Western Album
- *Roger Miller for The Return of Roger Miller
- *Jim Reeves for The Jim Reeves Way
- *Eddy Arnold for My World
- *Chet Atkins for More Of That Guitar Country
- *Hank Williams Sr. & Hanks Williams Jr. for Father And Son
- Best New Country & Western Artist
- *The Statler Brothers
- *Del Reeves
- *Norma Jean
- *Wilma Burgess
- *Jody Miller
Folk
- Best Folk Recording
- *Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba for An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba
- *Joan Baez for "There But For Fortune"
- *The Womenfolk for The Womenfolk At The Hungry I
- *Pete Seeger for Strangers And Cousins
- *Roscoe Holcomb for Roscoe Holcomb: The High Lonesome Sound
- *Miriam Makeba for Makeba Sings
- *Peter, Paul & Mary for ''A Song Will Rise''
Gospel
- Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording (Musical)
- *Anita Kerr & George Beverly Shea for Southland Favorites
- *The Happy Goodman Family for "What A Happy Time"
- *Blackwood Brothers for Something Old, Something New
- *Tennessee Ernie Ford for Let Me Walk With Thee
- *Marian Anderson for "Just Keep On Singing"
- *Kate Smith for How Great Thou Art
- *Ralph Carmichael Singers And Orchestra for Bos Ashton's Songs Of Living Faith
- *Statesmen Quartet with Hovie Lister for ''All Day Sing And Dinner On The Ground''
Jazz
- Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Small Group or Soloist With Small Group
- *Ramsey Lewis for "The "In" Crowd" performed by the Ramsey Lewis Trio
- *Bill Evans Trio for Trio '65
- *Clark Terry & The Bob Brookmeyer Quintet for The Power Of Positive Swinging
- *Cal Tjader for Soul Sauce
- *Gary McFarland Group for "Soft Samba"
- *Paul Desmond & Jim Hall for Glad To Be Unhappy
- *Paul Horn for Cycle
- *John Coltrane for A Love Supreme
- Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group or Soloist with Large Group
- *Duke Ellington for Ellington '66
- *Stan Getz for Mickey One
- *Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Fuller conducting Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra for "Love Theme From The Sandpiper"
- *Kenny Burrell & Gil Evans Orchestra for Kenny Burrell/Guitar Forms
- *Paul Horn for Jazz Suite On The Mass Texts
- *Rod Levitt for Insight
- *Wes Montgomery With String Orchestra for Bumpin
- Best Original Jazz Composition
- *Lalo Schifrin for Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts performed by Paul Horn
- *Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn for Virgin Islands Suite performed by Duke Ellington
- *Eddie Sauter for "Mickey One" performed by Stan Getz
- *Oscar Peterson for Canadiana Suite
- *Wes Montgomery for Bumpin
- *John Coltrane for ''A Love Supreme''
Musical show
- Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album
- *Alan J. Lerner, Burton Lane, & the original cast for ''On a Clear Day''
Packaging and notes
- Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts
- *George Estes & James Alexander for Bartók: Concerto No. 2 for Violin/Stravinsky: Concerto for Violin performed by Joseph Silverstein & conducted by Erich Leinsdorf
- Best Album Cover, Photography
- *Robert M. Jones & Ken Whitmore for Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts performed by Paul Horn
- Best Album Notes
- *Stan Cornyn for September of My Years performed by Frank Sinatra
Pop
- Best Vocal Performance, Female
- *Barbra Streisand for My Name Is Barbra
- Best Vocal Performance, Male
- *Frank Sinatra for "It Was a Very Good Year"
- Best Performance by a Vocal Group
- *The Anita Kerr Singers for "We Dig Mancini"
- Best Performance by a Chorus
- *Ward Swingle for Anyone for Mozart? performed by the Swingle Singers
- Best Instrumental Performance
- *Herb Alpert for "A Taste of Honey" performed by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
- Best Contemporary (R&R) Vocal Performance - Female
- *Petula Clark for "I Know a Place"
- Best Contemporary (R&R) Vocal Performance - Male
- *Roger Miller for "King of the Road"
- Best Contemporary (R&R) Performance - Group (Vocal or Instrumental)
- *The Statler Brothers for "Flowers on the Wall"
- Best Contemporary (R&R) Single
- *Roger Miller for "King of the Road"
Production and engineering
- Best Engineered Recording - Non-Classical
- *Larry Levine for "A Taste of Honey" performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
- Best Engineered Recording, Classical
- *Fred Plaut & Vladimir Horowitz for ''Horowitz at Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return''
R&B
Spoken
- Best Spoken Word or Drama Recording
- *Goddard Lieberson for ''John F. Kennedy - As We Remember Him''