8th Annual Grammy Awards

8th Annual Grammy Awards
Date	March 15, 1966
Location	Radio City Music Hall, New York City
Hosted by	Jerry Lewis
Television/radio coverage
Network	ABC
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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. ^[1] Roger Miller topped off the Grammys by winning 5 awards, ^[2] whereas Herb Alpert and Frank Sinatra each won 4 awards.

Bob Hope opened the show.

Performers

• Duke Ellington & Tony Bennett - Don't Get Around Much Anymore

Award winners

The following awards were the winners and nominees of the 8th annual awards ceremony: ^[3]

• Record of the Year
  • Jerry Moss (producer) & Herb Alpert (producer and artist) for "A Taste of Honey" performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
  • George Martin (producer) for "Yesterday" performed by The Beatles
  • Ernie Altschuler & Al Stanton (producers) for "The Shadow Of Your Smile (Love Theme From The Sandpiper)" performed by Tony Bennett
  • Esmond Edwards (producer) for "The 'In' Crowd" performed by Ramsey Lewis Trio
  • Jerry Kennedy (producer) for "King Of The Road" performed by Roger Miller
• Album of the Year
  • Sonny Burke (producer) & 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 (songwriters) for "The Shadow of Your Smile" (Love Theme From The Sandpiper ) performed by Tony Bennett
  • John Lennon & Paul McCartney (songwriters) for "Yesterday" performed by The Beatles
  • Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van Heusen (songwriters) for "September Of My Years" performed by Frank Sinatra
  • Roger Miller (songwriter & performer) for "King Of The Road"
  • Jacques Demy, Norman Gimbel & Michel Legrand (songwriters) 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 (conductor) & the American Symphony Orchestra for Ives: Symphony No. 4
• Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
  • Erich Leinsdorf (conductor), Leontyne Price & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Strauss: Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene)
• Best Opera Recording
  • Karl Böhm (conductor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Evelyn Lear, Fritz Wunderlich & the German Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Berg: Wozzeck
• Best Classical Choral Performance (other than opera)
  • Robert Shaw (conductor), 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 (conductor), 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 (composer) for Ives: Symphony No. 4 conducted by Leopold Stokowski
• Album of the Year - Classical
  • Thomas Frost (producer) & 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 (Performed Live At The Hungry I)
  • 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 (composer) for The Sandpiper performed by the Robert Armbruster Orchestra
  • Mikis Theodorakis (composer) for Zorba The Greek (Motion Picture) performed by various artists
  • Jacques Demy & Michel Legrand (composers) for The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg performed by Jacques Demy
  • Jerry Goldsmith, Walter Scharf, Lalo Schifrin & Mort Stevens (composers) for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Television Show) performed by various artists
  • George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney & Ken Thorne (composers) for Help! (Motion Picture) performed by The Beatles
• Best Instrumental Arrangement
  • Herb Alpert (arranger) for "A Taste of Honey" performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
  • Horst Jankowski (arranger & performer) for "Walk In The Black Forest"
  • Johnny Mandel (arranger) for "The Shadow Of Your Smile" performed by Robert Armbruster
  • Bob Florence (arranger) for "Mission To Moscow" performed by Si Zentner
  • Neal Hefti (arranger & performer) for "Girl Talk"
  • Jack Mason (arranger) for "A Hard Day's Night" performed by Arthur Fielder (conductor) and the Boston Pops
• Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist
  • Gordon Jenkins (arranger) for "It Was a Very Good Year" performed by Frank Sinatra
  • George Martin (arranger) for "Yesterday" performed by The Beatles
  • Burt Bacharach (arranger) for "What The World Needs Now Is Love" performed by Jackie De Shannon
  • Les Reed (arranger) for "It's Not Unusual" performed by Tom Jones
  • Don Costa (arranger) for "He Touched Me" performed by Barbra Streisand
  • Gil Evens (arranger) for "Greensleeves" performed by Kenny Burrell
  • Bob Florence (arranger) for "Everything I've Got" performed by Vikki Carr
  • Claus Ogerman (arranger) 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 (songwriters) for "What's He Doing In My World" performed by Eddy Arnold
  • Neal Merritt (songwriter) for "May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" performed by Little Jimmy Dickens
  • Lewis DeWitt (songwriter) for "Flowers On The Wall" performed by the Statler Brothers
  • Ted Harris (songwriter) 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 (composer) for Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts performed by Paul Horn
  • Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (composers) for Virgin Islands Suite performed by Duke Ellington
  • Eddie Sauter (composer) for "Mickey One" performed by Stan Getz
  • Oscar Peterson (composer & performer) for Canadiana Suite
  • Wes Montgomery (composer & performer) for Bumpin'
  • John Coltrane (composer & performer) for A Love Supreme

Musical show

• Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album
  • Alan J. Lerner, Burton Lane (composers), & the original cast (Barbara Harris, John Cullum, Tito Vandis, Byron Webster & William Daniels) for On a Clear Day

Packaging and notes

• Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts
  • George Estes (art director) & James Alexander (graphic artist) 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 (art director) & Ken Whitmore (photographer) for Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts performed by Paul Horn
• Best Album Notes
  • Stan Cornyn (notes writer) 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 (engineer) for "A Taste of Honey" performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
• Best Engineered Recording, Classical
  • Fred Plaut (engineer) & Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz at Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return

R&B

• Best Rhythm & Blues Recording
  • James Brown for "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"

Spoken

• Best Spoken Word or Drama Recording
  • Goddard Lieberson (producer) for John F. Kennedy - As We Remember Him

References

1. "1965 Grammy Award Winners". Grammy.com. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
2. "Roger Miller Tops Grammy". Edmonton Journal. 16 March 1966. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
3. "8th Annual GRAMMY Awards | GRAMMY.com". grammy.com. Retrieved 2025-04-09.