Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The 8th Grammy Awards were held in 1966. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1965 Record of the Year Jerry Moss (producer) & Herb Alpert (producer and artist) for "A Taste of Honey" performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Album of the Year Sonny Burke (producer) & Frank Sinatra for September of My Years 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 Best New Artist Tom Jones Children's Best Recording for Children Marvin Miller for Dr. Seuss Presents "Fox in Sox" and "Green Eggs and Ham" 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 Bohm (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), Artur 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? 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 Best Instrumental Arrangement Herb Alpert (arranger) for "A Taste of Honey" performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist Gordon Jenkins (arranger) for "It Was a Very Good Year" performed by Frank Sinatra Country Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female Jody Miller for "Queen of the House" Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Male Roger Miller for "King of the Road" Best Country & Western Single Roger Miller for "King of the Road" Best Country & Western Album Roger Miller for The Return of Roger Miller Best New Country & Western Artist The Statler Brothers Folk Best Folk Performance Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba for An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba Gospel Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording Anita Kerr & George Beverly Shea for Southland Favorites Jazz Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist With Small Group Ramsey Lewis for The "In" Crowd performed by the Ramsey Lewis Trio Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group or Soloist With Large Group Duke Ellington for Ellington '66 Best Original Jazz Composition Lalo Schifrin (composer) for Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts performed by Paul Horn Musical Show Best Score From An Original Cast Show Album Alan J. Lerner & Burton Lane (composers), Barbara Harris, John Cullum and the original cast for On a Clear Day Packaging and Notes 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 Cover, Graphic Arts George Estes (art director) & James Alexander (graphic artist) for Bartók: Concerto No. 2 for Violin/Stravinsky: Concerto for Violin conducted by Erich Leinsdorf Best Album Notes Stan Cornyn (album notes writer) for September of My Years performed by Frank Sinatra Pop Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Barbra Streisand for My Name Is Barbra Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Frank Sinatra for "It Was a Very Good Year" Best Performance by a Vocal Group Anita Kerr for We Dig Mancini performed by the Anita Kerr Singers Best Pop Instrumental Performance Herb Alpert for "A Taste of Honey" performed by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Best Performance by a Chorus Ward Swingle for Anyone for Mozart? performed by The Swingle Singers Best Contemporary (Rock & Roll) Single Roger Miller for "King of the Road" Best Contemporary (Rock and Roll) Vocal Performance, Male Roger Miller for "King of the Road" Best Contemporary (Rock and Roll) Vocal Performance, Female Petula Clark for "I Know a Place" Best Contemporary (Rock and Roll) Performance Group (Vocal or Instrumental) Statler Brothers for "Flowers on the Wall" Production and engineering Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical Larry Levine (engineer) for "A Taste of Honey" performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Best Classical Engineered Recording Fred Plaut (engineer) & Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz at Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return performed by Vladimir Horowitz R&B Best Rhythm & Blues Performance 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 Other Grammy Award Years 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.