Grammy Awards - 7th 1964

Grammy Awards - 7th 1964


Record of the Year  “The Girl From Ipanema,” Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto
Album of the Year  Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto (Verve)
Song of the Year  “Hello, Dolly!,” Jerry Herman, songwriter

Best New Artist of 1964  The Beatles

Most Promising New Recording Artist  Marilyn Horne
Best Vocal Performance, Male  “Hello, Dolly!,” Louis Armstrong
Best Vocal Performance, Female  “People,” Barbra Streisand
Best Performance By a Vocal Group  A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles
Best Performance By a Chorus  The Swingle Singers Going Baroque, Swingle Singers

Best Rock and Roll Recording  “Downtown,” Petula Clark (Warner Bros.)
Best Rhythm and Blues Recording  “How Glad I Am,” Nancy Wilson (Capitol)
Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist With Small Group  Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz
Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group or Soloist With Large Group  Guitar From Ipanema, Laurindo Almeida
Best Original Jazz Composition  “The Cat,” Lalo Schifrin, composer

Best Country and Western Single  “Dang Me,” Roger Miller
Best Country and Western Album  Dang Me/Chug-a-Lug, Roger Miller (Smash)
Best Country and Western Song  “Dang Me,” Roger Miller, songwriter
Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Male  “Dang Me,” Roger Miller
Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Female  “Here Comes My Baby,” Dottie West

Best New Country and Western Artist of 1964  Roger Miller
Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording (Musical)  Great Gospel Songs, Tennessee Ernie Ford (Capitol)
Best Folk Recording  We'll Sing in the Sunshine, Gale Garnett (RCA)
Best Instrumental Arrangement  “The Pink Panther Theme,” Henry Mancini, arranger
Best Accompaniment Arrangement for Vocalist(s) or Instrumentalist(s)  “People,” Peter Matz, arranger

Best Instrumental Composition (Other Than Jazz)  “The Pink Panther Theme,” Henry Mancini, composer
Best Instrumental Performance, Non-Jazz  “The Pink Panther Theme,” Henry Mancini
Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album  Funny Girl, Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, composers (Capitol)
Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show  Mary Poppins, Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, composers
Album of the Year, Classical  Bernstein, Symphony No. 3 (“Kaddish”), Leonard Bernstein conducting New York Philharmonic Orchestra (Columbia)

Best Classical Performance, Orchestra  Mahler, Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor; Berg, “Wozzeck” Excerpts, Erich Leinsdorf conducting Boston Symphony
Best Chamber Performance, Instrumental  Beethoven, Trio No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 1, No. 1, Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky; Jacob Lateiner, pianist
Best Chamber Music Performance, Vocal  It Was a Lover and His Lass, Morley, Byrd and others; Noah Greenberg conducting New York Pro Musica
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra)  Prokofiev, Concerto No. 1 in D Major for Violin, Isaac Stern; Eugene Ormandy conducting Philadelphia Orchestra
Best Performance, Instrumental Soloist (Without Orchestra)  Vladimir Horowitz Plays Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin (Beethoven, Sonata No. 8 “Pathetique; ” Debussy, Preludes; Chopin, Etudes and Scherzos 1–4), Vladimir Horowitz

Best Opera Recording  Bizet, Carmen, Herbert von Karajan conducting Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus; solos: Price, Corelli, Merrill and Freni (RCA)
Best Classical Choral Performance (Other Than Opera)  Britten, A Ceremony of Carols, Robert Shaw conducting Robert Shaw Chorale
Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance (With or Without Orchestra)  Berlioz, Nuits d'Ete Falla: El Amor Brujo, Leontyne Price; Fritz Reiner conducting Chicago Symphony
Best Classical Composition By a Contemporary Composer  Samuel Barber, Concerto 

Best Comedy Performance  I Started Out as a Child, Bill Cosby

Best Documentary, Spoken Word or Drama Recording (Other Than Comedy)  BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy, That Was the Week That Was, cast (Decca)
Best Recording for Children  Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke (Buena Vista)
Best Album Cover  People, Robert Cato, art director; Don Bronstein, photographer (Columbia)
Best Album Cover, Classical  Saint-Saëns, Carnival of the Animals; Britten, Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Robert Jones, art director; Jan Balet, graphic artist (RCA)
Best Album Notes  Mexico (Legacy Collection), Stanton Catlin and Carleton Beals, annotators (Columbia)









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