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AWARD WINNERS:

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)

---: 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

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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 Recording

--- Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba for ''An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba''

Gospel

Best Gospel Or Other Religious Recording (Musical)

--- 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), & 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

--- & 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

--- Anita Kerr for ''We Dig Mancini'' performed by the Anita Kerr Singers

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)

--- 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''

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