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Grammy Awards of 1966

Award winners:

* Album of the Year
o Sonny Burke (producer) & Frank Sinatra for September of My Years

* Song of the Year
o Johnny Mandel & Paul Francis Webster (songwriters) for "The Shadow of Your Smile" (Love Theme From The Sandpiper) performed by Tony Bennett

* Best New Artist
o Tom Jones

Children's

* Best Recording for Children
o Marvin Miller for Dr. Seuss Presents "Fox in Sox" and "Green Eggs and Ham"

Classical

* Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
o Leopold Stokowski (conductor) & the American Symphony Orchestra for Ives: Symphony No. 4
* Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
o 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
o 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)
o 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)
o 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)
o Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz at Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return
* Best Classical Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental or Vocal
o The Juilliard String Quartet for Bartók: The Six String Quartets
* Best Composition by a Contemporary Classical Composer
o Charles Ives (composer) for Ives: Symphony No. 4 conducted by Leopold Stokowski
* Album of the Year - Classical
o Thomas Frost (producer) & Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz at Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return
* Most Promising New Classical Recording Artist
o Peter Serkin

Comedy

* Best Comedy Performance
o Bill Cosby for Why Is There Air?

Composing and arranging

* Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show
o Johnny Mandel (composer) for The Sandpiper performed by the Robert Armbruster Orchestra
* Best Instrumental Arrangement
o Herb Alpert (arranger) for "A Taste of Honey" performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
* Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist
o Gordon Jenkins (arranger) for "It Was a Very Good Year" performed by Frank Sinatra

Country

* Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female
o Jody Miller for "Queen of the House"
* Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Male
o Roger Miller for "King of the Road"
* Best Country & Western Single
o Roger Miller for "King of the Road"
* Best Country & Western Album
o Roger Miller for The Return of Roger Miller
* Best New Country & Western Artist
o The Statler Brothers

Folk

* Best Folk Recording
o Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba for An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba

Gospel

* Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording (Musical)
o Anita Kerr & George Beverly Shea for Southland Favorites

Jazz

* Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Small Group or Soloist With Small Group
o Ramsey Lewis for The "In" Crowd performed by the Ramsey Lewis Trio
* Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group or Soloist with Large Group
o Duke Ellington for Ellington '66
* Best Original Jazz Composition
o Lalo Schifrin (composer) for Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts performed by Paul Horn

Musical Show

* Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album
o 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
o 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
o Robert M. Jones (art director) & Ken Whitmore (photographer) for Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts performed by Paul Horn
* Best Album Notes
o Stan Cornyn (notes writer) for September of My Years performed by Frank Sinatra

Pop

* Best Vocal Performance, Female
o Barbra Streisand for My Name Is Barbra
* Best Vocal Performance, Male
o Frank Sinatra for "It Was a Very Good Year"
* Best Performance by a Vocal Group
o Anita Kerr for We Dig Mancini performed by the Anita Kerr Singers
* Best Performance by a Chorus
o Ward Swingle for Anyone for Mozart? performed by the Swingle Singers
* Best Instrumental Performance
o Herb Alpert for "A Taste of Honey" performed by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
* Best Contemporary (R&R) Vocal Performance - Female
o Petula Clark for "I Know a Place"
* Best Contemporary (R&R) Vocal Performance, Male
o Roger Miller for "King of the Road"
* Best Contemporary (R&R) Performance - Group (Vocal or Instrumental)
o Statler Brothers for "Flowers on the Wall"
* Best Contemporary (R&R) Single
o Roger Miller for "King of the Road"

Production and engineering

* Best Engineered Recording - Non-Classical
o Larry Levine (engineer) for "A Taste of Honey" performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
* Best Engineered Recording, Classical
o Fred Plaut (engineer) & Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz at Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return

R&B

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

Spoken

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