Grammy Awards - 12th 1969

 

Grammy Awards - 12th 1969

Record of the Year  “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In,” 5th Dimension
Album of the Year  Blood, Sweat and Tears, Blood, Sweat and Tears (Columbia)
Song of the Year  “Games People Play,” Joe South, songwriter

Best New Artist of 1969  Crosby, Stills and Nash

Best Contemporary Song  “Games People Play,” Joe South, songwriter
Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Male  “Everybody's Talkin',” Harry Nilsson
Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Female  “Is That All There Is,” Peggy Lee
Best Contemporary Vocal Performance By a Group  “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In,” 5th Dimension
Best Contemporary Performance By a Chorus  “Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet,” Percy Faith Orchestra and Chorus

Best Contemporary Instrumental Performance  “Variations on a Theme by Eric Satie,” Blood, Sweat and Tears
Best Rhythm and Blues Song  “Color Him Father,” Richard Spencer, songwriter
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male  “The Chokin' Kind,” Joe Simon
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female  “Share Your Love With Me,” Aretha Franklin
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Group or Duo  “It's Your Thing,” Isley Brothers

Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance  “Games People Play,” King Curtis
Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist With Small Group  Willow Weep for Me, Wes Montgomery
Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group or Soloist With Large Group  “Walking in Space,” Quincy Jones
Best Country Song  “A Boy Named Sue,” Shel Silverstein, songwriter
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male  “A Boy Named Sue,” Johnny Cash

Best Country Vocal Performance, Female  Stand by Your Man, Tammy Wynette
Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group  “MacArthur Park,” Waylon Jennings and the Kimberlys
Best Country Instrumental Performance  The Nashville Brass Featuring Danny Davis Play More Nashville Sounds, Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass
Best Gospel Performance  “In Gospel Country,” Porter Wagoner and the Blackwood Brothers
Best Soul Gospel Performance  Oh Happy Day, Edwin Hawkins Singers

Best Sacred Performance  “Ain't That Beautiful Singing,” Jake Hess
Best Folk Performance  Clouds, Joni Mitchell
Best Instrumental Arrangement  “Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet,” Henry Mancini, arranger
Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)  “Spinning Wheel,” Fred Lipsius, arranger
Best Instrumental Theme  Midnight Cowboy, John Barry, composer

Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album  Promises, Promises, Burt Bacharach and Hal Davis, composers (Liberty)
Best Original Score Written for Motion Picture or Television  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Burt Bacharach, composer
Album of the Year, Classical  Switched-On Bach, Walter Carlos (Columbia)
Best Classical Performance, Orchestra  Boulez Conducts Debussy, Vol. 2 “Images Pour Orchestre,” Pierre Boulez conducting Cleveland Orchestra
Best Chamber Music Performance  Gabrieli, Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli (Canzoni for Brass Choirs), the Philadelphia, Cleveland and Chicago Brass ensembles

Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With or Without Orchestra)  Switched-On Bach, Walter Carlos
Best Opera Recording  Wagner, Siegfried, Herbert von Karajan conducting Berlin Philharmonic; solos: Thomas, Stewart, Stolze, Dernesch, Keleman, Dominguez, Gayer and Ridderbusch (Deutsche Grammophon)
Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera)  Berio, Sinfonia, Swingle Singers; Ward Swingle, choral master; Luciano Berio conducting New York Philharmonic
Best Vocal Soloist Performance, Classical  Barber, Two Scenes From “Antony and Cleopatra”; Knoxville, Summer of 1915, Leontyne Price; Thomas Schippers conducting New Philharmonia
Best Comedy Recording  Bill Cosby, Bill Cosby (Uni)

Best Spoken Word Recording  We Love You, Call Collect, Art Linkletter and Diane (Word/Capitol)
Best Recording for Children  Peter, Paul and Mommy, Peter, Paul and Mary (Warner Bros.)
Best Album Cover  America the Beautiful, Evelyn J. Kelbish, painting; David Stahlberg, graphics (Skye)
Best Album NotesNashville Skyline, Johnny Cash, annotator (Columbia)

















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