Grammy Awards From Our Time

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Record of the Year Strangers in the Night, Frank Sinatra Up, Up and Away, 5th Dimension Mrs. Robinson, Simon and Garfunkel Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, 5th Dimension Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel
Album of the Year Sinatra: A man and His Music Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Glen Campbell Blood, Sweat and Tears, Blood Sweat and Tears Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel
Song of the Year Michelle, John Lennon and Paul McCartney Up, Up and Away, Jimmy L Webb Little Green Apples, Bobby Russell Games People Play, Joe South Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel
Best New Artist   Bobbie Gentry Jose Feliciano   Carpenters
Best Vocal Performance, Male Strangers in the Night, Frank Sinatra By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Glen Campbell Light My Fire, Jose Feliciano Everybody's Talkin', Harry Nilsson Everything is Beautiful, Ray Stevens
Best Vocal Performance, Female If He Walked Into My Life, Eydie Gorme Ode to Bille Joe, Bobbie Gentry Do You Know the Way to San Jose, Dionne Warwick Is That All There Is, Peggy Lee Dionne Warwick, I'll Never Fall in Love Again
Best Performance by a Vocal Group A Man and A Woman, Anita Kerr Singers Up, Up and Away, 5th Dimension Mrs. Robinson, Simon and Garfunkel Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, 5th Dimension Close to You, Carpenters
Best Performance by a Chorus Somewhere My Love (Lara's Theme from Dr Zhivago) Ray Conniff and Singers Up, Up and Away, Johnny Mann Singers Mission Impossible/Norwegian Wood (medley) Alan Copeland Singers Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet, Percy Faith Orchestra and Chorus  
Best Contemporary  Recording

Single / Album

Winchester Cathedral, New Vaudeveille Band Up, Up and Away, 5th Dimension

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles

     
Best Contemporary  Solo Vocal Performance, Male or Female Eleanor Rigby, Paul McCartney By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Glen Campbell

Ode to Bille Joe, Bobbie Gentry

     
Best Contemporary  Group Performance, Vocal or Instrumental Monday, Monday, Mamas and Papas Up, Up and Away, 5th Dimension Classical Gas, Mason Williams Variations on a Theme by Eric Satie, Blood, Sweat and Tears Theme from Z and Other Film Music
Best Rhythm and Blue Song Crying Time, Ray Charles Respect, Aretha Franklin (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding and Steve Cropper Color Him Father, Richard Spencer Patches, Ronald Dunbar and General Johnson
Best Rhythm and Blues Solo Vocal Performance, Male or Female Crying Time, Ray Charles Dead End Street, Lou Rawls

Respect, Aretha Franklin

(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding 

Chain of Fools, Aretha Franklin

The Chokin' Kind, Joe Simon

Share Your Love With Me, Aretha Franklin

The Thrill is Gone, B.B King

Don't Play That Song, Aretha Franklin

Best Rhythm and Blues Group Performance, Vocal or Instrumental Hold It Right There, Ramsey Lewis Soul Man, Sam and Dave Cloud Nine, The Temptations It's Your Thing, Isley Brothers

Games People Play, King Curtis

Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time, Delfonics
Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Group or Soloist with Group Goin' Out of My Head, Wes Montgomery  

Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Cannonball Adderly Quintet

Far East Suite, Duke Ellington

Nill Evans at the Montreux, Jazz Festival, Bill Evans Trio Willow Weep For Me, Wes Montgomery

Walkin' in Space, Quincy Jones

Alone, Bill Evans
Best Original Jazz Composition In the Beginning God, Duke Ellington   And His Mother Called Him Bill, Duke Ellington   Bitches, Brew, Miles Davis
Best Country and Western Song Almost Persuaded, Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton Gentle on My Mind, John Hartford Little Green Apples, Bobby Russell   My Woman, My Woman, My wife, Marty Robbins
Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Male Almost Persuaded, David Houston Gentle on My Mind, Glen Campbell Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash A Boy Named Sue, Johnny Cash For the Good Times, Ray Price
Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Female Don't Touch Me, Jeannie Seely I Don't Want to Play House, Tammy Wynette Harper Valley P.T.A., Jeannie C. Riley Stand By Your Man, Tammy Wyette Rose Garden, Lynn Anderson
Best Sacred Recording, Musical Grand Old Gospel, Porter Wagoner and the Blackwood Brothers How Great Thou Art, Elvis Presley Beautiful Isle of Somewhere, Jack Hess Ain't That Beautiful Singing, Jake Hess Everything is Beautiful, Jake Hess
Best Folk Recording Blue in the Street, Cortelia Clark Gentle on My Mind, John Hartford Both Sides Now, Judy Collins Clouds, Joni Mitchell  
Best Instrumental Arrangement What Now My Love, Herb Alpert Alfie, Burt Bacharach Classical Gas, Mike Post Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet, Henry Mancini Theme From Z, Henry Mancini
Best  Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist Strangers in the Night, Ernie Freeman Ode to Billie Joe, Jimmie Haskell MacArthur Park, Jimmy L Webb Spinning Wheel, Fred Lipsius Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel
Best Instrumental Theme Batman Theme, Neal Hefti Mission Impossible, Lalo Schifrin Classical Gas, Mason Williams Midnight Cowboy, John Barry Airport Love Theme, Alfred Newman
Best Instrumental Performance (Other Than Jazz) What Now My Love, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Chet Atkins Picks the Best, Chet Atkins      
Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album Mame, Jerry Herman Cabaret, Fred Ebb and John Kander Hair, Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Galt MacDermott Promises, Promises, Burt Bacharach Company, Stephen Sondheim
Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show Dr Zhivago, Maurice Jarre Mission Impossible, Lalo Schifrin The Graduate, Paul Simon and Dave Grusin Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Burt Bacharach Let It Be, John Lennon, Paul McCartney