1964 Grammy Awards

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)