1968 Grammy Awards |
Record of the Year “Mrs. Robinson,” Simon and Garfunkel Album of the Year By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Glen Campbell (Capitol) Song of the Year “Little Green Apples,” Bobby Russell, songwriter Best New Artist of 1968 José Feliciano Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Performance, Male “Light My Fire,” José Feliciano Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Performance, Female “Do You Know the Way to San Jose,” Dionne Warwick Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Performance, Duo or Group “Mrs. Robinson,” Simon and Garfunkel Best Contemporary Pop Performance, Chorus “Mission Impossible/Norwegian Wood” (medley), Alan Copeland Singers Best Contemporary Pop Performance, Instrumental “Classical Gas,” Mason Williams Best Rhythm and Blues Song (Sittin' On) “The Dock of the Bay,” Otis Redding and Steve Cropper, songwriters Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male (Sittin' On) “The Dock of the Bay,” Otis Redding Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female “Chain of Fools,” Aretha Franklin Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group, Vocal or Instrumental “Cloud Nine,” The Temptations Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist With Small Group Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Bill Evans Trio Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group or Soloist With Large Group “And His Mother Called Him Bill,” Duke Ellington Best Country Song “Little Green Apples,” Bobby Russell, songwriter Best Country Vocal Performance, Male “Folsom Prison Blues,” Johnny Cash Best Country Vocal Performance, Female “Harper Valley P.T.A.,” Jeannie C. Riley Best Country Performance, Duo or Group Vocal or Instrumental “Foggy Mountain Breakdown,” Flatt and Scruggs Best Sacred Performance “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,” Jack Hess Best Gospel Performance The Happy Gospel of the Happy Goodmans, Happy Goodman Family Best Soul Gospel Performance “The Soul of Me,” Dottie Rambo Best Folk Performance “Both Sides Now,” Judy Collins Best Instrumental Arrangement “Classical Gas,” Mike Post, arranger Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) “MacArthur Park,” Jimmy L. Webb, arranger Best Instrumental Theme “Classical Gas,” Mason Williams, composer Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album Hair, Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Galt MacDermott, composers (RCA) Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special The Graduate, Paul Simon and Dave Grusin, composers Best Classical Performance, Orchestra Boulez Conducts Debussy, Pierre Boulez conducting New Philharmonia Orchestra Best Chamber Music Performance Gabrieli, Canzoni for Brass, Winds, Strings and Organ, E. Power Biggs with Edward Tarr Ensemble and Gabrieli Consort; Vittorio Negri, conductor Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With or Without Orchestra) Horowitz on Television, Vladimir Horowitz Best Opera Recording Mozart, Cosi fan tutte, Erich Leinsdorf conducting New Philharmonia Orchestra and Ambrosian Opera Chorus; solos: Price, Raskin, Troyanos, Milnes, Shirley and Flagello (RCA) Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) The Glory of Gabrieli, Vittorio Negri conducting Gregg Smith Singers and Texas Boys Choir; George Bragg directing Edward Tarr Ensemble with E. Power Biggs Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance Rossini Rarities, Montserrat Caballe; Carlo Felice Cillario conducting RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and Chorus Best Comedy Recording To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With, Bill Cosby (Warner Bros.) Best Spoken Word Recording Lonesome Cities, Rod McKuen (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts) Best Album Cover Underground, John Berg and Richard Mantel, art directors (Columbia) Best Album Notes Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash, annotator |