1969 Grammy Awards |
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 Notes Nashville Skyline, Johnny Cash, annotator (Columbia) |