11th Annual Grammy Awards

1969 award ceremony for music 11th Annual Grammy Awards March 12, 1969 Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville & New York NBC 10th Grammy Awards 12th The 11th Annual Grammy Awards were held on March 12, 1969. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1968.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=la8tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jqAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=718,2834560&dq=grammy&hl=en Grammy recording award winners 13 March 1969 The Montreal Gazette 1 May 2011http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=&title=&year=1968&genre=All 1968 Grammy Award Winners Grammy.com 1 May 2011 Presenters Dan Rowan & Dick Martin - Introduced The Temptations Flip Wilson - Introduced Jeannie C. Riley The King Family - Best New Artist & Best Contemporary Male Vocal Performance and introduced Jose Feliciano Lou Rawls & Bobbie Gentry - Introduced Glen Campbell Burt Bacharach - Introduced Dionne Warwick Mama Cass Elliott - Introduced The Beatles Nancy Sinatra - Introduced Mason Williams Davy Jones - Introduced Bobby Goldsboro Don Rickles & Tiny Tim - Introduced Simon & Garfunkel Tommy Smothers - Introduced the cast of Hair Henry Mancini - Record of the Year Performers The Temptations - "Cloud Nine" Jeannie C. Riley - "Harper Valley PTA" Jose Feliciano - "Light My Fire" Glen Campbell - "Wichita Lineman" Dionne Warwick - "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" The Beatles - "Hey Jude" Mason Williams - "Classical Gas" Bobby Goldsboro - "Honey" Simon & Garfunkel - "Mrs. Robinson" O.C. Smith - "Little Green Apples" The Cast of Hair - "Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" Award winners Record of the Year "Mrs. Robinson" — Simon & Garfunkel Paul Simon & Roy Halee, producers “Wichita Lineman” — Glen Campbell Al De Lory, producer “Honey” — Bobby Goldsboro Bobby Goldsboro & Bob Montgomery, producers “Hey Jude” — The Beatles George Martin, producer “Harper Valley PTA” — Jeannie C. Riley Shelby S. Singleton Jr., producer Album of the Year “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” — Glen Campbell Al De Lory, producer “Magical Mystery Tour” — The Beatles George Martin, producer “Feliciano!” — José Feliciano Rick Jarrard, producer “Bookends” — Simon And Garfunkel Roy Halee & Simon And Garfunkel (Art Garfunkel & Paul Simon), producers “A Tramp Shining” — Richard Harris Jimmy L. Webb, producer Song of the Year "Little Green Apples" — Roger Miller / O.C. Smith Bobby Russell, songwriter “Mrs. Robinson” — Simon And Garfunkel Paul Simon, songwriter “Honey” — Bobby Goldsboro Bobby Russell, songwriter “Hey Jude” — The Beatles John Lennon & Paul McCartney, songwriters “Harper Valley PTA” — Jeannie C. Riley Tom T. Hall, songwriter Best New Artist José Feliciano Cream O.C. Smith Jeannie C. Riley Gary Puckett And The Union Gap Classical Best Classical Performance - Orchestra Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the New Philharmonia Orchestra for Boulez Conducts Debussy (La Mer; Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune; Jeux) Best Vocal Soloist Performance Carlo Felice Cillario (conductor), Montserrat Caballé & the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Rossini: Rarities Best Opera Recording Richard Mohr (producer), Erich Leinsdorf (conductor), Ezio Flagello, Sherrill Milnes, Leontyne Price, Judith Raskin, George Shirley, Tatiana Troyanos & the New Philharmonia Orchestra for Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte Best Choral Performance (other than opera) Vittorio Negri (conductor), George Bragg, Gregg Smith, (choir directors), E. Power Biggs, the Edward Tarr Ensemble, the Gregg Smith Singers & the Texas Boys Choir for The Glory of Gabrieli Best Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra) Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz on Television (Chopin, Scriabin, Scarlatti, Horowitz) Best Chamber Music Performance Vittorio Negri (conductor), E. Power Biggs & the Edward Tarr Ensemble for Glory of Gabrieli Vol. II - Canzonas for Brass, Winds, Strings and Organ Comedy Best Comedy Performance Bill Cosby for To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With Composing and arranging Best Instrumental Theme Mason Williams (composer) for "Classical Gas" Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special Dave Grusin & Paul Simon (composers) for The Graduate performed by Simon & Garfunkel Best Instrumental Arrangement Mike Post (arranger) for "Classical Gas" performed by Mason Williams Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) Jimmy L. Webb (arranger) for "MacArthur Park" performed by Richard Harris Country Best Country Vocal Performance, Female Jeannie C. Riley for "Harper Valley PTA" Best Country Vocal Performance, Male Johnny Cash for "Folsom Prison Blues" Best Country Performance, Duo or Group - Vocal or Instrumental Flatt & Scruggs for "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" Best Country Song Bobby Russell (songwriter) for "Little Green Apples" performed by Roger Miller / O.C. Smith Folk Best Folk Performance Judy Collins for "Both Sides Now" Gospel Best Gospel Performance The Happy Goodman Family for The HAPPY GOSPEL of the Happy Goodmans album Best Soul Gospel Performance Dottie Rambo for "The Soul of Me" from the album It's The Soul Of Me (Dottie Rambo Sings Spirituals) Best Sacred Performance Jake Hess for "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" from the album Beautiful Isle of Somewhere Jazz Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Small Group or Soloist with Small Group Bill Evans for Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival performed by the Bill Evans Trio Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group or Soloist with Large Group Duke Ellington for "And His Mother Called Him Bill" Musical show Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado (composers), Andy Wiswell (producer) the original cast (Ronnie Dyson, Gerome Ragni, Steve Curry, Lamont Washington, Diane Keaton, Melba Moore & James Rado) for Hair Packaging and notes Best Album Cover John Berg, Richard Mantell (art directors), Horn Grinner Studios (photographer) for Underground performed by Thelonious Monk Best Album Notes Johnny Cash (notes writer) for Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison performed by Johnny Cash Pop Best Contemporary-Pop Vocal Performance, Female Dionne Warwick for "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" Best Contemporary-Pop Vocal Performance, Male Jose Feliciano for "Light My Fire" Best Contemporary-Pop Performance - Vocal Duo or Group Simon & Garfunkel for "Mrs. Robinson" Best Contemporary Pop Performance, Chorus Alan Copeland (choir director) for "Mission Impossible/Norwegian Wood Medley" performed by the Alan Copeland Singers Best Pop Instrumental Performance Mason Williams for "Classical Gas" Production and engineering Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical Hugh Davies & Joe Polito (engineers) for "Wichita Lineman" performed by Glen Campbell Best Engineered Recording, Classical Gordon Parry (engineer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the London Symphony Orchestra for Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D R&B Best R&B Performance, Female Aretha Franklin for "Chain of Fools" Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male Otis Redding for "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" (posthumously) Best Rhythm & Blues Performance by a Duo or Group, Vocal or Instrumental The Temptations for "Cloud Nine" Best Rhythm & Blues Song Otis Redding & Steve Cropper (songwriters) for "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" performed by Otis Redding Spoken Best Spoken Word Recording Rod McKuen for Lonesome Cities References 011 Category:1969 in California Category:1969 in Illinois Category:1969 in Los Angeles Category:1969 in Tennessee Category:1969 music awards Category:20th century in Chicago Category:20th century in Nashville, Tennessee Category:1969 in New York City Category:1969 in American music Category:March 1969 in the United States