6th Annual Grammy Awards

For outstanding achievement in the music business there in 1964 for the sixth time the U.S. Grammy.

42 awards in 15 categories were awarded at the Grammy Awards 1964.

Main categories

Single of the Year ( Record of the Year ):

• " Days Of Wine And Roses " by Henry Mancini

Album of the Year (Album of the Year ):

• The Barbra Streisand Album by Barbra Streisand

Song of the Year ( Song of the Year ):

• " Days Of Wine And Roses " by Henry Mancini (Authors: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer )

Best New Artist ( Best New Artist):

• Ward Swingle

Pop

Best Female Vocal Performance ( Best Vocal Performance, Female):

• The Barbra Streisand Album by Barbra Streisand

Best Male Vocal Performance ( Best Vocal Performance, Male):

• " Wives And Lovers" by Jack Jones

Best Performance of a singing group ( Best Performance By A Vocal Group):

• " Blowin 'In The Wind" by Peter, Paul & Mary

Best Performance by a choir ( Best Performance By A Chorus):

• Bach 's Greatest Hits of the Swingle Singers

Best Performance by an orchestra - Dance ( Best Performance By An Orchestra - For Dancing ):

• This Time By Basie! Hits Of The 50's And 60's by Count Basie

Best Performance by an orchestra or an instrumentalist with orchestra - without jazz or dance ( Best Performance By An Orchestra Or Instrumentalist With Orchestra, Not For Jazz Or Dancing ):

• "Java " by Al Hirt

Best Rock and Roll Recording ( Best Rock and Roll Recording):

• "Deep Purple" by Nino Tempo & April Stevens

Rhythm & Blues

Best R & B Recording ( Best Rhythm & Blues Recording):

• " Busted " by Ray Charles

Country

Best Country and Western Recording ( Best Country & Western Recording ):

• Detroit City by Bobby Bare

Jazz

Best Jazz Instrumental performance - a soloist or small group ( Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Soloist Or Small Group):

• Conversations With Myself by Bill Evans

Best Jazz Instrumental performance - large group ( Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Large Group):

• Encore: Woody Herman, 1963 by Woody Herman

Best Jazz - original composition ( Best Original Jazz Composition ):

• Gravy Waltz by Steve Allen ( composer: Steve Allen, Ray Brown)

Gospel

Best musical gospel or other religious recording ( Best Gospel Or Other Religious Recording, Musical):

• Dominique of Sœur Sourire

Folk

Best Folk Recording ( Best Folk Recording):

• Blowin 'In The Wind by Peter, Paul and Mary

For children

Best Recording for Children ( Best Recording For Children ):

• Bernstein Conducts For Young People of the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein

Language

Best recording documentation, spoken text or drama without comedy ( Best Documentary Or Spoken Word Recording Other Than Comedy ):

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Melinda Dillon, George Grizzard, Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill ( script: Edward Albee )

Comedy

Best comedy performance ( Best Comedy Performance):

• Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh by Allan Sherman

Musical Show

Best music of an original cast show album ( Best Score From An Original Cast Show Album ):

• She Loves Me by the original cast with Barbara Cook, Jack Cassidy, Barbara Baxley, Daniel Massey, Nathaniel Frey, Ralph Williams and Jo Wilder ( Composer: Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick )

Composition / Arrangement

Best Instrumental Theme ( Best Instrumental Theme):

• More - Theme From Mondo Cane ( composer: Riz Ortolani )

Best Original Score of a movie or TV show ( Best Original Score From A Motion Picture Or Television Show):

• Tom Jones ( Composer: John Addison )

Best Instrumental Arrangement ( Best Instrumental Arrangement):

• I Can not Stop Loving You by Count Basie ( Arranger: Quincy Jones)

Best Background Arrangement ( Best Background Arrangement):

• Days Of Wine And Roses ( Arranger: Henry Mancini )

Packages and music accompanying

Best album cover, Classic ( Best Album Cover, Classical):

• Puccini: Madame Butterfly by RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf ( Artistic Director: Robert M. Jones)

Best album cover without Classical ( Best Album Cover, Other Than Classical):

• The Barbra Streisand Album by Barbra Streisand ( Artistic Director: John Berg )

Best music accompanying text ( Best Album Notes ):

• The Ellington Era of Duke Ellington ( Author: Stanley Dance, Leonard Feather )

Production and Technology

Best technical recording without classical music ( Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical ):

• Charade by Henry Mancini ( Technology: James Malloy )

Best Technical Recording - classical music ( Best Engineered Recording, Classical):

• Puccini: Madame Butterfly by RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf ( technique: Lewis W. Layton )

Best technical recording, special effects ( Best Engineered Recording, Special Effects Or Novel ):

• Civil War Vol II by Frederick Fennell ( technique: Robert Fine )

Classical music

Best classical album ( Best Classical Album):

• Britten: War Requiem with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten

Best Classical Orchestral Performance ( Best Performance - Orchestra ):

• Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf

Best Opera Recording ( Best Opera Recording):

• Puccini: Madame Butterfly by Rosalind Elias, Leontyne Price, Richard Tucker and the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf

Best classical choral performance (without Opera ) ( Best Classical Performance - Choral Other Than Opera):

• Britten: War Requiem by the Bach Choir, Highgate School Choir and the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under the direction of Benjamin Britten

Best solo instrument performance with orchestra ( Best Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists With Orchestra ):

• Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor by Arthur Rubinstein and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten

Best solo instrument performance without orchestra ( Best Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists Without Orchestra ):

• The Sound Of Horowitz by Vladimir Horowitz

Best chamber music performance ( Best Classical Music Performance - Chamber Music ):

• Evening Of Elizabethan Music by Julian Bream Consort

Best Solo Vocal Performance (with or without orchestra ) ( Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist With Or Without Orchestra ):

• Great Scenes From Gershwin 's Porgy And Bess by Leontyne Price and the RCA Orchestra conducted by Skitch Henderson

Best composition of a contemporary composer ( Best Composition by a Contemporary Composer):

• War Requiem by Benjamin Britten

Most promising new artist - classical recordings ( Most Promising New Classical Recording Artist ):

• Andre Watts

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