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1968 Grammy Award Winners |
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Winners Announced: February 29, 1968 Table of Contents Musical Highlights and Achievements
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1968 Grammy Winners |
| Record of the Year: Up, Up and Away – 5th Dimension |
| Album of the Year: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles (Capitol) |
| Song of the Year: Up, Up and Away – Jimmy L. Webb, songwriter |
| Best New Artist: Bobbie Gentry |
| Best Vocal Performance, Male: By the Time I Get to Phoenix – Glen Campbell |
| Best Vocal Performance, Female: Ode to Billie Joe – Bobbie Gentry |
| Best Performance By a Vocal Group (Two to Six Persons): Up, Up and Away – 5th Dimension |
| Best Performance By a Chorus (Seven or More Persons): Up, Up and Away – Johnny Mann Singers |
| Best Contemporary Single: Up, Up and Away – 5th Dimension |
| Best Contemporary Album: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles (Capitol) |
| Best Contemporary Male Solo Vocal Performance: By the Time I Get to Phoenix – Glen Campbell |
| Best Contemporary Female Solo Vocal Performance: Ode to Billie Joe – Bobbie Gentry |
| Best Contemporary Group Performance, Vocal or Instrumental: Up, Up and Away – 5th Dimension |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Recording: Respect – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic) |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Solo Vocal Performance, Male: Dead End Street – Lou Rawls |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Solo Vocal Performance, Female: Respect – Aretha Franklin |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Group Performance, Vocal or Instrumental (Two or More): Soul Man – Sam and Dave |
| Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist With Small Group: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Cannonball Adderley Quintet |
| Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group or Soloist With Large Group: Far East Suite – Duke Ellington |
| Best Country and Western Song: Gentle on My Mind John Hartford, songwriter |
| Best Country and Western Recording: Gentle on My Mind – Glen Campbell (Capitol) |
| Best Country and Western Solo Vocal Performance, Male: Gentle on My Mind – Glen Campbell |
| Best Country and Western Solo Vocal Performance, Female: I Don’t Wanna Play House – Tammy Wynette |
| Best Country and Western Performance, Duet, Trio or Group (Vocal or Instrumental): Jackson – Johnny Cash and June Carter |
| Best Gospel Performance: More Grand Old Gospel, Porter Wagoner and the Blackwood Brothers |
| Best Sacred Performance: How Great Thou Art, Elvis Presley |
| Best Folk Performance: Gentle on My Mind – John Hartford |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement: Alfie, Burt Bacharach, arranger |
| Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) or Instrumentalist(s): Ode to Billie Joe – Jimmie Haskell, arranger |
| Best Instrumental Theme: Mission: Impossible – Lalo Schifrin, composer |
| Best Instrumental Performance: Chet Atkins Picks the Best – Chet Atkins |
| Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album: Cabaret, Fred Ebb and John Kander, composers (Columbia) |
| Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show: Mission: Impossible – Lalo Schifrin, composer |
| Album of the Year, Classical (tie): Berg, Wozzeck, Pierre Boulez conducting Paris National Opera; solos: Berry, Strauss, Uhl and Doench (Columbia) Mahler, Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major (Symphony of a Thousand ), Leonard Bernstein conducting London Symphony Orchestra (Columbia) |
| Best Classical Performance, Orchestra: Stravinsky, Firebird and Petrouchka Suites, Igor Stravinsky conducting Columbia Symphony |
| Best Chamber Music Performance: West Meets East, Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With or Without Orchestra): Horowitz in Concert, Vladimir Horowitz |
| Best Opera Recording: Berg, Wozzeck, Pierre Boulez conducting Paris National Opera; solos: Berry, Strauss, Uhl and Doench (Columbia) |
| Best Classical Choral Performance (tie): Mahler, Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major (Symphony of a Thousand ), Leonard Bernstein conducting London Symphony Orchestra Orff, Catulli Carmina, Robert Page conducting Temple University Chorus; Eugene Ormandy conducting Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance: Prima Donna, Vol. 2, Leontyne Price; Francesco Molinari-Pradelli conducting RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra |
| Best Comedy Recording: Revenge, Bill Cosby (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts) |
| Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording: Gallant Men, Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (Capitol) |
| Best Recording for Children: Dr Seuss: How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Boris Karloff (MGM) |
| Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, art directors (Capitol) |
| Best Album Cover, Photography: Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits; Roland Scherman, photographer; John Berg and Bob Cato, art directors (Columbia) |
| Best Album Notes: Suburban Attitudes in Country Verse, John O. Loudermilk, annotator (RCA) |
