6th Annual Grammy Awards

The 6th Annual Grammy Awards were held on May 12, 1964, at Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. They recognized accomplishments by musicians for the year 1963. Henry Mancini won 4 awards.

6th Annual Grammy Awards
Date	May 12, 1964
Location	Chicago, Los Angeles and New York
Television/radio coverage
Network	NBC

Award winners

• Record of the Year
  • Henry Mancini for "Days of Wine and Roses"
• Album of the Year (other than classical)
  • Barbra Streisand for The Barbra Streisand Album
• Song of the Year
  • Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer (songwriters) for "Days of Wine and Roses" performed by Henry Mancini
• Best New Artist
  • Ward Swingle (The Swingle Singers)

Children's

• Best Recording for Children
  • Leonard Bernstein (conductor) for Bernstein Conducts for Young People performed by the New York Philharmonic

Classical

• Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
  • Erich Leinsdorf (conductor) & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
• Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist (with or without orchestra)
  • Skitch Henderson (conductor), Leontyne Price & the RCA Orchestra for Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
• Best Opera Recording
  • Erich Leinsdorf (conductor), Rosalind Elias, Leontyne Price, Richard Tucker & the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra for Puccini: Madama Butterfly
• Best Classical Performance - Choral (other than opera)
  • Benjamin Britten (conductor), Edward Chapman, David Willcocks (choir directors), the Bach Choir, Highgate School Choir & the London Symphony Orchestra & Choir for Britten: War Requiem
• Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra)
  • Erich Leinsdorf (conductor), Arthur Rubinstein & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor
• Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Duo (without orchestra)
  • Vladimir Horowitz for The Sound of Horowitz
• Best Classical Music Performance - Chamber Music
  • Julian Bream for Evening of Elizabethan Music performed by the Julian Bream Consort
• Best Classical Composition by a Contemporary Composer
  • Benjamin Britten (composer & conductor) & the London Symphony Orchestra for Britten: War Requiem
• Best Classical Album
  • Benjamin Britten (conductor) & the London Symphony Orchestra for Britten: War Requiem
• Most Promising New Classical Recording Artist
  • André Watts

Comedy

• Best Comedy Performance
  • Allan Sherman for "Hello Mudduh, Hello Faddah"

Composing and arranging

• Best Instrumental Theme
  • Riz Ortolani (composer) for "More - Theme From Mondo Cane"
• Best Original Score from a Motion Picture or Television Show
  • John Addison (composer) for Tom Jones
• Best Instrumental Arrangement
  • Quincy Jones (arranger) for "I Can't Stop Loving You" performed by Count Basie
• Best Background Arrangement
  • Henry Mancini (arranger) for "Days of Wine and Roses"

Country

• Best Country & Western Recording
  • Bobby Bare for "Detroit City"

Folk

• Best Folk Recording
  • Peter, Paul and Mary for "Blowin' in the Wind"

Gospel

• Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording (Musical)
  • Soeur Sourire for "Dominique"

Jazz

• Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Soloist or Small Group
  • Bill Evans for Conversations with Myself
• Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group
  • Woody Herman for Encore: Woody Herman, 1963
• Best Original Jazz Composition
  • Steve Allen & Ray Brown (composers) for "Gravy Waltz" performed by Steve Allen

Musical show

• Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album
  • Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick (composers) & the original cast (Barbara Cook, Jack Cassidy, Barbara Baxley, Daniel Massey, Nathaniel Frey, Ralph Williams & Jo Wilder) for She Loves Me

Packaging and notes

• Best Album Cover - Classical
  • Robert M. Jones (art director) for Puccini: Madama Butterfly conducted by Erich Leinsdorf
• Best Album Cover - Other Than Classical
  • John Berg for The Barbra Streisand Album performed by Barbra Streisand
• Best Album Notes
  • Stanley Dance & Leonard Feather (notes writers) for The Ellington Era performed by Duke Ellington

Pop

• Best Vocal Performance, Female
  • Barbra Streisand for The Barbra Streisand Album
• Best Vocal Performance, Male
  • Jack Jones for "Wives and Lovers"
• Best Performance by a Vocal Group
  • Peter, Paul and Mary for "Blowin' in the Wind"
• Best Performance by a Chorus
  • Ward Swingle for Bach's Greatest Hits performed by the Swingle Singers
• Best Performance by an Orchestra - for Dancing
  • Count Basie for This Time by Basie! Hits of the 50s and 60s
• Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra, Not for Jazz or Dancing
  • Al Hirt for "Java"
• Best Rock and Roll Recording
  • April Stevens & Nino Tempo for "Deep Purple"

Production and engineering

• Best Engineered Recording - Other Than Classical
  • James Malloy (engineer) for Charade performed by Henry Mancini
• Best Engineered Recording - Classical
  • Lewis W. Layton (engineer), Erich Leinsdorf (conductor) & the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra for Puccini: Madama Butterfly
• Best Engineered Recording - Special or Novel Effects
  • Robert Fine (engineer) for Civil War Vol. II performed by Frederick Fennell

R&B

• Best Rhythm & Blues Recording
  • Ray Charles for "Busted"

Spoken

• Best Documentary, Spoken Word or Drama Recording (other than comedy)
  • Edward Albee (playwright) for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? performed by Melinda Dillon, George Grizzard, Uta Hagen & Arthur Hill