Cérémonie 12Th Grammy award -Award 1969 :Award winners: Record of the Year Bones Howe (producer) & 5th Dimension for Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In Album of the Year James William Guercio (producer) & Blood, Sweat & Tears for Blood, Sweat & Tears Song of the Year Joe South for Games People Play Best New Artist Crosby, Stills & Nash [edit] Children's Best Recording for Children Peter, Paul and Mary for Peter, Paul and Mommy [edit] Classical Best Classical Performance, Orchestra Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the Cleveland Orchestra for Boulez Conducts Debussy, Vol. 2 "Images Pour Orchestre" Best Vocal Soloist Performance, Classical Thomas Schippers (conductor), Leontyne Price & the New Philharmonia for Barber: Two Scenes From "Antony and Cleopatra"/Knoxville, Summer of 1915 Best Opera Recording Otto Gerdes (producer), Herbert von Karajan (conductor), Helga Dernesch, Thomas Stolze, Jess Thomas & the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for Wagner: Siegfried Best Choral Performance, Classical (other than opera) Luciano Berio (conductor), Ward Swingle (choir director), the Swingle Singers & the New York Philharmonic for Berio: Sinfonia Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra) Wendy Carlos for Switched-On Bach Best Chamber Music Performance The Chicago Brass Ensemble, Cleveland Brass Ensemble & Philadelphia Brass Ensemble for Gabrieli: Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli Album of the Year, Classical Rachel Elkind (producer) & Wendy Carlos for Switched-On Bach [edit] Comedy Best Comedy Recording Bill Cosby for Bill Cosby [edit] Composing and arranging Best Instrumental Theme John Barry (composer) for Midnight Cowboy Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special Burt Bacharach (composer) for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Best Instrumental Arrangement Henry Mancini (arranger) for Love Theme From "Romeo and Juliet" Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) Fred Lipsius (arranger) for Spinning Wheel performed by Blood, Sweat & Tears [edit] Country Best Country Vocal Performance, Female Tammy Wynette for Stand By Your Man Best Country Vocal Performance, Male Johnny Cash for A Boy Named Sue Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group Waylon Jennings & the Kimberlys for MacArthur Park Best Country Instrumental Performance The Nashville Brass & Danny Davis for The Nashville Brass Featuring Danny Davis Play More Nashville Sounds Best Country Song Shel Silverstein (songwriter) for A Boy Named Sue performed by Johnny Cash [edit] Folk Best Folk Performance Joni Mitchell for Clouds [edit] Gospel Best Gospel Performance Porter Wagoner & the Blackwood Brothers for In Gospel Country Best Soul Gospel Performance Edwin Hawkins for Oh Happy Day performed by the Edwin Hawkins Singers Best Sacred Performance (Non-Classical) Jake Hess for Ain't That Beautiful Singing [edit] Jazz Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist With Small Group Wes Montgomery for Willow Weep for Me Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group or Soloist With Large Group Quincy Jones for Walking in Space [edit] Musical Show Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album Burt Bacharach, Hal David (composers), Henry Jerome, Phil Ramone (producers) & the original cast (Jerry Orbach, Jill O'Hara, Edward Winter, Donna McKecknie, A .L. Hines, Marian Mercer & Paul Reed) for Promises, Promises [edit] Packaging and Notes Best Album Cover David Stahlberg & Evelyn J. Kelbish (graphic artists) for America the Beautiful performed by Gary McFarland Best Album Notes Johnny Cash (notes writer) for Nashville Skyline performed by Bob Dylan [edit] Pop Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Female Peggy Lee for Is That All There Is Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Male Harry Nilsson for Everybody's Talkin' Best Contemporary Vocal Performance by a Group 5th Dimension for Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In Best Contemporary Performance by a Chorus Percy Faith for Love Theme From "Romeo and Juliet" performed by the Percy Faith Orchestra & Chorus Best Contemporary Instrumental Performance Blood, Sweat & Tears for Variations on a Theme by Eric Satie Best Contemporary Song Joe South for Games People Play [edit] Production and engineering Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical Geoff E. Emerick & Philip McDonald (engineers) for Abbey Road performed by The Beatles Best Engineered Recording, Classical Walter Carlos (engineer & artist) for Switched-On Bach [edit] R&B Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female Aretha Franklin for Share Your Love With Me Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male Joe Simon for The Chokin' Kind Best &B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group Isley Brothers for It's Your Thing Best R&B Instrumental Performance King Curtis for Games People Play Best Rhythm & Blues Song Richard Spencer (songwriter) for Color Him Father performed by The Winstons [edit] Spoken Best Spoken Word Recording Art Linkletter & Diane Linkletter for We Love You Call Collect