Record of the Year
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
5th Dimension

Album of the Year
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Blood, Sweat and Tears

Song of the Year
Games People Play
Joe South - songwriter

Best New Artist of 1969
Crosby, Stills and Nash

Best Contemporary Song
Games People Play
Joe South - songwriter

Best Contemporary Vocal Performance - Male
Everybody's Talkin'
Harry Nilsson

Best Contemporary Vocal Performance - Female
Is That All There Is
Peggy Lee

Best Contemporary Vocal Performance By a Group
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
5th Dimension

Best Contemporary Performance By a Chorus
Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet
Percy Faith Orchestra and Chorus

Best Contemporary Instrumental Performance
Variations on a Theme by Eric Satie
Blood, Sweat and Tears

Best Rhythm and Blues Song
Color Him Father
Richard Spencer - songwriter

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance - Male
The Chokin' Kind
Joe Simon

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance - Female
Share Your Love With Me
Aretha Franklin

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Group or Duo
It's Your Thing
Isley Brothers

Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance
Games People Play
King Curtis

Best Instrumental Jazz Performance
Small Group or Soloist With Small Group
Willow Weep for Me
Wes Montgomery

Best Instrumental Jazz Performance
Large Group or Soloist With Large Group
Walking in Space
Quincy Jones

Best Country Song
A Boy Named Sue
Shel Silverstein - songwriter

Best Country Vocal Performance - Male
A Boy Named Sue
Johnny Cash

Best Country Vocal Performance - Female
Stand by Your Man
Tammy Wynette 

Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group
MacArthur Park
Waylon Jennings and the Kimberlys

Best Country Instrumental Performance
The Nashville Brass Featuring Danny Davis 
Play More Nashville Sounds
Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass

Best Gospel Performance
In Gospel Country
Porter Wagoner and the Blackwood Brothers

Best Soul Gospel Performance
Oh Happy Day
Edwin Hawkins Singers

Best Sacred Performance
Ain't That Beautiful Singing
Jake Hess

Best Folk Performance
Clouds
Joni Mitchell

Best Instrumental Arrangement
Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet
Henry Mancini - arranger 

Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
Spinning Wheel
Fred Lipsius - arranger

Best Instrumental Theme
Midnight Cowboy
John Barry - composer

Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album
Promises, Promises
Burt Bacharach and Hal Davis - composers

Best Original Score Written for
Motion Picture or Television
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Burt Bacharach - composer

Album of the Year - Classical
Switched-On Bach
Walter Carlos

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
Boulez Conducts Debussy, Vol. 2 - Images Pour Orchestre
Pierre Boulez - Cleveland Orchestra 

Best Chamber Music Performance
Gabrieli - Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli
(Canzoni for Brass Choirs)
The Philadelphia, Cleveland and Chicago Brass ensembles

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s)
(With or Without Orchestra)
Switched-On Bach
Walter Carlos

Best Opera Recording
Wagner - Siegfried
Herbert von Karajan - Berlin Philharmonic
Solos: Thomas, Stewart, Stolze, Dernesch, Keleman, 
Dominguez, Gayer and Ridderbusch

Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera)
Berio - Sinfonia
Swingle Singers
Ward Swingle - choral master
Luciano Berio - New York Philharmonic

Best Vocal Soloist Performance - Classical
Barber - Two Scenes From Antony and Cleopatra
Knoxville - Summer of 1915
Leontyne Price
Thomas Schippers - New Philharmonia

Best Comedy Recording
Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby

Best Spoken Word Recording
We Love You, Call Collect
Art Linkletter and Diane

Best Recording for Children
Peter, Paul and Mommy
Peter, Paul and Mary

Best Album Cover
America the Beautiful
Evelyn J. Kelbish - painting
David Stahlberg - graphics

Best Album Notes
Nashville Skyline
Johnny Cash - annotator

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