The 9th Annual Grammy Awards were held on March 2, 1967, at Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville and New York. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1966. The 9th Grammy Awards is notable for not presenting the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Frank Sinatra won 5 awards.
Award winners
Record of the Year
Jimmy Bowen (producer) & Frank Sinatra for "Strangers in the Night" Album of the Year Sonny Burke (producer) & Frank Sinatra for A Man and His Music Song of the Year John Lennon & Paul McCartney (songwriters) for "Michelle" performed by The Beatles
Children's
Best Recording for Children
Marvin Miller for Dr. Seuss Presents - "If I Ran the Zoo" and "Sleep Book"
Classical
Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf (conductor) & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A Minor Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance (with or without orchestra) Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor), Leontyne Price & the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra for Prima Donna (Works of Barber, Purcell, etc.) Best Opera Recording Georg Solti (conductor), Régine Crespin, Hans Hotter, James King, Christa Ludwig, Birgit Nilsson, & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for Wagner: Die Walkure Best Classical Choral Performance (other than opera) Robert Shaw (conductor) & the Robert Shaw Orchestra & Chorale for Handel: Messiah George Bragg (conductor), Gregg Smith (choir director), the Gregg Smith Singers, the Ithaca College Concert Choir, the Texas Boys Choir & the Columbia Chamber Orchestra for Ives: Music for Chorus Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra) Julian Bream for Baroque Guitar (Works of Bach, Sanz, Weiss, etc.) Best Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental or Vocal Boston Symphony Chamber Players for Boston Symphony Chamber Players - Works of Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Fine, Copland, Carter, Piston Album of the Year - Classical Howard Scott (producer), Morton Gould (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Ives: Symphony No. 1 in D Minor
Comedy
Best Comedy Performance
Bill Cosby for Wonderfulness
Composing and arranging
Best Instrumental Theme
Neal Hefti (composer) for "Batman Theme" Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show Maurice Jarre (composer) for Doctor Zhivago Best Instrumental Arrangement Herb Alpert (arranger) for "What Now My Love" performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist Ernie Freeman (arranger) for "Strangers in the Night" performed by Frank Sinatra
Country
Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female
Jeannie Seely for "Don't Touch Me" Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Male David Houston for "Almost Persuaded" Best Country & Western Recording David Houston for "Almost Persuaded" Best Country & Western Song Billy Sherrill & Glenn Sutton (songwriters) for "Almost Persuaded" performed by David Houston
Folk
Best Folk Recording
Cortelia Clark for Blues in the Street
Gospel
Best Sacred Recording (Musical) Porter Wagoner & the Blackwood Brothers for Grand Old Gospel
Jazz
Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Group or Soloist with Group
Wes Montgomery for "Goin' Out of My Head" Best Original Jazz Composition Duke Ellington for "In the Beginning God"
Musical show
Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album
Jerry Herman (composer) & the original cast (Angela Lansbury, Bea Arthur, Jane Connell, Charles Braswell, Jerry Lanning & Frankie Michaels ) for Mame
Packaging and notes
Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts
Klaus Voormann (graphic artist) for Revolver performed by The Beatles
Best Album Cover, Photography
Robert M. Jones (art director) & Les Leverette (photographer) for Confessions of a Broken Man performed by Porter Wagoner Best Album Notes Stan Cornyn (notes writer) for Sinatra at the Sands performed by Frank Sinatra