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60s Grammy Award Songs And Records
Year by Year, Record of the
Year and Song of the Year winners,
with song links and samples at Tunecaster music encyclopedia
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Jul
1958
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1
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1
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1
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Nel Blue Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)
Domenico Modugno
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Nel Blue Dipinto
Di Blu won the Grammy Award for Record Of The Year. |
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Nov
1959
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1
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1
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2
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Mack The Knife
Bobby Darin
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Mack The Knife
won the Grammy Award for Record Of The Year. |
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Instrumental
song The Theme From A Summer Place won the Grammy Award for Record Of The Year and
became the top
song of the year and the top song of the 1960s.
Percy Faith and others recorded various instrumental and vocal
versions.
Max Steiner wrote the song. The song was from the movie A
Summer Place. |
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Dec
1961
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11
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16
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4
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Moon River
Henry Mancini And His Orchestra
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This instrumental
version of Moon River won the Grammy
Award for Record Of The Year. The song was from the
album Moon River & Other Great Movie Themes, and from
the movie Breakfast At Tiffany's. The writers of this
song were: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer. |
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Oct
1962
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19
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14
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5
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I Left My Heart In San Francisco
Tony Bennett
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I Left My Heart
In San Francisco won the Grammy Award for Record Of The Year.
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Mar
1963
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6
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Days Of Wine And Roses
Henry Mancini And His Orchestra
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Days Of Wine
And Roses won the Grammy Award for Record Of The Year. The writers
of this song were: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer. The song was
from the movie Days Of Wine And Roses. |
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Jul
1964
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5
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3
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7
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The Girl From Ipanema
Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto
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The Girl From
Ipanema won the Grammy
Award for Record Of The Year. Astrud Gilberto, with
no experience, sang part of the song because she was the only
person there who could sing in English. She wound up recording
many songs, including her version of the 1966 number 20 Walter Wanderley
hit Summer Samba (So Nice).
In 1962, Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd hit
number 6 with Desafinado, an instrumental song. The Girl From Ipanema was from the
album Getz/Gilberto. |
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A Taste Of Honey
won the Grammy Award for Record Of The Year. The writers of
this song were: Ric Marlow, Bobby Scott. |
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Feb
1966
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18
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18
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9
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Michelle
David And Jonathan
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Michelle won
the Grammy Award for Song
Of The Year. The famous rock version by The
Beatles was not released. David And Jonathan was
a Bible reference. David was actually Roger Cook. He became
the singer for group Blue Mink. He also sang for The
Pipkins. Jonathan was Roger Greenaway. The two Rogers
also wrote for other artists. The writers of this song were:
John
Lennon, Paul
McCartney. |
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Jun
1966
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1
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1
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11
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Strangers In The Night
Frank Sinatra
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Strangers In
The Night won the Grammy Award for Record Of The Year. The song
was from the movie A Man Could Get Killed. |
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Up, Up And Away
won the Grammy Awards for Record Of The Year and Song Of The
Year. Johnny
Rivers produced the song. Jimmy Webb wrote the song.
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Mrs. Robinson
was originally called Mrs. Roosevelt. The song won the Grammy
Award for Record Of The Year. Paul
Simon wrote the song. Mrs. Robinson was from the
movie The Graduate. |
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Oct
1968
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2
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2
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14
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Little Green Apples
O.C. Smith
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Little Green
Apples won the Grammy Award for Song Of The Year. Bobby Russell
wrote the song. |
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Jan
1969
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12
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7
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15
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Games People Play
Joe South
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Games People
Play won the Grammy Award for Song Of The Year. Joe South wrote
the song. |
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Aquarius/Let
The Sunshine In won the Grammy Award for Record Of The Year.
The writers of this song were: Gerome Ragni, James Rado. The
song was from the show Hair. |
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Bridge Over
Troubled Water was the 1970
top song of the year, and also won the Grammy
Awards for both Song Of The Year and Record Of The
Year. The song featured piano player Knechtel from Bread.
The song was from the album Bridge Over Troubled Water.
Paul
Simon wrote the song. |
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