10th Annual Grammy Awards

The 10th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 29, 1968, at Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville and New York. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1967.

Performers

• Glen Campbell, Bobbie Gentry, Chet Atkins, and Jack Jones - Song of the Year medley
• Lou Rawls - Dead End Street
• Ravi Shankar & Yehudi Menuhin - Filmed appearance from a United Nations human rights benefit concert

Presenters

• Tommy Smothers - Introduced Glen Campbell

Award winners

Record of the Year

• "Up, Up and Away" — The 5th Dimension
• Johnny Rivers & Marc Gordon, producers
• “Somethin’ Stupid” — Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra
• Jimmy Bowen & Lee Hazelwood, producers
• “Ode To Billie Joe” — Bobbie Gentry
• Kelly Gordon & Bobby Paris, producers
• “My Cup Runneth Over” — Ed Ames
• Jim Foglesong & Joe Reisman, producers
• “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” — Glen Campbell
• Al De Lory, producer

Album of the Year

• “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” — The Beatles
• George Martin, producer
• “Ode To Billy Joe” — Bobbie Gentry
• Kelly Gordon & Bobby Paris, producers
• “My Cup Runneth Over” — Ed Ames
• Jim Foglesong, producer
• “It Must Be Him” — Vikki Carr
• Tommy Oliver & Dave Pell, producers
• Francis Albert Sinatra/Antonio Carlos Jobim — Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
• Sonny Burke, producer

Song of the Year

• "Up, Up and Away" — The 5th Dimension
• Jimmy L. Webb, songwriter
• “Ode To Billie Joe” — Bobbie Gentry
• Bobbie Gentry, songwriter
• “My Cup Runneth Over” — Ed Ames
• Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt, songwriters
• “Gentle On My Mind” — John Hartford
• John Hartford, songwriter
• “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” — Glen Campbell
• Jimmy L. Webb, songwriter

Best New Artist

• Bobbie Gentry
• Jefferson Airplane
• Harpers Bizarre
• The 5th Dimension
• Lana Cantrell

Children's

• Best Recording for Children
• Boris Karloff for Dr. Seuss: How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Classical

• Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
• Igor Stravinsky (conductor) & the Columbia Symphony Orchestra for Stravinsky: Firebird and Petrouchka Suites
• Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
• Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor), Leontyne Price, & the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra for Prima Donna, Volume 2
• Best Opera Recording
• Thomas Z. Shepard (producer), Pierre Boulez (conductor), Walter Berry, Ingeborg Lasser, Isabel Strauss, Fritz Uhl & the Paris National Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Berg: Wozzeck
• Best Classical Choral Performance (other than opera)
• Leonard Bernstein (conductor) & the London Symphony Orchestra & Choir for Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E Flat Major (Symphony of a Thousand)
• Eugene Ormandy (conductor), Robert Page (choir director), the Temple University Choir & the Philadelphia Orchestra for Orff: Catulli Carmina
• Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra)
• Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz in Concert (Haydn, Schumann, Scriabin, Debussy, Mozart, Chopin)
• Best Chamber Music Performance
• Ravi Shankar & Yehudi Menuhin for West Meets East
• Album of the Year, Classical
• John McClure (producer), Leonard Bernstein (conductor), various artists & the London Symphony Orchestra for Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (Symphony of a Thousand)
• Thomas Z. Shepard (producer), Pierre Boulez (conductor), Walter Berry, Ingeborg Lasser, Isabel Strauss, Fritz Uhl, Choeur Nationale de Paris & the Orchestra of Paris National Opera for Berg: Wozzeck

Comedy

• Best Comedy Performance
• Bill Cosby for Revenge

Composing and arranging

• Best Instrumental Theme
• Lalo Schifrin (composer) for ""
• Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Show
• Lalo Schifrin (composer) for '
• Best Instrumental Arrangement
• Burt Bacharach (arranger) for Alfie
• Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)/Best Background Arrangement
• Jimmie Haskell (arranger) for "Ode to Billie Joe" performed by Bobbie Gentry