1969 Grammy Awards
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| Record of the Year | “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In,” 5th Dimension |
| Album of the Year | Blood, Sweat and Tears, Blood, Sweat and Tears (Columbia) |
| 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 (Liberty) |
| 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 (Columbia) |
| Best Classical Performance, Orchestra | Boulez Conducts Debussy, Vol. 2 “Images Pour Orchestre,” Pierre Boulez conducting 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 conducting Berlin Philharmonic; solos: Thomas, Stewart, Stolze, Dernesch, Keleman, Dominguez, Gayer and Ridderbusch (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) | Berio, Sinfonia, Swingle Singers; Ward Swingle, choral master; Luciano Berio conducting New York Philharmonic |
| Best Vocal Soloist Performance, Classical | Barber, Two Scenes From “Antony and Cleopatra”; Knoxville, Summer of 1915, Leontyne Price; Thomas Schippers conducting New Philharmonia |
| Best Comedy Recording | Bill Cosby, Bill Cosby (Uni) |
| Best Spoken Word Recording | We Love You, Call Collect, Art Linkletter and Diane (Word/Capitol) |
| Best Recording for Children | Peter, Paul and Mommy, Peter, Paul and Mary (Warner Bros.) |
| Best Album Cover | America the Beautiful, Evelyn J. Kelbish, painting; David Stahlberg, graphics (Skye) |
| Best Album Notes | Nashville Skyline, Johnny Cash, annotator (Columbia) |
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