1964 Grammy Awards
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| Record of the Year | “The Girl From Ipanema,” Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto | |
| Album of the Year | Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto (Verve) | |
| Song of the Year | “Hello, Dolly!,” Jerry Herman, songwriter | |
| The Beatles | |
| Most Promising New Recording Artist | Marilyn Horne | |
| Best Vocal Performance, Male | “Hello, Dolly!,” Louis Armstrong | |
| Best Vocal Performance, Female | “People,” Barbra Streisand | |
| Best Performance By a Vocal Group | A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles | |
| Best Performance By a Chorus | The Swingle Singers Going Baroque, Swingle Singers | |
| Best Rock and Roll Recording | “Downtown,” Petula Clark (Warner Bros.) | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Recording | “How Glad I Am,” Nancy Wilson (Capitol) | |
| Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist With Small Group | Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz | |
| Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group or Soloist With Large Group | Guitar From Ipanema, Laurindo Almeida | |
| Best Original Jazz Composition | “The Cat,” Lalo Schifrin, composer | |
| Best Country and Western Single | “Dang Me,” Roger Miller | |
| Best Country and Western Album | Dang Me/Chug-a-Lug, Roger Miller (Smash) | |
| Best Country and Western Song | “Dang Me,” Roger Miller, songwriter | |
| Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Male | “Dang Me,” Roger Miller | |
| Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Female | “Here Comes My Baby,” Dottie West | |
| Best New Country and Western Artist of 1964 | Roger Miller | |
| Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording (Musical) | Great Gospel Songs, Tennessee Ernie Ford (Capitol) | |
| Best Folk Recording | We'll Sing in the Sunshine, Gale Garnett (RCA) | |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement | “The Pink Panther Theme,” Henry Mancini, arranger | |
| Best Accompaniment Arrangement for Vocalist(s) or Instrumentalist(s) | “People,” Peter Matz, arranger | |
| Best Instrumental Composition (Other Than Jazz) | “The Pink Panther Theme,” Henry Mancini, composer | |
| Best Instrumental Performance, Non-Jazz | “The Pink Panther Theme,” Henry Mancini | |
| Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album | Funny Girl, Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, composers (Capitol) | |
| Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show | Mary Poppins, Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, composers | |
| Album of the Year, Classical | Bernstein, Symphony No. 3 (“Kaddish”), Leonard Bernstein conducting New York Philharmonic Orchestra (Columbia) | |
| Best Classical Performance, Orchestra | Mahler, Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor; Berg, “Wozzeck” Excerpts, Erich Leinsdorf conducting Boston Symphony | |
| Best Chamber Performance, Instrumental | Beethoven, Trio No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 1, No. 1, Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky; Jacob Lateiner, pianist | |
| Best Chamber Music Performance, Vocal | It Was a Lover and His Lass, Morley, Byrd and others; Noah Greenberg conducting New York Pro Musica | |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) | Prokofiev, Concerto No. 1 in D Major for Violin, Isaac Stern; Eugene Ormandy conducting Philadelphia Orchestra | |
| Best Performance, Instrumental Soloist (Without Orchestra) | Vladimir Horowitz Plays Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin (Beethoven, Sonata No. 8 “Pathetique; ” Debussy, Preludes; Chopin, Etudes and Scherzos 1–4), Vladimir Horowitz | |
| Best Opera Recording | Bizet, Carmen, Herbert von Karajan conducting Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus; solos: Price, Corelli, Merrill and Freni (RCA) | |
| Best Classical Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) | Britten, A Ceremony of Carols, Robert Shaw conducting Robert Shaw Chorale | |
| Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance (With or Without Orchestra) | Berlioz, Nuits d'Ete Falla: El Amor Brujo, Leontyne Price; Fritz Reiner conducting Chicago Symphony | |
| Best Classical Composition By a Contemporary Composer | Samuel Barber, Concerto | |
| Best Comedy Performance | I Started Out as a Child, Bill Cosby | |
| Best Documentary, Spoken Word or Drama Recording (Other Than Comedy) | BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy, That Was the Week That Was, cast (Decca) | |
| Best Recording for Children | Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke (Buena Vista) | |
| Best Album Cover | People, Robert Cato, art director; Don Bronstein, photographer (Columbia) | |
| Best Album Cover, Classical | Saint-Saëns, Carnival of the Animals; Britten, Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Robert Jones, art director; Jan Balet, graphic artist (RCA) | |
| Best Album Notes | Mexico (Legacy Collection), Stanton Catlin and Carleton Beals, annotators (Columbia) |
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