The 8th Annual Grammy Awards were held March 15, 1966, at Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville and New York. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1965. Roger Miller topped off the Grammys by winning 5 awards, whereas Herb Alpert and Frank Sinatra each won 4 awards. Award winners Record of the Year Jerry Moss (producer) & Herb Alpert (producer and artist) for "A Taste of Honey" performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Album of the Year Sonny Burke (producer) & Frank Sinatra for September of My Years Song of the Year Johnny Mandel & Paul Francis Webster (songwriters) for "The Shadow of Your Smile" (Love Theme From The Sandpiper) performed by Tony Bennett Best New Artist Tom Jones Children's Best Recording for Children Marvin Miller for Dr. Seuss Presents "Fox in Socks" and "Green Eggs and Ham" Classical Best Classical Performance - Orchestra Leopold Stokowski (conductor) & the American Symphony Orchestra for Ives: Symphony No. 4 Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance Erich Leinsdorf (conductor), Leontyne Price & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Strauss: Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene) Best Opera Recording Karl Böhm (conductor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Evelyn Lear, Fritz Wunderlich & the German Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Berg: Wozzeck Best Classical Choral Performance (other than opera) Robert Shaw (conductor), the Robert Shaw Chorale & the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra for Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms/Poulenc: Gloria Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra) Erich Leinsdorf (conductor), Arthur Rubinstein & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra) Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz at Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return Best Classical Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental or Vocal The Juilliard String Quartet for Bartók: The Six String Quartets Best Composition by a Contemporary Classical Composer Charles Ives (composer) for Ives: Symphony No. 4 conducted by Leopold Stokowski Album of the Year - Classical Thomas Frost (producer) & Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz at Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return Most Promising New Classical Recording Artist Peter Serkin Comedy Best Comedy Performance Bill Cosby for Why Is There Air? Composing and arranging Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show Johnny Mandel (composer) for The Sandpiper performed by the Robert Armbruster Orchestra Best Instrumental Arrangement Herb Alpert (arranger) for "A Taste of