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For the 11th Annual GRAMMY Awards, the live presentation ceremony and “The Best On Record” special were linked as never before—bringing the show one step closer to the live telecast that would follow in two years. The winner for Record Of The Year was not announced during the awards dinner so that the winner could instead be revealed during the NBC special that aired nearly two months later on May 5. To accomplish this, five separate awards announcements and acceptance speeches were taped. Just an hour before air time, a network official opened the envelope and instructed a machine operator to insert the correct reel into the master tape. The decision proved somewhat controversial. Writing in the Los Angeles Times, staff writer Wayne Warga reported that when Los Angeles Chapter President Irving Townsend announced at the awards dinner that an award was being held back to help ratings, “The audience booed him. Fortunately, nobody threw anything. This was probably because the waiters had wisely cleared the tables.” Apparently performances by Jackie DeShannon, Lou Rawls, Tommy Boyce &amp; Bobby Hart and Bill Medley were far better received.

There was no booing whatsoever when “The Best On Record” finally aired—indeed this edition of “The Best On Record: The GRAMMY Awards Show” felt downright giddy thanks in part to the presence of opening and closing act Dan Rowan and Dick Martin whose “Laugh-In” show had become the comedic rage since its debut in 1968. Interestingly, “Rowan &amp; Martin’s Laugh-In” was—like “The Best On Record”—produced by George Schlatter, a synergy that lent the proceeding a certain “Laugh-In” like, slightly off-color, “sock-it-to-me” charm.

Accordingly, comedians figured quite prominently in this hour of TV. Flip Wilson introduced Jeannie C. Riley’s performance of “Harper Valley P.T.A.”—a winner for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female, and a nominee in the still open Record Of The Year category—by declaring, “Country music has come a long way since the washboard and kazoo. Nowadays they use electric washboards and electric kazoos.” Don Rickles appeared alongside Tiny Tim for a surreal introduction of a fascinating and unusual clip of another of the Record Of The Year nominees—Simon &amp; Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson.” Asked to film a performance of the song, Simon &amp; Garfunkel suggested instead that they would prefer to film a segment at an empty Yankee Stadium—a seeming nod to Joe DiMaggio who figured in the song’s lyrics. Executive Producer Ted Bergmann recalls <a href="/grammys/artists/paul-simon">Paul Simon</a> saying, “Art and I will run the bases while you play ‘Mrs. Robinson.’” The resulting clip is a fantastic, offbeat early rock video—a truly winning non-performance GRAMMY performance. Tommy Smothers introduced the Los Angeles cast of “Hair,” which then performed two songs from “The American Tribal Love Rock Musical,” spotlighting both Delores Hall and Jennifer Warnes, the latter of whom would return to win a couple GRAMMYs more than a decade later. &nbsp;

It took a village—okay, actually the entire King Family—to introduce Best New Artist and Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Performance, Male, winner Jose Feliciano, and the singer/guitarist did the whole family proud with a powerful rendition of “Light My Fire.” Burt Bacharach introduced a strong performance of “Do You Know The Way To San Jose?” by Dionne Warwick—GRAMMY winner for Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Performance, Female. “She has a voice and a style and a warmth that gives any song a very special meaning,” he said, clearly from personal experience. Mama Cass, meanwhile, introduced a performance clip of “Hey Jude” by the Beatles—another nominee for Record Of The Year.

Toward the end of “The Best On Record,” Henry Mancini appeared to introduce “the big one we’ve all waited for” — the winner of Record Of The Year. Ultimately Simon &amp; Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson” prevailed over not only the Beatles’ “Hey Jude,” but also Jeannie C. Riley’s “Harper Valley P.T.A.,” <a href="/grammys/artists/glen-campbell">Glen Campbell</a>’s “Wichita Lineman” and Bobby Goldsboro’s “Honey.” Accordingly, the pre-taped speech came from Art Garfunkel who, wearing a tux but holding a baseball, graciously — and theoretically — accepted on behalf of producer and engineer Roy Halee and “my best friend Paul Simon who wouldn’t wear a tuxedo today.”&nbsp;

Wichita Lineman

Mrs. Robinson

Honey

Hey Jude

Harper Valley P.T.A. (Single)

Record Of The Year

Magical Mystery Tour (Album)

Feliciano! (Album)

By The Time I Get To Phoenix

Bookends (Album)

A Tramp Shining (Album)

Album Of The Year

Little Green Apples

Song Of The Year

Best New Artist Of The Year

The Windmills Of Your Mind

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

Scarborough Fair

Classical Gas

Baroque-A-Nova

Best Instrumental Arrangement

Yesterday I Heard The Rain (Single)

Wichita Lineman (Single)

Mac Arthur Park

Light My Fire (Single)

Fool On The Hill

Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (Album)

Rotary Connection Trip I (Album)

Man Of La Mancha (Album)

Daktari (Album)

Best Engineered Recording (Non-Classical)

Underground

Road Song (Album)

Rhinoceros (Album)

Ives: Holidays Symphony (Album)

Best Album Cover

Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits (Album)

Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison

Francis A. And Edward K. - Francis Albert Sinatra And Edward Kennedy Ellington (Album)

Ethel Waters On Stage And Screen 1925-1940 (Album)

Anthology Of Indian Music, Volume One (Album)

Best Album Notes

Those Were The Days (Single)

I Say A Little Prayer (Single)

Funny Girl (Album)

Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Angel Of The Morning (Single)

Best Contemporary-Pop Vocal Performance, Female

MacArthur Park (Single)

Little Green Apples (Single)

Light My Fire

Honey (Single)

Best Contemporary-Pop Vocal Performance, Male

Woman, Woman (Album)

Goin' Out Of My Head/Can't Take My Eyes Off You

Child Is Father To The Man

Best Contemporary-Pop Performance, Vocal Duo Or Group

This Guy's In Love With You

Mission Impossible/Norwegian Wood Medley

MacArthur Park

Angel Of The Morning

Best Contemporary-Pop Performance, Chorus

Here, There And Everywhere (Single)

Grazing In The Grass

Eleanor Rigby

Best Contemporary-Pop Performance, Instrumental

Security (Single)

Piece Of My Heart (Single)

Love Makes A Woman (Single)

He Called Me Baby (Single)

Chain Of Fools

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance, Female

Who's Making Love (Single)

I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Single)

For Once In My Life (Single)

(You Keep Me) Hangin' On (Single)

(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance, Male

Tighten Up

Sweet Inspiration

Pickin' Wild Mountain Berries

I Thank You

Cloud Nine

Best Rhythm & Blues Performance By A Duo Or Group, Vocal Or Instrumental

Who's Making Love

I Wish It Would Rain

Best Rhythm & Blues Song

My Son (Single)

Harper Valley P.T.A.

D-I-V-O-R-C-E (Single)

Country Girl (Single)

Big Girls Don't Cry (Single)

Best Country Vocal Performance, Female

The Carroll County Accident (Single)

Skip A Rope (Single)

I Wanna Live (Single)

Folsom Prison Blues

Best Country Vocal Performance, Male

Through The Eyes Of Love

The Lovers

Mountain Dew

It's My Time (Single)

Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Best Country Performance, Duo Or Group - Vocal Or Instrumental

Skip A Rope

D-I-V-O-R-C-E

Best Country Song

You'll Never Walk Alone (Album)

Whispering Hope (Album)

I'll Fly Away (Album)

How Great Thou Art

Beautiful Isle Of Somewhere

102 Strings, Vol. 2

Best Sacred Performance

Yours Faithfully

The Happy Gospel Of The Happy Goodmans

The Florida Boys Sing Kinda Country (Album)

For Goodness Sake

A Great Day

Best Gospel Performance

Long Walk To D.C. (Album)

Willa Dorsey: The World's Most Exciting Gospel Singer

Wait A Little Longer

The Soul Of Me

Only Believe (Album)

Bread Of Heaven, Parts 1 And 2

Best Soul Gospel Performance

The Unicorn

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

Late Again

John Wesley Harding

Did She Mention My Name (Album)

Both Sides Now

Best Folk Performance

Theme From The Fox

The Odd Couple (Album)

Rosemary's Baby

Best Instrumental Theme

Valley Of The Dolls (Album)

The Graduate

The Fox

Bonnie And Clyde

Best Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or A Television Special

Your Own Thing (Album)

The Happy Time (Album)

Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris (Album)

Hair

George M! (Album)

Best Score From An Original Cast Show Album

W.C.Fields Original Voice Tracks From Great Movies (Album)

To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With

Rowan And Martin Laugh-In (Album)

Hello Dummy! (Album)

Flip Wilson, You Devil You (Album)

Best Comedy Recording

The Canterbury Pilgrims (Album)

Murder In The Cathedral (Album)

Lonesome Cities

Kennedy-Nixon: The Great Debates, 1960 (Album)

I Have A Dream (Album)

Best Spoken Word Recording

The Electrifying...Eddie Harris (Album)

Miles In The Sky

Jazz For Sunday Afternoon-Vol. I (Album)

Gary Burton Quartet In Concert

Compadres

Bill Evans At The Montreux Jazz Festival

Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Small Group Or Soloist With Small Group

Up In Erroll's Room (Album)

Mercy, Mercy (Recorded Live At Caesars Palace) (Album)

Electric Bath (Album)

Down Here On The Ground

Concerto For Herd

And His Mother Called Him Bill

Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group Or Soloist With Large Group

Stravinsky: The Rite Of Spring (Album)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Album)

Prokofiev: Romeo And Juliet (Album)

Messiaen: Turangalila/Takemitsu: November Steps (Album)

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 In A Minor And Symphony No. 9 In D Major (Album)

Boulez Conducts Debussy (La Mer; Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune; Jeux)

Bach: Four Suites For Orchestra (Album)

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra

Works By Mozart, Brahms, Schubert, Poulenc, Haieff, Villa-Lobos, Colgrass (Album)