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On April 13, 1965, the British Invasion was officially complete.

While the 7th Annual GRAMMY Awards may not have constituted a complete surrender to <a href="/grammys/artists/beatles">the Beatles</a> and their English fellow travelers, it didn’t take long for the GRAMMYs to acknowledge the stunning impact of the Fab Four following their American arrival in 1964. John, Paul, George and Ringo themselves won two GRAMMY Awards—Best New Artist and Best Performance By A Vocal Group for “A Hard Day’s Night.” Furthermore, the group’s wider cultural impact was further recognized indirectly when the GRAMMY for Best Engineered Recording—Special or Novel Effects was presented to engineer Dave Hassinger for The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles.

“The Best on Record” television special for the year also reflected the Brave New Fab World of 1964. After noting that the show was bringing together “the Great Society of the recording industry,” Steve Allen explained at the start that this was a time in music when “it doesn’t hurt if you’re a Beatle or a Chipmunk or something like that. For people it’s a little tougher.” In fact, it wasn’t hard to miss a certain anti-rock condescension creeping into the proceedings when Allen—who won the Best Original Jazz Composition for “Gravy Waltz” with Ray Brown the previous year—added, “Sometimes I put on the Rolling Stones just so I can turn them off.”

The Stones did not win a GRAMMY or appear on “The Best on Record,” but the Beatles memorably did. First, there was an introduction from famed Boston Pops Orchestra conductor Arthur Fiedler who noted, “Until recently longhair has always been used as a term referring to classical music. Lately it seems to have an entirely different meaning. The new longhairs have a new sound, a new beat and, to say the least, very new haircuts.” The show then cut to Twickenham Film Studios in London where the Beatles were filming their second movie, Help! Peter Sellers—a favorite comic hero of the group—was at the studios to present the Fabs with their two GRAMMYs, or as he called them, “Grandma Awards.” Sellers and the boys proceeded to quip quite happily, before the Beatles broke into a slightly crazed version of the World War I standard “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary.” For the record, the Beatles did not sweep the Rock Awards—interestingly, the Best Rock &amp; Roll Recording went to fellow Brit Petula Clark for “Downtown.”

Certainly it wasn’t all about rock and roll at the 7th Annual GRAMMY Awards. The bossa nova beat was still all the rage, with Record of the Year going to “The Girl from Ipanema” by Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz and Album of the Year going to the Getz/Gilberto album by Stan Getz and João Gilberto. The Song of the Year GRAMMY, meanwhile, went to Jerry Herman for “Hello, Dolly!” as recorded by Louis Armstrong. When Armstrong had to cancel an appearance on “The Best on Record” at the last minute, producer George Schlatter and his team delivered an excellent late substitute to sing the song—Jimmy Durante. This was followed directly by an amusing appearance by Woody Allen who had been nominated for Best Comedy Performance. “My wrists are completely healed,” Allen explained of his loss to Bill Cosby (I Started Out As a Child). As Allen wryly noted, “It’s a thrill for me to be included in this fantastic tribute being paid to the recording industry by the recording industry.”

Speaking of fantastic tributes, this year’s “The Best on Record” ended with one richly deserved salute to the late great Nat “King” Cole who had died of lung cancer on February 15, 1965. Steve Allen returned to the screen to point out that Cole had been one of the founders and one of the first members of the Board of Governors of The Recording Academy. Sammy Davis Jr. then beautifully paid his respects to Cole by singing a medley of his unforgettable and timeless songs.

The Girl From Ipanema

People (Single)

I Want To Hold Your Hand

Hello, Dolly! (Single)

Downtown (Single)

Record Of The Year

The Pink Panther (Album)

People (Album)

Getz/Gilberto

Funny Girl

Cotton Candy (Album)

Album Of The Year

Verdi: Requiem (Album)

Verdi: Falstaff (Album)

Mahler: Symphony No. 5/Berg: Wozzeck Excerpts (Album)

Bizet: Carmen (Album)

Bernstein: Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish"

Album Of The Year - Classical

Who Can I Turn To (Single)

People

Hello, Dolly!

Dear Heart (Single)

A Hard Day's Night (Single)

Song Of The Year

Theme From Golden Boy (Album)

Theme From "The Munsters"

The Pink Panther Theme

Sugar Lips

Cotton Candy

Best Instrumental Composition (Other Than Jazz)

We'll Sing In The Sunshine (Single)

The Girl From Ipanema (Single)

How Glad I Am (Single)

Best Vocal Performance, Female

Getz/Gilberto (Album)

Everybody Loves Somebody (Album)

Call Me Irresponsible (Album)

Best Vocal Performance, Male

Sweet September (Album)

My Fair Lady (Album)

Mumbles

Miles Davis In Europe

Collaboration (Album)

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

Woody Herman '64

The Individualism Of Gil Evans

The Dynamic Sound Patterns Of The Rod Levitt Orchestra

Quincy Jones Explores The Music Of Henry Mancini

Quiet Nights

Oscar Peterson/Nelson Riddle (Album)

My Fair Lady With The Unoriginal Cast

Guitar From Ipanema

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

Theme From Mr. Broadway

The Witching Hour

The Cat

Paco

Night Creature

Here And Now

Best Original Jazz Composition

The Beatles Song Book (Album)

The Pink Panther

Golden Boy (String Version)

As Long As He Needs Me

Best Instrumental Performance - Non-Jazz

The Song Is You (Single)

The Long Ships (Single)

I Want To Hold Your Hand (Single)

Golden Boy (String Version) (Single)

A Spoonful Of Sugar (Single)

Best Instrumental Arrangement

Where Love Has Gone

We'll Sing In The Sunshine

Ringo

Best Accompaniment Arrangement For Vocalist(s) Or Instrumentalist(s)

The Double Six Sing Ray Charles

Peter, Paul And Mary In Concert (Album)

More Four Freshmen And Five Trombones

Grand Ole Opry Favorites

A Hard Day's Night

Best Performance By A Vocal Group

The Swingle Singers Going Baroque

Love Me With All Your Heart

Don't Let The Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)

Dear Heart

Artistry In Voices And Brass

Best Performance By A Chorus

The Pink Panther (Motion Picture) (Album)

Robin And The Seven Hoods (Motion Picture) (Single)

Mary Poppins

Goldfinger

A Hard Day's Night (Motion Picture) (Album)

Best Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or Television Show

What Makes Sammy Run? (Album)

High Spirits (Album)

Fiddler On The Roof

Best Score From An Original Cast Show Album

Woody Allen (Album)

Whistle Stopping

Ready Or Not, Here Comes Godfrey Cambridge (Album)

I Started Out As A Child

For Swingin' Livers Only! (Album)

Best Comedy Performance

The Kennedy Wit

Shakespeare: Othello (Album)

Shakespeare: Hamlet (Album)

Dylan (Album)

Dialogue Highlights From Beckett

BBC Tribute To John F. Kennedy

Best Documentary, Spoken Word Or Drama Recording (Other Than Comedy)

Sugar Lips (Album)

Pops Goes The Trumpet (Album)

Artistry In Voices And Brass (Album)

Best Engineered Recording

Walking In The Rain

The Chipmunks Sing The Beatles

The Big Sounds Of The Sports Cars (Album)

Main Theme From The Addams Family

Les Poupees De Paris (Album)

Best Engineered Recording - Special Or Novel Effects

The Sound Of Harlem, Jazz Odyssey, Vol. 3 (Album)

Poitier Meets Plato (Album)

Oscar Peterson Plays My Fair Lady (Album)

Guitar From Ipanema (Album)

Best Album Cover - Other Than Classical

Daniel Boone (Album)

Burl Ives Chim Chim Cher-ee And Other Children's Choices (Album)

Britten: Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra (Album)

A Spoonful Of Sugar

Best Recording For Children

You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling (Single)

Oh, Pretty Woman (Single)

Mr. Lonely

Downtown

Best Rock & Roll Recording

Baby Love

Walk On By

Keep On Pushing

How Glad I Am

Hold What You've Got

Good Times

Best Rhythm & Blues Recording

Woody Guthrie: Library Of Congress Recordings (Album)

Today

The Voice Of Africa (Album)

The Times They Are A-Changin'

Peter, Paul And Mary In Concert

Belafonte At The Greek Theatre

Best Folk Recording

This I Believe (Album)

Sweet Hour Of Prayer (Album)

Standin' On The Banks Of The River

Hymns Of Sunrise And Sunset (Album)

Gregorian Chant (Album)

Great Gospel Songs

Family Album Of Hymns (Album)

Best Gospel Or Other Religious Recording (Musical)

Best New Artist Of 1964

You're The Only World I Know

Once A Day (Single)

Here Comes My Baby

Four Strong Winds (Single)

Dang Me

Best Country & Western Single

The Best Of Jim Reeves

The Best Of Buck Owens (Album)

Hank Williams Jr. Sings Songs Of Hank Williams (Album)

Guitar Country (Album)

Dang Me/Chug-A-Lug

Bitter Tears

Best Country & Western Album

Two Sides Of Wanda Jackson (Album)

Second Fiddle (Single)

He Says The Same Things To Me

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female

You're The Only World I Know (Single)

Walk The Line (Album)

My Heart Skips A Beat (Single)

Hank Locklin Sings Hank Williams (Album)

Fort Worth, Dallas Or Houston (Single)

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male

Wine, Women And Song (Single)

Once A Day

Here Comes My Baby (Single)

Best Country & Western Song

Best New Country & Western Artist Of 1964

Best New Country And Western Artist

The Young Chevalier (Album)

The Definitive Piaf (Album)

Quincy Jones Explores The Music Of Henry Mancini (Album)

7th Annual GRAMMY Awards