Who were the Grammy Award winners 40 years ago?
The 10th Grammy Awards were (for recordings in the year 1967:)
Album of the Year: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles,
George Martin (producer)
Record of the Year: “Up, Up and Away” by The 5th Dimension,
Johnny Rivers & Marc Gordon (producers)
Song of the Year: “Up, Up and Away” by the 5th Dimension,
Jimmy L. Webb (songwriter)
Contemporary Album:
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles
Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts:
Peter Blake, Jann Haworth for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Best Engineered Recording:
G.E. Emerick for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Contemporary Single, Contemporary Vocal Group AND Group Vocal Performance:
“Up, Up, and Away” by the 5th Dimension
Best New Artist - Best Vocal Performance, Female AND Female Contemporary Vocal Solo: Bobbie Gentry for “Ode to Billie Joe” (she bested Jefferson Airplane and the 5th Dimension, who were also nominated in the New Artist catagory)
Best Comedy Performance: Bill Cosby for his Revenge album
Best Country & Western Performance Duet, Trio or Group:
Johnny Cash & June Carter for “Jackson”
Best R&B Solo Vocal Performance, Female AND Best Rhythm & Blues Recording:
Aretha Franklin for “Respect”
Best R&B Solo Vocal Performance, Male: Lou Rawls for “Dead End …

According to Billboard Magazine, the hit record charts looked something like this in 1968:
Hot 100 Singles:
“Hey Jude” - The Beatles *
“Love is Blue (L’Amour Est Bleu)” - Paul Mauriat *
“(What A) Wonderful World” - Louis Armstrong *
“(Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay” - Otis Redding *
“Honey” - Bobby Goldsboro
“People Got To Be Free” - The Rascals *
Hot R&B Singles:
“Say It Loud - I’m Black and I’m Proud” - James Brown
“Slip Away” - Clarence Carter *
“(Sittin’ On The) Dock of the Bay” - Otis Redding *
“Grazing In The Grass” - Hugh Masekela *
“You’re All I Need To Get By” - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Hot Country Songs:
“Folsom Prison Blues” - Johnny Cash *
“Skip A Rope” - Henson Cargill
“D-I-V-O-R-C-E” - Tammy Wynette
“Mama Tried” - Merle Haggard
“A World Of Our Own” - Sonny James
*I’ve got eight in my memory. How many of these do YOU remember?
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No that’s not a misprint. We’re flashing back to that classic time, January 1968, to see what was happening 40 years ago in music & pop culture. And baby, it was happening!!
Events in January 1968:
The Beatles launch Apple Corps, Ltd., including their own recording studio, record label and fashion boutique in London. Apple Records was the only division that ever made money, while the clothing shop went bust the next year and eventually gave away remaining stock. Other artists that signed to the label included Badfinger and James Taylor.
Gibson Guitars patents it’s own Flying V electric guitar design. Actually, Gibson’s website shows the original design came about 10 years earlier, in 1958, with the “V Factor” as the standard, from 1967.
Concerts:
Johnny Cash performs at Folsom Prison in California. The “live” album is released later that year. It was chosen by the Library of Congress in 2003 to be added to the National Recording Registry.
Albums:
“We’re Only in It For the Money” is released on Verve Records by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. The album poked fun at the flower power generation of hippies, the Summer of Love, …