Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra – for Dancing

The Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra - for Dancing was awarded from 1959 to 1964. The award had several minor name changes:

From 1959 to 1960 the award was known as Best Performance by a Dance Band
In 1961 it was awarded as Best Performance by a Band for Dancing
From 1962 to 1964 it has been awarded as Best Performance by an Orchestra - for Dancing

This award was presented alongside the award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra - Primarily Not Jazz or for Dancing.

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.

Recipients

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align="center"|1959

| Count Basie

| "Basie"

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Jonah Jones for Baubles, Bangles and Beads
Perez Prado for Patricia
Warren Covington & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra for Tea for Two Cha Cha
Ray Anthony for The Music from Peter Gunn}}

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align="center"|1960

| Duke Ellington

| "Anatomy of a Murder"

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Count Basie for Breakfast Dance and Barbecue
Glenn Miller for For the Very First Time
Larry Elgart for New Sounds at the Roosevelt
Perez Prado for Pops and Prado}}

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align="center"|1961

| Count Basie

| "Dance Along with Basie"

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Les Brown for Bandland
Perez Prado for Big Hits by Prado
Billy May for Girls and Boys on Broadway
Henry Mancini for The Blues and the Beat}}

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align="center"|1962

| Si Zentner

| "Up A Lazy River"

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Lawrence Welk for Calcutta
Quincy Jones for I Dig Dancers
Henry Mancini for Mr. Lucky Goes Latin
Glen Gray, Billy May for Shall We Swing?
Les Brown for The Lerner and Loewe Bandbook}}

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align="center"|1963

| Joe Harnell

| "Fly Me to the Moon Bossa Nova"

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Stan Getz, Gary McFarland for Big Band Bossa Nova
Quincy Jones for Big Band Bossa Nova
Neal Hefti for Jazz Pops
David Rose for The Stripper
Laurindo Almeida for Viva Bossa Nova!}}

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align="center"|1964

| Count Basie

| "This Time by Basie!"

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Woody Herman for Encore Woody Herman-1963
Joe Harnell for Fly Me to the Moon and the Bossa Nova Pops
Quincy Jones for Quincy Jones Plays the Hip Hits
Les Brown for Richard Rodgers Bandbook
Page Cavanaugh for The Page 7 ...An Explosion in Pop Music}}

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References

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Performance by an Orchestra for Dancing

Category:Awards established in 1959

Category:Awards disestablished in 1964