title: Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus
text: # Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus
  
  The Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus was awarded from 1961 to 1968. In its first year, the award specified that a "chorus" contains seven or more artists. This award was presented alongside the award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group. Before 1961 these awards were combined into the Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus.
  
  Although in the "pop" field the award did not specify pop music performances. In 1969 and 1970 a pop-specific award was presented for Best Contemporary Performance by a Chorus.
  
  Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
  
  ## Recipients
  
  | Year | Winner(s) | Work | Nominees |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1961 | Norman Luboff (choir director) (performed by the Norman Luboff Choir) | Songs of the Cowboy | Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall – The Belafonte Folk Singers Deep Night – The Ray Charles Singers My Favorite Things – The Pete King Chorale What Wondrous Love – Robert Shaw Chorale |
  | 1962 | Johnny Mann Singers (performed by the Johnny Mann Singers & The Si Zentner Orchestra) | Great Band With Great Voices | At Home and Abroad – The Belafonte Folk Singers Hey! Look Me Over – The Pete King Chorale & Orchestra This Is Norman Luboff! – The Norman Luboff Choir A Song at Twilight – Roger Wagner Chorale |
  | 1963 | The New Christy Minstrels | Presenting The New Christy Minstrels | "Consider Yourself" – The Pete King Chorale A Choral Spectacular – The Norman Luboff Choir (Norman Luboff, choir director) Great Band with Great Voices... Swing the Great Voices of the Great Bands – Johnny Mann Singers and the Si Zentner Orchestra The Waring Blend – Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians |
  | 1964 | The Swingle Singers | Bach's Greatest Hits | "Charade" – Henry Mancini & His Orchestra with Chorus The Joy of Christmas – Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Richard P. Condie, director; Leonard Bernstein, conducting the New York Philharmonic) Green, Green – The New Christy Minstrels The Many Moods of Christmas – Robert Shaw Chorale (Robert Shaw, conducting the RCA Orchestra) |
  | 1965 | The Swingle Singers | The Swingle Singers Going Baroque | "Love Me with All Your Heart" – The Ray Charles Singers "Artistry in Voices and Brass" – Stan Kenton Orchestra: Chorus by Pete Rugolo "Dear Heart" – The Henry Mancini Orchestra & Chorus "Don't Let the Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)" – The Serendipity Singers |
  | 1966 | Ward Swingle (choir director) (performed by The Swingle Singers) | Anyone for Mozart? | Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts – Paul Horn and Chorus Dear Heart and Other Songs about Love – The Orchestra & Chorus of Henry Mancini Chim Chim Cher-ee and Other Happy Songs – The New Christy Minstrels On Broadway – Robert Shaw Chorale & Orchestra |
  | 1967 | Ray Conniff (choir director) (performed by the Ray Conniff Singers) | "Somewhere My Love (Lara's Theme From Dr. Zhivago)" | Basie Swingin' Voices Singin' – Count Basie with Alan Copeland Singers Henry Mancini Presents the Academy Award Songs – Henry Mancini, Orchestra & Chorus "A Man and a Woman" – The Johnny Mann Singers Rococo Á Go Go – The Swingle Singers (Ward Swingle, director) |
  | 1968 | Johnny Mann Singers | "Up, Up and Away" | "Blame It on Me" – The Ray Charles Singers "Windy" – The Percy Faith Chorus & Orchestra Wish Me a Rainbow – Living Voices (Ethel Gabriel, producer) Encounter – Swingle Singers with Modern Jazz Quartet |
  