1966 music

# 184: 1966: Music and Headlines


1:59:40 minutes (109.57 MB)

Tonight on the show, a look back in 1966 through song. What was going on around the world in 1966?

EMMYS:
Comedy: The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS)
Actor: Dick Van Dyke, The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS)
Actress: Mary Tyler Moore, The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS)
Supporting Actor: Don Knotts, The Andy Griffith Show (CBS)
Supporting Actress: Alice Pearce (posthumous), Bewitched (ABC)
Drama: The Fugitive (ABC)
Actor: Bill C*sb*, I Spy (NBC)
Actress: Barbara Stanwyck, The Big Valley (ABC)
Supporting Actor: James Daly, Eagle in a Cage - Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC)
Supporting Actress: Lee Grant, Peyton Place (ABC)
Variety Series: The Andy Williams Show (NBC)
Children's Program: A Charlie Brown Christmas (CBS)

TONYS:
Play: Marat/Sade
Musical: Man of La Mancha

OSCARS (First broadcast in Color in 1966):
Best Picture: The Sound of Music
Actor: Lee Marvin, Cat Ballou
Actress: Julie Christie, Darling
Supporting Actor: Martin Balsam, A Thousand Clowns
Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters, A Patch of Blue
Director: Robert Wise, The Sound of Music
Original Song: "The Shadow of Your Smile", The Sandpiper
Foreign Language Film: The Shop on Main Street (Czechoslovakia)

GRAMMYS:
Record of The Year: "A Taste of Honey" - Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Album of The Year: "September of My Years" - Frank Sinatra

SPORTS:
Local High School Champions: Bishop Watterson Eagles (Football, Ohio AP)
"The Game": Michigan (17-3 over the B*ckeyes in Columbus)
College Baseball: The Ohio S**** B*ckeyes
College Football: Notre Dame (AP)/Michigan State
AFL: Kansas City Chiefs
NFL: Green Bay Packers
NBA: Boston Celtics (eighth consecutive title)
MLB: Baltimore Orioles
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens
World Cup: England
NCAA Basketball: Texas Western (first all-black starting lineup to win)
Kentucky Derby & Preakness: Kauai King
Heisman: Steve Spurrier, Quarterback (Florida Gators)
Master's: Jack Nicklaus

SONG LIST:
“When A Man Loves A Woman” - Percy Sledge

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