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Joe Harnell
This ‘60s “easy listening” composer and arranger is no more or less obscure than anyone else who won in the short-lived “Best Pop Performance by an Orchestra for Dancing” category (Harnell won it in 1963 for an album called “Fly Me to the Moon Bossa Nova”—many a bachelor pad swung to that platter!). We’re really just including him so we can tell you that there was actually once a Grammy category called “Best Pop Performance by an Orchestra for Dancing”—not to be confused with its rival category, “Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra, Primarily Not Jazz or for Dancing.” No, seriously—that’s what it was called. It said so right on the statuettes—in very, very small type.
