Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra – for Dancing
# 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

| Year | Winner(s) | Title | Nominees |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1959 | Count Basie | "Basie" | 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 |
| 1960 | Duke Ellington | "Anatomy of a Murder" | 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 |
| 1961 | Count Basie | "Dance Along with Basie" | 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 |
| 1962 | Si Zentner | "Up A Lazy River" | 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 |
| 1963 | Joe Harnell | "Fly Me to the Moon Bossa Nova" | 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! |
| 1964 | Count Basie | "This Time by Basie!" | 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 |
