I was flipping through wikipedia and noticed there was no Grammy award for best new artist for 1967. I searched other places- for no given reason no award was given in that year.
Who do you think should have won?
Rolf Harris.
Well you’ve got Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Buffalo Springfield, Leonard Cohen, Genesis, Traffic, and The Velvet Underground, who all released debut albums in 1967. Some may not qualify under the 1960s-era Grammy rules for what makes an artist “new” but that’s still a hell of a list.
That ought to be enough to start a nice flame-war. 
Oh hey: I forgot David Bowie and the Bee Gees. So, in case you wanted to argue for one of them, go ahead. If you’re basing it solely on the material they had released that year, I think Jimi Hendrix would probably take the prize. Others had better careers and recorded (much) better bodies of work, but based on just 1967 contributions, I’d give it to Jimi.
Wasn’t the Best New Artist in 1967 Bobbie Gentry?
http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Winners/Results.aspx
There’s the Grammy site, showing she won in '67 for Best Vocal Performance-Female, Best New Artist, and Best Contemporary Female Solo Vocal Performance, all for “Ode to Billy Joe”.
Me. I was 2 years old and adorable, I’m sure of it.
It should have gone to anybody but Bobby Gentry, of course. Personally I choose the Dead or Pink Floyd.
I thought she won in 1968 and there was no prize for 1967.
If she won in 1967, then who won in 1968?
Jose Feliciano
He won in '69.
The Best New Artist Grammy was not presented at the 1967 ceremony honoring music from 1966. So forget Jimi Hendrix, et al, you need a list of people who debuted in 1966.
Cream, Buffalo Springfield, The Mamas and the Papas, The Monkees.
If you go to the Grammy site linked above and select 1968, it shows that Jose Feliciano won for that year.
Given that the previous year (1967) shows Bobby Gentry winning BNA, and it’s been determined that she did, in fact, win in 1967, I assumed that the Grammy site is correct.
As for 42fish’s statement the site shows the Beatles winning Best Performance by a Pop Group in 1964 for A Hard Days Night which was released in 1964. They might have been awarded the trophy in 1965, but it was for the year 1964 and the site accurately reflects that.
That Grammy site does not seem to work for me. Every other site I look at gives no winner. Does that mean someone should update Wikipedia?
This should not be so complicated. On Wikipedia it says
winners
Winner 1966 - Tom Jones
Winner 1968 - Bobbie Gentry
Winner 1969 - Jose Feliciano
Yes, but the actual Grammy site states that the 1965 winner was Tom Jones, there was no winner for 1966, and that the 1967 was Bobbie Gentry. The Grammy site lists the years for which the artist won the award, not the year in which they actually won. For example, like I said above, the Beatles very well might have been awarded the Grammy in a ceremony performed in 1965 but the award was for their 1964 work and that’s how the Grammy’s list it: for 1964.
In short: Wiki is wrong.
ETA: Actually, the Wiki site is sloppy for it says:
“Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for records released in the previous year.”
If accuracy mattered, they’d remove the above clause and rework the graphs/dates.
Who should have won the Grammy award for best new artist for 1966 ?