
About The Show
This is truly the grand-daddy of all awards shows. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences recognizes outstanding musical achievements. The Grammys always prove to be a night of spectacle and performance that truly can't be missed.
City: Los Angeles
The Nominees
Album Of The Year
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Winner:
Bob Newhart Button Down Mind - Sviatoslav Richter Brahams: Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat
- Nat King Cole Wild Is Love
- Frank Sinatra Nice 'n' Easy
- Erich Leinsdorf Puccini: Turandot
- Harry Belafonte Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall
Best Album Cover
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Winner: Peggy Lee
Latin a la Lee
- Dick Schory Wild Percussion and Horns A'Plenty
- Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite Excerpts
- Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
- Milt Jackson Bean Bags
- Monteux conducting the Boston Symphony Stravinsky: Petruchka
Best Album Created For Children
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Winner: David Seville
Let's All Sing with the Chipmunks
- Sterling Holloway Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
- Ralph Bellamy Stories and Songs of the Civil War
- Howard Mitchell Adventures in Music, Grade 3, Vol. 1
- Dr. Seuss Dr. Seuss Presents: Bartholomew and the Oobleck
- Pete Seeger Folk Songs for Young People
Best Arrangement
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Winner: Henry Mancini
MrLucky
- Ferrante & Teicher Theme from The Apartment
- Dick Schory Wild Percussion and Horns A'Plenty
- Percy Faith & His Orchestra Theme from A Summer Place
- Frank Sinatra Nice 'n' Easy
- Ray Charles Let The Good Times Roll
- George Shearing Honeysuckle Rose
- Gerry Mulligan I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
Best Chamber Music Performance - Vocal Or Instrumental
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Winner: Laurindo Almeida
Conversations with the Guitar
- Smetana Quartet Janacek String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2
- Clifford Curzon and Vienna Octet Schubert: Trout Quintet
- Griller Quartet Haydn: Quartets, Opp. 71 and 74
- Juilliard Quartet Debussy and Ravel Quartets
- Joseph Eger, Henryk Szeryng, Victor Babin Brahms: Horn Trio / Beethoven: Sonata for Horn and Piano
- Robert Shaw Chorale Bach: Cantata No. 4 / Christ Lag in Todesbanden
- Yehudi Menuhin and Bach Festival Chamber Orchestra Bach: The Complete Brandenburg Concertos
Best Classical Opera Production
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Winner:
Erich Leinsdorf, conducting the Rome Opera House Chorus and Orchestra (solos: Tebaldi, Nilsson, Bjorling, Tozzi) Puccini: Turandot - Tullio Serafin (solos: Siepi, Tebaldi, Del Monaco) Boito: Mefistofele
- Tullio Serafin conducting the Accademia di Santa Cecilia (solos: Tebaldi, Bergonzi, Bastianini, Corena) Puccini: La Boheme
- Josef Krips (solos: Siepi, Danco, Dermote, Corena) Mozart: Don Giovanni
- Tullio Serafin conducting the Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra (solos: de los Angeles, Del Monte, Sereni) Verdi: La Traviata
- Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Singverein and Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Tabaldi, Bergonzi, Simionato, Corena) Verdi: Aida
- Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra (solos: Warren, Hines, Rysanek, Bergonzi) Verdi: Macbeth
- Georges Pretre conducting the Paris Opera Comique and National Theater Orchestra (solo: Duval) Poulenc, Cocteau: La Voix Humaine
- Benjamin Britten conducting the Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra (solos: Pears, Please, Watson) Britten: Peter Grimes
Best Classical Performance - Choral (including Oratorio)
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Winner:
Thomas Beecham conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Vyvyan, Sinclair, Vicki, Tozzi) Handel: Messiah - Roger Wagner Chorale Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor; Bach: Christ Lay in the Bonds of Death
- Fritz Reiner, Vienna Philharmonic Society of Friends of Music of Vienna Verdi: Requiem
- Maria Stader, Sieglinde Wagner, Hans Ernst Haefliger, Kim Borg Dvorak: Requiem
- Robert Shaw Chorale Bach: Motet No. 3 (Jesu Meine Freude)
- Charles Munch and New England Conservatory Chorus Berlioz: Requiem
- Moravian Festival Chorus Arias, Anthems and Chorales of American Moravians, Vol. 1
Best Classical Performance - Concerto Or Instrumental Soloist
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Winner:
Sviatoslav Richter (Leinsdorf conducting the Chicago Symphony) Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat - Van Cliburn (Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony) Schumann: Piano Concerto in A
- Jascha Heifetz (Hendl conducting the Chicago Symphony) Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D
- Malcolm Frager (Leibowitz conducting the Paris Conservatoire) Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2
- Gervase De Peyer (Maag conducting the London Symphony) Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
- Rudolf Serkin (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Symphony) Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
- Glenn Gould (Golschmann conducting the Columbia Symphony) Bach: Concerto No. 5
- Zino Francescatti, Pierre Fournier (Walter conducting the Columbia Symphony) Brahms: Double Concerto (Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor)
Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist Or Duo (other Than Orchestra)
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Winner: Laurindo Almeida
The Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Almeida
- Sviatoslav Richter Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7; Pictures at an Exhibition
- Julian Bream The Art of Julian Bream
- Vladimir Horowitz Pictures at an Exhibition
- Wanda Landowska Hadyn... Landowska
- Paul Maynard Brahms: Keyboard Music of the French Court
- Artur Rubinstein Chopin: Ballades
- Jaime Laredo Bach: Partita No. 3 in E; Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in D Minor
Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
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Winner:
Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta - Pierre Monteux conducting the Boston Symphony Stravinsky: Petrushka
- Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Symphony Tchaikovsky: Sixth Symphony
- Josef Krips conducting the London Symphony Schubert: Symphony No. 9
- Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic Ives: Symphony No. 2
- Morton Gould conducting the Morton Gould Orchestra Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite
- Thomas Beecham conducting the Royal Philharmonic Haydn: Solomon Symphonies, Vol. 2
- Aaron Copland conducting the Boston Symphony Copland: Appalachian Spring
Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
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Winner:
Leontyne Price A Program of Song - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Schubert: Songs, Album 3
- Cesare Valletti Schumann: Dichterliebe
- Maureen Forrester Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
- Salli Terri Conversations with the Guitar
- Eileen Farrell Arias in Great Tradition
- Peter Pears Britten: Nocturne
- Joan Sutherland Handel: Arias
Best Comedy Performance - Musical
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Winner:
Paul Weston, Jo Stafford Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris - Stan Freberg The Old Payola Roll Blues
- Homer & Jethro Homer and Jethro at the Country Club
- Tom Lehrer An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
- David Seville Alvin for President
Best Comedy Performance - Spoken World
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Winner:
Bob Newhart Button Down Mind Strikes Back - Jonathan Winters The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters
- Shelley Berman The Edge of Shelley Berman
- Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks 2,000 Year Old Man
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Winner:
Aaron Copland Orchestral Suite from Tender Land - Paul Hindemith Sonata for Cello and Piano
- Roger Sessions Symphony No. 1
- Igor Stravinsky Threni
- Edgard Varese Density 21.5
- Charles Ives Symphony No. 2
- Easley Blackwood Symphony No. 1
- Francis Poulenc La Voix Humaine
Best Engineered Recording - Novelty
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Winner:
Stan Freberg The Old Payola Roll Blues - John Klein New Sounds America Loves Best
- Larry Verne Mr. Custer
- David Seville & the Chipmunks Let's All Sing the Chipmunks
- Jack Cookerly June Night
- David Seville & the Chipmunks Alvin for President
Best Engineering Contribution - Classical Recording
- Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony R. Strauss: Don Quixote
- Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra; solos: Tebaldi, Nilsson, Bjorling, Tozzi Puccini: Turandot
- Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
- Charles Munch conducting the New England Conservatory Chorus and Boston Symphony Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony)
Best Engineering Contribution - Popular Recording
- Dick Schory Wild Percussion and Horns A'Plenty
- Nat King Cole Wild Is Love
- Esquivel Infinity in Sound
- Harry Belafonte Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall
Best Folk Performance
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Winner: Harry Belafonte
Swing Dat Hammer
- Ewan MacColl Songs of Robert Burns
- Alan Lomax Southern Folk Heritage Series
- Jimmy Driftwood Songs of Billy Yank and Johnny Reb
- Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba
- The Brothers Four Greenfields
- Kingston Trio Here We Go Again
- Belafonte Singers Cheers
Best Jazz Composition
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Winner:
Miles Davis, Gil Evans Sketches of Spain - Maynard Ferguson Newport Suite
- John Lewis Sketch from Third Stream Music
- Jimmy Giuffre Western Suite
- Dave Brubeck Blue Rondo a la Turk
- Duke Ellington Idiom '59 (Festival Session)
- Bob Brookmeyer Blues Suite
Best Jazz Performance - Large Group
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Winner: Henry Mancini
The Blues and the Beat
- Count Basie The Count Basie Story
- Quincy Jones The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones
- Recording Artists Spirituals to Swing Concert
- Miles Davis, Gil Evans Sketches of Spain
- Gerry Mulligan I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
Best Jazz Performance - Solo Or Small Group
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Winner:
Andre Previn West Side Story - Lambert Hendricks & Ross The Hottest New Group in Jazz
- George Shearing White Satin
- Dizzy Gillespie & His Octet The Greatest Trumpet of Them All
- Modern Jazz Quartet Pyramid
- Art Tatum Greatest Piano of Them All
- Miles Davis Jazz Track
- Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges Back to Back
Best Performance - Documentary Or Spoken Word (other Than Comedy)
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Winner:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt F.D.R. Speaks - Henry Fonda Voices of the Twentieth Century
- Archibald MacLeish J.B.
- John Gielgud Ages of Man, Vol. 2 (One Man in His Time) Part 2 - Shakespeare
Best Performance By A Band For Dancing
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Winner: Count Basie
Dance with Basie
- Henry Mancini The Blues and the Beat
- Billy May Girls and Boys on Broadway
- Les Brown Bandland
- Perez Prado Big Hits by Prado
Best Performance By A Chorus
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Winner:
Norman Luboff Choir Songs of the Cowboy - Robert Shaw Chorale What Wondrous Love
- Pete King Chorale My Favortie Things
- Ray Charles Singers Deep Night
- Belafonte Folk Singers Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall
Best Performance By An Orchestra
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Winner: Henry Mancini
MrLucky
- Percy Faith Theme from A Summer Place
- Gerry Mulligan The Concert Jazz Band
- Count Basie Count Basie Story
- Esquivel Infinity in Sound
Best Show Album - Original Cast
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Winner: The Sound Of Music
Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein
- The Unsinkable Molly Brown Meredith Willson
- Fiorello Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick
- Bye Bye Birdie Charles Strouse, Lee Adams
- Camelot Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Best Soundtrack Album Or Recording Of Music Score From A Motion Picture Or Television
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Winner:
Ernest Gold Exodus - Nelson Riddle The Untouchables
- Miklos Rozsa Ben-Hur
- Henry Mancini Mr. Lucky
- Adolph Deutsch The Apartment
Best Soundtrack Album Or Recording Of Original Cast From A Motion Picture Or Television
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Winner:
Cole Porter (film score) Can-Can - Nelson Riddle Li'l Abner
- Elvis Presley G.I. Blues
- Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne (film score) Bells Are Ringing
Country And Western Performance
Female Vocal Performance - Album
Female Vocal Performance - Single
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Winner: Ella Fitzgerald
Mack The Knife
- Doris Day The Sound of Music
- Eileen Farrell I've Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
- Brenda Lee I'm Sorry
- Peggy Lee I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
Male Vocal Performance - Album
New Artist
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Winner:
Bob Newhart - The Brothers Four
- Miriam Makeba
- Leontyne Pryce
- Joanie Sommers
Record Of The Year
Rhythm & Blues Performance
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Winner: Ray Charles
Let The Good Times Roll
- John Lee Hooker Travelin'
- Bo Diddley Walkin' and Talkin'
- LaVerne Baker Shake a Hand
- Jackie Wilson Lonely Teardrops
- Muddy Waters Got My Mojo Working
- Etta James All I Could Do Was Cry
- Hank Ballard Finger Poppin' Time
Song Of The Year
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Winner:
Ernest Gold Theme from Exodus - Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen Second Time Around
- Max Steiner Theme from A Summer Place
- Lew Spence, Marily Keith, Alan Bergman Nice 'n' Easy
- Charles Grean, Joe Allison, Audrey Allison He'll Have to Go
Vocal Group
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Winner:
Eydie Gorme, Steve Lawrence We Got Us - The Swe-Danes Scandinavian Shuffle
- Kingston Trio Here We Go Again
- The Brothers Four Greenfields
- The Hi-Los All over the Place