Album of the Year

• Bob Newhart - Button Down Mind
• Erich Leinsdorf - Puccini: Turandot
• Frank Sinatra - Nice 'n' Easy
• Harry Belafonte - Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall
• Nat King Cole - Wild Is Love
• Sviatoslav Richter - Brahams: Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat

Best Album Cover

• Peggy Lee - Latin a la Lee
• Milt Jackson - Bean Bags
• Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony - Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
• Monteux conducting the Boston Symphony - Stravinsky: Petruchka
• Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony - Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite Excerpts
• Dick Schory - Wild Percussion and Horns A'Plenty

Best Album Created for Children

• David Seville - Let's All Sing with the Chipmunks
• Dr. Seuss - Dr. Seuss Presents: Bartholomew and the Oobleck
• Howard Mitchell - Adventures in Music, Grade 3, Vol. 1
• Pete Seeger - Folk Songs for Young People
• Ralph Bellamy - Stories and Songs of the Civil War
• Sterling Holloway - Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes

Best Arrangement

• Henry Mancini - MrLucky Lyrics
• George Shearing - Honeysuckle Rose
• Gerry Mulligan - I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
• Ray Charles - Let The Good Times Roll Lyrics
• Frank Sinatra - Nice 'n' Easy Lyrics
• Percy Faith & His Orchestra - Theme from A Summer Place
• Ferrante & Teicher - Theme from The Apartment
• Dick Schory - Wild Percussion and Horns A'Plenty

Best Chamber Music Performance - Vocal or Instrumental

• Laurindo Almeida - Conversations with the Guitar
• Robert Shaw Chorale - Bach: Cantata No. 4 / Christ Lag in Todesbanden
• Yehudi Menuhin and Bach Festival Chamber Orchestra - Bach: The Complete Brandenburg Concertos
• Joseph Eger, Henryk Szeryng, Victor Babin - Brahms: Horn Trio / Beethoven: Sonata for Horn and Piano
• Juilliard Quartet - Debussy and Ravel Quartets
• Griller Quartet - Haydn: Quartets, Opp. 71 and 74
• Smetana Quartet - Janacek String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2
• Clifford Curzon and Vienna Octet - Schubert: Trout Quintet

Best Classical Opera Production

• Erich Leinsdorf, conducting the Rome Opera House Chorus and Orchestra (solos: Tebaldi, Nilsson, Bjorling, Tozzi) - Puccini: Turandot
• Benjamin Britten conducting the Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra (solos: Pears, Please, Watson) - Britten: Peter Grimes
• 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
• Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Singverein and Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Tabaldi, Bergonzi, Simionato, Corena) - Verdi: Aida
• Josef Krips (solos: Siepi, Danco, Dermote, Corena) - Mozart: Don Giovanni
• 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
• Tullio Serafin conducting the Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra (solos: de los Angeles, Del Monte, Sereni) - Verdi: La Traviata

Best Classical Performance - Choral (including Oratorio)

• Thomas Beecham conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Vyvyan, Sinclair, Vicki, Tozzi) - Handel: Messiah
• Moravian Festival Chorus - Arias, Anthems and Chorales of American Moravians, Vol. 1
• Robert Shaw Chorale - Bach: Motet No. 3 (Jesu Meine Freude)
• Charles Munch and New England Conservatory Chorus - Berlioz: Requiem
• Maria Stader, Sieglinde Wagner, Hans Ernst Haefliger, Kim Borg - Dvorak: Requiem
• 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

Best Classical Performance - Concerto or Instrumental Soloist

• Sviatoslav Richter (Leinsdorf conducting the Chicago Symphony) - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat
• 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)
• Rudolf Serkin (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Symphony) - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
• Gervase De Peyer (Maag conducting the London Symphony) - Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
• Malcolm Frager (Leibowitz conducting the Paris Conservatoire) - Prokofiev: Concerto No. 2
• Van Cliburn (Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony) - Schumann: Piano Concerto in A
• Jascha Heifetz (Hendl conducting the Chicago Symphony) - Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Duo (other than Orchestra)

• Laurindo Almeida - The Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Almeida
• Jaime Laredo - Bach: Partita No. 3 in E; Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in D Minor
• Paul Maynard - Brahms: Keyboard Music of the French Court
• Artur Rubinstein - Chopin: Ballades
• Wanda Landowska - Hadyn... Landowska
• Vladimir Horowitz - Pictures at an Exhibition
• Sviatoslav Richter - Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7; Pictures at an Exhibition
• Julian Bream - The Art of Julian Bream

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra

• Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony - Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
• Aaron Copland conducting the Boston Symphony - Copland: Appalachian Spring
• Morton Gould conducting the Morton Gould Orchestra - Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite
• Thomas Beecham conducting the Royal Philharmonic - Haydn: Solomon Symphonies, Vol. 2
• Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic - Ives: Symphony No. 2
• Josef Krips conducting the London Symphony - Schubert: Symphony No. 9
• Pierre Monteux conducting the Boston Symphony - Stravinsky: Petrushka
• Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Symphony - Tchaikovsky: Sixth Symphony

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist

• Leontyne Price - A Program of Song
• Eileen Farrell - Arias in Great Tradition
• Peter Pears - Britten: Nocturne
• Salli Terri - Conversations with the Guitar
• Joan Sutherland - Handel: Arias
• Maureen Forrester - Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Schubert: Songs, Album 3
• Cesare Valletti - Schumann: Dichterliebe

Best Comedy Performance - Musical

• Paul Weston, Jo Stafford - Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris
• David Seville - Alvin for President
• Tom Lehrer - An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
• Homer & Jethro - Homer and Jethro at the Country Club
• Stan Freberg - The Old Payola Roll Blues

Best Comedy Performance - Spoken World

• Bob Newhart - Button Down Mind Strikes Back
• Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks - 2,000 Year Old Man
• Shelley Berman - The Edge of Shelley Berman
• Jonathan Winters - The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

• Aaron Copland - Orchestral Suite from Tender Land
• Charles Ives - Symphony No. 2
• Easley Blackwood - Symphony No. 1
• Edgard Varese - Density 21.5
• Francis Poulenc - La Voix Humaine
• Igor Stravinsky - Threni
• Paul Hindemith - Sonata for Cello and Piano
• Roger Sessions - Symphony No. 1

Best Engineered Recording - Novelty

• Stan Freberg - The Old Payola Roll Blues
• David Seville & the Chipmunks - Alvin for President
• Jack Cookerly - June Night
• David Seville & the Chipmunks - Let's All Sing the Chipmunks
• Larry Verne - Mr. Custer
• John Klein - New Sounds America Loves Best

Best Engineering Contribution - Classical Recording

• Charles Munch conducting the New England Conservatory Chorus and Boston Symphony - Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony)
• Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
• Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra; solos: Tebaldi, Nilsson, Bjorling, Tozzi - Puccini: Turandot
• Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony - R. Strauss: Don Quixote

Best Engineering Contribution - Popular Recording

• Harry Belafonte - Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall
• Esquivel - Infinity in Sound
• Nat King Cole - Wild Is Love
• Dick Schory - Wild Percussion and Horns A'Plenty

Best Folk Performance

• Harry Belafonte - Swing Dat Hammer
• Belafonte Singers - Cheers
• Brothers Four - Greenfields
• Kingston Trio - Here We Go Again
• Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba
• Jimmy Driftwood - Songs of Billy Yank and Johnny Reb
• Ewan MacColl - Songs of Robert Burns
• Alan Lomax - Southern Folk Heritage Series

Best Jazz Composition

• Miles Davis, Gil Evans - Sketches of Spain
• Bob Brookmeyer - Blues Suite
• Dave Brubeck - Blue Rondo a la Turk
• Duke Ellington - Idiom '59 (Festival Session)
• Jimmy Giuffre - Western Suite
• John Lewis - Sketch from Third Stream Music
• Maynard Ferguson - Newport Suite

Best Jazz Performance - Large Group

• Henry Mancini - The Blues and the Beat
• Gerry Mulligan - I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
• Miles Davis, Gil Evans - Sketches of Spain
• Recording Artists - Spirituals to Swing Concert
• Count Basie - The Count Basie Story
• Quincy Jones - The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones

Best Jazz Performance - Solo or Small Group

• Andre Previn - West Side Story
• Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges - Back to Back
• Art Tatum - Greatest Piano of Them All
• Miles Davis - Jazz Track
• Modern Jazz Quartet - Pyramid
• Dizzy Gillespie & His Octet - The Greatest Trumpet of Them All
• Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - The Hottest New Group in Jazz
• George Shearing - White Satin

Best Performance - Documentary or Spoken Word (other than comedy)

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt - F.D.R. Speaks
• John Gielgud - Ages of Man, Vol. 2 (One Man in His Time) Part 2 - Shakespeare
• Archibald MacLeish - J.B.
• Henry Fonda - Voices of the Twentieth Century

Best Performance by a Band for Dancing

• Count Basie - Dance with Basie
• Les Brown - Bandland
• Perez Prado - Big Hits by Prado
• Billy May - Girls and Boys on Broadway
• Henry Mancini - The Blues and the Beat

Best Performance by a Chorus

• Norman Luboff Choir - Songs of the Cowboy
• Belafonte Folk Singers - Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall
• Ray Charles Singers - Deep Night
• Pete King Chorale - My Favortie Things
• Robert Shaw Chorale - What Wondrous Love

Best Performance by an Orchestra

• Henry Mancini - MrLucky Lyrics
• Count Basie - Count Basie Story
• Esquivel - Infinity in Sound
• Gerry Mulligan - The Concert Jazz Band
• Percy Faith - Theme from A Summer Place

Best Show Album - Original Cast

• The Sound of Music - Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein
• Camelot - Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
• Bye Bye Birdie - Charles Strouse, Lee Adams
• Fiorello! - Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown - Meredith Willson

Best Soundtrack Album or Recording of Music Score from a Motion Picture or Television

• Ernest Gold - Exodus
• Adolph Deutsch - The Apartment
• Henry Mancini - Mr. Lucky
• Miklos Rozsa - Ben-Hur
• Nelson Riddle - The Untouchables

Best Soundtrack Album or Recording of Original Cast from a Motion Picture or Television

• Cole Porter (film score) - Can-Can
• Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne (film score) - Bells Are Ringing
• Elvis Presley - G.I. Blues
• Nelson Riddle - Li'l Abner

Country and Western Performance

• Marty Robbins - El Paso Lyrics
• Jim Reeves - He'll Have To Go Lyrics
• Johnny Horton - North To Alaska Lyrics
• Hank Locklin - Plese Help Me, I'm Falling
• Ferlin Husky - Wings of a Dove Lyrics

Female Vocal Performance - Album

• Ella Fitzgerald - Mack the Knife, Ella in Berlin
• Rosemary Clooney - Clap Hands, Here Comes Rosie
• Della Reese - Della
• Peggy Lee - Latin a la Lee
• Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba

Female Vocal Performance - Single

• Ella Fitzgerald - Mack The Knife Lyrics
• Peggy Lee - I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
• Brenda Lee - I'm Sorry Lyrics
• Eileen Farrell - I've Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
• Doris Day - The Sound of Music

Male Vocal Performance - Album

• Ray Charles - The Genius of Ray Charles
• Harry Belafonte - Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall
• Elvis Presley - GI Blues
• Frank Sinatra - Nice 'n' Easy
• Nat King Cole - Wild Is Love

Male Vocal Performance - Single

• Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind Lyrics
• Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight? Lyrics
• Jim Reeves - He'll Have To Go Lyrics
• Johnny Mathis - Misty Lyrics
• Frank Sinatra - Nice 'n' Easy Lyrics

New Artist

• Bob Newhart
• Joanie Sommers
• Leontyne Pryce
• Miriam Makeba Lyrics
• The Brothers Four Lyrics

Record of the Year

• Percy Faith - Theme from A Summer Place
• Ella Fitzgerald - Mack The Knife Lyrics
• Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight? Lyrics
• Frank Sinatra - Nice 'n' Easy Lyrics
• Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind Lyrics

Rhythm & Blues Performance

• Ray Charles - Let The Good Times Roll Lyrics
• Etta James - All I Could Do Was Cry
• Hank Ballard - Finger Poppin' Time
• Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working Lyrics
• Jackie Wilson - Lonely Teardrops Lyrics
• LaVerne Baker - Shake a Hand
• John Lee Hooker - Travelin'
• Bo Diddley - Walkin' and Talkin'

Song of the Year

• Ernest Gold - Theme from Exodus
• Charles Grean, Joe Allison, Audrey Allison - He'll Have to Go
• Lew Spence, Marily Keith, Alan Bergman - Nice 'n' Easy
• Max Steiner - Theme from A Summer Place
• Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen - Second Time Around

Vocal Group

• Eydie Gorme, Steve Lawrence - We Got Us
• The Hi-Los - All over the Place
• The Brothers Four - Greenfields Lyrics
• The Kingston Trio - Here We Go Again
• The Swe-Danes - Scandinavian Shuffle

Vocal Performance - Pop Single Artist

• Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind Lyrics
• Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight? Lyrics
• Peggy Lee - Heart
• Ella Fitzgerald - Mack The Knife Lyrics
• Frank Sinatra - Nice 'n' Easy Lyrics

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