1961 Grammy Awards

Awards
- 1961 Music Awards
-- Grammy Awards

--- 1961 Grammy Awards

Details & Performances

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  • Venue: Beverly Hilton
  • City: Los Angeles
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Awards

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

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

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

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

New Artist

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

Record of the Year

Rhythm & Blues Performance

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
  • Brothers Four - Greenfields
  • The Kingston Trio - Here We Go Again
  • The Swe-Danes - Scandinavian Shuffle

Vocal Performance - Pop Single Artist

Top Winning Artist

Most Nominated Artist

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