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The third Grammy Awards were held in 1961. They recognized musical accomplishments by the performers for the year 1960. Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart

George Robert "Bob" Newhart is an United States Stand-up comedy and actor who is best known for playing psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the popular 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the popular 1980s sitcom Newhart....
 and Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
 each won three awards.








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The third Grammy Awards were held in 1961. They recognized musical accomplishments by the performers for the year 1960. Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart

George Robert "Bob" Newhart is an United States Stand-up comedy and actor who is best known for playing psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the popular 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the popular 1980s sitcom Newhart....
 and Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
 each won three awards.

Award winners:


  • Record of the Year
    Grammy Award for Record of the Year

    The Record of the Year is one of the four most prestigious Grammy Awards presented annually. It has been awarded since 1959. The honorees through its history have been:...
    • Percy Faith
      Percy Faith

      Percy Faith was a Canadian-born band-leader, orchestrator and composer, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas music standards. He is often credited with creating the "easy listening" or "mood music" format which became staples of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s....
       for "Theme From A Summer Place"


  • Album of the Year
    Grammy Award for Album of the Year

    The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is the most prestigious award category at the Grammys. It has been awarded since 1959 and though it was originally presented to the artist alone, the award is now presented to the artist, the producer, the engineer and/or mixer and the mastering engineer....
    • Bob Newhart
      Bob Newhart

      George Robert "Bob" Newhart is an United States Stand-up comedy and actor who is best known for playing psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the popular 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the popular 1980s sitcom Newhart....
       for The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart


  • Song of the Year
    Grammy Award for Song of the Year

    The Song of the Year is one of the four most prestigious awards in the Grammy Award, if not in all of the American music industry. It has been awarded since 1959 to the composer of the song in question....
    • Ernest Gold
      Ernest Gold

      Ernest Gold , born Ernst Gold, was an United States award-winning composer. Born in Vienna, Austria; Gold wrote nearly 100 film and television scores between 1945 and 1992....
       for "Theme of Exodus"


  • Best New Artist
    Grammy Award for Best New Artist

    The Grammy for Best New Artist has been awarded since 1960. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for records released in the previous year....
    • Bob Newhart
      Bob Newhart

      George Robert "Bob" Newhart is an United States Stand-up comedy and actor who is best known for playing psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the popular 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the popular 1980s sitcom Newhart....


Children's


  • Best Album Created for Children
    Grammy Award for Best Album for Children

    The Grammy Award for Best Album for Children has been awarded since 1959. Prior to 1992, the award was known as Best Recording for Children and was therefore open to any audio recording, whether it was an album, a single song, a recording of a book, or the audio from a television show or movie....
    • Ross Bagdasarian Sr. for Let's All Sing With the Chipmunks performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. as "David Seville and the Chipmunks"


Classical


  • Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
    Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance

    The Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance has been awarded since 1959. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:...
    • Fritz Reiner
      Fritz Reiner

      Frederick Martin ?Fritz? Reiner was a prominent Conducting of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century....
       (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
      Chicago Symphony Orchestra

      The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five "....
       for Bartók
      Béla Bartók

      B?la Viktor J?nos Bart?k was a Hungarian people composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology....
      : Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
      Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

      Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Sz. 106, BB 114 is one of the best-known Musical composition by the Hungary composer B?la Bart?k. Commissioned by Paul Sacher to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the score is dated September 7, 1936....
  • Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
    Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance

    The Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance has been awarded since 1959. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:...
    • Leontyne Price
      Leontyne Price

      Mary Violet Leontyne Price in Laurel, Mississippi in the United States is one of America's most beloved and widely recorded operatic sopranos....
       for A Program of Song - Leontyne Price Recital
  • Best Classical Opera Production
    Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording

    The Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording has been awarded since 1961. The award was originally titled Best Classical Opera Production. The current title has been used since 1962....
    • Erich Leinsdorf
      Erich Leinsdorf

      Erich Leinsdorf was an Austrian-born American conducting. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for exacting standards as well as an acerbic personality....
       (conductor), Birgit Nilsson
      Birgit Nilsson

      Birgit Nilsson was a Sweden dramatic soprano who specialized in operatic and symphonic works. Her voice was noted for its overwhelming force, bountiful reserves of power and the gleaming brilliance and clarity in the upper register....
      , Giorgio Tozzi
      Giorgio Tozzi

      Giorgio Tozzi was for many years a leading basso with the Metropolitan Opera, and was seen playing lead roles in nearly every major opera house world-wide....
      , Jussi Björling
      Jussi Björling

      Johan Jonatan was a Sweden operatic tenor, Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance ....
      , Renata Tebaldi
      Renata Tebaldi

      Renata Tebaldi was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano, popular in the post-World War II period. Acclaimed as one of the most beloved opera singers of all time, she primarily focused on the verismo roles of the lyric and dramatic repertoires....
       & the Rome Opera Orchestra for Puccini
      Giacomo Puccini

      Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italians composer whose operas, including La boh?me, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the List of important operas....
      : Turandot
      Turandot

      Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly based on the earlier text Turandot by Carlo Gozzi....
  • Best Classical Performance - Choral (including oratorio)
    Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance

    The Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance has been awarded since 1961. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:...
    • Thomas Beecham
      Thomas Beecham

      Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, Order of the Companions of Honour was a British people Conducting and impresario. From the early twentieth century until his death, Beecham was a major influence on the musical life of Britain and, according to Neville Cardus, was the first British conductor to have a regular international career....
       (conductor) & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus
      Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It tours widely, and is sometimes referred to as "Britain's national orchestra"....
       for Handel
      George Frideric Handel

      George Frideric Handel was an England Baroque music composer of Germany birth who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerto grosso. His life and music may justly be described as "cosmopolitan": he was born in Germany, trained in Italy, and spent most of his life in England....
      : Messiah
      Messiah (Handel)

      Messiah is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel based on a libretto by Charles Jennens. Composed in the summer of 1741 and premiered in Dublin on the 13 April 1742, Messiah is Handel's most famous creation and is among the most popular works in Western choral literature....
  • Best Classical Performance - Concerto or Instrumental Soloist
    Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)

    The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance has been awarded since 1959. From 1967 to 1971 and in 1987 the award was combined with the award for Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance and awarded as the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists ....
    • Erich Leinsdorf
      Erich Leinsdorf

      Erich Leinsdorf was an Austrian-born American conducting. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for exacting standards as well as an acerbic personality....
       (conductor), Sviatoslav Richter
      Sviatoslav Richter

      Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was a Soviet pianist and widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. He was well known for the depth of his interpretations, virtuoso technique and vast repertoire....
       & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
      Chicago Symphony Orchestra

      The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five "....
       for Brahms
      Johannes Brahms

      Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
      : Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat
      Piano Concerto No. 2 (Brahms)

      The Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Opus number 83 by Johannes Brahms is a composition for solo piano with orchestral accompaniment. It is separated by a gap of 22 years from the composer's Piano Concerto No....
  • Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Duo (other than with orchestral accompaniment)
    Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)

    The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance has been awarded since 1959. From 1967 to 1971 and in 1987 the award was combined with the award for Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance and awarded as the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists ....
    • Laurindo Almeida
      Laurindo Almeida

      Laurindo Almeida was a Brazilian classical classical guitar.Prior to being invited to the United States in 1947 by Stan Kenton, Laurindo Almeida played guitar in Rio de Janeiro where he was known for his classical Spanish guitar playing....
       for The Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Alemida
  • Best Classical Performance - Vocal or Instrumental - Chamber Music
    Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance

    The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1959 to 1960 the award was known as Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music ...
    • Laurindo Almeida
      Laurindo Almeida

      Laurindo Almeida was a Brazilian classical classical guitar.Prior to being invited to the United States in 1947 by Stan Kenton, Laurindo Almeida played guitar in Rio de Janeiro where he was known for his classical Spanish guitar playing....
       for Conversations With the Guitar
  • Best Contemporary Classical Composition
    Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition

    The Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition was first awarded in 1961. This award was not presented from 1967 to 1984.The award has had several minor name changes:...
    • Aaron Copland
      Aaron Copland

      Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
       (composer & conductor) & the Boston Symphony Orchestra
      Boston Symphony Orchestra

      The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five "....
       for Orchestral Suite from The Tender Land
      The Tender Land

      The Tender Land is an opera with music by Aaron Copland and libretto by Horace Everett, a pseudonym for Erik Johns. The opera tells of a farm family in the Midwest of the United States....
       Suite


Comedy


  • Best Comedy Performance - Spoken Word
    Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album

    The Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album was awarded from yearly 1959 to 1993 and then from 2004 to present day. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:...
    • Bob Newhart
      Bob Newhart

      George Robert "Bob" Newhart is an United States Stand-up comedy and actor who is best known for playing psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the popular 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the popular 1980s sitcom Newhart....
       for The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!
  • Best Comedy Performance - Musical
    Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album

    The Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album was awarded from yearly 1959 to 1993 and then from 2004 to present day. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:...
    • Jo Stafford
      Jo Stafford

      Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an United States singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s....
       & Paul Weston
      Paul Weston

      Paul Weston was a US pianist, arranger, composer and conductor. Weston was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1933....
       for Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris performed by Jo Stafford & Paul Weston and as "Jonathan & Darlene Edwards"


Composing and arranging


  • Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Music Score from Motion Picture or Television
    Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media

    The Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media has been awarded since 1960. Until 2001 the award was presented to the composer of the music alone....
    • Ernest Gold
      Ernest Gold

      Ernest Gold , born Ernst Gold, was an United States award-winning composer. Born in Vienna, Austria; Gold wrote nearly 100 film and television scores between 1945 and 1992....
       (composer) for Exodus
      Exodus (soundtrack)

      Exodus is a soundtrack album by Ernest Gold with the Sinfonia of London from the 1961 film Exodus directed by Otto Preminger....
  • Best Arrangement
    Grammy Award for Best Arrangement

    The Grammy Award for Best Arrangement was awarded from 1959 to 1962.Since 1963 the award has been divided into two awards for Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist & Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement....
    • Henry Mancini
      Henry Mancini

      Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
       (arranger & artist) for Mr. Lucky


Country


  • Best Country & Western Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording

    The Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording was awarded from 1959 to 1968. From 1959 to 1961 the award was presented as the Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Performance....
    • Marty Robbins
      Marty Robbins

      Martin David Robinson was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.One of the most popular and successful United States Country music singers of his era, Robbins' songs were often eclectic, touching notably on an array of world music....
       for "El Paso
      El Paso (song)

      "El Paso" is a Country music ballad written and originally recorded by Marty Robbins, and first released on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959....
      "


Folk


  • Best Performance - Folk
    Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording

    The Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording was awarded from 1960 to 1986. During this time the award had several minor name changes:...
    • Harry Belafonte
      Harry Belafonte

      Harold George Belafonte, Jr. is a Jamaican American musician, actor and social activist. One of the most successful popular singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso music" a title which he was very reluctant to accept for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s....
       for "Swing Dat Hammer"


Jazz


  • Best Jazz Performance Solo or Small Group
    Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group

    The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Album, Individual or Group has been presented since 1959. Before 1962 and from 1972 to 1978 the award title did not specify instrumental performances and was presented for instrumental or vocal performances....
    • André Previn
      André Previn

      Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
       for West Side Story
      West Side Story

      West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
  • Best Jazz Performance Large Group
    Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

    The Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album has been presented since 1961. From 1962 to 1971 and 1979 to 1991 the award title specified instrumental performances....
    • Henry Mancini
      Henry Mancini

      Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
       for Blues and the Beat
  • Best Jazz Composition of More Than Five Minutes Duration
    Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition

    The Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition was awarded from 1961 to 1967. In 1961 the award was called the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Composition of More Than Five Minutes Duration....
    • Gil Evans
      Gil Evans

      Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis....
       & Miles Davis
      Miles Davis

      Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
       for Sketches of Spain
      Sketches of Spain

      Sketches of Spain is an album by Miles Davis, recorded between November 1959 and March 1960. The album pairs Davis with arranger and composer Gil Evans, with whom he had collaborated on several other projects, on a program of compositions largely derived from the Spanish folk tradition....


Musical Show


  • Best Show Album (Original Cast)
    Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album

    The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ...
    • Oscar Hammerstein II
      Oscar Hammerstein II

      Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
      , Richard Rodgers
      Richard Rodgers

      Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
       (composers), Mary Martin
      Mary Martin

      Mary Virginia Martin was an Tony Award and Emmy Award winning actress. She originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music....
       & the original cast for The Sound of Music
      The Sound of Music

      The Sound of Music is a musical theater with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse....
  • Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television
    • Cole Porter
      Cole Porter

      Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
       (composer), Frank Sinatra
      Frank Sinatra

      Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
       & the original cast for Can Can


Packaging and Notes


  • Best Album Cover
    • Marvin Schwartz (art director) for Latin a la Lee performed by Peggy Lee
      Peggy Lee

      Peggy Lee was an United States jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Academy Award-nominated actress. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota....


Pop


  • Best Vocal Performance Single Record or Track, Female
    • Ella Fitzgerald
      Ella Fitzgerald

      Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
       for "Mack the Knife
      Mack the Knife

      Mack the Knife or The Ballad of Mack the Knife, originally Die Moritat von Mackie Messer, is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English language, The Threepenny Opera....
      "
  • Best Vocal Performance Album, Female
    • Ella Fitzgerald
      Ella Fitzgerald

      Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
       for Mack the Knife - Ella in Berlin
      Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife

      Ella in Berlin is a live 1960 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. This album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."...
  • Best Vocal Performance Single Record or Track, Male
    Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male

    The Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male was awarded from 1959 to 1968. The award had several minor name changes:*From 1959 to 1960 the award was known as Best Vocal Performance, Male...
    • Ray Charles
      Ray Charles

      Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
       for "Georgia on My Mind
      Georgia on My Mind

      "Georgia on My Mind" is a song written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell . It is the official List of U.S. state songs of the United States state of Georgia ....
      "
  • Best Vocal Performance Album, Male
    Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male

    The Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male was awarded from 1959 to 1968. The award had several minor name changes:*From 1959 to 1960 the award was known as Best Vocal Performance, Male...
    • Ray Charles
      Ray Charles

      Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
       for The Genius of Ray Charles
      The Genius of Ray Charles

      The Genius of Ray Charles is a 1959 album by Ray Charles. In 2003, the album was ranked number 263 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time....
  • Best Performance by a Vocal Group (2 to 6)
    Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group

    The Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group was awarded from 1961 to 1968. In its first year, the award specified that a "vocal group" contains two to six artists....
    • Eydie Gormé
      Eydie Gormé

      Eydie Gorme is an United States singer credited heavily, along with husband Steve Lawrence, with helping to keep the classic Traditional pop music repertoire alive and well....
       & Steve Lawrence
      Steve Lawrence

      Steve Lawrence is an United States singer, perhaps best known as a member of a Duet with his wife Eydie Gorm?, billed as Steve and Eydie. The two have appeared together since appearing regularly on Steve Allen 's The Tonight Show in the mid-1950s....
       for "We Got Us"
  • Best Performance by a Chorus (7 or More Persons)
    Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus

    The Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus was awarded from 1961 to 1968. In its first year, the award specified that a "chorus" contains seven or more artists....
    • Norman Luboff
      Norman Luboff

      Norman Luboff was an United States arrangement and choir.Born in Chicago, Illinois, he was taught piano as a child and was part of his high school Choir....
       for Songs of the Cowboy performed by the Norman Luboff Choir
  • Best Performance by a Band 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...
    • Count Basie
      Count Basie

      William "Count" Basie was an United States Jazz piano, organist, bandleader, and composer. Widely regarded as one of the most important jazz bandleaders of his time, Basie led his popular Count Basie Orchestra for almost 50 years....
       for Dance With Basie
  • Best Performance by an Orchestra
    Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra

    The Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra - Primarily Not Jazz or for Dancing was awarded from 1959 to 1964....
    • Henry Mancini
      Henry Mancini

      Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
       for Mr. Lucky
  • Best Performance by a Pop Single Artist
    Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song

    The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song was awarded between 1960 and 1971. The award had several minor name changes:*In 1960 the award was known as Best Performance by a "Top 40" Artist...
    • Ray Charles
      Ray Charles

      Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
       for "Georgia on My Mind
      Georgia on My Mind

      "Georgia on My Mind" is a song written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell . It is the official List of U.S. state songs of the United States state of Georgia ....
      "


Production and engineering


  • Best Engineering Contribution - Popular Recording
    Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

    The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical has been awarded since 1959. The award had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Engineered Record - Non-Classical...
    • Luis P. Valentin (engineer) for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook
      Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook

      Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook is a 1959 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, marking the first time that Ella and Riddle had worked together....
       performed by Ella Fitzgerald
      Ella Fitzgerald

      Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
  • Best Engineering Contribution - Classical Recording
    Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical

    The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Classical has been awarded since 1959. The award had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Engineered Record ...
    • Hugh Davies (engineer) & Laurindo Almeida
      Laurindo Almeida

      Laurindo Almeida was a Brazilian classical classical guitar.Prior to being invited to the United States in 1947 by Stan Kenton, Laurindo Almeida played guitar in Rio de Janeiro where he was known for his classical Spanish guitar playing....
       for The Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Almeida
  • Best Engineering Contribution - Novelty Recording
    Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording - Special or Novel Effects

    The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording - Special or Novel Effects was awarded from 1960 to 1965 . The award had several minor name changes:...
    • John Kraus (engineer) for "The Old Payola Roll Blues" performed by Stan Freberg
      Stan Freberg

      Stanley Victor Freberg is an United States author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer, and advertising creative director....


R&B


  • Best Rhythm & Blues Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording

    The Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording was awarded from 1959 to 1968. From 1959 to 1961 the award was called the Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Performance....
    • Ray Charles
      Ray Charles

      Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
       for "Let the Good Times Roll"


Spoken


  • Best Performance - Documentary or Spoken Word (other than comedy)
    Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album

    The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959. The award had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Performance, Documentary or Spoken Word...
    • Robert Bialek (producer) for FDR Speaks