3rd Annual Grammy Awards

Award winners

• Record of the Year
• *Percy Faith for "Theme from A Summer Place"
• *Frank Sinatra for "Nice 'N Easy"
• *Ella Fitzgerald for "Mack The Knife"
• *Ray Charles for "Georgia On My Mind"
• *Elvis Presley for "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"
• Album of the Year
• *Bob Newhart for The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart
• *Nat King Cole for Wild Is Love
• *Erich Leinsdorf for Puccini Turandot
• *Frank Sinatra for Nice 'N Easy
• *Erich Leinsdorf for Brahms: Concerto with Sviatoslav Richter
• *Harry Belafonte for Belafonte Returns To Carnegie Hall
• Song of the Year
• *Ernest Gold for "Theme of Exodus"
• *Max Steiner for "Theme From A Summer Place" performed by Percy Faith
• *Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van Heusen for "Second Time Around" performed by Frank Sinatra
• *Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman & Lew Spence for "Nice 'N Easy" performed by Frank Sinatra
• *Audrey Allison, Joe Allison & Charles Grean for "He'll Have To Go" performed by Jim Reeves
• Best New Artist
• *Bob Newhart
• *The Brothers Four
• *Joanie Sommers
• *Leontyne Price
• *Miriam Makeba

  Children's

• Best Album Created for Children
• *Ross Bagdasarian Sr. for Let's All Sing With the Chipmunks performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. as "David Seville and the Chipmunks"
• *Ralph Bellamy for Stories And Songs Of The Civil War
• *Sterling Holloway for Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
• *Pete Seeger for Folk Songs For Young People
• *Dr. Seuss for Dr. Seuss Presents Bartholomew And The Oobleck
• *Various Artists for ''Adventures In Music, Grade 3, Volume 1''

  Classical

• Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
• *Fritz Reiner & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
• Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
• *Leontyne Price for A Program of Song - Leontyne Price Recital
• Best Classical Opera Production
• *Erich Leinsdorf, Birgit Nilsson, Giorgio Tozzi, Jussi Björling, Renata Tebaldi & the Rome Opera Orchestra for Puccini: Turandot
• Best Classical Performance - Choral
• *Thomas Beecham & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus for Handel: Messiah
• Best Classical Performance - Concerto or Instrumental Soloist
• *Erich Leinsdorf, Sviatoslav Richter & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat
• Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Duo
• *Laurindo Almeida for The Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Almeida
• Best Classical Performance - Vocal or Instrumental - Chamber Music
• *Laurindo Almeida for Conversations With the Guitar
• Best Contemporary Classical Composition
• *Aaron Copland & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for ''Orchestral Suite from The Tender Land Suite''

  Comedy

• Best Comedy Performance - Spoken Word
• *Bob Newhart for The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!
• *Jonathan Winters for The Wonderful World Of Jonathan Winters
• *Shelley Berman for The Edge Of Shelley Berman
• *Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks for 2000 Year Old Man
• Best Comedy Performance - Musical
• *Jo Stafford & Paul Weston for Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris performed by Jo Stafford & Paul Weston and as "Jonathan & Darlene Edwards"
• *Stan Freberg for The Old Payola Roll Blues
• *Homer And Jethro for Homer And Jethro At The Country Club
• *Tom Lehrer for An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
• *David Seville And The Chipmunks for "Alvin For President"

  Composing and arranging

• Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Music Score from Motion Picture or Television
• *Ernest Gold for Exodus
• *Nelson Riddle for The Untouchables performed by Nelson Riddle
• *Adolph Deutch for The Apartment performed by Various Artists
• *Henry Mancini for Mr. Lucky performed by Henry Mancini
• *Miklos Rozsa for Ben Hur performed by Miklos Rozsa
• Best Arrangement
• *Henry Mancini for Mr. Lucky
• *Dick Schory for Wild Percussion And Horns A' Plenty performed by Dick Schory
• *Don Costa for "Theme From The Apartment" performed by Ferrante & Teicher
• *Percy Faith for "Theme From A Summer Place" performed by Percy Faith
• *Nelson Riddle for "Nice 'N Easy" performed by Frank Sinatra
• *Quincy Jones for "Let The Good Times Roll" performed by Ray Charles
• *Bill Holman for "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'" performed by Gerry Mulligan
• *Billy May & George Shearing for "Honeysuckle Rose" performed by George Shearing

  Country

• Best Country & Western Performance
• *Marty Robbins for "El Paso"
• *Ferlin Husky for Wing Of A Dove
• *Hank Locklin for Please Help Me, I'm Falling
• *Johnny Horton for "North To Alaska"
• *Jim Reeves for "He'll Have To Go"

  Folk

• Best Performance - Folk
• *Harry Belafonte for "Swing Dat Hammer"
• *Alan Lomax for Southern Folk Heritage Series
• *Ewan MacColl for Songs Of Robert Burns
• *Jimmy Driftwood for Songs Of Billy Yank And Johnny Reb
• *Miriam Makeba for Miriam Makeba
• *The Kingston Trio for Here We Go Again
• *The Brothers Four for Greenfields
• *Belafonte Folk Singers for ''Cheers''

  Jazz

• Best Jazz Performance Solo or Small Group
• *André Previn for West Side Story
• *George Shearing for White Satin
• *Dizzy Gillespie And His Octet for The Greatest Trumpet Of Them All
• *Modern Jazz Quartet for Pyramid
• *Miles Davis for Jazz Track
• *Art Tatum for Greatest Piano Of Them All
• *Lambert, Hendricks And Ross for The Hottest New Group In Jazz
• *Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges for Back To Back - Duke Ellington And Johnny Hodges Play The Blues
• Best Jazz Performance Large Group
• *Henry Mancini for Blues and the Beat
• *Quincy Jones for The Great Wide World Of Quincy Jones
• *Count Basie for The Count Basie Story
• *Miles Davis & Gil Evans for Sketches of Spain
• *Gerry Mulligan for "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'"
• Best Jazz Composition of More Than Five Minutes Duration
• *Gil Evans & Miles Davis for Sketches of Spain
• *Jimmy Giuffre for Western Suite performed by Jimmy Giuffre, Bob Brookmeyer & Jim Hall
• *John Lewis for "Sketch" performed by Modern Jazz Quartet & Guests
• *Maynard Ferguson for "Newport Suite" performed by Maynard Ferguson
• *Duke Ellington for Idiom '59 performed by Duke Ellington
• *Bob Brookmeyer for Blues Suite performed by Bob Brookmeyer
• *Dave Brubeck for "Blue Rondo A La Turk" performed by Dave Brubeck

  Musical show

• Best Show Album
• *Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Mary Martin & the original cast for The Sound of Music
• *Meredith Willson, original cast including Tammy Grimes, Harve Presnell & Jack Harrold for The Unsinkable Molly Brown
• *Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick, original cast including Tom Bosley for Fiorello!
• *Alan J. Lerner & Frederick Loewe for Camelot performed by Richard Burton, Julie Andrews & Robert Goulet
• *Lee Adams & Charles Strouse for Bye Bye Birdie performed by Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke & Paul Lynde
• Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television
• *Cole Porter, Frank Sinatra & the original cast for Can Can
• *Nelson Riddle for Li'l Abner performed by Nelson Riddle
• *Elvis Presley for G.I. Blues performed by Elvis Presley
• *Betty Comden, Adolph Green & Jule Styne for Bells Are Ringing performed by original cast including Judy Holliday & Dean Martin

  Packaging and notes

• Best Album Cover
• *Marvin Schwartz for Latin a la Lee performed by Peggy Lee
• *Robert M. Jones for Wild Percussion And Horns A' Plenty performed by Dick Schory
• *Robert M. Jones for Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite Excerpts performed by Fritz Reiner
• *Robert M. Jones for Stravinsky: Petrouchka performed by Pierre Monteux
• *Robert M. Jones for Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky performed by Fritz Reiner
• *Irving Werbin for Now! Fred Astaire performed by Fred Astaire
• *Sheldon Marks for Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book performed by Ella Fitzgerald
• *Robert M. Jones for Carlos Montoya performed by Carlos Montoya
• *Marvin Israel for Bean Bags performed by Milt Jackson

  Pop

• Best Vocal Performance Single Record or Track, Female
• *Ella Fitzgerald for "Mack the Knife"
• *Doris Day for "Sound of Music"
• *Brenda Lee for "I'm Sorry"
• *Peggy Lee for "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'"
• *Eileen Farrell for "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues"
• Best Vocal Performance Album, Female
• *Ella Fitzgerald for Mack the Knife - Ella in Berlin
• *Miriam Makeba for Miriam Makeba
• *Peggy Lee for Latin Ala Lee!
• *Della Reese for Della
• *Rosemary Clooney for Clap Hands, Here Comes Rosie
• Best Vocal Performance Single Record or Track, Male
• *Ray Charles for "Georgia on My Mind"
• *Frank Sinatra for "Nice 'N Easy"
• *Johnny Mathis for "Misty"
• *Jim Reeves for "He'll Have To Go"
• *Elvis Presley for "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"
• Best Vocal Performance Album, Male
• *Ray Charles for The Genius of Ray Charles
• *Nat King Cole for Wild Is Love
• *Frank Sinatra for Nice 'N Easy
• *Elvis Presley for G.I. Blues
• *Harry Belafonte for Belafonte Returns To Carnegie Hall
• Best Performance by a Vocal Group
• *Eydie Gormé & Steve Lawrence for "We Got Us"
• *Swe-Danes for Scandinavian Shuffle
• *The Kingston Trio for Here We Go Again
• *The Brothers Four for "Greenfields"
• *The Hi-Los for All Over The Place
• Best Performance by a Chorus
• *Norman Luboff for Songs of the Cowboy performed by the Norman Luboff Choir
• *Robert Shaw Chorale for That Wonderous Love
• *Pete King Chorale for "My Favorite Things"
• *Ray Charles Singers for Deep Night
• *Belafonte Folk Singers for Belafonte Returns To Carnegie Hall
• Best Performance by a Band for Dancing
• *Count Basie for Dance Along with Basie
• *Henry Mancini for The Blues And The Beat
• *Billy May for Girls And Boys On Broadway
• *Perez Prado for Big Hits By Prado
• *Les Brown for Bandland
• Best Performance by an Orchestra
• *Henry Mancini for Mr. Lucky
• *Percy Faith for "Theme From A Summer Place"
• *Count Basie for The Count Basie Story
• *Gerry Mulligan for The Concert Jazz Band
• *Esquivel for Infinity In Sound
• Best Performance by a Pop Single Artist
• *Ray Charles for "Georgia on My Mind"
• *Frank Sinatra for "Nice 'N Easy"
• *Ella Fitzgerald for "Mack The Knife"
• *Peggy Lee for "Heart"
• *Elvis Presley for "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"