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1960 3rd Grammy Awards
(awarded April 12, 1961)
Record of the Year
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" - Elvis Presley
"Georgia on My Mind" - Ray Charles
"Mack the Knife" - Ella Fitzgerald
"Nice 'n' Easy" - Frank Sinatra
"Theme from A Summer Place" - Percy
Faith
Song of the Year
"He'll Have to Go" - Charles Grean, Joe Allison, Audrey
Allison
"Nice 'n' Easy" - Lew Spence, Marily Keith, Alan Bergman
"Second Time Around" - Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen
"Theme from Exodus" - Ernest Gold
"Theme from A Summer Place" - Max Steiner
Album of the Year
Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall - Harry Belafonte
Brahams: Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat - Sviatoslav Richter
Button Down Mind - Bob Newhart
Nice 'n' Easy - Frank Sinatra
Puccini: Turandot - Erich Leinsdorf
Wild Is Love - Nat King Cole
New Artist
Brothers Four
Miriam Makeba
Bob Newhart
Leontyne Pryce
Joanie Sommers
Male Vocal Performance - Album
Harry Belafonte - Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall
Ray Charles - The Genius of Ray
Charles
Nat King Cole - Wild Is Love
Elvis Presley - GI Blues
Frank Sinatra - Nice 'n' Easy
Female Vocal Performance - Album
Rosemary Clooney - Clap Hands, Here Comes Rosie
Ella Fitzgerald - Mack the Knife, Ella
in Berlin
Peggy Lee - Latin a la Lee
Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba
Della Reese - Della
Male Vocal Performance - Single
Ray Charles -
"Georgia On My Mind"
Johnny Mathis - "Misty"
Elvis Presley - "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"
Jim Reeves - "He'll Have to Go"
Frank Sinatra - "Nice 'n' Easy"
Female Vocal Performance - Single
Doris Day - "The Sound of Music"
Ella Fitzgerald - "Mack the Knife"
Eileen Farrell - "I've Gotta Right to Sing the Blues"
Brenda Lee - "I'm Sorry"
Peggy Lee - "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'"
Vocal Performance - Pop Single Artist
Ray Charles -
"Georgia On My Mind"
Ella Fitzgerald - "Mack the Knife"
Peggy Lee - "Heart"
Elvis Presley - "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"
Frank Sinatra - "Nice 'n' Easy"
Vocal Group
Brothers Four - "Greenfields"
Eydie Gorme, Steve Lawrence - "We Got
Us"
The Hi-Los - "All over the Place"
The Kingston Trio - "Here We Go Again"
The Swe-Danes - "Scandinavian Shuffle"
Rhythm & Blues Performance
LaVerne Baker - "Shake a Hand"
Hank Ballard - "Finger Poppin' Time"
Ray Charles - "Let the Good Times
Roll"
Bo Diddley - "Walkin' and Talkin'"
John Lee Hooker - "Travelin'"
Etta James - "All I Could Do Was Cry"
Muddy Waters - "Got My Mojo Working"
Jackie Wilson - "Lonely Teardrops"
Country and Western Performance
Johnny Horton - "North to Alaska"
Ferlin Husky - "Wings of a Dove"
Hank Locklin - "Plese Help Me, I'm Falling"
Jim Reeves - "He'll Have to Go"
Marty Robbins - "El Paso"
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 a Band for Dancing
Count Basie - Dance
with Basie
Les Brown - Bandland
Henry Mancini - The Blues and the Beat
Billy May - Girls and Boys on Broadway
Perez Prado - Big Hits by Prado
Best Performance by an Orchestra
Henry Mancini - Mr.
Lucky
Count Basie - Count Basie Story
Esquivel - Infinity in Sound
Percy Faith - "Theme from A Summer Place"
Gerry Mulligan - The Concert Jazz Band
Best Show Album - Original Cast
The Sound of Music -
Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein
Bye Bye Birdie - Charles Strouse, Lee Adams
Camelot - Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Fiorello! - Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick
The Unsinkable Molly Brown - Meredith Willson
Best Soundtrack Album or Recording of Original Cast from a Motion Picture or Television
Can-Can - Cole
Porter (film score)
Bells Are Ringing - Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne (film score)
G.I. Blues - Elvis Presley
Li'l Abner - Nelson Riddle
Best Soundtrack Album or Recording of Music Score from a Motion Picture or Television
Exodus - Ernest Gold
The Apartment - Adolph Deutsch
Ben-Hur - Miklos Rozsa
Mr. Lucky - Henry Mancini
The Untouchables - Nelson Riddle
Best Folk Performance
Harry Belafonte -
"Swing Dat Hammer"
Belafonte Singers - "Cheers"
Brothers Four - "Greenfields"
Jimmy Driftwood - Songs of Billy Yank and Johnny Reb
Kingston Trio - "Here We Go Again"
Alan Lomax - Southern Folk Heritage Series
Ewan MacColl - Songs of Robert Burns
Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba
Best Jazz Composition
Sketches of Spain -
Miles Davis, Gil Evans
"Blues Suite" - Bob Brookmeyer
"Blue Rondo a la Turk" - Dave Brubeck
Idiom '59 (Festival Session) - Duke Ellington
"Newport Suite" - Maynard Ferguson
"Western Suite" - Jimmy Giuffre
Sketch from Third Stream Music - John Lewis
Best Jazz Performance - Solo or Small Group
Andre Previn - West
Side Story
Miles Davis - Jazz Track
Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges - Back to Back
Dizzy Gillespie & His Octet - The Greatest Trumpet of Them All
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - The Hottest New Group in Jazz
Modern Jazz Quartet - Pyramid
George Shearing - White Satin
Art Tatum - Greatest Piano of Them All
Best Jazz Performance - Large Group
Henry Mancini - The
Blues and the Beat
Count Basie - The Count Basie Story
Miles Davis, Gil Evans - Sketches of Spain
Quincy Jones - The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones
Gerry Mulligan - I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
Recording Artists - Spirituals to Swing Concert
Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
Fritz Reiner
conducting the Chicago Symphony - Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and
Celesta
Thomas Beecham conducting the Royal Philharmonic - Haydn: Solomon Symphonies,
Vol. 2
Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic - Ives: Symphony No. 2
Aaron Copland conducting the Boston Symphony - Copland: Appalachian Spring
Morton Gould conducting the Morton Gould Orchestra - Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite
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 Chamber Music Performance - Vocal or Instrumental
Laurindo Almeida -
Conversations with the Guitar
Clifford Curzon and Vienna Octet - Schubert: Trout Quintet
Joseph Eger, Henryk Szeryng, Victor Babin - Brahms: Horn Trio; Beethoven: Sonata
for Horn and Piano
Griller Quartet - Haydn: Quartets, Opp. 71 and 74
Juilliard Quartet - Debussy and Ravel Quartets
Yehudi Menuhin and Bach Festival Chamber Orchestra - Bach: The Complete
Brandenburg Concertos
Robert Shaw Chorale - Bach: Cantata No. 4; Christ Lag in Todesbanden
Smetana Quartet - Janacek String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2
Best Classical Performance - Concerto or Instrumental Soloist
Sviatoslav Richter
(Leinsdorf conducting the Chicago Symphony) - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B
Flat
Gervase De Peyer (Maag conducting the London Symphony) - Mozart: Clarinet
Concerto
Malcolm Frager (Leibowitz conducting the Paris Conservatoire) - Prokofiev:
Concerto No. 2
Zino Francescatti, Pierre Fournier (Walter conducting the Columbia Symphony) -
Brahms: Double Concerto (Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor)
Glenn Gould (Golschmann conducting the Columbia Symphony) - Bach: Concerto No. 5
Jascha Heifetz (Hendl conducting the Chicago Symphony) - Sibelius: Violin
Concerto in D
Rudolf Serkin (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Symphony) - Brahms: Piano
Concerto No. 2
Van Cliburn (Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony) - Schumann: Piano Concerto
in A
Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Duo (other than Orchestra)
Laurindo Almeida -
The Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Almeida
Julian Bream - The Art of Julian Bream
Vladimir Horowitz - Pictures at an Exhibition
Wanda Landowska - Hadyn... Landowska
Jaime Laredo - Bach: Partita No. 3 in E; Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in D Minor
Paul Maynard - Brahms: Keyboard Music of the French Court
Sviatoslav Richter - Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7; Pictures at an Exhibition
Artur Rubinstein - Chopin: Ballades
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
Charles Munch and New England Conservatory Chorus - Berlioz: Requiem
Fritz Reiner, Vienna Philharmonic Society of Friends of Music of Vienna - Verdi:
Requiem
Robert Shaw Chorale - Bach: Motet No. 3 ("Jesu Meine Freude")
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
Best Classical Opera Production
Puccini: Turandot -
Erich Leinsdorf, conducting the Rome Opera House Chorus and Orchestra (solos:
Tebaldi, Nilsson, Bjorling, Tozzi)
Boito: Mefistofele - Tullio Serafin (solos: Siepi, Tebaldi, Del Monaco)
Britten: Peter Grimes - Benjamin Britten conducting the Royal Opera Chorus and
Orchestra (solos: Pears, Please, Watson)
Mozart: Don Giovanni - Josef Krips (solos: Siepi, Danco, Dermote, Corena)
Poulenc, Cocteau: La Voix Humaine - Georges Pretre conducting the Paris Opera
Comique and National Theater Orchestra (solo: Duval)
Puccini: La Boheme - Tullio Serafin conducting the Accademia di Santa Cecilia
(solos: Tebaldi, Bergonzi, Bastianini, Corena)
Verdi: Aida - Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Singverein and Vienna
Philharmonic (solos: Tabaldi, Bergonzi, Simionato, Corena)
Verdi: La Traviata - Tullio Serafin conducting the Rome Opera Chorus and
Orchestra (solos: de los Angeles, Del Monte, Sereni)
Verdi: Macbeth - Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and
Orchestra (solos: Warren, Hines, Rysanek, Bergonzi)
Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
Leontyne Price - A
Program of Song
Eileen Farrell - Arias in Great Tradition
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Schubert: Songs, Album 3
Maureen Forrester - Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Peter Pears - Britten: Nocturne
Joan Sutherland - Handel: Arias
Salli Terri - Conversations with the Guitar
Cesare Valletti - Schumann: Dichterliebe
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Orchestral Suite
from Tender Land - Aaron Copland
Symphony No. 1 - Easley Blackwood
Sonata for Cello and Piano - Paul Hindemith
Symphony No. 2 - Charles Ives
La Voix Humaine - Francis Poulenc
Symphony No. 1 - Roger Sessions
Threni - Igor Stravinsky
Density 21.5 - Edgard Varese
Best Engineering Contribution - Classical Recording
Hugh Davies - The
Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Almeida
John Kraus - The Two Pianos of Leonard Pennario
Lewis Layton - Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (Fritz Reiner
conducting the Chicago Symphony)
Lewis Layton - Berlioz: Requiem (Charles Munch conducting the New England
Conservatory Chorus and Boston Symphony)
Lewis Layton - Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky (Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra)
Lewis Layton - Puccini: Turandot (Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Rome Opera
Chorus and Orchestra; solos: Tebaldi, Nilsson, Bjorling, Tozzi)
Lewis Layton - R. Strauss: Don Quixote (Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago
Symphony)
Best Arrangement
Henry Mancini - Mr.
Lucky
Don Costa - "Theme from The Apartment" (Ferrante & Teicher)
Percy Faith - "Theme from A Summer Place" (Percy Faith & His Orchestra)
Bill Holman - "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'" (Gerry Mulligan)
Quincy Jones - "Let the Good Times Roll" (Ray Charles)
Nelson Riddle - "Nice 'n' Easy" (Frank Sinatra)
Dick Schory - "Wild Percussion and Horns A'Plenty" (Dick Schory)
George Shearing, Billy May - "Honeysuckle Rose" (George Shearing)
Best Performance - Documentary or Spoken Word (other than comedy)
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt - F.D.R. Speaks
Henry Fonda - Voices of the Twentieth Century
John Gielgud - Ages of Man, Vol. 2 (One Man in His Time) Part 2 - Shakespeare
Archibald MacLeish - J.B.
Best Comedy Performance - Spoken World
Bob Newhart - Button
Down Mind Strikes Back
Shelley Berman - The Edge of Shelley Berman
Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks - 2,000 Year Old Man
Jonathan Winters - The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters
Best Comedy Performance - Musical
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 Album Created for Children
Let's All Sing with
the Chipmunks - David Seville
Adventures in Music, Grade 3, Vol. 1 - Howard Mitchell
Dr. Seuss Presents: Bartholomew and the Oobleck - Dr. Seuss
Folk Songs for Young People - Pete Seeger
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes - Sterling Holloway
Stories and Songs of the Civil War - Ralph Bellamy
Best Engineering Contribution - Popular Recording
Luis P. Valentin -
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book
Robert Fine - Persuasive Percussion No. 2
John Kraus - Wild Is Love (Nat King Cole)
John Norman - Infinity in Sound (Esquivel)
Robert Simpson - Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall (Harry Belafonte)
Robert Simpson - Wild Percussion and Horns A'Plenty (Dick Schory)
Luis P. Valentin - Louis Bellson Swings Jule Styne
Best Engineered Recording - Novelty
John Kraus - The Old
Payola Roll Blues (Stan Freberg)
George Fernandez - Mr. Custer (Larry Verne)
Ted Keep - Alvin for President (David Seville & the Chipmunks)
Ted Keep - Let's All Sing the Chipmunks (David Seville & the Chipmunks)
John Kraus - June Night (Jack Cookerly)
Thorne Nogar - Spike Jone sin Hi-Fi
Robert Simpson, John Crawford, Tony Salvatore - New Sounds America Loves Best
(John Klein)
Best Album Cover
Marvin Schwartz -
Latin a la Lee (Peggy Lee)
Marvin Israel - Bean Bags (Milt Jackson)
Bob Jones - Carlos Montoya
Bob Jones - Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky (Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony)
Bob Jones - Stravinsky: Petruchka (Monteux conducting the Boston Symphony)
Bob Jones - Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite Excerpts (Reiner conducting the
Chicago Symphony)
Bob Jones - Wild Percussion and Horns A'Plenty (Dick Schory)
Sheldon Marks - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book
Irving Werbin - Now! Fred Astaire
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