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1958 1st Grammy Awards
(awarded May 4, 1959)
Best Record of the Year
"Catch a Falling Star" - Perry Como
"The Chipmunk Song" - David Seville
"Fever" - Peggy Lee
"Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)" -
Domenico Modugeno
"Witchcraft" - Frank Sinatra
Best Song of the Year
"Catch a Falling Star" - Paul Vance, Lee Pockriss
"Fever" - Johnny Davenport, Eddie Conley
"Gigi" - Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
"Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)" -
Domecnico Modugno
"Witchcraft" - Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh
Best Album of the Year
Come Fly with Me - Frank Sinatra
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald
The Music from Peter Gunn - Henry
Mancini
Only the Lonely - Frank Sinatra
Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor, Op. 23 - Van Cliburn
Best Male Vocal Performance
Perry Como -
"Catch a Falling Star"
Domenico Modugno - "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Dlu (Volare)"
Frank Sinatra - "Come Fly with Me"
Frank Sinatra - "Witchcraft"
Andy Williams - "Hawaiian Wedding Song"
Best Female Vocal Performance
Doris Day - "Everybody Loves a Lover"
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald
Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook
Eydie Gorme - "Eydie in Love"
Peggy Lee - "Fever"
Keely Smith - "I Wish You Love"
Best Group or Chorus Vocal Performance
The King Sisters - "Imagination"
The Kingston Trio - "Tom Dooley"
Kirby Stone Four - "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads"
Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross - Sing a Song of Basie
Louis Prima, Keely Smith - "That Old
Black Magic"
Best Rhythm & Blues Performance
Harry Belafonte - Belafonte Sings the Blues
The Champs - "Tequila"
Nat King Cole - Looking Back
Earl Grant - The End
Perez Prado - "Patricia"
Best Country and Western Performance
The Everly Brothers - "All I Have to Do Is Dream"
The Everly Brothers - "Bird Dog"
Don Gibson - "Oh Lonesome Me"
The Kingston Trio - "Tom Dooley"
Jimmie Rodgers - "Oh, Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again"
Best Individual Jazz Performance
Ella Fitzgerald -
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book
Johan Jones - "Baubles, Bangles and Beads"
George Shearing - Burnished Brass
Matty Mattock - "Dixieland Story"
Jonah Jones - Jumpin' with Jonah
Best Group Jazz Performance
Count Basie - Basie
Jonah Jones - "Baubles, Bangles and Beads"
George Shearing - Burnished Brass
Four Freshmen - The Four Freshmen in Person
Basie Rhythm Section, Dave Lambert Singers - Sing a Song of Basie
Best Dance Band Performance
Ray Anthony - The Music from Peter Gunn
Count Basie - Basie
Warren Covington & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - Tea for Two Cha Cha
Jonah Jones - "Baubles, Bangles and Beads"
Perez Prado - "Patricia"
Best Orchestra Performance
Buddy Defranco - "Cross Country Suite"
Esquivel - Other Worlds, Other Sounds
Jack Kane - Kane Is Able
Henry Mancini - The Music from Peter Gunn
Johnny Mandel - I Want to Live
Billy May - Billy May's Big Fat Brass
David Rose & His Orchestra with Andre Previn - Young Man's Lament
George Shearing - Burnished Brass
Best Arrangement
Henry Mancini - The
Music from Peter Gunn
Billy May - Come Fly with Me
Jack Marshall - "Fever"
Billy May - Billy May's Big Fat Brass
Nelson Riddle - "Witchcraft"
Best Musical Composition
"Cross Country
Suite" - Nelson Riddle
"Vanessa" - Samuel Barber
I Want to Live - Johnny Mandel
Victory at Sea, Vol. 3 - Richard Rodgers
"Mahagonny" - Kurt Weill
Best Original Cast Album - Broadway or Television
Flower Drum Song - Richard Rodgers
The Music Man - Meredith Willson
Sound of Jazz, Seven Lively Arts - Count Basie, Billie Holliday and others
Victory at Sea, Vol. 2 - RCA Victor Symphony
The Music from Peter Gunn - Henry Mancini
Best Soundtrack Album, Dramatic Picture Score or Original Cast
Auntie Mame - Ray Heindorf Orchestra
The Bridge on the River Kwai - Malcolm Arnold
Gigi - Andre Previn
I Want to Live - Johnny Mandel
South Pacific - Alfred Newman
Best Classical Peformance - Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic - Stravinsky: Le Sacre du
Printemps
Pierre Monteux conducting the London Symphony - Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Charles Munch conducting the Boston Symphony - Barber: Meditation and Dance of
Vengeance
Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
in B Flat Major
Felix Slatkin
conducting the Hollywood Bowl Symphony - Gaite Parisienne
Bruno Walter conducting the Columbia Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphony
No. 6 in F Major
Bruno Walter conducting the New York Philharmonic - Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C
Minor
Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music
Budapest String Quartet - Ravel: Quartet in F Major / Debussy: Quartet in G
Minor
Hollywood String
Quartet - Beethoven: Quartet No. 13
Pablo Casals, Eugene Istomin, Fuchs - Beethoven: Trio in E Flat Major / Trio in
D Major
Jascha Heifetz, William Primrose, Gregor Piatigorsky - Beethoven: Trio in E
Flat, Op. 3
Jascha Heifetz, William Primrose, Gregor Piatigorsky - Beethoven: Trio in G, Op.
9, No. 1 / Trio in C Minor, Op. 9, No. 3
Best Classical Performance - Instrumental
Van Cliburn,
Kondrashin Symphony - Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor, Op. 23
Andree Segovia - Segovia Golden Jubilee
Emil Gilels - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
Leonard Pennario - Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Artur Rubinstein - Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2
Isaac Stern - Bartok: Concerto for Violin
Best Classical Performance - Operatic or Choral
Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi - Rossini: Barber of Seville
Erich Leinsdorf - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Dimitri Mitropoulos - Barber: Vanessa
Dom David Nicholson - Victoria: Requiem Mass
Roger Wagner Chorale
- Virtuoso
Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
Maria Callas - Cherubini: Medea
Eileen Farrell - Eileen Farrell as Medea
Eileen Farrell - Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde) /
Brunnhilde's Immolation (Die Gotterdammerung)
Salli Terri - Duets for Spanish Guitar
Renata Tebaldi -
Recital of Songs and Arias
Best Engineered Recording - Classical
Sherwood Hall III -
Duets for a Spanish Guitar
Sherwood Hall III - Gaite Parisienne
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije / Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording
The Best of the Stan
Freberg Shows - Stan Freberg
Great American Speeches - Melvyn Douglas, Vincent Price, Carl Sandburg, Ed
Begley
Green Christmas - Stan Freberg
Improvisations to Music - Mike Nichols, Elaine May
The Lady from Philadelphia - Marion Anderson
Two Interviews of Our Time - Henry Jacobs
Best Comedy Recording
Stan Freberg - The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows
Stan Freberg - Green Christmas
Mike Nichols, Elaine May - Improvisations to Music
Mort Sahl - The Future Lies Ahead
David Seville - "The
Chipmunk Song"
Best Recording for Children
"Children's Marching Song" - Cyril Stapleton
"The Chipmunk Song"
- David Seville
Fun in Shariland - Shari Lewis
Mommy, Give Me a Drinka Water - Danny Kaye
Tubby the Tuba - Jose Ferrer
"Witch Doctor" - David Seville
Best Engineered Recording - Novelty
Hugh Davies - Billy May's Big Fat Brass
Ted Keep - "The
Chipmunk Song"
Luis P. Valentin - Come Fly with Me
Luis P. Valentin - "Witchcraft"
Rafael O. Valentin - Other Worlds, Other Sounds
Best Album Cover
Ray Heindorf, Ray Rennahan - For Whom the Bell Tolls
David Rose - Ira Ironstrings Plays Music for People with $3.98
Marvin Schwartz - Come Fly with Me (Frank Sinatra)
Frank Sinatra - Only
the Lonely (Frank Sinatra)
Charles Ward - Julie (Julie London)
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