Grammy Awards Of 1960

Award winners:

• Record of the Year
• Bobby Darin for "Mack the Knife"

• Album of the Year
• Frank Sinatra for Come Dance With Me

• Song of the Year
• Jimmy Driftwood for "The Battle of New Orleans"

• Best New Artist
• Bobby Darin

Children's

• Best Recording for Children
• Peter Ustinov for Peter and the Wolf performed by Peter Ustinov & the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan

Classical

• Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
• Charles Munch (conductor) & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Debussy: Images for Orchestra
• Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist (with or without orchestra)
• Jussi Bjoerling for Bjoerling in Opera
• Best Classical Performance - Opera Cast or Choral
• Erich Leinsdorf (conductor), Lisa Della Casa, Rosalind Elias, George London, Roberta Peters, Giorgio Tozzi & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
• Best Classical Performance - Concerto or Instrumental Soloist (with full orchestral accompaniment)
• Kiril Kondrashin (conductor), Van Cliburn & the Symphony of the Air Orchestra for Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
• Best Classical Performance - Concerto or Instrumental Soloist (other than full orchestral accompaniment)
• Artur Rubinstein for Beethoven: Sonatas No. 21 in C (Waldstein) and No. 18 in E Flat
• Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music (including chamber orchestra)
• Artur Rubinstein for Beethoven: Sonatas No. 21 in C (Waldstein) and No. 18 in E Flat

Comedy

• Best Comedy Performance - Spoken
• Shelley Berman for Inside Shelley Berman
• Best Comedy Performance - Musical
• Homer and Jethro for The Battle of Kookamonga

Composing and arranging

• Best Musical Composition First Recorded and Released in 1959 (more than 5 minutes duration)
• Duke Ellington (composer) for Anatomy of a Murder
• Best Sound Track Album - Background Score from a Motion Picture or Television
• Duke Ellington (composer) for Anatomy of a Murder
• Best Arrangement
• Billy May (arranger) for "Come Dance With Me" performed by Frank Sinatra

Country

• Best Country & Western Performance
• Johnny Horton for "The Battle of New Orleans"

Folk

• Best Performance - Folk
• The Kingston Trio for The Kingston Trio at Large

Jazz

• Best Jazz Performance - Soloist
• Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Swings Lightly
• Best Jazz Performance - Group
• Jonah Jones for I Dig Chicks

Musical Show

• Best Broadway Show Album
• Ethel Merman & the original cast for Gypsy
• The original cast (Gwen Verdon, Richard Kiley, Leonard Stone, Doris Rich, Cynthia Latham, Joy Nichols, Bob Dixon & Pat Ferrier) for Redhead
• Best Sound Track Album, Original Cast - Motion Picture or Television
• Andre Previn, Ken Darby & the original cast for Porgy and Bess

Packaging and Notes

• Best Album Cover
• Robert M. Jones (art director) for Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 conducted by Howard Mitchell

Pop

• Best Vocal Performance, Female
• Ella Fitzgerald for "But Not for Me"
• Best Vocal Performance, Male
• Frank Sinatra for Come Dance With Me
• Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
• Richard Condie (choir director) for Battle Hymn of the Republic performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir directed by Richard Condie
• Best Performance by a Dance Band
• Duke Ellington for Anatomy of a Murder
• Best Performance by an Orchestra
• Dave Rose & Dave Rose for Like Young performed by Dave Rose & His Orchestra with Andre Previn
• Best Performance by a "Top 40" Artist
• Nat "King" Cole for "Midnight Flyer"

Production and engineering

• Best Engineering Contribution - Other Than Classical or Novelty
• Robert Simpson (engineer) for Belafonte at Carnegie Hall performed by Harry Belafonte
• Best Engineering Contribution - Classical Recording
• Lewis W. Layton (engineer), Robert Russell Bennett (conductor) & the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra for Victory at Sea, Vol. I
• Best Engineering Contribution - Novelty Recording
• Ted Keep (engineer) for "Alvin's Harmonica" performed by David Seville

R&B

• Best Rhythm & Blues Performance
• Dinah Washington for "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes"

Spoken

• Best Performance - Documentary or Spoken Word (other than comedy)
• Carl Sandburg for A Lincoln Portrait

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