3rd Annual Grammy Awards

Award winners

• Record of the Year
• *Percy Faith for "Theme from A Summer Place"
• Album of the Year
• *Bob Newhart for The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart
• Song of the Year
• *Ernest Gold for "Theme of Exodus"
• Best New Artist
• *Bob Newhart

  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"

  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!
• 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"

  Composing and arranging

• Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Music Score from Motion Picture or Television
• *Ernest Gold for Exodus
• Best Arrangement
• *Henry Mancini for Mr. Lucky

  Country

• Best Country & Western Performance
• *Marty Robbins for "El Paso"

  Folk

• Best Performance - Folk
• *Harry Belafonte for "Swing Dat Hammer"

  Jazz

• Best Jazz Performance Solo or Small Group
• *André Previn for West Side Story
• Best Jazz Performance Large Group
• *Henry Mancini for Blues and the Beat
• Best Jazz Composition of More Than Five Minutes Duration
• *Gil Evans & Miles Davis for Sketches of Spain

  Musical show

• Best Show Album
• *Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Mary Martin & the original cast for The Sound of Music
• 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

  Packaging and notes

• Best Album Cover
• *Marvin Schwartz for Latin a la Lee performed by Peggy Lee

  Pop

• Best Vocal Performance Single Record or Track, Female
• *Ella Fitzgerald for "Mack the Knife"
• Best Vocal Performance Album, Female
• *Ella Fitzgerald for
• Best Vocal Performance Single Record or Track, Male
• *Ray Charles for "Georgia on My Mind"
• Best Vocal Performance Album, Male
• *Ray Charles for The Genius of Ray Charles
• Best Performance by a Vocal Group
• *Eydie Gormé & Steve Lawrence for "We Got Us"
• Best Performance by a Chorus
• *Norman Luboff for Songs of the Cowboy performed by the Norman Luboff Choir
• Best Performance by a Band for Dancing
• *Count Basie for Dance Along with Basie
• Best Performance by an Orchestra
• *Henry Mancini for Mr. Lucky
• Best Performance by a Pop Single Artist
• *Ray Charles for "Georgia on My Mind"

  Production and engineering

• Best Engineering Contribution - Popular Recording
• *Luis P. Valentin for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook performed by Ella Fitzgerald
• Best Engineering Contribution - Classical Recording
• *Hugh Davies & Laurindo Almeida for The Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Almeida
• Best Engineering Contribution - Novelty Recording
• *John Kraus for "The Old Payola Roll Blues" performed by Stan Freberg

  R&B

• Best Rhythm & Blues Performance
• *Ray Charles for "Let the Good Times Roll"

  Spoken

• Best Performance - Documentary or Spoken Word
• *Robert Bialek for FDR Speaks