Grammy Awards of 1960

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The second Grammy Awards were held in 1960. They recognized musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1959. Duke Ellington won three awards.

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 "Prokofiev: 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)
**Arthur Rubinstein for "Beethoven: Sonatas No. 21 in C (Waldstein) and No. 18 in E Flat"
*Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music (including chamber orchestra)
**Arthur 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 for "Anatomy of a Murder Soundtrack"
*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 ""
**The original cast with 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 Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus
**Richard Condie (choir director) for "The 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
**André Previn & David Rose for "Like Young" performed by Dave Rose and his Orchestra with André 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"

poken

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

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