2nd Annual Grammy 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 Münch & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Debussy: Images for Orchestra
• Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
• *Jussi Björling for Bjoerling in Opera
• Best Classical Performance - Opera Cast or Choral
• *Erich Leinsdorf, 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
• *Kiril Kondrashin, Van Cliburn & the Symphony of the Air Orchestra for Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
• Best Classical Performance - Concerto or Instrumental Soloist
• *Arthur Rubinstein for Beethoven: Sonatas No. 21 in C and No. 18 in E Flat
• Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music
• *Arthur Rubinstein for Beethoven: Sonatas No. 21 in C 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
• *Duke Ellington for Anatomy of a Murder Soundtrack
• Best Sound Track Album - Background Score from a Motion Picture or Television
• *Duke Ellington for Anatomy of a Murder
• Best Arrangement
• *Billy May 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
• *André Previn, Ken Darby & the original cast for Porgy and Bess

  Packaging and notes

• Best Album Cover
• *Robert M. Jones 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 P. Condie for "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir directed by 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 for Belafonte at Carnegie Hall performed by Harry Belafonte
• Best Engineering Contribution - Classical Recording
• *Lewis W. Layton, Robert Russell Bennett & the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra for Victory at Sea, Vol. I
• Best Engineering Contribution - Novelty Recording
• *Ted Keep 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
• *Carl Sandburg for A Lincoln Portrait