1959 Grammy Awards (1st) – Complete List of Winners and Nominees

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In an unusual scheduling quirk, the second Grammy Awards were held just six months after the first, on November 29, 1959, to cover achievements from mid-1958 to mid-1959. This rapid follow-up underscored the Recording Academy's eagerness to establish a regular and timely recognition cycle.
Frank Sinatra's sophisticated and swinging Come Dance with Me! justly earned Album of the Year, a testament to his unparalleled artistry and vocal prowess.
Bobby Darin's playful yet masterful rendition of "Mack the Knife" secured Record of the Year, becoming an instant classic. Other notable winners included Mahalia Jackson for Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording and The Kingston Trio for Best Country & Western Performance.
The ceremony further solidified the Grammys' presence, expanding its categories and reaching a wider array of artists and genres, thereby strengthening its authority and influence within the burgeoning music industry.

Record Of The Year

ResultArtistWork
WinnerDomenico ModugnoNel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)
NomineeFrank SinatraWitchcraft
NomineeDavid Seville And The ChipmunksThe Chipmunk Song
NomineePeggy LeeFever
NomineePerry ComoCatch A Falling Star

Album Of The Year

ResultArtistWork
WinnerHenry ManciniThe Music From Peter Gunn
NomineeVan Cliburn, pianoTchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1, In B-Flat Minor, Op.23
NomineeFrank SinatraOnly The Lonely
NomineeElla FitzgeraldElla Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book
NomineeFrank SinatraCome Fly With Me

Song Of The Year

ResultArtistWork
WinnerDomenico ModugnoNel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)
NomineeFrank SinatraWitchcraft
NomineeVic DamoneGigi
NomineePeggy LeeFever
NomineePerry ComoCatch A Falling Star

Best Vocal Performance, Female

ResultArtistWork
WinnerElla FitzgeraldElla Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book
NomineeKeely SmithI Wish You Love
NomineePeggy LeeFever
NomineeEydie GormeEydie In Love
NomineeDoris DayEverybody Loves A Lover

Best Vocal Performance, Male

ResultArtistWork
WinnerPerry ComoCatch A Falling Star
NomineeFrank SinatraWitchcraft
NomineeDomenico ModugnoNel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)
NomineeAndy WilliamsHawaiian Wedding Song
NomineeFrank SinatraCome Fly With Me

Best Performance By An Orchestra

ResultArtistWork
WinnerBilly MayBilly May's Big Fat Brass
NomineeAndre Previn, Dave RoseYoung Man's Lament
NomineeHenry ManciniPeter Gunn
NomineeEsquivelOther Worlds, Other Sounds
NomineeJack KaneKane Is Able
NomineeJohnny MandelI Want To Live
NomineeBuddy De FrancoCross Country Suite
NomineeGeorge ShearingBurnished Brass

Best Performance By A Dance Band

ResultArtistWork
WinnerCount BasieBasie
NomineeWarren Covington And Tommy Dorsey OrcehstraTea For Two Cha Cha
NomineeRay AnthonyPeter Gunn
NomineePerez PradoPatricia
NomineeJonah JonesBaubles, Bangles And Beads

Best Performance By A Vocal Group Or Chorus

ResultArtistWork
WinnerKeely Smith, Louis PrimaThat Old Black Magic
NomineeThe Kingston TrioTom Dooley
NomineeLambert, Hendricks And RossSing A Song Of Basie
NomineeThe King SistersImagination
NomineeKirby Stone FourBaubles, Bangles And Beads

Best Jazz Performance, Individual

ResultArtistWork
WinnerElla FitzgeraldElla Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book
NomineeJonah JonesJumpin' With Jonah
NomineeMatty MatlockDixieland Story
NomineeGeorge ShearingBurnished Brass
NomineeJonah JonesBaubles, Bangles And Beads

Best Jazz Performance, Group

ResultArtistWork
WinnerCount BasieBasie
NomineeBasie Rhythm Section And Dave Lambert SingersSing A Song Of Basie
NomineeThe Four FreshmenFour Freshmen In Person
NomineeGeorge ShearingBurnished Brass
NomineeJonah JonesBaubles, Bangles And Beads

Best Comedy Performance

ResultArtistWork
WinnerDavid Seville & The Chipmunks (Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.)The Chipmunk Song
NomineeMort SahlThe Future Lies Ahead
NomineeElaine May And Mike NicholsImprovisations To Music
NomineeStan FrebergGreen Christmas
NomineeStan FrebergBest Of The Stan Freberg Shows

Best Country & Western Performance

ResultArtistWork
WinnerThe Kingston TrioTom Dooley
NomineeJimmie RodgersOh, Oh, I'm Falling In Love Again
NomineeDon GibsonOh Lonesome Me
NomineeEverly BrothersBird Dog
NomineeEverly BrothersAll I Have To Do Is Dream

Best Rhythm & Blues Performance

ResultArtistWork
WinnerThe ChampsTequila
NomineeEarl GrantThe End
NomineePerez PradoPatricia
NomineeNat King ColeLooking Back
NomineeHarry BelafonteBelafonte Sings The Blues

Best Arrangement

ResultArtistWork
WinnerHenry Mancini, arranger (Henry Mancini)The Music From Peter Gunn
NomineeNelson Riddle, arranger (Frank Sinatra)Witchcraft
NomineeJack Marshall, arranger (Peggy Lee)Fever
NomineeBilly May, arranger (Frank Sinatra)Come Fly With Me
NomineeBilly May, arranger (Billy May)Billy May's Big Fat Brass

Best Engineered Record (Classical)

ResultArtistWork
WinnerSherwood Hall III, engineer (Laurindo Almeida, guitar; Salli Terri, vocals)Duets With A Spanish Guitar
NomineeA N, engineer (Leonard Bernstein, conductor)Stravinsky - Rite Of Spring
NomineeA N, engineer (Fritz Reiner)Song Of The Nightingale
NomineeSherwood Hall III, engineer (Felix Slatkin, conductor)Gaiete Parisienne

Best Engineered Record - Non-Classical

ResultArtistWork
WinnerTed (Theodore) Keep, engineer (David Seville)The Chipmunk Song
NomineeLuis P. (Val) Valentin, engineer (Frank Sinatra)Witchcraft
NomineeRafael O. Valentin, engineer (Esquivel)Other Worlds, Other Sounds
NomineeLuis P. (Val) Valentin, engineer (Frank Sinatra)Come Fly With Me
NomineeHugh Davies, engineer (Billy May)Billy May's Big Fat Brass

Best Album Cover

ResultArtistWork
WinnerFrank Sinatra, art director (Frank Sinatra)Only The Lonely
NomineeCharles Ward, art director (Julie London)Julie
NomineeDavid Rose, art director (Ira Ironstrings)Ira Ironstrings Plays Music For People With $3.98
NomineeRay Rennahan, art director (Ray Heindorf, conductor)For Whom The Bells Toll
NomineeMarvin Schwartz, art director (Frank Sinatra)Come Fly With Me

Best Musical Composition First Recorded And Released In 1958 (Over 5 Minutes Duration)

ResultArtistWork
WinnerNelson Riddle, composer (Nelson Riddle)Cross Country Suite
NomineeRichard Rodgers, composer (Robert Russell Bennett)Victory At Sea Vol II
NomineeSamuel Barber, composer (Dimitri Metropoulos, cond.; Steber, Elias, Etc.)Vanessa
NomineeKurt Weill, composer (Lotte Lenya)Mahagonny
NomineeJohnny Mandel, composer (Johnny Mandel)I Want To Live

Best Original Cast Album (Broadway Or TV)

ResultArtistWork
WinnerMeredith Willson, composer (Robert Preston, Barbara Cook, David Burns, Eddie Hodges, Pert Kelton, Helen Raymond)The Music Man
NomineeRichard Rodgers, composer (Richard Russell Bennett)Victory At Sea Vol II (From NBC Production)
NomineeHenry Mancini, composer (Henry Mancini)Peter Gunn
NomineeRichard Rodgers, composer (Original Broadway Cast)Flower Drum Song

Best Sound Track Album, Dramatic Picture Score Or Original Cast

ResultArtistWork
WinnerAndre PrevinGigi
NomineeRay HeindorfAuntie Mame Sound Track
NomineeMalcolm ArnoldThe Bridge On The River Kwai
NomineeAlfred NewmanSouth Pacific (Original Soundtrack)
NomineeJohnny MandelI Want To Live

Best Performance, Documentary Or Spoken Word

ResultArtistWork
WinnerStan FrebergThe Best Of The Stan Freberg Shows
NomineeMarian AndersonThe Lady From Philadelphia
NomineeMike Nichols And Elaine MayImprovisations To Music
NomineeStan FrebergGreen Christmas
NomineeCarl Sandburg, Melvyn Douglas, Vincent Price, Ed BegleyGreat American Speeches
NomineeHenry Jacobs, Woody Leafer2 Interviews Of Our Times

Best Recording For Children

ResultArtistWork
WinnerDavid Seville And The Chipmunks (Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.)The Chipmunk Song
NomineeJose FerrerTubby The Tuba
NomineeDavid Seville And The ChipmunksThe Witch Doctor
NomineeDanny KayeMommy, Give Me A Drinka Water
NomineeShari Lewis And LambchopFun In Shariland
NomineeCyril StapletonChildrens' Marching Song

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra

ResultArtistWork
Winner(Hollywood Bowl Orchestra)Gaiete Parisienne
Nominee(New York Philharmonic)Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps
Nominee(London Symphony Orchestra)Rimsky-Korsakoff: Scheherezade
Nominee(Philadelphia Orchestra)Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 In B-Flat Major
Nominee(New York Philharmonic)Mahler: Symphony No. 2 In C Minor
Nominee(Columbia Symphony Orchestra)Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 In F Major
Nominee(Boston Symphony Orchestra)Barber: Meditation And Dance Of Vengeance

Best Classical Performance - Instrumentalist (With Concerto Scale Accompaniment)

ResultArtistWork
WinnerVan Cliburn, artist (Symphony Of The Air Orchestra)Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 In B Flat Minor, Op. 23
NomineeAndres Segovia, artistSegovia Golden Jubilee (Last Record In Set)
NomineeArtur Rubinstein, artistSaint-Saens: Piano Concerto # 2
NomineeLeonard Pennario, artistRachmaninoff: Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini
NomineeEmil Gilels, artistBrahms: Piano Concerto # 2
NomineeIsaac Stern, artistBartók: Concerto For Violin

Best Classical Performance - Instrumentalist (Other Than Concerto-Scale Accompaniment)

ResultArtistWork
WinnerAndres Segovia, artistSegovia Golden Jubilee
NomineeMarcel Grandjany, artistMusic For The Harp
NomineeVladimir Horowitz, artistHorowitz Plays Chopin
NomineeNathan Milstein, artistBeethoven: Sonata No. 9 And Sonata No. 8
NomineeWanda Landowska, artistArt Of The Harpsichord

Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music (Including Chamber Orchestra)

ResultArtistWork
WinnerHollywood String Quartet (Alvin Dinkin, Paul Shure, Eleanor Aller Slatkin & Felix Slatkin), artistsBeethoven: Quartet 130
NomineeBudapest String Quartet (Boris Kroyt, Josef Roisman, Alexander Schneider & Mischa Schneider), artistsRavel: Quartet In F/Debussy: Quartet In G Minor
NomineeJascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky & William Primrose, artistsBeethoven: Trio In G, Op. 9, No. 1; Beethoven Trio In C Minor, Op. 9, No. 3
NomineeJascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky & William Primrose, artistsBeethoven: Trio In E Flat, Op. 3
NomineePablo Casals, Joseph Fuchs & Eugene Istomin, artistsBeethoven: Trio In E Flat And Trio In D Major

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist (With Or Without Orchestra)

ResultArtistWork
WinnerNOMINEESOperatic Recital
Nominee(Boston Symphony Orchestra)Wagner: Prelude And Liebestod - Tristan And Isolde, Brunnhilde's Immolation, Die Gotterdamerung
NomineeSalli TerriEileen Farrell As Medea
NomineeMaria CallasDuets For Spanish Guitar
Nominee-Cherubini: Medea

Best Classical Performance - Operatic Or Choral

ResultArtistWork
WinnerRoger Wagner, choir directorVirtuoso
NomineeDom David Nicholson, Robert Zimmerman, choir directorsVictoria: Requiem Mass
NomineeErich Leinsdorf, conductorPuccini: Madam Butterfly
NomineeErich Leinsdorf, conductorDonizetti: Lucia De Lammermoor
NomineeDimitri Mitropoulos, conductorBarber: Vanessa
NomineeMaria Callas, Tito GobbiBarber Of Seville

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