Record of the Year
Mack the Knife
Bobby Darin
Album of the Year
Come Dance With Me
Frank Sinatra (Capitol)
Song of the Year
The Battle of New Orleans
Jimmy Driftwood - songwriter
Best Artist of 1959
Bobby Darin
Best Performance By a Top 40 Artist
Midnight Flyer
Nat King Cole
Best Vocal Performance - Male
Come Dance With Me
Frank Sinatra
Best Vocal Performance - Female
But Not for Me
Ella Fitzgerald
Best Performance By a Chorus
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Best Rhythm and Blues Performance
What a Diff'rence a Day Makes
Dinah Washington
Best Jazz Performance - Soloist
Ella Swings Lightly
Ella Fitzgerald
Best Jazz Performance - Group
I Dig Chicks
Jonah Jones
Best Performance By a Dance Band
Anatomy of a Murder
Duke Ellington
Best Country and Western Performance
The Battle of New Orleans
Johnny Horton
Best Performance - Folk
The Kingston Trio at Large
Kingston Trio
Best Performance By an Orchestra
Like Young
David Rose and His Orchestra With André Previn
Best Arrangement Come Dance With Me
Billy May - arranger
Best Musical Composition
First Recorded and Released in 1959
(More Than Five Minutes)
Anatomy of a Murder
Duke Ellington - composer
Best Broadway Show Album
Gypsy - Ethel Merman (Columbia)
Redhead - Gwen Verdon (RCA)
Best Soundtrack Album
Original Cast - Motion Picture or Television
Porgy and Bess
André Previn and Ken Darby (Columbia)
Best Soundtrack Album
Background Score From Motion Picture or Television
Anatomy of a Murder
Duke Ellington (Columbia)
Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
Debussy - Images for Orchestra
Charles Munch conducting Boston Symphony Orchestra
Best Classical Performance
Chamber Music (Including Chamber Orchestra)
Beethoven
Sonata No. 21 in C, Op. 53
Waldstein Sonata No. 18 in E-Flat, Op. 31, No. 3
Artur Rubinstein - pianist
Best Classical Performance
Concerto or Instrumental Soloist
(Full Orchestra)
Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 3
Van Cliburn, pianist
Kiril Kondrashin conducting Symphony of the Air
Best Classical Performance
Instrumental Soloist
(Other Than Full Orchestral Accompaniment)
Beethoven
Sonata No. 21 in C, Op. 53
Waldstein Sonata No. 18 in E-Flat, Op. 31, No. 3
Artur Rubinstein - pianist
Best Classical Performance
Opera Cast or Choral Mozart
The Marriage of Figaro
Erich Leinsdorf conducting Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Best Classical Performance
Vocal Soloist (With or Without Orchestra)
Björling in Opera
Jussi Björling
Best Comedy Performance - Spoken Word
Inside Shelley Berman
Shelley Berman
Best Comedy Performance - Musical
The Battle of Kookamonga
Homer and Jethro
Best Performance
Documentary or Spoken Word
(Other Than Comedy)
A Lincoln Portrait
Carl Sandburg
Best Recording for Children
Peter and the Wolf
Peter Ustinov - narrating
Herbert von Karajan conducting Philharmonia Orchestra (Angel)
Best Album Cover
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5
Robert M. Jones - art director (RCA)
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