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The Grammys - 1960
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Record of the Year
Theme From a Summer Place
Percy Faith

Album of the Year
Button Down Mind
Bob Newhart (Warner Bros.)

Song of the Year
Theme From Exodus
Ernest Gold - songwriter

Best New Artist of 1960
Bob Newhart

Best Performance By a Pop Single Artist
Georgia on My Mind
Ray Charles

Best Vocal Performance Single Record or Track - Male
Georgia on My Mind
Ray Charles (ABC)

Best Vocal Performance Single Record or Track - Female
Mack the Knife
Ella Fitzgerald (Verve)

Best Vocal Performance - Album - Male
Genius of Ray Charles
Ray Charles (Atlantic)

Best Vocal Performance - Album - Female
Mack the Knife - Ella in Berlin
Ella Fitzgerald (Verve)

Best Performance By a Vocal Group
We Got Us
Eydie Gormé and Steve Lawrence

Best Performance By a Chorus
Songs of the Cowboy
Norman Luboff Choir

Best Rhythm and Blues Performance
Let the Good Times Roll
Ray Charles

Best Jazz Performance - Solo or Small Group
West Side Story
André Previn

Best Jazz Performance - Large Group
Blues and the Beat
Henry Mancini

Best Jazz Composition of More Than Five Minutes
Sketches of Spain
Miles Davis and Gil Evans - composers

Best Performance By a Band for Dancing
Dance With Basie
Count Basie

Best Country and Western Performance
El Paso
Marty Robbins

Best Performance - Folk
Swing Dat Hammer
Harry Belafonte

Best Performance By an Orchestra
Mr. Lucky - Henry Mancini

Best Arrangement
Mr. Lucky
Henry Mancini - arranger

Best Show Album (Original Cast)
The Sound of Music
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein - composers (Columbia)

Best Soundtrack Album or Recording of Music Score
From Motion Picture or Television
Exodus
Ernest Gold - composer (RCA)

Best Soundtrack Album or Recording of Original Cast
From Motion Picture or Television
Can-Can
Cole Porter - composer (Capital)

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
Fritz Reiner conducting Chicago Symphony

Best Classical Performance
Vocal or Instrumental
Chamber Music Conversations With the Guitar
Laurindo Almeida

Best Classical Performance
Concerto or Instrumental Soloist
Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat
Sviatoslav Richter
Erich Leinsdorf conducting Chicago Symphony

Best Classical Performance
Instrumental Soloist or Duo (Other Than Orchestral)
The Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Almeida
Laurindo Almeida

Best Classical Opera Production
Puccini - Turandot
Erich Leinsdorf conducting Rome Opera House Chorus and Orchestra
Solos: Tebaldi, Nilsson, Björling and Tozzi

Best Classical Performance
Choral (Including Oratorio)
Handel - The Messiah
Sir Thomas Beecham conducting Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
A Program of Song
Leontyne Price

Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Orchestral Suite From Tender Land Suite
Aaron Copland - composer

Best Comedy Performance (Spoken Word)
Button Down Mind Strikes Back
Bob Newhart

Best Comedy Performance (Musical)
Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris
Jo Stafford and Paul Weston

Best Performance
Documentary or Spoken Word (Other Than Comedy)
F.D.R. Speaks - Robert Bialek

Best Album Created for Children
Let's All Sing With the Chipmunks
David Seville (Liberty)

Best Album Cover
Latin a la Lee
Marvin Schwartz - art director (Capitol)

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