Record of the Year
Moon River
Henry Mancini

Album of the Year
Judy at Carnegie Hall
Judy Garland

Song of the Year
Moon River
Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer - songwriters

Best New Artist of 1961
Peter Nero

Best Solo Vocal Performance - Male
Lollipops and Roses
Jack Jones

Best Solo Vocal Performance - Female
Judy at Carnegie Hall
Judy Garland

Best Performance By a Vocal Group
High Flying
Lambert, Hendricks and Ross

Best Performance By a Chorus
Great Band With Great Voices
Johnny Mann Singers and Si Zentner Orchestra

Best Rock and Roll Recording
Let's Twist Again
Chubby Checker

Best Rhythm and Blues Recording
Hit the Road Jack
Ray Charles

Best Jazz Performance - Soloist or Small Group (Instrumental)
André Previn Plays Harold Arlen
André Previn 

Best Jazz Performance - Large Group
West Side Story
Stan Kenton 

Best Original Jazz Composition
African Waltz
Galt MacDermott - composer

Best Country and Western Recording
Big Bad John
Jimmy Dean

Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording
Every Time I Feel the Spirit
Mahalia Jackson

Best Folk Recording
Belafonte Folk Singers at Home and Abroad
Belafonte Folk Singers

Best Performance By an Orchestra for Dancing
Up a Lazy River
Si Zentner

Best Performance By an Orchestra for Other Than Dancing
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Henry Mancini

Best Arrangement
Moon River
Henry Mancini - arranger

Best Instrumental Theme or Instrumental Version of a Song
African Waltz
Galt MacDermott - composer

Best Original Cast Show Album
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Frank Loesser - composer

Best Soundtrack Album or Recording of Score
From a Motion Picture or Television
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Henry Mancini

Best Soundtrack Album or Recording of Original Cast
From a Motion Picture or Television
West Side Story
Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal

Album of the Year - Classical
Stravinsky Conducts - 1960: Le Sacre du Printemps; Petrouchka
lgor Stravinsky - Columbia Symphony

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe
Charles Munch - Boston Symphony Orchestra

Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music
Beethoven - Serenade, Op. 8
Kodaly - Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7
Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky and William Primrose

Best Classical Performance
Instrumental Soloist (With Orchestra)
Bartók - Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra
Isaac Stern
Eugene Ormandy conducting Philharmonic Orchestra

Best Classical Performance
Instrumental Soloist or Duo (Without Orchestra)
Reverie for Spanish Guitars
Laurindo Almeida 

Best Opera Recording
Puccini - Madame Butterfly
Gabriele Santini - Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra

Best Classical Performance - Choral
Bach - B Minor Mass
Robert Shaw conducting Robert Shaw Chorale

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
The Art of the Prima Donna
Joan Sutherland
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli - Royal Opera House Orchestra

Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Discantus - Laurindo Almeida - composer
Movements for Piano and Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky - composer

Best Comedy Performance
An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May
Mike Nichols and Elaine May

Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording
(Other Than Comedy)
Humor in Music
Leonard Bernstein - New York Philharmonic Symphony

Best Recording for Children
Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
Leonard Bernstein - New York Philharmonic Orchestra

Best Album Cover
Judy at Carnegie Hall
Jim Silke - art director

Best Album Cover - Classical
Puccini - Madame Butterfly
Marvin Schwartz - art director

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