Record of the Year
I Left My Heart in San Francisco
Tony Bennett

Album of the Year
The First Family
Vaughn Meader

Song of the Year
What Kind of Fool Am I
Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley - songwriters

Best New Artist of 1962
Robert Goulet

Best Solo Vocal Performance - Male
I Left My Heart in San Francisco
Tony Bennett

Best Solo Vocal Performance - Female
Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson Riddle
Ella Fitzgerald

Best Performance By a Vocal Group
If I Had a Hammer
Peter, Paul and Mary

Best Performance By a Chorus
Presenting the New Christy Minstrels
New Christy Minstrels

Best Rock and Roll Recording
Alley Cat
Bent Fabric

Best Rhythm and Blues Recording
I Can't Stop Loving You
Ray Charles

Best Jazz Performance - Soloist or Small Group
(Instrumental)
Desafinado
Stan Getz

Best Jazz Performance - Large Group
(Instrumental)
Adventures in Jazz
Stan Kenton

Best Original Jazz Composition
Cast Your Fate to the Winds
Vince Guaraldi - composer

Best Country and Western Recording
Funny Way of Laughin'
Burl Ives

Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording
Great Songs of Love and Faith
Mahalia Jackson

Best Folk Recording
If I Had a Hammer
Peter, Paul and Mary

Best Performance By an Orchestra for Dancing
Fly Me to the Moon Bossa Nova
Joe Harnell

Best Performance By an Orchestra or
Instrumentalist With Orchestra
Not for Jazz or Dancing The Colorful - Peter Nero
Peter Nero 

Best Instrumental Arrangement
Baby Elephant Walk
Henry Mancini - arranger

Best Background Arrangement
I Left My Heart in San Francisco
Marty Manning - arranger

Best Instrumental Theme
A Taste of Honey
Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow - composers

Best Original Cast Show Album
No Strings
Richard Rodgers - composer

Album of the Year - Classical
Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Horowitz

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
Stravinsky - The Firebird Ballet
Igor Stravinsky - Columbia Symphony

Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music
The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts
With Primrose, Pennario and Guests
Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky and William Primrose

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s)
(With Orchestra)
Stravinsky - Concerto in D for Violin
Isaac Stern
Igor Stravinsky - Columbia Symphony

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Duo
(Without Orchestra)
Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Horowitz

Best Opera Recording
Verdi - Aïda
Georg Solti - Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus
Solos: Price, Vickers, Gorr, Merrill and Tozzi

Best Classical Performance - Choral
Bach - St. Matthew Passion
Philharmonia Choir
Wilhelm Pitz - choral director
Otto Klemperer - Philharmonic Orchestra 

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
(With or Without Orchestra)
Wagner - Götterdämerung Brunnhilde's Immolation
Scene - Wesendonck
Songs - Eileen Farrell
Leonard Bernstein - New York Philharmonic 

Best Classical Composition By Contemporary Composer
The Flood
Igor Stravinsky - composer

Best Comedy Performance
The First Family
Vaughn Meader

Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording (Other Than Comedy)
The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton

Best Recording for Children
Saint-Saëns - Carnival of the Animals
Britten - Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein

Best Album Cover
Lena...Lovely and Alive
Robert Jones - art director

Best Album Cover - Classical
The Intimate Bach
Marvin Schwartz - art director

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