1960 Grammy Awards

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)