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1st Annual Grammy Awards

1st Annual Grammy Awards

Award ceremony
The 1st Annual Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959. They recognized musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958. Two separate ceremonies were held simultaneously on the same day; the first hotel in Beverly Hills, California, and the... Wikipedia
Date: May 4, 1959
Hosted by: Mort Sahl
Winners
That Old Black Magic
Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus · Louis Prima And Keely Smith
String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130
Chamber Music Performance · Hollywood String Quartet
The Atomic Mr. Basie
Jazz Instrumental Album · Count Basie
Operatic Recital
Classical Vocal Solo · Renata Tebaldi
Duets With Spanish Guitar
Engineered Album, Classical · Sherwood Hall III
Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely
Recording Package · Frank Sinatra
Buddy DeFranco Plays Nelson Riddle's Cross-Country Suite
Instrumental Composition · Nelson Riddle
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook
Female Pop Vocal Performance · Ella Fitzgerald
The Chipmunk Song
Comedy Album · Ross Bagdasarian
The Best Of The Stan Freberg Shows
Spoken Word Album · Stan Freberg
Nel blu dipinto di blu (Volare)
Record · Domenico Modugno
The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)
Engineered Album, Non-Classical · Theodore Keep
Tequila
R&B Performance · The Champs
Gaîté Parisienne
Orchestral Performance · Felix Slatkin
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book
Improvised Jazz Solo · Ella Fitzgerald
Nel blu dipinto di blu (Volare)
Song · Domenico Modugno
The Music from Peter Gunn
Album · Henry Mancini
The Music from Peter Gunn
Arrangement · Henry Mancini
The Music Man
Musical Theater Album · Meredith Willson
Tom Dooley
Country & Western Recording · The Kingston Trio
Bernstein Century: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1 / Dvorak: Piano Concerto
Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) · Van Cliburn
Gigi (1958 film cast)
Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television · André Previn
The Atomic Mr. Basie
Performance by an Orchestra – for Dancing · Count Basie
The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)
Album for Children · Ross Bagdasarian
Virtuoso
Classical Performance, Operatic or Choral · Roger Wagner
Billy May's Big Fat Brass
Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra · Billy May
Segovia Golden Jubilee
Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) · Andrés Segovia