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Winners Announced: November 29, 1959 (No television broadcast)
Held at: Los Angeles, New York
Eligibility Year: January 1, 1959 - August 31, 1959
Record of the Year :
Mack the Knife, Bobby Darin
Album of the Year:
Come Dance With Me, Frank Sinatra (Capitol)
Song of the Year:
The Battle of New Orleans, Jimmy Driftwood, songwriter
Best Artist of 1959:
Bobby Darin
Best Performance By a Top 40 Artist:
Midnight Flyer, Nat King Cole
Best Vocal Performance, Male:
Come Dance With Me, Frank Sinatra
Best Vocal Performance, Female:
But Not for Me, Ella Fitzgerald
Best Performance By a Chorus:
Battle Hymn of the Republic, Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Best Rhythm and Blues Performance:
What a Diff'rence a Day Makes, Dinah Washington
Best Jazz Performance, Soloist:
Ella Swings Lightly, Ella Fitzgerald
Best Jazz Performance, Group:
I Dig Chicks, Jonah Jones
Best Performance By a Dance Band:
Anatomy of a Murder, Duke Ellington
Best Country and Western Performance:
The Battle of New Orleans, Johnny Horton
Best Performance, Folk:
The Kingston Trio at Large, Kingston Trio
Best Performance By an Orchestra:
Like Young, David Rose and His Orchestra With André Previn
Best Arrangement:
Come Dance With Me, Billy May, arranger
Best Musical Composition First Recorded and Released in 1959 (More
Than Five Minutes):
Anatomy of a Murder, Duke Ellington, composer
Best Broadway Show Album (tie):
Gypsy, Ethel Merman (Columbia)
Redhead, Gwen Verdon (RCA)
Best Soundtrack Album, Original Cast, Motion Picture or Television:
Porgy and Bess, André Previn and Ken Darby (Columbia)
Best Soundtrack Album, Background Score From Motion Picture or Television:
Anatomy of a Murder, Duke Ellington (Columbia)
Best Classical Performance, Orchestra:
Debussy, Images for Orchestra, Charles Munch conducting Boston Symphony
Orchestra
Best Classical Performance, Chamber Music (Including Chamber Orchestra):
Beethoven, Sonata No. 21 in C, Op. 53; Waldstein Sonata No. 18 in
E-Flat, Op. 31, No. 3, Artur Rubinstein, pianist
Best Classical Performance, Concerto or Instrumental Soloist (Full
Orchestra):
Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3, Van Cliburn, pianist; Kiril
Kondrashin conducting Symphony of the Air
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (Other Than Full
Orchestral Accompaniment):
Beethoven, Sonata No. 21 in C, Op. 53; Waldstein Sonata No. 18 in
E-Flat, Op. 31, No. 3, Artur Rubinstein, pianist
Best Classical Performance, Opera Cast or Choral Mozart, The Marriage
of Figaro, Erich Leinsdorf conducting Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Best Classical Performance, Vocal Soloist (With or Without Orchestra):
Björling in Opera, Jussi Björling
Best Comedy Performance, Spoken Word:
Inside Shelley Berman, Shelley Berman
Best Comedy Performance, Musical:
The Battle of Kookamonga, Homer and Jethro
Best Performance, Documentary or Spoken Word (Other Than Comedy):
A Lincoln Portrait, Carl Sandburg
Best Recording for Children:
Peter and the Wolf, Peter Ustinov, narrating; Herbert von Karajan
conducting Philharmonia Orchestra (Angel)
Best Album Cover:
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5, Robert M. Jones, art director (RCA)
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