Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The 3rd Grammy Awards were held in 1961. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Record of the Year Percy Faith for "Theme From A Summer Place" Album of the Year Bob Newhart for The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart Song of the Year Ernest Gold for "Theme From Exodus" Best New Artist Bob Newhart Children's Best Album Created for Children Ross Bagdasarian Sr for Let's All Sing With the Chipmunks performed by David Seville & the Chipmunks Classical Best Classical Performance - Orchestra Fritz Reiner (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist Leontyne Price for A Program of Song - Leontyne Price Recital Best Classical Opera Production Erich Leinsdorf (conductor), Birgit Nilsson, Giorgio Tozzi, Jussi Bjoerling, Renata Tebaldi & the Rome Opera Orchestra for Puccini: Turandot Best Classical Performance - Choral (including oratorio) Thomas Beecham (conductor) & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus for Handel: Messiah Best Classical Performance - Concerto or Instrumental Soloist Erich Leinsdorf (conductor), Sviatoslav Richter & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Duo (other than with orchestral accompaniment) Laurindo Almeida for The Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Alemida Best Classical Performance - Vocal or Instrumental - Chamber Music Laurindo Almeida for Conversations With the Guitar Best Contemporary Classical Composition Aaron Copland (composer & conductor) & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Orchestral Suite From Tender Land Suite Comedy Best Comedy Performance - Spoken Word Bob Newhart for The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! Best Comedy Performance - Musical Jo Stafford & Paul Weston for Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris performed by Jo Stafford & Paul Weston and as "Jonathan & Darlene Edwards" Composing and arranging Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Music Score from Motion Picture or Television Ernest Gold (composer) for Exodus Best Arrangement Henry Mancini (arranger) for Mr. Lucky Country Best Country & Western Performance Marty Robbins for "El Paso" Folk Best Folk Performance Harry Belafonte for "Swing Dat Hammer" Jazz Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group Andre Previn for West Side Story Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance Henry Mancini for Blues and the Beat Best Original Jazz Composition Gil Evans for Sketches of Spain performed by Gil Evans & Miles Davis Musical Show Best Sound Track Album Cole Porter (composer) for Can Can performed by Frank Sinatra & the original cast Best Musical Show Album Oscar Hammerstein II & Richard Rodgers (composers) for The Sound of Music performed by Mary Martin & the original Broadway cast Packaging and Notes Best Album Package - Incl. Album Cover, Graphic Arts, Photography Marvin Schwartz (art director) for Latin a la Lee performed by Peggy Lee Pop Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Single or Track Ella Fitzgerald for "Mack the Knife" Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Album Ella Fitzgerald Mack the Knife - Ella in Berlin Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Single or Track)]] Ray Charles "Georgia on My Mind" Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Album Ray Charles for Genius of Ray Charles Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Eydie Gorme & Steve Lawrence for "We Got Us" Best Performance by a Chorus Norman Luboff for Songs of the Cowboy performed by the Norman Luboff Choir Best Performance By a Band for Dancing Count Basie for Dance With Basie Best Pop Instrumental Performance Henry Mancini for Mr. Lucky Best Performance by a Pop Single Artist Ray Charles for "Georgia on My Mind" Production and engineering Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical Luis P. Valentin (engineer) for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook performed by Ella Fitzgerald John Kraus (engineer) for The Old Payola Roll Blues performed by Stan Freberg Best Classical Engineered Recording Hugh Davies (engineer) for The Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Almeida performed by Laurindo Almeida R&B Best Rhythm & Blues Performance Ray Charles for "Let the Good Times Roll" Spoken Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album Robert Bialek (producer) for FDR Speaks Other Grammy Award Years 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.