Awards & Winners

1959 Grammy Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1959 Grammy Awards. Check awards winners of 2nd Annual Grammy Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

2nd Annual Grammy Awards

Grammy Award for Best New Artist

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Nominee Nominated Work
Bobby Darin
Mark Murphy
Edward Byrnes
Mavis Rivers
Johnny Restivo
Grammy Award for Record of the Year

Bobby Darin

Honored for : Mack The Knife

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Nominee Nominated Work
Elvis Presley A Fool Such as I
The Browns The Three Bells
Frank Sinatra High Hopes
André Previn Like Young
Bobby Darin Mack The Knife
Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo

Ella Fitzgerald

Honored for : Ella Swings Lightly
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Jonah Jones

Honored for : I Dig Chicks!
Grammy Award for Album of the Year

Frank Sinatra

Honored for : Come Dance With Me!

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Nominee Nominated Work
Henry Mancini The Music from Peter Gunn
Robert Russell Bennett Victory at Sea, Volume 1
Harry Belafonte Belafonte at Carnegie Hall
Van Cliburn Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
Frank Sinatra Come Dance With Me!
Grammy Award for Song of the Year

Jimmie Driftwood

Honored for : The Battle of New Orleans

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Nominee Nominated Work
Stephen Sondheim Small World
Jule Styne Small World
Edith Linderman I Know
Karl Stutz I Know
André Previn Like Young
Paul Francis Webster Like Young
Jimmy Van Heusen High Hopes
Sammy Cahn High Hopes
Jimmie Driftwood The Battle of New Orleans
Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female

Ella Fitzgerald

Honored for : But Not for Me

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Nominee Nominated Work
Pat Suzuki Broadway '59
Lena Horne Porgy and Bess
Peggy Lee Alright, Okay, You Win
Caterina Valente La Strada Dell' Amore
Ella Fitzgerald But Not for Me
Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra – for Dancing

Duke Ellington

Honored for : Anatomy of a Murder
Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

Frank Sinatra

Honored for : Come Dance With Me
Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra

André Previn, David Rose

Honored for : Like Young

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Nominee Nominated Work
André Previn Like Young
David Rose Like Young
Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus

Richard P. Condie

Honored for : The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance

Charles Münch

Honored for : Debussy: Images For Orchestra
Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance, Operatic or Choral

Erich Leinsdorf

Honored for : Mozart: The Marriage Of Figaro
Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo

Jussi Björling

Honored for : Bjoerling In Opera
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition

Duke Ellington

Honored for : Anatomy of a Murder
Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

Duke Ellington

Honored for : Anatomy of a Murder
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album

Gwen Verdon

Honored for : Redhead

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ethel Merman Gypsy: A Musical Fable
Gwen Verdon Redhead
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album

Ethel Merman

Honored for : Gypsy: A Musical Fable

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ethel Merman Gypsy: A Musical Fable
Gwen Verdon Redhead
Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album

Shelley Berman

Honored for : Inside Shelley Berman

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Nominee Nominated Work
Shelley Berman Inside Shelley Berman
Homer and Jethro Battle of Kookamonga
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)

Van Cliburn

Honored for : Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance

Arthur Rubinstein

Honored for : Beethoven: Sonatas No. 21 In C (Waldstein) And No. 18 In E Flat
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)

Arthur Rubinstein

Honored for : Beethoven: Sonatas No. 21 In C (Waldstein) And No. 18 In E Flat
Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album

Homer and Jethro

Honored for : Battle of Kookamonga

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Nominee Nominated Work
Shelley Berman Inside Shelley Berman
Homer and Jethro Battle of Kookamonga
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album

Carl Sandburg

Honored for : Lincoln Portrait (New York Philharmonic feat. conductor: Andre Kostelanetz, narrator: Carl Sandburg)
Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television

Ken Darby, André Previn

Honored for : Bernstein: West Side Story / Gershwin: Porgy & Bess

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Nominee Nominated Work
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty
Ken Darby Bernstein: West Side Story / Gershwin: Porgy & Bess
André Previn Bernstein: West Side Story / Gershwin: Porgy & Bess
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song

Nat King Cole

Honored for : Midnight Flyer
Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording

Johnny Horton

Honored for : The Battle of New Orleans
Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording

The Kingston Trio

Honored for : At Large
Grammy Award for Best Album for Children

Peter Ustinov

Honored for : Peter & The Wolf
Grammy Award for Best Arrangement

Billy May

Honored for : Come Dance With Me!
Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical

Lewis W. Layton

Honored for : Victory at Sea, Volume 1
Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording – Special or Novel Effects

Theodore Keep

Honored for : Alvin's Harmonica
Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Bob Simpson

Honored for : Belafonte at Carnegie Hall
Grammy Award for Best Recording Package

Robert M. Jones

Honored for : Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance

Dinah Washington

Honored for : What a Diff'Rence a Day Made