Grammy Awards 1960
The 2nd Grammy Awards · Held November 29, 1959 · 13 categories · everything in 1960
Album of the Year
- Winner Come Dance with Me!
Record of the Year
- Winner Die Moritat von Mackie Messer · Bobby Darin
Song of the Year
- Winner The Battle of New Orleans · Jimmy Driftwood
- Nominee High Hopes from A Hole in the Head · Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn
Best New Artist
- Winner Bobby Darin
- Nominee Edd Byrnes
- Nominee Johnny Restivo
- Nominee Mark Murphy
- Nominee Mavis Chloe Rivers
Best Children's Music Album
- Winner Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf · Peter Ustinov, Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, Peter Wolf, the Wolf
- Nominee Hansel And Gretel - Original Soundtrack (Album) · Franz Allers, Hansel And Gretel
- Nominee Popeye's Favorite Sea Chanties (Album) · Allen Swift
- Nominee The Arabian Nights (Album)
- Nominee Three To Make Music/Cinderella · Mary Martin, Thomas Scherman
Best Comedy Album
- Winner Inside Shelley Berman · Shelley Berman
- Nominee Hamlet · Andy Griffith
- Nominee Look Forward In Anger · Mort Sahl
- Nominee Sick Humor · Lenny Bruce
- Nominee Stan Freberg
Best Contemporary Song
- Winner Midnight Flyer · Nat "King" Cole
- Nominee A Big Hunk O' Love · Elvis Presley
- Nominee Broken Hearted Melody · Sarah Vaughan
- Nominee Charlie Brown · The Coasters, "Charlie Brown
- Nominee Makin' Love · Floyd Robinson
- Nominee Neil Sedaka · Neil Sedaka
Best Country & Western Recording
- Winner The Battle of New Orleans · Johnny Horton
- Nominee Don't Tell Me Your Troubles · Don Gibson
- Nominee Home from Ferdinand · Jim Reeves
- Nominee Set Him Free · Skeeter Davis
- Nominee Tennessee Stud · Eddy Arnold
Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
- Winner The Kingston Trio at Large · The Kingston Trio
- Nominee Belafonte At Carnegie Hall · Harry Belafonte
- Nominee Tennessee Stud
- Nominee The Wild Wild West · Ralph Hunter
- Nominee The Wilderness Road · Jimmy Driftwood
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
- Winner I Dig Chicks · Jonah Jones
- Nominee Chances Are It Swings · Shorty Rogers
- Nominee Ellington Jazz Party · Duke Ellington
- Nominee More Music From Peter Gunn
- Nominee Red Norvo In Hi-Fi
Best Jazz Performance
- Winner Ella Swings Lightly · Ella Fitzgerald
- Nominee Best Of New Broadway Show Hits · Urbie Green
- Nominee Bobby Troup And His Stars Of Jazz · Bobby Troup
- Nominee Easy Now · Ruby Braff
- Nominee Like Young · Andre Previn
- Nominee Red Norvo In Hi-Fi · Red Norvo
Best R&B Performance
- Winner What a Diff'rence a Day Makes · Dinah Washington
- Nominee A Big Hunk O' Love
- Nominee Charlie Brown
- Nominee Guess Who · Jesse Belvin
- Nominee Midnight Flyer · Nat "King" Cole
Best Spoken Word Album
- Winner A Lincoln Portrait · Carl Sandburg
- Nominee Ages Of Man · John Gielgud
- Nominee Basil Rathbone Reads Sherlock Holmes · Basil Rathbone
- Nominee Mark Twain Tonight! · Hal Holbrook
- Nominee New York Taxi Driver · Tony Schwartz