Grammy Awards 1961
The 3rd Grammy Awards · Held April 13, 1961 · 13 categories · everything in 1961
Album of the Year
Best New Artist
- Winner Bob Newhart
- Nominee Joanie Sommers
- Nominee Leontyne Price
- Nominee Miriam Makeba
- Nominee The Brothers Four
Best Children's Music Album
- Winner David Seville and the Chipmunks · Ross Bagdasarian Sr.
- Nominee Adventures In Music, Grade 3, Volume 1
- Nominee Dr. Seuss Presents Bartholomew And The Oobleck · Dr. Seuss
- Nominee Folk Songs For Young People · Pete Seeger
- Nominee Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes · Sterling Holloway
- Nominee Stories And Songs Of The Civil War · Ralph Bellamy
Best Comedy Album
- Winner The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! · Bob Newhart
- Nominee 2000 Year Old Man · Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks
- Nominee The Edge Of Shelley Berman · Shelley Berman
- Nominee The Wonderful World Of Jonathan Winters · Jonathan Winters
Best Contemporary Song
- Winner Georgia on My Mind · Ray Charles
- Nominee Are You Lonesome Tonight?
- Nominee Heart
- Nominee Mack The Knife
- Nominee Nice 'N Easy
Best Country & Western Recording
- Winner El Paso · Marty Robbins
- Nominee Ferlin Husky · Wing Of A Dove
- Nominee He'll Have To Go · Jim Reeves
- Nominee North To Alaska · Johnny Horton, "North To Alaska
- Nominee Please Help Me, I'm Falling · Hank Locklin
Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
- Winner Swing Dat Hammer · Harry Belafonte
- Nominee Cheers · Belafonte Folk Singers
- Nominee Greenfields · The Brothers Four
- Nominee Here We Go Again · The Kingston Trio
- Nominee Miriam Makeba · Miriam Makeba
- Nominee Songs Of Billy Yank And Johnny Reb · Jimmy Driftwood
- Nominee Songs Of Robert Burns · Ewan MacColl
- Nominee Southern Folk Heritage Series · Alan Lomax
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
- Winner West Side Story · André Previn
- Nominee Back To Back - Duke Ellington And Johnny Hodges Play The Blues · Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges
- Nominee Greatest Piano Of Them All · Art Tatum
- Nominee Jazz Track · Miles Davis
- Nominee Pyramid · Modern Jazz Quartet
- Nominee The Greatest Trumpet Of Them All · Dizzy Gillespie
- Nominee The Hottest New Group In Jazz · Lambert, Hendricks And Ross
- Nominee White Satin · George Shearing
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
- Winner Blues and the Beat · Henry Mancini
- Nominee I'm Gonna Go Fishin' · Gerry Mulligan
- Nominee Sketches of Spain · Miles Davis, Gil Evans
- Nominee The Count Basie Story · Count Basie
- Nominee The Great Wide World Of Quincy Jones · Quincy Jones
Best Performance by a Chorus
- Winner Songs of the Cowboy · Norman Luboff
- Nominee Belafonte Returns To Carnegie Hall
- Nominee Deep Night · Ray Charles Singers
- Nominee My Favorite Things
- Nominee That Wonderous Love · Robert Shaw Chorale
Best Performance by a Vocal Group
- Winner We Got Us · Eydie Gormé, Steve Lawrence
- Nominee All Over The Place · The Hi-Los
- Nominee Greenfields · The Brothers Four
- Nominee Here We Go Again · The Kingston Trio
- Nominee Scandinavian Shuffle · Swe-Danes
Best R&B Performance
- Winner Let the Good Times Roll · Ray Charles
- Nominee All I Could Do Was Cry · Etta James
- Nominee Finger Poppin' Time · Hank Ballard
- Nominee Got My Mojo Working · Muddy Waters
- Nominee Lonely Teardrops · Jackie Wilson
- Nominee Shake A Hand · LaVern Baker
- Nominee Travelin' · John Lee Hooker
- Nominee Walkin' And Talkin' · Bo Diddley
Best Spoken Word Album
- Winner FDR Speaks
- Nominee J.B. · Archibald MacLeish
- Nominee Part Two Of Shakespeare's "Ages Of Man", "One Man In This Time" · John Gielgud, John Gielgud
- Nominee Voices Of The Twentieth Century · Henry Fonda