Grammy Awards 1963
The 5th Grammy Awards · Held May 15, 1963 · 14 categories · everything in 1963
Album of the Year
- Winner The First Family
Record of the Year
Best New Artist
- Winner Robert Goulet
- Nominee Allan Sherman
- Nominee Peter, Paul and Mary
- Nominee The Four Seasons
- Nominee The New Christy Minstrels
- Nominee Vaughn Meader
Best Children's Music Album
- Winner Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals/Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra · Leonard Bernstein, Britten
- Nominee Grimm's Fairy Tales · Danny Kaye
- Nominee Shari In Storyland · Shari Lewis
- Nominee The Cat Who Walked By Herself · Boris Karloff
- Nominee The Chipmunk Songbook · David Seville And The Chipmunks
- Nominee Through Children's Eyes · The Limeliters
- Nominee You Read To Me, I'll Read To You · John Ciardi
Best Contemporary Song
- Winner Alley Cat · Bent Fabric
- Nominee Big Girls Don't Cry · Four Seasons
- Nominee Breaking Up Is Hard to Do · Neil Sedaka
- Nominee Twistin' The Night Away · Sam Cooke
- Nominee Up On The Roof · The Drifters
- Nominee You Beat Me To The Punch · Mary Wells
Best Country & Western Recording
- Winner Funny Way of Laughin' · Burl Ives
- Nominee Devil Woman · Marty Robbins
- Nominee It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin' · Johnny Tillotson
- Nominee P.T. 109 · Jimmy Dean
- Nominee She Thinks I Still Care · George Jones
- Nominee Wolverton Mountain · Claude King
Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
- Winner If I Had a Hammer · Peter, Paul and Mary
- Nominee Bob Dylan · Bob Dylan
- Nominee Joan Baez In Concert · Joan Baez
- Nominee Presenting The New Christy Minstrels · The New Christy Minstrels
- Nominee Something Special · The Kingston Trio
- Nominee The Ballad Of Jed Clampett · Flatt And Scruggs
- Nominee The Midnight Special · Harry Belafonte
Best Inspirational Performance
- Winner Great Songs of Love and Faith · Mahalia Jackson
- Nominee Back Nativity · Alex Bradford, Marion Williams And The Stars Of Faith
- Nominee Hymns At Sunset · Ralph Carmichael
- Nominee I Love To Tell The Story · Tennessee Ernie Ford
- Nominee Inspiration - Great Music For Chorus And Orchestra · Leopold Stokowski, Norman Luboff Choir
- Nominee Marian Anderson - He's Got The Whole World In His Hands And 18 Other Spirituals · Marian Anderson
- Nominee Save Me from Magnolia
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
- Winner Desafinado · Stan Getz
- Nominee A Taste Of Honey · Eddie Cano
- Nominee Nat King Cole Sings, George Shearing Plays · George Shearing Quintet
- Nominee Tijauna Moods · Charlie Mingus
- Nominee Undercurrent · Bill Evans, Jim Hall
- Nominee Viva Bossa Nova! · Laurindo Almeida
- Nominee West Side Story · Oscar Peterson
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
- Winner Adventures In Jazz · Stan Kenton
- Nominee Big Band Bossa Nova · Gary McFarland, Stan Getz
- Nominee Carnegie Hall Concert · Dizzy Gillespie
- Nominee First Time! · Count Basie Orchestra, Duke Ellington Orchestra
- Nominee Miles Davis At Carnegie Hall · Miles Davis, Gil Evans
- Nominee The Legend · Count Basie
- Nominee Walk On The Wild Side · Jimmy Smith
Best Performance by a Chorus
- Winner Presenting The New Christy Minstrels · The New Christy Minstrels
- Nominee A Choral Spectacular · Norman Luboff Choir
- Nominee Great Band With Great Voices Swing The Great Voices Of The Great Band · Johnny Mann Singers
- Nominee Pete King Orchestra & Chorale
- Nominee The Waring Blend · Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians
Best Performance by a Vocal Group
- Winner If I Had a Hammer · Peter, Paul and Mary
- Nominee A Song For Young Love · The Letterman
- Nominee The Hi-Lo's Happen To Folk Songs
- Nominee The Swingers · The Four Freshma
- Nominee Through Children's Eyes
Best R&B Performance
- Winner I Can't Stop Loving You · Ray Charles
- Nominee Bring It On Home To Me · Sam Cooke
- Nominee Comin' Home Baby · Mel Tormé
- Nominee Loco-Motion · Little Eva
- Nominee Nut Rocker · B. Bumble, the Stingers
- Nominee What'd I Say · Bobby Darin
Best Spoken Word Album
- Winner The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton · Charles Laughton
- Nominee Carl Sandburg Reading His Poetry · Carl Sandburg
- Nominee Enoch Arden (Music By R. Strauss/Poem By Alfred Tennyson) · Glenn Gould, Claude Rains
- Nominee First Performance Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts
- Nominee Mama Sang A Song · Stan Kenton
- Nominee Sir Michael Redgrave Reads Chekov Stories · Michael Redgrave
- Nominee Six Million Accuse
- Nominee This Is My Beloved · Laurence Harvey