3rd Annual Grammy Awards
Date	April 13, 1961
Location	Los Angeles
Hosted by	Lloyd Bridges
Website	https://www.grammy.com/awards/3rd-annual-grammy-awards
Television/radio coverage
Network	ABC
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The 3rd Annual Grammy Awards were held on April 12, 1961, at Los Angeles and New York. They recognized musical accomplishments by the performers for the year 1960. Ray Charles won four awards and Bob Newhart and Henry Mancini each won three awards.^[1]

Award winners

• 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 of 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 Ross Bagdasarian Sr. as "David Seville and the Chipmunks"

Classical

• Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
  • Fritz Reiner (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
• 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 Björling, 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 Almeida
• 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 The 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 & artist) for Mr. Lucky

Country

• Best Country & Western Performance
  • Marty Robbins for "El Paso"

Folk

• Best Performance - Folk
  • Harry Belafonte for "Swing Dat Hammer"

Jazz

• Best Jazz Performance Solo or Small Group
  • André Previn for West Side Story
• Best Jazz Performance Large Group
  • Henry Mancini for Blues and the Beat
• Best Jazz Composition of More Than Five Minutes Duration
  • Gil Evans & Miles Davis for Sketches of Spain

Musical show

• Best Show Album (Original Cast)
  • Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers (composers), Mary Martin & the original cast for The Sound of Music
• Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television
  • Cole Porter (composer), Frank Sinatra & the original cast for Can Can

Packaging and notes

• Best Album Cover
  • Marvin Schwartz (art director) for Latin a la Lee performed by Peggy Lee

Pop

• Best Vocal Performance Single Record or Track, Female
  • Ella Fitzgerald for "Mack the Knife"
• Best Vocal Performance Album, Female
  • Ella Fitzgerald for Mack the Knife - Ella in Berlin
• Best Vocal Performance Single Record or Track, Male
  • Ray Charles for "Georgia on My Mind"
• Best Vocal Performance Album, Male
  • Ray Charles for The Genius of Ray Charles
• Best Performance by a Vocal Group (2 to 6)
  • Eydie Gormé & Steve Lawrence for "We Got Us"
• Best Performance by a Chorus (7 or More Persons)
  • Norman Luboff for Songs of the Cowboy performed by the Norman Luboff Choir
• Best Performance by a Band for Dancing
  • Count Basie for Dance Along with Basie
• Best Performance by an Orchestra
  • Henry Mancini for Mr. Lucky
• Best Performance by a Pop Single Artist
  • Ray Charles for "Georgia on My Mind"

Production and engineering

• Best Engineering Contribution - Popular Recording
  • Luis P. Valentin (engineer) for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook performed by Ella Fitzgerald
• Best Engineering Contribution - Classical Recording
  • Hugh Davies (engineer) & Laurindo Almeida for The Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Almeida
• Best Engineering Contribution - Novelty Recording
  • John Kraus (engineer) for "The Old Payola Roll Blues" performed by Stan Freberg

R&B

• Best Rhythm & Blues Performance
  • Ray Charles for "Let the Good Times Roll"

Spoken

• Best Performance - Documentary or Spoken Word (other than comedy)
  • Robert Bialek (producer) for FDR Speaks