1st Annual Grammy Awards

Award winners

General

• "Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu " – Domenico Modugno
• "Catch A Falling Star" – Perry Como
• "Fever" – Peggy Lee
• "The Chipmunk Song" – David Seville And The Chipmunks
• "Witchcraft" – Frank Sinatra

• The Music from Peter Gunn – Henry Mancini
• Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1 In B-Flat Minor, Op. 23 – Van Cliburn
• Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book – Ella Fitzgerald
• Come Fly with Me – Frank Sinatra
• Only The Lonely – Frank Sinatra

• "Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu " – Franco Migliacci and Domenico Modugno, songwriters
• "Catch A Falling Star" – Lee Pockriss and Paul Vance, songwriters
• "Gigi" – Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, songwriters
• "Fever" – Eddie Cooley and Johnny Davenport, songwriters
• "Witchcraft" – Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh, songwriters

  Children's

• Best Recording for Children
• *Ross Bagdasarian Sr. for "The Chipmunk Song " performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. as "David Seville and the Chipmunks"

  Comedy

• Best Comedy Performance
• *Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. for "The Chipmunk Song", performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. as "David Seville and the Chipmunks"

  Composing and arranging

• Best Musical Composition First Recorded and Released in 1958
• *Nelson Riddle for "Cross Country Suite"
• Best Arrangement
• *Henry Mancini for The Music from Peter Gunn

  Country

• Best Country & Western Performance
• *The Kingston Trio for "Tom Dooley"

  Jazz

• Best Jazz Performance, Individual
• *Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook
• Best Jazz Performance, Group
• *Count Basie for Basie

  Musical show

• Best Original Cast Album
• *Meredith Willson & the original cast with Robert Preston, Barbara Cook, David Burns, Eddie Hodges, Pert Kelton & Helen Raymond for The Music Man
• Best Sound Track Album, Dramatic Picture Score or Original Cast
• *André Previn & the original cast for Gigi

  Packaging and notes

• Best Album Cover Photography
• *Frank Sinatra for Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely

  Pop

• Best Vocal Performance, Female
• *Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook
• Best Vocal Performance, Male
• *Perry Como for "Catch a Falling Star"
• Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus
• *Keely Smith & Louis Prima for "That Old Black Magic"
• Best Performance by a Dance Band
• *Count Basie for Basie
• Best Performance by an Orchestra
• *Billy May for Billy May's Big Fat Brass

  Production and engineering

• Best Engineered Record - Non-Classical
• *Ted Keep for "The Chipmunk Song" performed by David Seville
• Best Engineered Record
• *Sherwood Hall III, Laurindo Almeida & Salli Terri for Duets with Spanish Guitar

  R&B

• Best Rhythm & Blues Performance
• *"Tequila"-The Champs

  Spoken

• Best Performance, Documentary or Spoken Word
• *Stan Freberg for The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows