Billboard Top Pop Hits of 1961
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Record of the Year Moon River Henry Mancini Album of the Year Judy at Carnegie Hall Judy Garland Song of the Year Moon River Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer - songwriters Best New Artist of 1961 Peter Nero Best Solo Vocal Performance - Male Lollipops and Roses Jack Jones Best Solo Vocal Performance - Female Judy at Carnegie Hall Judy Garland Best Performance By a Vocal Group High Flying Lambert, Hendricks and Ross Best Performance By a Chorus Great Band With Great Voices Johnny Mann Singers and Si Zentner Orchestra Best Rock and Roll Recording Let's Twist Again Chubby Checker Best Rhythm and Blues Recording Hit the Road Jack Ray Charles Best Jazz Performance - Soloist or Small Group (Instrumental) André Previn Plays Harold Arlen André Previn Best Jazz Performance - Large Group West Side Story Stan Kenton Best Original Jazz Composition African Waltz Galt MacDermott - composer Best Country and Western Recording Big Bad John Jimmy Dean Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording Every Time I Feel the Spirit Mahalia Jackson Best Folk Recording Belafonte Folk Singers at Home and Abroad Belafonte Folk Singers Best Performance By an Orchestra for Dancing Up a Lazy River Si Zentner Best Performance By an Orchestra for Other Than Dancing Breakfast at Tiffany's Henry Mancini Best Arrangement Moon River Henry Mancini - arranger Best Instrumental Theme or Instrumental Version of a Song African Waltz Galt MacDermott - composer Best Original Cast Show Album How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Frank Loesser - composer Best Soundtrack Album or Recording of Score From a Motion Picture or Television Breakfast at Tiffany's Henry Mancini Best Soundtrack Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television West Side Story Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal Album of the Year - Classical Stravinsky Conducts - 1960: Le Sacre du Printemps; Petrouchka lgor Stravinsky - Columbia Symphony Best Classical Performance - Orchestra Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe Charles Munch - Boston Symphony Orchestra Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music Beethoven - Serenade, Op. 8 Kodaly - Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky and William Primrose Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist (With Orchestra) Bartók - Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra Isaac Stern Eugene Ormandy conducting Philharmonic Orchestra Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Duo (Without Orchestra) Reverie for Spanish Guitars Laurindo Almeida Best Opera Recording Puccini - Madame Butterfly Gabriele Santini - Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra Best Classical Performance - Choral Bach - B Minor Mass Robert Shaw conducting Robert Shaw Chorale Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist The Art of the Prima Donna Joan Sutherland Francesco Molinari-Pradelli - Royal Opera House Orchestra Best Contemporary Classical Composition Discantus - Laurindo Almeida - composer Movements for Piano and Orchestra Igor Stravinsky - composer Best Comedy Performance An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May Mike Nichols and Elaine May Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording (Other Than Comedy) Humor in Music Leonard Bernstein - New York Philharmonic Symphony Best Recording for Children Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf Leonard Bernstein - New York Philharmonic Orchestra Best Album Cover Judy at Carnegie Hall Jim Silke - art director Best Album Cover - Classical Puccini - Madame Butterfly Marvin Schwartz - art director |
