The 4th Annual Grammy Awards were held on May 29, 1962, at Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1961. Henry Mancini won 5 awards.
Award winners
The following awards were given at the 1961 ceremony (winners in bold).
Children's
Classical
Comedy
Composing and arranging
Country
Folk
Gospel
Jazz
Musical show
- Best Original Cast Show Album
- Frank Loesser (composer) & the original cast with Robert Morse, Rudy Vallee, Charles Nelson Reilly, Bonnie Scott, Claudette Southerland & Sammy Smith for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- Cy Coleman & Carolyn Leigh (composers) for Wildcat performed by original cast including Lucille Ball
- Jerry Herman (composer) for Milk And Honey performed by original cast including Robert Weede, Mimi Benzell, Molly Picon & Lanna Saunders
- Betty Comden, Adolph Green & Jule Styne for Do Re Mi performed by original cast including Phil Silvers, Nancy Walker, John Reardon & Nancy Dussault
- Bob Merrill (composer) for Carnival performed by original cast including Anna Maria Alberghetti, James Mitchell, Kaye Ballard, Pierre Olaf & Jerry Orbach
- Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television
- Irwin Kostal, Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin, Sid Ramin (music directors) & the original cast for West Side Story
- Tutti Camarata (music director) for Parent Trap (Motion Picture) performed by original cast including Hayley Mills
- Ken Darby & Alfred Newman (music directors) for Flower Drum Song (Motion Picture) performed by original cast
- Elvis Presley (performer) for Blue Hawaii (Motion Picture)
- Tutti Camarata (music director) for Babes In Toyland (Motion Picture) performed by original cast including Ann Jillian, Ed Wynn & Ray Bolger
Packaging and notes
Pop
Production and engineering
R&B
Spoken
References
Citations
Bibliography