1963 Grammy Awards
Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
| Record of the Year | “The Days of Wine and Roses,” Henry Mancini |
| Album of the Year | The Barbra Streisand Album, Barbra Streisand (Columbia) |
| Song of the Year | “The Days of Wine and Roses,” Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, composers |
| Best New Artist of 1963 | Swingle Singers |
| Best Vocal Performance, Male | “Wives and Lovers,” Jack Jones |
| Best Vocal Performance, Female | The Barbra Streisand Album, Barbra Streisand |
| Best Performance By a Vocal Group | “Blowin' in the Wind,” Peter, Paul and Mary |
| Best Performance By a Chorus | Bach's Greatest Hits, Swingle Singers |
| Best Rock and Roll Recording | “Deep Purple,” Nino Tempo and April Stevens (Atco) |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Recording | “Busted,” Ray Charles (ABC/Paramount) |
| Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Soloist or Small Group | Conversations With Myself, Bill Evans |
| Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group | Encore: Woody Herman, 1963, Woody Herman Band |
| Best Original Jazz Composition | “Gravy Waltz,” Steve Allen and Ray Brown, composers |
| Best Country and Western Recording | “Detroit City,” Bobby Bare (RCA) |
| Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording (Musical) | “Dominique,” Soeur Sourire (The Singing Nun) (Philips) |
| Best Folk Recording | “Blowin' in the Wind,” Peter, Paul and Mary (Warner Bros.) |
| Best Performance By an Orchestra for Dancing | This Time by Basie! Hits of the '50s and '60s, Count Basie |
| Best Performance By an Orchestra or Instrumentalist With Orchestra, Not for Jazz or Dancing | “Java,” Al Hirt |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement | “I Can't Stop Loving You,” Quincy Jones, arranger |
| Best Background Arrangement | “The Days of Wine and Roses,” Henry Mancini, arranger |
| Best Instrumental Theme | “More” (Theme From Mondo Cane), Norman Newell, Nino Oliviero and Riz Ortolani, composers |
| Best Original Score From a Motion Picture or Television Show | Tom Jones, John Addison, composer |
| Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album | She Loves Me, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, composers (MGM) |
| Album of the Year, Classical | Britten, War Requiem, Benjamin Britten conducting London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (London) |
| Most Promising New Classical Recording Artist | André Watts, pianist |
| Best Classical Performance, Orchestra | Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf conducting Boston Symphony Orchestra |
| Best Classical Performance, Chamber Music | Evening of Elizabethan Music, Julian Bream Consort |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) | Tchaikovsky, Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Artur Rubinstein; Erich Leinsdorf conducting Boston Symphony Orchestra |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Duo (Without Orchestra) | The Sound of Horowitz, Vladimir Horowitz |
| Best Opera Recording | Puccini, Madama Butterfly, Erich Leinsdorf conducting RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and Chorus; solos: Price, Tucker and Elias (RCA) |
| Best Classical Performance, Choral | Britten, War Requiem, David Willcocks directing Bach Choir; Edward Chapman directing Highgate School Choir; Benjamin Britten conducting London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus |
| Best Classical Performance, Vocal Soloist (With or Without Orchestra) | Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Leontyne Price |
| Best Classical Composition By Contemporary Composer | War Requiem, Benjamin Britten, composer |
| Best Comedy Performance | Hello Mudduh, Hello Faddah, Allan Sherman |
| Best Documentary, Spoken Word or Drama Recording (Other Than Comedy) | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee (Warner Bros.) |
| Best Recording for Children | Bernstein Conducts for Young People, Leonard Bernstein conducting New York Philharmonic (Columbia) |
| Best Album Cover, Other Than Classical | The Barbra Streisand Album, John Berg, art director (Columbia) |
| Best Album Cover, Classical | Puccini, Madama Butterfly, Robert Jones, art director (RCA) |
| Best Album Notes | The Ellington Era, Stanley Dance and Leonard Feather, annotators (Columbia) |
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