La 1ª edizione dei Grammy Awards si è tenuta il 4 maggio 1959 in due differenti cerimonie, a Los Angeles nel Beverly Hilton Hotel e nel Park Sheraton Hotel a New York. È stato trasmesso in televisione dal network statunitense ABC e presentato da Mort Sahl.^[1][2][3][4]

• Nel blu, dipinto di blu - Domenico Modugno
• Catch A Falling Star - Perry Como
• Fever - Peggy Lee
• The Chipmunk Song - David Seville
• Witchcraft - Frank Sinatra

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

• Nel blu dipinto di blu, scritta e cantata da Domenico Modugno
• Catch A Fallin' Star, scritta da Paul Vance e Lee Pockriss, cantata da Perry Como
• Fever, scritta da John Davenport e Eddie Cooley, cantata da Peggy Lee
• Theme To Gigi, scritta da Alan Jay Lerner e Frederick Loewe, cantata da Artisti Vari
• Witchcraft, scritta da Cy Coleman e Carolyn Leigh, cantata da Frank Sinatra

• The Chipmunk Song – David Seville
• Children's Marching Song – Cyril Stapleton
• Mommy, Give Me a Drinka Water – Danny Kaye
• Witch Doctor – David Seville
• Tubby the Tuba – Jose Ferrer
• Fun in Shariland – Shari Lewis

• Gaite Parisienne – Felix Slatkin, Hollywood Bowl Symphony
• Barber: Meditation and Dance of Vengeance – Charles Munch e la Boston Symphony
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major – Bruno Walter e la Columbia Symphony Orchestra
• Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade – Pierre Monteux e la London Symphony
• Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps – Leonard Bernstein e la New York Philharmonic

• Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor, Op. 23 – Van Cliburn, Kondrashin Symphony
• Bartok: Concerto for Violin – Isaac Stern
• Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 – Emil Gilels
• Rachmaninoy: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – Leonard Pennario
• Segovia Golden Jubilee – Andrés Segovia

• Segovia Golden Jubilee – Andrés Segovia
• Art of the Harspichord – Wanda Landowska
• Beethoven: Sonata No. 9 and Sonata No. 8 – Nathan Milstein
• Horowitz Plays Chopin – Vladimir Horowitz
• Music for the Harp – Marcel Grandjany

• Beethoven: Quartet No. 130 – Hollywood String Quartet
• Beethoven: Trio in E Flat Major/Trio in D Major – Pablo Casals, Eugene Istomin, Joseph Fuchs
• Beethoven: Trio in E Flat, Op.3 – Jascha Heifetz, William Primrose, Grigorij Pjatigorskij
• Ravel: Quartet in F Major / Debussy: Quartet in G Minor – Budapest String Quartet
• Beethoven: Trio in G, Op. 9, No. 1/Trio in C Minor, Op. 9, No. 3 – Jascha Heifetz, William Primrose, Grigorij Pjatigorskij

• Recital of Songs and Arias – Renata Tebaldi
• Cherubini: Medea – Maria Callas
• Duets for Spanish Guitar – Salli Terri
• Eileen Farrell as Medea – Eileen Farrell
• Wagner; Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde) / Brunnhilde’s Immolation – Eileen Farrell

• Virtuoso – Roger Wagner Chorale
• Barber: Vanessa – Dimitri Mitropoulos
• Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor – Erich Leinsdorf
• Rossini: Barber of Seville – Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi
• Victoria: Requiem Mass – Dom David Nicholson

• The Chipmunk Song – David Seville
• Green Christmas – Stan Freberg
• Improvisations to Music – Mike Nichols, Elaine May
• The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows – Stan Freberg
• The Future Lies Ahead – Mort Sahl

• Cross Country Suite – Nelson Riddle
• I Want to Live – Johnny Mandel
• Mahagonny – Kurt Weill
• Victory at Sea, Vol. 3 – Richard Rodgers
• Vanessa – Samuel Barber

• The Music for Peter Gunn – Henry Mancini
• Billy May’s Big Fat Brass – Billy May
• Come Fly with Me – Billy May
• Fever – Jack Marshall
• Witchcraft – Nelson Riddle

• Tom Dooley – Kingston Trio
• All I Have To Do Is Dream – Everly Brothers
• Bird Dog – Everly Brothers
• Oh Lonesome Me – Don Gibson
• Oh, Oh, I’m Falling in Love Again – Jimmie Rodgers

• Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook – Ella Fitzgerald
• Baubles, Bangles and Beads – Jonah Jones
• Burnished Brass – George Shearing
• Dixieland Story – Matty Mattock
• Jumpin’ with Jonah – Jonah Jones

• Basie – Count Basie
• Baubles, Bangles and Beads – Jonah Jones
• Burnished Brass – George Shearing
• Sing a Song of Basie – Basie Rhythm Section, Dave Lambert Singers
• The Four Freshmen in Person – Four Freshmen

• The Music Man – Meredith Willson e il cast originale (con Robert Preston, Barbara Cook, David Burns, Eddie Hodges, Pert Kelton e Helen Reymond)
• Flower Drum Song – Richard Rodgers
• The Music from Peter Gunn – Henry Mancini
• Victory at Sea, Vol. 2 – Richard Rodgers
• Sound of Jazz, Seven Lively Arts – Count Basie, Jimmy Giuffre, Billie Holliday e altri

• Gigi – André Previn e il cast originale
• Auntie Mame – Ray Heindorf
• I Want to Live – Johnny Mandel
• South Pacific (Original Soundtrack) – Alfred Newman
• The Bridge on the River Kwai – Malcolm Arnold

• Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely – Frank Sinatra
• Come Fly With Me – Frank Sinatra
• For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ray Heindorf
• Ira Ironstrings Plays Music for People with $3.98 – Ira Ironstrings
• Julie London – Julie

• Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook – Ella Fitzgerald
• Everybody Loves a Lover – Doris Day
• Eydie in Love – Eydie Gormé
• Fever – Peggy Lee
• I Wish You Love – Keely Smith

• Catch A Falling Star – Perry Como
• Come Fly With Me – Frank Sinatra
• The Hawaiian Wedding Song – Andy Williams
• Nel blu dipinto di blu (Volare) – Domenico Modugno
• Witchcraft – Frank Sinatra

• That Old Black Magic – Louis Prima, Keely Smith
• Baubles, Bangles, and Beads – Kirby Stone Four
• Imagination – The King Sisters
• Sing a Song of Basie – Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross
• Tom Dooley – Kingston Trio

• Basie – Count Basie
• Baubles, Bangles and Beads – Jonah Jones
• Patricia – Pérez Prado
• Tea for Two Cha Cha – Warren Covington & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
• The Music from Peter Gunn – Ray Anthony

• Billy May’s Big Fat Brass – Billy May
• Burnished Brass – George Shearing
• Cross Country Suite – Buddy Defranco
• I Want to Live – Johny Mandel
• Kane Is Able – Jack Kane

• Duets with a Spanish Guitar – Laurindo Almeida, Salli Terri
• Gaiete Parisienne – Felix Slatkin
• Song of the Nightingale – Fritz Reiner
• Stravinsky: Rite of Spring – Leonard Bernstein

• The Chipmunk Song – David Seville
• Billy May’s Big Fat Brass – Billy May
• Come Fly with Me – Frank Sinatra
• Other Worlds Other Sounds – Juan García Esquivel
• Witchcraft – Frank Sinatra

• Tequila – The Champs
• Belafonte Sings the Blues – Harry Belafonte
• Looking Back – Nat King Cole
• Patricia – Pérez Prado
• The End – Earl Grant

• The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows – Stan Freberg
• Two Interviews of Our Time – Henry Jacobs
• The Lady from Philadelphia – Marion Anderson
• Great American Speeches – Melvyn Douglas, Vincent Price, Carl Sandburg, Ed Begley
• Green Christmas – Stan Freberg

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