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For the next two years, the GRAMMY revolution would not be televised.

Both the 3rd and 4th Annual GRAMMY Awards presentations were made only at private dinner ceremonies, with no television component. As difficult as it may be to imagine today, the still young Recording Academy was making its case to the big three networks that a music awards show belonged on their crowded schedules.

Meanwhile, awards were handed out at dinners in Recording Academy Chapter cities Los Angeles (the Crystal Ballroom of the Beverly Hills Hotel with Mort Sahl in a return engagement as emcee) and New York (in the main ballroom at the Hotel Astor at Times Square) with entertainment in Los Angeles provided by jazz acts the Gene Rains Combo, Pete Jolly Trio and the Skeets Herfurt Group.

In what could be viewed as a Genius move, <a href="/grammys/artists/ray-charles">Ray Charles</a> emerged the big winner, earning his first ever GRAMMYs based on his groundbreaking and now classic album The Genius of Ray Charles. Brother Ray’s album won Best Vocal Performance Album, Male, while “Georgia on My Mind” won Best Vocal Performance Single Record or Track, Male, and Best Performance by a Pop Single Artist. Charles’ fourth award was for “Let the Good Times Roll” for Best Rhythm &amp; Blues Performance.

The good times also rolled on GRAMMY night for comedian <a href="/grammys/artists/bob-newhart">Bob Newhart</a>. The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart became the first comedy set to win Album of the Year. The future sitcom icon also took Best New Artist of 1960 and Best Comedy Performance, Spoken Word, for The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! Percy Faith’s instrumental gem “Theme from a Summer Place,” meanwhile, took Record of the Year.

The great <a href="/grammys/artists/ella-fitzgerald">Ella Fitzgerald</a>—a GRAMMY winner in each of the first two GRAMMY presentations—won a pair of awards for her album Mack the Knife—Ella in Berlin and her title track. <a href="/grammys/artists/henry-mancini">Henry Mancini</a> also added to his growing collection with three more GRAMMYs, including two for work on the soundtrack of Mr. Lucky, a Blake Edwards produced television series of the time.

Other awards included opera star Leontyne Price’s first GRAMMY for Best Classical Performance—Vocal Soloist (A Program of Song—Leontyne Price Recital), Marty Robbins for Best Country &amp; Western Performance (“El Paso”), Harry Belafonte’s first GRAMMY for Best Performance—Folk (Swing Dat Hammer, a record built around African-American chain gang chants), and Gil Evans and <a href="/grammys/artists/miles-davis">Miles Davis</a> for Sketches of Spain in a category with a name that future GRAMMY sponsor Timex would love: Best Jazz Composition of More Than Five Minutes Duration.

In 1960 The Recording Academy also formally adopted its official credo, penned by early Academy booster and all-around satirist Stan Freberg. His credo was quite serious about The Academy’s goals, in a Preamble to the Constitution kind of way:

<blockquote>
We, the National Academy of Recording Arts &amp; Sciences, being dedicated to the advancement of the phonograph record, do pledge ourselves as follows:

We shall judge a record on the basis of sheer artistry, and artistry alone—artistry in writing, performance, musicianship and engineering.

A record shall, in the opinion of The Academy, either attain the highest degree of excellence possible in the category entered, or it shall not receive an Academy Award. Sales and mass popularity are the yardsticks of the record business. They are not the yardsticks of this Academy.

We are concerned here with the phonograph record as an art form.&nbsp;If the record industry is to grow, not decline in stature, if it is to foster a greater striving for excellence in its own field, if it is to discourage mediocrity and encourage greatness, we, as its spokesmen, can accept no other Credo.
</blockquote>

Clearly, not Freberg’s funniest work by a long shot, but words to live by nonetheless.

The Theme From A Summer Place

Nice 'N Easy (Single)

Mack The Knife (Single)

Georgia On My Mind (Single)

Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Single)

Record Of The Year

Wild Is Love (Album)

Puccini: Turandot (Album)

Nice 'N Easy (Album)

The Button-Down Mind Of Bob Newhart

Brahms: Concerto (Album)

Belafonte Returns To Carnegie Hall (Album)

Album Of The Year

Theme From Exodus

Theme From A Summer Place (Single)

Second Time Around (Single)

Nice 'n Easy (Single)

He'll Have To Go (Single)

Song Of The Year

Sound Of Music

Mack The Knife

I'm Sorry (Single)

I'm Gonna Go Fishin' (Album)

I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues (Single)

Best Vocal Performance Single Record Or Track, Female

Miriam Makeba (Album)

Mack The Knife - Ella In Berlin

Latin Ala Lee (Album)

Della (Album)

Clap Hands, Here Comes Rosie

Best Vocal Performance Album, Female

Misty (Single)

Georgia On My Mind

Best Vocal Performance Single Record Or Track, Male

The Genius Of Ray Charles

G.I. Blues (Album)

Belafonte Returns To Carnegie Hall

Best Vocal Performance Album, Male

Wild Percussion And Horns A'Plenty

Theme From The Apartment

Nice 'N' Easy

Mr. Lucky

Let The Good Times Roll

I'm Gonna Go Fishin' (Single)

Honeysuckle Rose (Single)

Best Arrangement

The Blues And The Beat (Album)

Girls And Boys On Broadway

Dance With Basie

Big Hits By Prado (Album)

Bandland

Best Performance By A Band For Dancing

The Count Basie Story

The Concert Jazz Band

Infinity In Sound

Best Performance By An Orchestra

We Got Us

Scandinavian Shuffle (Album)

Here We Go Again

Greenfields

All Over The Place

Best Performance By A Vocal Group (2 To 6)

That Wondrous Love (Album)

Songs Of The Cowboy

My Favorite Things

Deep Night

Best Performance By A Chorus (7 Or More Persons)

White Satin (Album)

West Side Story

The Greatest Trumpet Of Them All

Pyramid

Jazz Track

Greatest Piano Of Them All (Album)

The Hottest New Group In Jazz

Back To Back - Duke Ellington And Johnny Hodges Play The Blues

Best Jazz Performance Solo Or Small Group

The Great Wide World Of Quincy Jones

Sketches Of Spain

I'm Gonna Go Fishin'

Blues And The Beat

Best Jazz Performance Large Group

Tchaikovsky: Sixth Symphony (Album)

Stravinsky: Petrouchka (Album)

Schubert: Symphony # 9 (Album)

Ives: Symphony # 2 (Album)

Haydn: Salomon Symphonies Vol. 2 (Album)

Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite (Album)

Copland: Appalachian Spring

Bartók: Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra

Schubert: "Trout Quintet" (Album)

Janácek String Quartets Nos. 1 And 2

J.S. Bach: The Complete Brandenburg Concerti (Album)

Haydn: Quartets, Opus 71 And 74 (Album)

Debussy And Ravel: Quartets (Album)

Conversations With The Guitar

Brahms: Horn Trio And Beethoven: Sonata For Horn And Piano (Album)

Bach: Cantata No. 4; Christ Lag In Todesbaden (Christ Lay In The Bonds Of Death) (Album)

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Or Instrumental - Chamber Music

Sibelius: Violin Concerto In D (Album)

Schumann: Piano Concerto In A (Album)

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto # 2 (Album)

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto (Album)

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 In B Flat

Brahms: Double Concerto For Violin And Cello (Album)

Bach: Concerto No. 5 (Album)

Best Classical Performance - Concerto Or Instrumental Soloist

The Spanish Guitars Of Laurindo Almeida

The Art Of Julian Bream (Album)

Prokofiev: Sonata # 7 And Pictures At An Exhibition (Album)

Pictures At An Exhibition (Album)

Haydn: ..Landowska (Album)

Chopin Ballades (Album)

Brahms: Keyboard Music Of The French Court (Album)

Bach: Partita No. 3 In E And Brahms: Sonata No. 3 In D Minor (Album)

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist Or Duo (Other Than With Orchestral Accompaniment)

Schuman: Dichterliebe (Album)

Schubert: Songs, Album 3 (Album)

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Album)

Handel Arias (Album)

Conversations With The Guitar (Album)

Britten: Nocturne (Album)

Arias In The Great Tradition (Album)

A Program Of Song - Leontyne Price Recital

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist

Verdi: La Traviata (Album)

Verdi: Aida (Album)

Verdi-Shakespeare: Macbeth (Album)

Puccini: Turandot

Puccini: La Boheme (Album)

Poulenc-Cocteau: La Voix Humaine (Album)

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Album)

Britten: Peter Grimes (Album)

Boito: Mefistofele (Album)

Best Classical Opera Production

Verdi: Requiem (Album)

Vaughan Williams: Mass In G Minor/Bach: Christ Lay In The Bonds Of Death (Album)

Handel: Messiah

Dvorák: Requiem

Berlioz: Requiem (Album)

Bach: Motet No. 3 - Jesu Meine Fresude (Album)

Arias, Anthems And Chorales Of The American Moravians - Vol. I (Album)

Best Classical Performance - Choral (Including Oratorio)

Varese: Density 21.5 (Album)

Stravinsky: Threni

Sessions: Sym. # 1

Poulenc: La Voix Humaine

Copland: Orchestral Suite From Tender Land Suite

Ives: Symphony # 2

Hindemith: Sonata For Cello And Piano

Blackwood: Symphony # 1 (Album)

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

The Untouchables (Television) (Album)

The Apartment (Motion Picture) (Album)

Mr. Lucky (TV) (Album)

Exodus

Ben Hur (Motion Picture) (Album)

Best Soundtrack Album Or Recording Of Music Score From A Motion Picture Of Television

Li'l Abner (Motion Picture) (Album)

G.I. Blues (Motion Picture) (Album)

Can Can

Bells Are Ringing (Motion Picture) (Album)

Best Sound Track Album Or Recording Of Original Cast From Motion Picture Or Television