Best Engineering Contribution – Popular Recording

3rd Annual Grammy Awards1961

Honoring recordings released between September 1, 1959 – November 30, 1960

Ella Fitzgerald won the 1961 Grammy Award for Best Engineering Contribution – Popular Recording with "Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Songbook"

Winners & Nominees 1961

Winner
Nominees
  • Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Songbook

    Luis P. (Val) Valentin

  • Belafonte Returns To Carnegie Hall (Album)

    Robert Simpson

  • Infinity In Sound

    John Norman

  • Louis Bellson Swings Jule Styne

    Luis P. (Val) Valentin

  • Persuasive Percussion #2

    Robert Fine

  • Wild Is Love (Album)

    John Kraus

  • Wild Percussion And Horns A'Plenty (Album)

    Robert Simpson

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
1962 Robert Arnold Judy At Carnegie Hall All Nominees
1961 Luis P. (Val) Valentin Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Songbook All Nominees