1962 Grammy Awards
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| Record of the Year | “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” Tony Bennett |
| Album of the Year | The First Family, Vaughn Meader (Cadence) |
| Song of the Year | “What Kind of Fool Am I,” Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, songwriters |
| Best New Artist of 1962 | Robert Goulet |
| Best Solo Vocal Performance, Male | I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Tony Bennett |
| Best Solo Vocal Performance, Female | Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson Riddle, Ella Fitzgerald |
| Best Performance By a Vocal Group | “If I Had a Hammer,” Peter, Paul and Mary |
| Best Performance By a Chorus | Presenting the New Christy Minstrels, New Christy Minstrels |
| Best Rock and Roll Recording | “Alley Cat,” Bent Fabric (Atco) |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Recording | “I Can't Stop Loving You,” Ray Charles (ABC) |
| Best Jazz Performance, Soloist or Small Group (Instrumental) | “Desafinado,” Stan Getz |
| Best Jazz Performance, Large Group (Instrumental) | Adventures in Jazz, Stan Kenton |
| Best Original Jazz Composition | “Cast Your Fate to the Winds,” Vince Guaraldi, composer |
| Best Country and Western Recording | “Funny Way of Laughin',” Burl Ives (Decca) |
| Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording | Great Songs of Love and Faith, Mahalia Jackson (Columbia) |
| Best Folk Recording | “If I Had a Hammer,” Peter, Paul and Mary (Warner Bros.) |
| Best Performance By an Orchestra for Dancing | Fly Me to the Moon Bossa Nova, Joe Harnell |
| Best Performance By an Orchestra or Instrumentalist With Orchestra, Not for Jazz or Dancing | The Colorful Peter Nero, Peter Nero |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement | “Baby Elephant Walk,” Henry Mancini, arranger |
| Best Background Arrangement | “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” Marty Manning, arranger |
| Best Instrumental Theme | “A Taste of Honey,” Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow, composers |
| Best Original Cast Show Album | No Strings, Richard Rodgers, composer (Capitol) |
| Album of the Year, Classical | Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz, Vladimir Horowitz (Columbia) |
| Best Classical Performance, Orchestra | Stravinsky, The Firebird Ballet, Igor Stravinsky conducting Columbia Symphony |
| Best Classical Performance, Chamber Music | The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts With Primrose, Pennario and Guests, Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky and William Primrose |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) | Stravinsky, Concerto in D for Violin, Isaac Stern; Igor Stravinsky conducting Columbia Symphony |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist or Duo (Without Orchestra) | Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz, Vladimir Horowitz |
| Best Opera Recording | Verdi, Aïda, Georg Solti conducting Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus; solos: Price, Vickers, Gorr, Merrill and Tozzi (RCA) |
| Best Classical Performance, Choral | Bach, St. Matthew Passion, Philharmonia Choir, Wilhelm Pitz, choral director; Otto Klemperer conducting Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Best Classical Performance, Vocal Soloist (With or Without Orchestra) | Wagner, Götterdämerung Brunnhilde's Immolation Scene; Wesendonck, Songs, Eileen Farrell; Leonard Bernstein conducting New York Philharmonic |
| Best Classical Composition By Contemporary Composer | The Flood, Igor Stravinsky, composer |
| Best Comedy Performance | The First Family, Vaughn Meader |
| Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording (Other Than Comedy) | The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton, Charles Laughton (Capitol) |
| Best Recording for Children | Saint-Saëns, Carnival of the Animals; Britten, Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (Columbia) |
| Best Album Cover | Lena…Lovely and Alive, Robert Jones, art director (RCA) |
| Best Album Cover, Classical | The Intimate Bach, Marvin Schwartz, art director (Capitol) |
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