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Song of the Year 1959



Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife

Billboard Top 40 of 1959


Johnny Horton - Battle of New Orleans
Lloyd Price - (You've Got) Personality
Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee
Frankie Avalon - Venus

What'd I Say - Ray Charles
I Only Have Eyes For You - Flamingos
Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin
There Goes My Baby - Drifters
Shout - Isley Brothers
Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison
Poison Ivy - Coasters
Money - Barrett Strong
Love Potion No. 9 - Clovers
You're So Fine - Falcons

 

Top Billboard Albums of 1959

 

1. PETER GUNN Henry Mancini RCA Victor
2. GIGI Soundtrack MGM
3. SOUTH PACIFIC Soundtrack RCA Victor
4. FROM THE HUNGRY I Kingston Trio Capitol
5. THE KINGSTON TRIO AT LARGE Kingston Trio Capitol

 

The Grammy's 1959

 

Record of the Year: Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin

 

Album of the Year: Come Dance With Me - Frank Sinatra

 

Song of the Year: The Battle of New Orleans - Jimmy Driftwood - songwriter Jimmy Driftwood

 

Best Artist of 1959: Bobby Darin

 

Best Performance By a Top 40 Artist: Midnight Flyer - Nat King Cole

 

Best Vocal Performance, Male: Come Dance With Me - Frank Sinatra

 

Best Vocal Performance, Female: But Not for Me - Ella Fitzgerald

 

Best Performance By a Chorus: Battle Hymn of the Republic - Mormon Tabernacle Choir


Best Rhythm and Blues Performance: What a Diff'rence a Day Makes - Dinah Washington
What a Diff'rence a Day Makes

 

Best Jazz Performance - Soloist: Ella Swings Lightly - Ella Fitzgerald

 

Best Jazz Performance - Group: I Dig Chicks - Jonah Jones

 

Best Performance By a Dance Band: Anatomy of a Murder - Duke Ellington

 

Best Country and Western Performance: The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

 

Best Performance - Folk: The Kingston Trio at Large - Kingston Trio

 

Best Performance By an Orchestra: Like Young - David Rose and His Orchestra With André Previn

 

Best Arrangement: Come Dance With Me - Billy May, arranger

 

Best Broadway Show Album: (tie): Gypsy - Ethel Merman Redhead - Gwen Verdon

 

Best Soundtrack Album (Original Cast) Motion Picture or Television Porgy and Bess - André Previn and Ken Darby

 

Best Comedy Performance - Spoken Word: Inside Shelley Berman - Shelley Berman

 

Best Comedy Performance - Musical: The Battle of Kookamonga - Homer and Jethro

 

Best Recording for Children: Peter and the Wolf; Peter Ustinov; narrating; Herbert von Karajan conducting Philharmonia Orchestra

 

Best Album Cover: Shostakovich; Symphony No. 5 - Robert M. Jones - art director

 

The Tony's (Musicals) 1959

 

Musical Play: Redhead
Outstanding Actor | Musical Star: Richard Kiley, Redhead
Outstanding Actress | Musical Star: Gwen Verdon, Redhead
Outstanding Actor | Musical Featured or Supporting: Russell Nype, Goldilocks, Leonard Stone, Redhead
Outstanding Actress | Musical Featured or Supporting: Pat Stanley, Goldilocks
Choreographer: Bob Fosse Redhead

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Music News 1959

 

February 3  Singer/songwriter Buddy Holly is killed in a plane crash in a snow storm near Mason City, Iowa. Also on the plane are Richie Valens and J P Richardson (The Big Bopper) who, with the pilot, are all killed

Future country star Waylon Jennings was scheduled to be on the plane, but instead gave his seat up to The Big Bopper.

 

The BBC bans the Coasters song "Charlie Brown" because of the word "spitball", a decision it reversed later in the month.

 

The Your Hit Parade television series airs its last episode

 

The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences sponsors the first Grammy Award ceremony for music recorded in 1958.

 

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