The 1st Annual Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959. They recognized musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958. Two separate ceremonies were held simultaneously on the same day: one in the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, and the other in the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City. Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Domenico Modugno, Ross Bagdasarian, and Henry Mancini, each won 2 awards.

Award winners

The following awards were given in the first award ceremony:

General

Children's

Comedy

Composing and arranging

Country

Jazz

Musical show

Packaging and notes

Pop

Production and engineering

R&B

Spoken