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Best Contemporary Song

1961 • 3rd Annual GRAMMY Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1959 and Aug 30, 1960

1961 Winner is Ray Charles with "Georgia On My Mind"

Georgia On My Mind

Ray Charles

Nominees 1961

Winners

Year Winner Nomination
1971 Paul Simon Bridge Over Troubled Water All Nominees
1971 Ray Stevens Everything Is Beautiful All Nominees
1971 Dionne Warwick I'll Never Fall In Love Again All Nominees
1971 Carpenters Close To You All Nominees
1971 Henry Mancini Theme From "Z" And Other Film Music All Nominees
1970 Peggy Lee Is That All There Is? All Nominees
1970 Harry Nilsson Everybody's Talkin' All Nominees
1970 Joe South Games People Play All Nominees
1970 5th Dimension Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) All Nominees
1970 Percy Faith Love Theme From Romeo And Juliet All Nominees
1970 Blood, Sweat And Tears Variations On A Theme By Eric Satie All Nominees
1969 Mason D. Williams Classical Gas All Nominees
1969 Dionne Warwick Do You Know The Way To San Jose? All Nominees
1969 Jose Feliciano Light My Fire All Nominees
1969 Alan Copeland Mission Impossible/Norwegian Wood Medley All Nominees
1969 Simon And Garfunkel Mrs. Robinson All Nominees
1968 Glen Campbell By The Time I Get To Phoenix All Nominees
1968 5th Dimension Up, Up And Away All Nominees
1968 The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band All Nominees
1968 Bobbie Gentry Ode To Billie Joe All Nominees
1968 5th Dimension Up, Up And Away All Nominees
1967 Paul McCartney Eleanor Rigby All Nominees
1967 Mamas And The Papas Monday, Monday All Nominees
1967 New Vaudeville Band Winchester Cathedral All Nominees
1966 Statler Brothers Flowers On The Wall All Nominees
1966 Petula Clark I Know A Place All Nominees
1966 Roger Miller King Of The Road All Nominees
1966 Roger Miller King Of The Road All Nominees
1965 Petula Clark Downtown All Nominees
1964 April Stevens, Nino Tempo Deep Purple All Nominees
1963 Bent Fabric Alley Cat All Nominees
1962 Chubby Checker Let's Twist Again All Nominees
1961 Ray Charles Georgia On My Mind All Nominees
1960 Nat "King" Cole Midnight Flyer All Nominees

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