Garland also won Best Solo Vocal Performance, Female at the March 15, 1962 Grammy Awards for Judy at Carnegie Hall.
Alongside her historic Album of the Year win, Judy Garland also received the Grammy Award for Best Solo Vocal Performance, Female at the same ceremony on March 15, 1962, for her work on Judy at Carnegie Hall.
This dual recognition underscored not only the commercial and critical success of the album as a complete artistic work, but also singled out Garland's individual vocal performance as the finest by a female artist that year. Her interpretive phrasing, dynamic range, and emotional delivery on tracks such as 'The Man That Got Away' and 'Over the Rainbow' were praised by critics as the culmination of decades of performing artistry.
Winning both awards in the same night was an extraordinary validation of Garland's talents at a time when her personal life was marked by well-publicized struggles, including financial difficulties and health issues. The recognition from the recording industry reaffirmed her standing as one of the most gifted vocalists of her generation and helped fuel a career resurgence in the early 1960s, including her own television variety show, The Judy Garland Show, which debuted in 1963.