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Grammys Add 25 Diverse Recordings To Hall Of Fame

image from www.google.comThe Recording Academy has named the newest additions to its Grammy Hall Of Fame collection of  singles and albums at least 25 years old that "exhibit qualitative or historical significance". Recordings are reviewed annually by a special member committee with final approval by The Recording Academy's National Board of Trustees. With 25 diverse new titles the year, the list currently totals 906.

2012 GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Inductees

ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC
Various Artists
Folkways (1952)
Folk (Album)

EXILE ON MAIN ST.

The Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones/Atlantic (1972)

Rock (Album)


"ANYTHING GOES"
Cole Porter

(Cole Porter)
His Master's Voice (1934)
Pop (Single)


"FIXIN' TO DIE"

Bukka White

(Bukka White)

Okeh (1940)

Blues (Single)


BORN IN THE U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen
Columbia (1984)
Rock (Album)


FOGGY MOUNTAIN JAMBOREE

Lester Flatt And Earl Scruggs

Columbia (1957)
Bluegrass (Album)


"DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS"
Gene Autry
(June Hershey & Don Swander)

Decca (1942)
Country (Single)


GRACELAND

Paul Simon

Warner Bros. (1986)
Pop (Album)


DÉJÀ VU

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Atlantic (1970)
Rock (Album)


HERB ALPERT PRESENTS SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL '66

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
A&M (1966)
Pop (Album)


"HOW LONG, HOW LONG BLUES"

Leroy Carr

(Leroy Carr)

Vocalion (1928)

Blues (Single)


"PRECIOUS LORD, TAKE MY HAND"

Mahalia Jackson

(Thomas A. Dorsey)
Columbia (1956)
Gospel (Single)


"I HAVE A DREAM"

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Freedom March On Washington

20th Century Fox (1963)
Spoken Word (Track)


"QUE SERA, SERA (WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL BE)"
Doris Day
(Jay Livingston & Ray Evans)

Columbia (1956)

Pop (Single)


I STARTED OUT AS A CHILD

Bill Cosby

Warner Bros. (1964)
Comedy (Album)


ROY HARRIS SYMPHONY NO. 3

Serge Koussevitzky, cond.
Boston Symphony Orchestra

RCA Victor (1940)
Classical (Album)


"I WILL SURVIVE"

Gloria Gaynor

(Freddie Perren & Dino Fekaris)
Polydor (1978)
Disco (Single)


SANTANA

Santana

Columbia (1969)
Rock (Album)


"KASSIE JONES"

Furry Lewis

(Walter "Furry" Lewis)
Victor (1928)
Blues (Single)


ST. LOUIS WOMAN

Original Broadway Cast

Capitol (1946)

Musical Show (Album)


"KEY TO THE HIGHWAY"

Big Bill Broonzy
(Big Bill Broonzy & Charles Segar)

Okeh (1941)
Blues (Single)


"WASTED DAYS AND WASTED NIGHTS"

Freddy Fender

(Freddy Fender & Wayne Duncan)

ABC-Dot (1975)

Country (Single)


"THE MESSAGE"

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Featuring Melle Mel And Duke Bootee

(Jiggs Chase, Melvin Glover, Sylvia Robinson & Edward Fletcher)
Sugar Hill (1982)

Rap (Single)


"WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT"

Tina Turner
(Terry Britten & Graham Lyle)

Capitol (1984)

Pop (Single)


MEXICANTOS

Los Panchos

Coda (1945)
Latin (Album

 


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