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Awards
25 recordings added to Grammy recordings Hall Of Fame
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 26 November 2009
The Beach Boys, Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown and Louis Armstrong have all got songs about to be listed in the US Recording Academy’s Grammy Hall Of Fame which, unlike the main US Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame, honours songs rather than bands.
Songs have to be at least 25 years old to enter the Hall Of Fame. The youngest song added to the Hall this time round is Birdland’s ‘Weather Report’ from 1977.
Announcing this year’s list, the Recording Academy’s Neil Portnow told reporters: “These recordings all greatly deserve to be memorialised. The selections are timeless staples that span six decades and represent a wide range of genres from comedy to rock, reggae, jazz and R&B”.
The comedy, by the way, is George Carlin’s ‘Class Clown’, the 1972 comedy album most notable for the “seven words you can never say on television” routine.
The rock, reggae, jazz and R&B can presumably be found somewhere in this list of the other 24 new entrants to the Grammy Hall…
Dooley Wilson – As Time Goes By (1944)
Weather Report – Birdland (1977)
The Beach Boys – California Girls (1965)
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Catch A Fire (1973)
Billie Holiday Crazy He Calls Me (1949)
King Oliver & His Jazz Band – Dippermouth Blues (1923)
Duke Ellington – Don’t Get Around Much Anymore (1940)
Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie – Ella and Basie (1963)
Jose Feliciano – Feliz Navidad (1970)
Judy Garland & Gene Kelly – For Me And My Gal (1942)
Mahalia Jackson – His Eye Is On The Sparrow (1958)
Muddy Waters – I Feel Like Going Home (1948)
James Brown – It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World (1966)
Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba (1962)
Jelly Roll Morton – Kansas City Stomps (1928)
Louis Armstrong – Lazy River (1931)
Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars – …Plays WC Handy (1954)
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Mr Bojangles (1970)
Janis Joplin – Pearl (1971)
The Doors – Riders On The Storm (1971)
The Isley Brothers – Twist And Shout (1962)
Bo Diddley – Who Do You Love (1956)
Harry James & His Orchestra – You Made Me Love You (1941)
Johnny Mercer – Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (1946)
