The Recording Academy® Announces 2012 GRAMMY Hall Of Fame® Inductees

The Recording Academy® Announces 2012 GRAMMY Hall Of Fame® Inductees

Diverse Selection of 25 Recordings Added to Collection Residing at the GRAMMY Museum®

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing the tradition of preserving and celebrating great recordings, The Recording Academy® announces the newest additions to its legendary GRAMMY Hall Of Fame® collection. Highlighting diversity and musical excellence, the collection acknowledges both singles and album recordings of all genres at least 25 years old that exhibit qualitative or historical significance. Through a tradition established nearly 40 years ago, recordings are reviewed annually by a special member committee comprising of eminent and knowledgeable professionals from all branches of the recording arts, with final approval by The Recording Academy's National Board of Trustees. With 25 new titles, the list currently totals 906 and is displayed at the GRAMMY Museum®.

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"The Recording Academy is dedicated to celebrating a wide variety of great music and sound through the decades," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy. "We are especially honored to welcome this year's selection of some of the most influential recordings of the last century. Marked by both cultural and historical significance, these works truly have influenced and inspired audiences for generations, and we are thrilled to induct them into our growing catalog of outstanding recordings."

Representing a great variety of tracks and albums, the 2012 GRAMMY Hall of Fame inductees range from Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A. album to civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech from his historic 1963 address at the March on Washington. Also on the highly regarded list are Cole Porter's "Anything Goes," the Rolling Stones' album Exile On Main St., Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive," Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's single "The Message," Bill Cosby's comedy album I Started Out As A Child,the Original Broadway Cast recording of "St. Louis Woman," and Tina Turner's "What's Love Got To Do With It." Others inductees include the entire Anthology Of American Folk Music,Gene Autry, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Doris Day, the Serge Koussevitzky-conducted Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Panchos, Santana, and Paul Simon, among others.

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For a complete list of GRAMMY Hall Of Fame inductees, please go to: www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame

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2012 GRAMMY Hall Of Fame
Inductees

ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN EXILE ON MAIN ST.
FOLK MUSIC The Rolling Stones
Various Artists Rolling Stones/Atlantic (1972)
Folkways (1952) Rock (Album)
Folk (Album)
"FIXIN' TO DIE"
"ANYTHING GOES" Bukka White
Cole Porter (Bukka White)
(Cole Porter) Okeh (1940)
His Master's Voice (1934) Blues (Single)
Pop (Single)
FOGGY MOUNTAIN JAMBOREE
BORN IN THE U.S.A. Lester Flatt And Earl Scruggs
Bruce Springsteen Columbia (1957)
Columbia (1984) Bluegrass (Album)
Rock (Album)
GRACELAND
"DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS" Paul Simon
Gene Autry Warner Bros. (1986)
(June Hershey & Don Swander) Pop (Album)
Decca (1942)
Country (Single) HERB ALPERT PRESENTS SERGIO
MENDES & BRASIL '66
DEJA VU Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young A&M (1966)
Atlantic (1970) Pop (Album)
Rock (Album)
"PRECIOUS LORD, TAKE MY HAND"
"HOW LONG, HOW LONG BLUES" Mahalia Jackson
Leroy Carr (Thomas A. Dorsey)
(Leroy Carr) Columbia (1956)
Vocalion (1928) Gospel (Single)
Blues (Single)
"QUE SERA, SERA (WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL
BE)"
"I HAVE A DREAM" Doris Day
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Jay Livingston & Ray Evans)
Freedom March On Washington Columbia (1956)
20th Century Fox (1963) Pop (Single)
Spoken Word (Track)
ROY HARRIS SYMPHONY NO. 3
I STARTED OUT AS A CHILD Serge Koussevitzky, cond.
Bill Cosby Boston Symphony Orchestra
Warner Bros. (1964) RCA Victor (1940)
Comedy (Album) Classical (Album)

"I WILL SURVIVE" SANTANA
Gloria Gaynor Santana
(Freddie Perren & Dino Fekaris) Columbia (1969)
Polydor (1978) Rock (Album)
Disco (Single)
ST. LOUIS WOMAN
"KASSIE JONES" Original Broadway Cast
Furry Lewis Capitol (1946)
(Walter "Furry" Lewis) Musical Show (Album)
Victor (1928)
Blues (Single) "WASTED DAYS AND WASTED NIGHTS"
Freddy Fender
"KEY TO THE HIGHWAY" (Freddy Fender & Wayne Duncan)
Big Bill Broonzy ABC-Dot (1975)
(Big Bill Broonzy & Charles
Segar) Country (Single)
Okeh (1941)
Blues (Single) "WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT"
Tina Turner
"THE MESSAGE" (Terry Britten & Graham Lyle)
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious
Five Capitol (1984)
Featuring Melle Mel And Duke
Bootee Pop (Single)
(Jiggs Chase, Melvin Glover,
Sylvia Robinson & Edward
Fletcher)
Sugar Hill (1982)
Rap (Single)

MEXICANTOS
Los Panchos
Coda (1945)
Latin (Album)

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