Dave's Music Database Hall of Fame: Song Inductees

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Dave’s Music Database Hall of Fame was established January 22, 2019 in honor of the 10th anniversary of the DMDB blog. Every month, a class of music makers, albums, or songs are inducted. Here are the act inductee classes for songs so far: 1/19: Top Songs of Each Decade from 1900-2010 4/19: 80+ Lists/Awards 7/19: #1 Pop Songs of the Pre-Rock Era 10/19: #1 Songs of the Rock Era 1/20: Most-Recorded Songs from 1890-1954 4/20: Standards 7/20: Rock and Roll Origin Songs 10/20: Classic Rock Songs 1/21: Songs with 20+ Weeks atop 4 Pop Charts 4/21: MTV in the ‘80s 7/21: Vaudeville Songs 10/21: Big Band Songs 1/22: Ragtime Songs 4/22: Tin Pan Alley Songs 7/22: Blues Songs All the songs which have been inducted are listed below, alphabetized by acts. Click on the song title to go to a detailed DMDB entry about it. Click on the highlighted month/year to see the song’s induction entry. A 1/19: Adele “Rolling in the Deep” (2010) 4/21: A-ha “Take on Me” (1984) 7/21: American Quartet “Moonlight Bay” (1912) 4/20: American Quartet “Over There” (1917) 1/20: Fred Astaire “Night and Day” (1932) 4/20: Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers & Leo Reisman’s Orchestra “Cheek to Cheek” (1935) 1/19: Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (1927) B 4/19: The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966) 4/19: The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963) 1/19: The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968) 1/21: Bee Gees “Night Fever” (1977) 1/21: Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive” (1977) 4/22: Ben Bernie with Scrappy Lambert & Billy Hillpot “Ain’t She Sweet” (1927) 7/20: Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” (1958) 1/21: Blondie “Call Me” (1980) 1/21: Debby Boone “You Light Up My Life” (1977) 10/21: Les Brown with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (1945) C 10/19: Mariah Carey with Boyz II Men “One Sweet Day” (1995) 10/19: Mariah Carey “We Belong Together” (2005) 1/21: Kim Carnes “Bette Davis Eyes” (1981) 4/22: Ray Charles “Georgia on My Mind” (1960) 1/21: Chic “Le Freak” (1978) 1/22: Arthur Collins “Hello Ma Baby” (1899) 7/21: Arthur Collins “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Come Home” (1902) 1/22: Arthur Collins “Under the Bamboo Tree” (1902) 1/19: Arthur Collins and Bryon G. Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911) 7/19: Francis Craig with Bob Lamm “Near You” (1947) 1/20: Bing Crosby “Silent Night” (1935) 4/22: Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra “Pennies from Heaven” (1936) 1/19: Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers “White Christmas” (1942) D 4/20: Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife” (1959) 10/20: Derek & the Dominos “Layla” (1970) 7/22: Bo Diddley “I’m a Man” (1955) 4/21: Dire Straits “Money for Nothing” (1985) 10/20: The Doors “Light My Fire” (1967) 1/20: Tommy Dorsey “All the Things You Are” (1939) 10/21: Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers “I’ll Never Smile Again” (1940) 4/19: Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965) E-F 4/19: Eagles “Hotel California” (1976) 10/21: Duke Ellington “Mood Indigo” (1931) 10/21: Duke Ellington “Take the ‘A’ Train” (1941) 4/21: Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This” (1983) 10/21: Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb’s Orchestra “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (1938) 10/19: Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber “Despacito” (2017) 4/19: Aretha Franklin “Respect” (1967) G 4/21: Peter Gabriel “Sledgehammer” (1986) 1/19: Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (1939) 4/22: George J. Gaskin “After the Ball” (1893) 4/19: Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968) 1/21: Andy Gibb “Shadow Dancing” (1978) 1/22: Billy Golden “Turkey in the Straw” (1891) 10/21: Benny Goodman “Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing)” (1938) 10/19: Goo Goo Dolls “Iris” (1998) 4/21: Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” (1987) H 1/19: Bill Haley & His Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (1954) 7/21: Bryon G. Harlan “School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)” (1907) 1/20: Marion Harris “Tea for Two” (1925) 1/20: Coleman Hawkins “Body and Soul” (1940) 4/22: Haydn Quartet “In the Good Old Summertime” (1903) 7/21: Haydn Quartet “Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart)” (1904) 10/20: The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Purple Haze” (1967) 10/20: The Jimi Hendrix Experience “All Along the Watchtower” (1968) 10/21: Woody Herman “Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me)” (1941) 1/20: Billie Holiday “Summertime” (1936) 7/20: Buddy Holly & the Crickets “That’ll Be the Day” (1957) 7/22: John Lee Hooker “Boogie Chillen” (1949) 7/22: John Lee Hooker “Boom Boom” (1962) 1/19: Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” (1992) 7/22: Howlin Wolf “Smokestack Lightning” (1956) 1/22: Pee Wee Hunt “Twelfth Street Rag” (1948) I-J 7/19: The Ink Spots “The Gypsy” (1946) 4/19: Michael Jackson “Billie Jean” (1982) 4/21: Michael Jackson “Beat It” (1982) 4/21: Michael Jackson “Thriller” (1982) 7/19: Harry James with Helen Forrest “I’ve Heard That Song Before” (1943) 10/19: Elton John “Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England’s Rose)” (1997) 7/22: Robert Johnson “Cross Road Blues” (1936) 7/22: Robert Johnson “Hell Hound on My Trail” (1937) 4/22: Al Jolson with Prince’s Orchestra “You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want to Do It)” (1913) 4/20: Al Jolson “Swanee” (1920) 4/20: Al Jolson “April Showers” (1922) 4/22: Isham Jones “It Had to Be You” (1924) 1/22: Scott Joplin “Maple Leaf Rag” (1899) 1/22: Scott Joplin “The Entertainer” (1902) K-L 7/22: B.B. King “The Thrill Is Gone” (1969) 1/21: The Knack “My Sharona” (1979) 4/21: Cyndi Lauper “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (1983) 10/20: Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love” (1969) 10/20: Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” (1971) 1/19: John Lennon “Imagine” (1971) 7/20: Jerry Lee Lewis “Great Balls of Fire” (1957) 7/20: Jerry Lee Lewis “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” (1957) 10/21: Ted Lewis “On the Sunny Side of the Street” (1930) 10/19: Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road” (2018) 7/20: Little Richard “Tutti Frutti” (1955) 7/20: Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers “Who Do Fools Fall in Love?” (1956) 10/20: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama” (1974) M 7/21: Harry Macdonough with Miss Walton “Shine on Harvest Moon” (1909) 4/21: Madonna “Like a Prayer” (1989) 10/19: Maroon 5 with Cardi B “Girls Like You” (2017) 7/19: Glenn Miller “In the Mood” (1939) 10/21: Glenn Miller “Chattanooga Choo Choo” (1941) 4/22: The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll” (1942) 7/21: Billy Murray “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis” (1904) 7/21: Billy Murray “Give My Regards to Broadway” (1905) 7/21: Billy Murray “Yankee Doodle Boy” (1905) 1/19: Billy Murray “You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)” (1906) 4/20: Billy Murray & Haydn Quartet “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908) 7/21: Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” (1910) 1/22: Billy Murray & the American Quartet “Oh, You Beautiful Doll” (1911) N-O 4/19: Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991) 10/19: No Doubt “Don’t Speak” (1995) 4/22: The Original Dixieland Jazz Band “The Darktown Strutters’ Ball” (1917) 1/22: Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Tiger Rag” (1918) 1/20: Vess Ossman “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” (1900) 1/19: OutKast “Hey Ya!” (2003) P 7/19: Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950) 4/20: Peerless Quartet “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” (1911) 7/20: The Penguins “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)” (1954) 7/20: Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes” (1956) 10/20: Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall Part II” (1979) 1/19: The Police “Every Breath You Take” (1983) 7/20: Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956) 7/20: Elvis Presley “Hound Dog” (1956) 1/22: Charles Adams Prince’s Orchestra “The Memphis Blues” (1914) Q-R 4/19: Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975) 1/22: Dan Quinn “A Hot Time in the Old Town” (1896) 1/21: Lionel Richie & Diana Ross “Endless Love” (1981) 1/21: Kenny Rogers “Lady” (1980) 4/19: The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965) 10/19: Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!” (2014) 4/21: Run-D.M.C. with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry “Walk This Way” (1986) S 7/19: Ben Selvin “Dardanella” (1920) 4/20: Artie Shaw “Begin the Beguine” (1938) 7/19: Artie Shaw “Frenesi” (1940) 1/20: Artie Shaw “Stardust” (1941) 4/19: Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970) 1/20: Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (1925) 7/22: Clarence “Pine Top” Smith “Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie” (1929) 4/22: Kate Smith “God Bless America” (1939) 10/20: Bruce Springsteen “Born to Run” (1975) 10/20: Steppenwolf “Born to Be Wild” (1968) 1/21: Rod Stewart “Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright)” (1976) 1/21: Rod Stewart “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” (1978) T-Z 7/21: Sophie Tucker “Some of These Days” (1911) 4/21: Van Halen “Jump” (1983) 7/22: T-Bone Walker “Call It Stormy Monday” (1947) 10/21: Fats Waller “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (1929) 4/20: Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1933) 7/22: Muddy Waters “Hoochie Coochie Man” (1954) 7/22: Muddy Waters “Mannish Boy” (1955) 7/19: The Weavers “Goodnight Irene” (1950) 4/20: Paul Whiteman “Whispering” (1920) Resources: Dave’s Music Database Hall of Fame Dave’s Music Database Hall of Fame: Albums Dave’s Music Database Hall of Fame: Music Makers Dave’s Music Database Hall of Fame: Songs The Five-Year Anniversary of Dave’s Music Database Blog Originally posted 1/22/2019; last updated 7/22/2022.