Monday, December 21, 2020

Grammy Hall of Fame: Songs, 1973-2020

Grammy Hall of Fame:

Songs

From the Grammy Hall of Fame website: “The GRAMMY Hall Of Fame was established by the Recording Academy's National Trustees in 1973 to honor recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance that are at least 25 years old. Inductees are selected annually by a special member committee of eminent and knowledgeable professionals from all branches of the recording arts.”

Dave’s Music Database has listed all the recipients from 1973 to present on two separate pages, one for songs and one for albums. Click here to see albums which have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Click here to see other awards and Hall of Fame inductees for songs.


Year of Induction: Performer “Song” (year released)

A
  • 2015: Abba “Dancing Queen” (1976)
  • 1998: Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys “Wabash Cannonball” (1938)
  • 2009: Roy Acuff “The Great Speckled Bird” (1938)
  • 2018: Aerosmith “Dream On” (1973)
  • 2019: Aerosmith “Walk This Way” (1975)
  • 1998: Herb Alpert “The Lonely Bull” (1962)
  • 2008: Herb Alpert “A Taste of Honey” (1965)
  • 1999: Marian Anderson “Ave Maria” (1936)
  • 2008: Marian Anderson “He's Got the Whole World in His Hands” (1936)
  • 2009: Marian Anderson “My Country 'Tis of Thee” (1939)
  • 1996: The Andrews Sisters “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen (Means That You're Grand)” (1938)
  • 2000: The Andrews Sisters “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (1941)
  • 2016: The Andrews Sisters “Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me” (1942)
  • 1999: The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun” (1964)
  • 2011: The Animals “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” (1965)
  • 1999: Louis Armstrong “Heebie Jeebies” (1926)
  • 2018: Louis Armstrong “Savoy Blues” (1927)
  • 1974: Louis Armstrong “West End Blues” (1928)
  • 2008: Louis Armstrong “Weather Bird” (1928)
  • 2016: Louis Armstrong “What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue?” (1929)
  • 2008: Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (1930)
  • 2009: Louis Armstrong “Stardust” (1931)
  • 2010: Louis Armstrong “Lazy River” (1931)
  • 2005: Louis Armstrong “All of Me” (1932)
  • 2014: Louis Armstrong “Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen” (1938)
  • 2017: Louis Armstrong “When the Saints Go Marching In” (1939)
  • 1997: Louis Armstrong “Mack the Knife” (1956)
  • 2001: Louis Armstrong “Hello Dolly!” (1964)
  • 1999: Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World” (1967)
  • 1999: Eddy Arnold “Make the World Go Away” (1965)
  • 2006: Fred Astaire “Fascinating Rhythm” (1926)
  • 2004: Fred Astaire “Night and Day” (1932)
  • 2000: Fred Astaire “Cheek to Cheek” (1935)
  • 2008: Fred Astaire “Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails” (1935)
  • 1998: Fred Astaire “The Way You Look Tonight” (1936)
  • 2005: Fred Astaire “They Can't Take That Away from Me” (1937)
  • 2005: Gene Austin “Bye Bye Blackbird” (1926)
  • 1978: Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (1927)
  • 1997: Gene Autry “Back in the Saddle Again” (1939)
  • 2012: Gene Autry “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (1942)
  • 1985: Gene Autry & the Pinafores “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1949)

B
  • 2007: DeFord Bailey “Pan American Blues” (1927)
  • 2011: Mildred Bailey “Rockin' Chair” (1937)
  • 1998: Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra “Cherokee” (1939)
  • 2008: Barry, John “The James Bond Theme” (1962)
  • 1979: Count Basie “One O’Clock Jump” (1937)
  • 2005: Count Basie “Lester Leaps In” (1939)
  • 1992: Count Basie “Everyday I Have the Blues” (1955)
  • 1985: Count Basie “April in Paris” (1956)
  • 2015: Fontella Bass “Rescue Me” (1965)
  • 2008: Shirley Bassey “Goldfinger “( 1964)
  • 2008: Nora Bayes “Over There” (1917)
  • 1999: The Beach Boys “In My Room” (1963)
  • 2017: The Beach Boys “I Get Around” (1964)
  • 2010: The Beach Boys “California Girls” (1965)
  • 1994: The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966)
  • 1998: The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963)
  • 1997: The Beatles “Yesterday” (1965)
  • 2008: The Beatles “Help!” (1965)
  • 2002: The Beatles “Eleanor Rigby” (1966)
  • 1999: The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever” (1967)
  • 2011: The Beatles “Penny Lane” (1967)
  • 2001: The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968)
  • 2004: The Beatles “Let It Be” (1970)
  • 2011: Sidney Bechet “Summertime” (1939)
  • 1980: Bix Beiderbecke “In a Mist” (1928)
  • 2009: Harry Belafonte “Banana Boat (Day-O)” (1957)
  • 2008: Vincenzo Bellini “Casta Diva (from "Norma")” (1929)
  • 1994: Tony Bennett “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” (1962)
  • 2009: Tony Bennett “For Once in My Life” (1967)
  • 1975: Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra “I Can't Get Started” (1938)
  • 1988: Chuck Berry “Maybellene” (1955)
  • 1990: Chuck Berry “Roll Over Beethoven” (1956)
  • 1999: Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” (1958)
  • 1999: Big Maybelle “Candy” (1953)
  • 1998: Art Blakey “Moanin'“ (1958)
  • 1999: Bobby “Blue” Bland “Turn on Your Love Light” (1961)
  • 2016: Blondie “Heart of Glass” (1978)
  • 1999: Booker T. & the MG’s “Green Onions” (1962)
  • 2008: Boston Pops Orchestra “Jalousie (Jealousy)” (1935)
  • 2018: David Bowie “Space Oddity” (1969)
  • 2017: David Bowie “Changes” (1971)
  • 2011: The Box Tops “The Letter” (1967)
  • 1998: Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats “Rocket 88” (1951)
  • 1999: Fanny Brice “My Man (Mon Homme)” (1922)
  • 2012: Big Bill Broonzy “Key to the Highway” (1941)
  • 2001: James Brown “Please Please Please” (1956)
  • 1999: James Brown “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” (1965)
  • 2013: James Brown “I Got You (I Feel Good)” (1965)
  • 2010: James Brown “It's a Man's Man's Man's World” (1966)
  • 2016: James Brown “Cold Sweat” (1967)
  • 2014: James Brown “Get Up I Feel Like Being Like a Sex Machine” (1970)
  • 1998: Les Brown with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (1945)
  • 1996: Dave Brubeck Quartet “Take Five “( 1959)
  • 2000: Buffalo Springfield “For What It’s Worth” (1966)
  • 2016: Buffett, Jimmy “Margaritaville” (1977)
  • 1999: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band “East-West” (1966)
  • 1998: The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965)
  • 2001: The Byrds “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” (1965)
  • 1999: The Byrds “Eight Miles High” (1966)

C
  • 1999: Cab Calloway “Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song)” (1931)
  • 2017: Cab Calloway “Hep! Hep! the Jumpin' Jive” (1939)
  • 2004: Glen Campbell “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” (1967)
  • 2008: Glen Campbell “Gentle on My Mind” (1967)
  • 2000: Glen Campbell “Wichita Lineman” (1968)
  • 2007: Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers “Walk Right In” (1929)
  • 1995: Hoagy Carmichael “Stardust” (1927)
  • 2014: Hoagy Carmichael “Georgia on My Mind” (1930)
  • 1998: Carpenters “We've Only Just Begun” (1970)
  • 2000: Carpenters “They Long to Be Close to You “( 1970)
  • 2016: James Carr “The Dark End of the Street” (1967)
  • 2012: Leroy Carr “How Long Blues” (1928)
  • 1998: Fiddlin’ John Carson “Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” (1923)
  • 1999: The Carter Family “Wildwood Flower” (1928)
  • 2006: The Carter Family “Keep on the Sunny Side” (1928)
  • 1998: The Carter Family “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)” (1935)
  • 1993: Enrico Caruso “Celeste Aida (Heavenly Aida)” (1904)
  • 1975: Enrico Caruso “Pagliacci, Act I: Vesti La Giubba (On with the Play) (new version)” (1907)
  • 2001: Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues” (1955)
  • 1998: Johnny Cash “I Walk the Line” (1956)
  • 1999: Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire” (1963)
  • 1999: The Cats and the Fiddle “I Miss You So” (1939)
  • 1999: Feodor Chaliapin (performer) “Song of the Flea” (1926)
  • 2001: The Champs “Tequila” (1958)
  • 2002: Gene Chandler “Duke of Earl” (1962)
  • 2011: Harry Chapin “Cat's in the Cradle” (1974)
  • 1990: Ray Charles “I Gotta Woman” (1955)
  • 2000: Ray Charles “What’d I Say” (1959)
  • 1993: Ray Charles “Georgia on My Mind” (1960)
  • 2013: Ray Charles “Hit the Road Jack” (1961)
  • 2001: Ray Charles “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (1962)
  • 2005: Ray Charles “America the Beautiful” (1972)
  • 2000: Chubby Checker “The Twist” (1960)
  • 2017: Cher “ I Got You Babe” (1965)
  • 2015: Chic “Le Freak” (1978)
  • 2002: The Chordettes “Mr. Sandman” (1954)
  • 2008: The Chords “Sh-Boom” (1954)
  • 2020: The Chuck Wagon Gang “I’ll Fly Away” (1948)
  • 2003: Eric Clapton “I Shot the Sheriff” (1974)
  • 2003: Petula Clark “Downtown” (1964)
  • 2011: Jimmy Cliff “Many Rivers to Cross” (1969)
  • 2020: Patsy Cline “Walkin’ After Midnight” (1957)
  • 1992: Patsy Cline “Crazy” (1961)
  • 2001: Patsy Cline “I Fall to Pieces” (1961)
  • 1999: Rosemary Clooney “Hey There” (1954)
  • 1999: The Coasters “Yakety Yak” (1958)
  • 1999: Eddie Cochran “Summertime Blues” (1958)
  • 2001: Joe Cocker “With a Little Help from My Friends” (1968)
  • 2016: Joe Cocker “You Are So Beautiful” (1974)
  • 2019: Leonard Cohen “Hallelujah” (1984)
  • 1998: Nat “King” Cole “Straighten Up and Fly Right” (1944)
  • 1974: Nat “King” Cole “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” (1946)
  • 2002: Nat “King” Cole “Get Your Kicks on Route 66” (1946)
  • 2018: Nat “King” Cole “I Love You for Sentimental Reasons” (1946)
  • 1999: Nat “King” Cole “Nature Boy” (1948)
  • 1992: Nat “King” Cole “Mona Lisa” (1950)
  • 2000: Nat “King” Cole “Unforgettable” (1951)
  • 2005: Arthur Collins and Byron Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911)
  • 2003: Judy Collins “Both Sides Now” (1968)
  • 2000: John Coltrane “Lush Life” (1963)
  • 1998: Perry Como “Till the End of Time” (1945)
  • 1998: Sam Cooke “You Send Me” (1957)
  • 2014: Sam Cooke “Wonderful World” (1960)
  • 2018: Sam Cooke “Bring It on Home to Me” (1962)
  • 2000: Sam Cooke “A Change Is Gonna Come” (1964)
  • 2015: Alice Cooper “School's Out” (1972)
  • 2009: Aaron Copland “Fanfare for the Common Man” (1943)
  • 2009: Aaron Copland “Appalachian Spring” (1944)
  • 1999: Chick Corea “Now He Sings, Now He Sobs” (1968)
  • 2021: Elizabeth Cotton “Freight Train” (1905)
  • 2013: Francis Craig with Bob Lamm “Near You” (1947)
  • 2004: Floyd Cramer “Last Date” (1960)
  • 1998: Creedence Clearwater Revival “Proud Mary” (1969)
  • 2014: Creedence Clearwater Revival “Fortunate Son” (1969)
  • 2005: Bing Crosby “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (1932)
  • 2004: Bing Crosby “Pennies from Heaven” (1936)
  • 1974: Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers & the John Scott Trotter Orchestra “White Christmas” (1942)
  • 1998: Bing Crosby “Don't Fence Me In” (1944)
  • 2002: Bing Crosby “Swinging on a Star” (1944)
  • 2009: Crosby, Stills & Nash with Neil Young “Ohio” (1970)
  • 2018: Arthur Crudup “That's All Right, Mama” (1946)
  • 2004: The Crystals “He's a Rebel” (1962)

D
  • 2020: Dick Dale & the Del-Tones “Misirlou” (1962)
  • 2022: Vernon Dalhart “The Wreck of the Old 97” (1924)
  • 1998: Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song” (1925)
  • 1999: Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife” (1959)
  • 1999: Jimmie Davis “You Are My Sunshine” (1940)
  • 2002: Sammy Davis, Jr. “What Kind of Fool Am I?” (1962)
  • 1999: Spencer Davis Group “Gimme Some Lovin'“ (1966)
  • 1999: Doris Day “Secret Love” (1954)
  • 2012: Doris Day “Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera)” (1956)
  • 2017: Deep Purple “Smoke on the Water” (1972)
  • 2021: Édouard-Léon Scott De Martinville “Au Clair De La Lune” (1860)
  • 2007: Desmond Dekker “The Israelites” (1969)
  • 2007: The Delmore Brothers “Blues Stay Away from Me” (1949)
  • 1998: John Denver “Take Me Home, Country Roads “( 1971)
  • 1998: Derek & the Dominos “Layla” (1970)
  • 2008: Jackie DeShannon “What the World Needs Now Is Love” (1965)
  • 2000: Al Dexter & His Troopers “Pistol Packin' Mama” (1943)
  • 2020: Neil Diamond “Sweet Caroline” (1969)
  • 1998: Bo Diddley “Bo Diddley” (1955)
  • 2020: Bo Diddley “I’m a Man” (1955)
  • 2010: Bo Diddley “Who Do You Love?” (1956)
  • 1999: Dion “I Wonder Why” (1958)
  • 2002: Dion “Runaround Sue” (1961)
  • 2017: Dion “The Wanderer” (1961)
  • 2000: The Dixie Hummingbirds “Amazing Grace” (1946)
  • 1998: Bill Doggett “Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2)” (1956)
  • 2016: Fats Domino “The Fat Man” (1950)
  • 2002: Fats Domino “Ain't That a Shame” (1955)
  • 1987: Fats Domino “Blueberry Hill” (1956)
  • 2019: Fats Domino “I’m Walkin’” (1957)
  • 2011: Fats Domino “Walking to New Orleans” (1960)
  • 2015: The Dominoes “Sixty Minute Man” (1951)
  • 1998: The Doors “Light My Fire” (1967)
  • 2010: The Doors “Riders on the Storm” (1971)
  • 2009: Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra “Brazil (Aquarela Do Brasil)” (1942)
  • 1998: Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra “I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You” (1936)
  • 1998: Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra “Marie” (1937)
  • 1982: Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra “I’ll Never Smile Again” (1940)
  • 1999: The Drifters “Money Honey” (1953)
  • 1998: The Drifters“There Goes My Baby” (1959)
  • 2001: The Drifters “Save the Last Dance for Me” (1960)
  • 2013: The Drifters “On Broadway” (1963)
  • 2014: The Drifters “Under the Boardwalk” (1964)
  • 1994: Bob Dylan “Blowin' in the Wind” (1963)
  • 2013: Bob Dylan“The Times They Are A-Changin’” (1964)
  • 1998: Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965)
  • 2002: Bob Dylan “Mr. Tamborine Man” (1965)

E
  • 2000: Eagles “Desperado” (1973)
  • 2008: Eagles “Hotel California” (1976)
  • 2008: Earth, Wind & Fire “Shining Star” (1975)
  • 1999: Billy Eckstine “I Apologize” (1951)
  • 2018: Thomas Alva Edison “Mary Had a Little Lamb” (1878)
  • 2002: Cliff Edwards “When You Wish Upon a Star” (1940)
  • 1981: Duke Ellington “Black and Tan Fantasy” (1927)
  • 1975: Duke Ellington “Mood Indigo” (1931)
  • 2008: Duke Ellington “It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing” (1932)
  • 2007: Duke Ellington “Cocktails for Two” (1934)
  • 2009: Duke Ellington “Caravan” (1937)
  • 2010: Duke Ellington “Don't Get Around Much Anymore” (1940)
  • 2011: Duke Ellington “Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me” (1940)
  • 2011: Duke Ellington “Ko-Ko” (1940)
  • 1976: Duke Ellington “Take the ‘A’ Train” (1941)
  • 1990: Duke Ellington “Black, Brown and Beige” (1943)
  • 1999: Duke Ellington “Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue” (1956)
  • 2005: Ruth Etting “Love Me or Leave Me” (1929)
  • 1999: Ruth Etting “Ten Cents a Dance” (1930)
  • 2020: Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This” (1983)
  • 1998: The Everly Brothers “Bye Bye Love” (1957)
  • 2017: The Everly Brothers “Wake Up Little Susie” (1957)
  • 2004: The Everly Brothers “All I Have to Do Is Dream” (1958)

F
  • 2000: Percy Faith “A Summer Place (Theme from)” (1960)
  • 2013: Joseph Falcon “Allons a Lafayette” (1928)
  • 2010: Jose Feliciano “Feliz Navidad” (1970)
  • 2012: Freddy Fender “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights” (1975)
  • 2003: The Fifth Dimension “Up Up and Away” (1967)
  • 2004: The Fifth Dimension “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” (1969)
  • 2015: Fisk University Jubilee Quartet “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (1910)
  • 1986: Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (1938)
  • 2002: Ella Fitzgerald “How High the Moon” (1960)
  • 1998: The Five Satins “In the Still of the Nite (I’ll Remember)” (1956)
  • 1999: Roberta Flack “Killing Me Softly with His Song” (1973)
  • 2003: The Flamingos “I Only Have Eyes for You” (1959)
  • 1999: Flatt & Scruggs “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” (1950)
  • 1998: Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons” (1955)
  • 2006: Jimmy Forest “Night Train” (1952)
  • 2015: The Four Seasons “Big Girls Don’t Cry” (1962)
  • 1998: Four Tops “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” (1966)
  • 1998: Aretha Franklin “Respect” (1967)
  • 1999: Aretha Franklin “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman” (1967)
  • 2001: Aretha Franklin “Chain of Fools” (1967)
  • 1999: Lefty Frizzell “If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time” (1950)
  • 2015: The Bobby Fuller Four “I Fought the Law” (1966)

G
  • 2013: Carols Gardel “El Dia Que Me Quieras” (1935)
  • 1998: Judy Garland “You Made Me Love You (Dear Mr. Gable)” (1937)
  • 1981: Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (1939)
  • 2010: Judy Garland “For Me and My Gal” (1942)
  • 1991: Erroll Garner Trio “Misty” (1954)
  • 1999: Marvin Gaye “Ain't No Mountain High Enough” (1967)
  • 1998: Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968)
  • 2002: Marvin Gaye “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” (1971)
  • 2012: Gloria Gaynor “I Will Survive” (1978)
  • 1999: Bobbie Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe” (1967)
  • 1997: George Gershwin “An American in Paris” (1929)
  • 2000: Stan Getz “Desafinado” (1962)
  • 2000: Stan Getz “The Girl from Ipanema” (1964)
  • 2000: Joao Gilberto “Chega de Saudade (No More Blues)” (1958)
  • 2000: Dizzy Gillespie “Groovin' High” (1945)
  • 2004: Dizzy Gillespie “A Night in Tunisia” (1946)
  • 1999: Dizzy Gillespie “Manteca” (1948)
  • 1998: Benny Goodman “Moon Glow” (1934)
  • 2008: Benny Goodman “King Porter Stomp” (1935)
  • 1982: Benny Goodman “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)” (1938)
  • 1987: Benny Goodman “And the Angels Sing” (1939)
  • 2008: Benny Goodman “Seven Come Eleven” (1940)
  • 2017: Lesley Gore “You Don't Own Me” (1963)
  • 2012: Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five “The Message” (1982)
  • 1999: Al Green “Let’s Stay Together” (1971)
  • 2011: Al Green “Take Me to the River” (1974)
  • 2002: Arlo Guthrie “Alice's Restaurant” (1967)
  • 2017: Arlo Guthrie “City of New Orleans” (1972)
  • 1989: Woody Guthrie “This Land Is Your Land” (1944)

H
  • 1999: Merle Haggard “Mama Tried” (1968)
  • 2017: Merle Haggard “Okie from Muskogee” (1969)
  • 1982: Bill Haley & His Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (1954)
  • 1996: Lionel Hampton “Flying Home” (1940)
  • 2019: W.C. Handy “St. Louis Blues” (1914)
  • 1999: The Harmonicats “Peg O’ My Heart” (1947)
  • 2008: Slim Harpo “I'm a King Bee” (1957)
  • 2009: Wynonie Harris “Good Rockin' Tonight” (1948)
  • 2001: Wilbert Harrison “Kansas City” (1959)
  • 1974: Coleman Hawkins “Body and Soul” (1940)
  • 1999: Edwin Hawkins Singers “Oh Happy Day” (1969)
  • 1999: Isaac Hayes “Shaft (Theme from)” (1971)
  • 2021: Fletcher Henderson “Copenhagen” (1924)
  • 2000: The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Purple Haze” (1967)
  • 2001: The Jimi Hendrix Experience “All Along the Watchtower” (1968)
  • 2009: Jimi Hendrix “The Star Spangled Banner (live)” (1969)
  • 2002: Woody Herman “At the Woodchoppers’ Ball” (1939)
  • 2000: Woody Herman “Early Autumn” (1947)
  • 1984: Woody Herman “Four Brothers” (1948)
  • 2018: Billie Holiday “My Man (Mon Homme)” (1938)
  • 1978: Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit” (1939)
  • 2005: Billie Holiday “Embraceable You” (1944)
  • 1989: Billie Holiday “Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)” (1945)
  • 2010: Billie Holiday “Crazy He Calls Me” (1949)
  • 2021: Billie Holiday “Solitude” (1952)
  • 1998: Buddy Holly & the Crickets “That’ll Be the Day” (1957)
  • 1999: Buddy Holly & the Crickets “Peggy Sue” (1957)
  • 1999: John Lee Hooker “Boogie Chillen'“ (1949)
  • 2016: John Lee Hooker “Boom Boom” (1962)
  • 2005: Bob Hope “Thanks for the Memory” (1939)
  • 2000: Lena Horne “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1942)
  • 2002: Johnny Horton “The Battle of New Orleans” (1959)
  • 2013: Son House “My Black Mama” (1930)
  • 2018: Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” (1992)
  • 1999: Howlin' Wolf “Smokestack Lightning” (1956)
  • 2011: Mississippi John Hurt “Frankie” (1928)
  • 2017: Mississippi John Hurt “Stack O' Lee Blues” (1928)
  • 1984: Walter Huston “September Song” (1939)

I
  • 2002: Janis Ian “Society's Child (Baby, I've Been Thinking)” (1967)
  • 2008: Janis Ian “At Seventeen” (1975)
  • 1998: The Impressions “People Get Ready” (1965)
  • 1987: The Ink Spots “If I Didn't Care” (1939)
  • 1999: The Isley Brothers “Shout (Parts 1 and 2)” (1959)
  • 2010: The Isley Brothers “Twist and Shout” (1962)

J
  • 1999: The Jackson 5 “I Want You Back” (1969)
  • 2011: The Jackson 5 “I’ll Be There” (1970)
  • 2017: The Jackson 5 “ABC” (1970)
  • 1998: Mahalia Jackson “Move on Up a Little Higher” (1948)
  • 2010: Mahalia Jackson “His Eye Is on the Sparrow” (1951)
  • 2012: Mahalia Jackson “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” (1956)
  • 2008: Little Walter Jacobs “Juke” (1952)
  • 1998: Emore James “I Believe I'll Dust My Broom” (1952)
  • 2008: Etta James “The Wallflower (Roll with Me Henry)” (1955)
  • 1999: Etta James “At Last” (1961)
  • 2020: Skip James “Devil Got My Woman” (1931)
  • 2008: Jan & Dean “Dead Man's Curve” (1964)
  • 2019: El Jarocho “La Bamba” (1939)
  • 1998: Jefferson Airplane “White Rabbit” (1967)
  • 1999: Blind Lemon Jefferson “Matchbox Blues” (1927)
  • 2016: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “I Love Rock and Roll” (1981)
  • 2013: Billy Joel “Piano Man” (1973)
  • 2004: Billy Joel “Just the Way You Are” (1977)
  • 1998: Elton John “Your Song” (1970)
  • 2020: Elton John “Tiny Dancer” (2020)
  • 2011: Blind Willie Johnson “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” (1927)
  • 2020: James P. Johnson “Carolina Shout” (1922)
  • 1998: Robert Johnson “Crossroads (aka "Cross Road Blues")” (1936)
  • 2014: Robert Johnson “Sweet Home Chicago” (1936)
  • 2010: Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)” (1913)
  • 2004: Al Jolson “Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody” (1918)
  • 1998: Al Jolson “Swanee” (1920)
  • 2005: Al Jolson “California Here I Come” (1924)
  • 2002: Al Jolson “Sonny Boy” (1928)
  • 2011: Al Jolson “My Mammy” (1928)
  • 1999: George Jones “She Thinks I Still Care” (1962)
  • 2007: George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (1980)
  • 2007: Isham Jones “It Had to Be You” (1924)
  • 1995: Spike Jones & His City Slickers “Cocktails for Two” (1945)
  • 2007: Spike Jones & His City Slickers “All I Want for Christmas Is My Tooth Front Teeth” (1948)
  • 1999: Janis Joplin “Piece of My Heart” (1968)
  • 2002: Janis Joplin “Me and Bobby McGee” (1971)
  • 1998: Louis Jordan “Caldonia” (1945)
  • 2008: Louis Jordan “Choo Choo Ch'Boogie” (1946)
  • 2009: Louis Jordan “Let the Good Times Roll” (1946)
  • 2013: Louis Jordan “Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens” (1946)
  • 2021: Journey “Don’t Stop Believin’” (1981)
  • 1998: Bill Justis “Raunchy” (1957)

K
  • 2009: Helen Kane “I Wanna Be Loved by You” (1928)
  • 2006: Anton Karas “The Third Man Theme” (1950)
  • 1999: Gene Kelly “Singin' in the Rain” (1952)
  • 1985: Stan Kenton “Artistry in Rhythm” (1944)
  • 2014: B.B. King “Three O'Clock Blues” (1951)
  • 2004: B.B. King “Everyday I Have the Blues” (1955)
  • 1998: B.B. King “The Thrill Is Gone” (1969)
  • 2002: Ben E. King “Spanish Harlem” (1960)
  • 1998: Ben E. King “Stand by Me” (1961)
  • 2001: Carole King “You’ve Got a Friend” (1971)
  • 2003: Carole King “It's Too Late” (1971)
  • 1999: Freddie King “Hideaway” (1961)
  • 1999: The Kingsmen “Louie Louie” (1963)
  • 1998: The Kingston Trio “Tom Dooley” (1958)
  • 1999: The Kinks “You Really Got Me” (1964)
  • 2018: Gladys Knight & the Pips “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1967)
  • 1999: Gladys Knight & the Pips “Midnight Train to Georgia” (1973)
  • 2016: Kool & the Gang “Celebration” (1980)

L
  • 2003: Patti LaBelle “Lady Marmalade” (1974)
  • 1998: Frankie Laine “That's My Desire” (1947)
  • 2008: Gertrude Lawrence “Someone to Watch Over Me” (1927)
  • 2007: Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love” (1969)
  • 2003: Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” (1971)
  • 2002: Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter “Goodnight Irene” (1933)
  • 2016: Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter “Rock Island Line” (1942)
  • 2019: Brenda Lee “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (1958)
  • 1999: Brenda Lee “I'm Sorry” (1960)
  • 1998: Peggy Lee “Fever” (1957)
  • 1999: Peggy Lee “Is That All There Is?” (1969)
  • 1999: John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)
  • 2012: Furry Lewis “Kassie Jones” (1928)
  • 1998: Jerry Lee Lewis “Great Balls of Fire” (1957)
  • 1999: Jerry Lee Lewis “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” (1957)
  • 2009: Ramsey Lewis “The In Crowd” (1965)
  • 2007: Solomon Linda & the Evening Birds “Mbube” (1939)
  • 2016: Little Eva “The Loco-Motion” (1962)
  • 1998: Little Richard “Tutti Frutti” (1955)
  • 1999: Little Richard “Long Tall Sally” (1956)
  • 2002: Little Richard “Lucille” (1957)
  • 2001: Julie London “Cry Me a River” (1955)
  • 2002: The Lovin’ Spoonful “Do You Believe in Magic” (1965)
  • 1999: The Lovin’ Spoonful “Summer in the City” (1966)
  • 1999: Jimmie Lunceford “For Dancers Only” (1937)
  • 2001: Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers “Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” (1956)
  • 1998: Loretta Lynn “Coal Miner's Daughter” (1970)
  • 2008: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Free Bird” (1973)
  • 2009: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama” (1974)

M
  • 2008: Jeanette MacDonald “Indian Love Call” (1936)
  • 2020: Machito “Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite” (1950)
  • 2007: Uncle Dave Macon “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy” (1924)
  • 2019: Miriam Makeba “Pata Pata” (1967)
  • 2001: The Mamas & the Papas “California Dreamin'“ (1966)
  • 2008: The Mamas & the Papas “Monday Monday” (1966)
  • 2005: Henry Mancini “Peter Gunn” (1959)
  • 1999: Henry Mancini with Audrey Hepburn “Moon River” (1961)
  • 2003: Henry Mancini “The Days of Wine and Roses” (1963)
  • 1999: Bob Marley & the Marleys “Get Up Stand Up” (1973)
  • 2005: Bob Marley & the Marleys “No Woman, No Cry” (1974)
  • 2007: Bob Marley & the Marleys “One Love/People Get Ready” (1977)
  • 1999: Dean Martin “Everybody Loves Somebody” (1964)
  • 2007: Mary Martin “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” (1939)
  • 2011: The Marvelettes “Please Mr. Postman” (1961)
  • 2018: Hugh Masekela “Grazing in the Grass” (1968)
  • 1998: Johnny Mathis “Chances Are “( 1957)
  • 2008: Johnny Mathis “It's Not for Me to Say” (1957)
  • 2002: Johnny Mathis “Misty” (1959)
  • 2019: Curtis Mayfield “Move on Up” (1970)
  • 1999: Percy Mayfield “Please Send Me Someone to Love” (1950)
  • 1999: John McCormack “Somewhere a Voice Is Calling” (1916)
  • 2002: Don McLean “American Pie” (1971)
  • 2017: Blind Willie McTell “Statesboro Blues” (1928)
  • 2019: Edward Meeker “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908)
  • 2013: The Memphis Jug Band “Stealin' Stealin'“ (1928)
  • 2021: Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy “When the Levee Breaks” (1929)
  • 1998: Johnny Mercer “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” (1945)
  • 2010: Johnny Mercer “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” (1946)
  • 2008: Ethel Merman “You're the Top” (1934)
  • 2006: Big Maceo Merriweather “Worried Life Blues” (1941)
  • 2011: The Meters “Cissy Strut” (1969)
  • 2004: Mickey & Sylvia “Love Is Strange” (1956)
  • 2007: Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers “Lovesick Blues” (1928)
  • 1983: Glenn Miller “In the Mood” (1939)
  • 1991: Glenn Miller “Moonlight Serenade” (1939)
  • 1996: Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & the Four Modernaires…Chattanooga Choo Choo (1941)
  • 1998: Roger Miller “Dang Me” (1964)
  • 1999: Roger Miller “King of the Road” (1965)
  • 1998: The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll” (1942)
  • 2017: The Mills Brothers “You Always Hurt the One You Love” (1944)
  • 2006: The Miracles “Shop Around” (1960)
  • 1998: The Miracles “You've Really Got a Hold on Me” (1962)
  • 2007: The Miracles “The Tracks of My Tears” (1965)
  • 2002: The Miracles “The Tears of a Clown” (1970)
  • 2008: The Mississippi Sheiks “Sitting on Top of the World” (1930)
  • 1993: Thelonious Monk “Round Midnight” (1947)
  • 2009: Bill Monroe “Mule Skinner Blues” (1940)
  • 1998: Bill Monroe “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (1947)
  • 2007: Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers “I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart” (1936)
  • 1999: The Moody Blues “Nights in White Satin” (1967)
  • 2001: James Moody “Moody's Mood for Love” (1952)
  • 2002: The Moonglows “Sincerely” (1955)
  • 1998: Helen Morgan “Bill” (1928)
  • 1999: Van Morrison & Them “Gloria” (1965)
  • 2007: Van Morrison “Brown-Eyed Girl” (1967)
  • 2010: Jelly Roll Morton “Kansas City Stomp” (1923)
  • 2006: Billy Murray “Yankee Doodle Boy” (1905)
  • 2008: Billy Murray “Give My Regards to Broadway” (1905)

N
  • 2011: Willie Nelson “On the Road Again” (1980)
  • 2008: Willie Nelson “Always on My Mind” (1982)
  • 2020: Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard “Pancho and Lefty” (1982)
  • 2015: Aaron Neville “Tell It Like It Is” (1966)
  • 1999: Harry Nilsson “Everybody's Talkin'“ (1968)
  • 2017: Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
  • 2010: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Mr. Bojangles” (1970)
  • 2005: Ray Noble “The Very Thought of You” (1934)

O
  • 2006: The O’Jays “Love Train” (1973)
  • 2016: The O’Jays “For the Love of Money” (1974)
  • 1996: King Oliver “Chimes Blues” (1923)
  • 2010: King Oliver “Dipper Mouth Blues” (1923)
  • 1999: Roy Orbison “Only the Lonely” (1960)
  • 2002: Roy Orbison “Crying” (1961)
  • 1999: Roy Orbison “(Oh) Pretty Woman” (1964)
  • 2006: Original Dixieland Jazz Band “The Darktown Strutters' Ball” (1917)
  • 2008: The Orioles “Crying in the Chapel” (1953)
  • 2013: Buck Owens “Act Naturally” (1963)
  • 1999: Buck Owens “I've Got a Tiger by the Tail” (1965)

P
  • 1998: Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)
  • 2002: Charlie Parker “Billie's Bounce” (1945)
  • 2019: Charlie Parker with Miles Davis & Dizzy Gillespie “Ko-Ko” (1945)
  • 1989: Charlie Parker “Ornithology” (1946)
  • 2014: Charlie Parker “Yardbird Suite” (1946)
  • 2018: Parliament/Funkadelic “Flash Light” (1977)
  • 2019: Dolly Parton “Coat of Many Colors” (1971)
  • 2014: Dolly Parton “Jolene” (1973)
  • 2007: Dolly Parton “I Will Always Love You” (1974)
  • 1999: Charley Patton “Pony Blues” (1929)
  • 2018: Billy Paul “Me and Mrs. Jones” (1972)
  • 1979: Les Paul & Mary Ford “How High the Moon” (1951)
  • 2005: Les Paul & Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)” (1953)
  • 1998: The Penguins “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)” (1954)
  • 1986: Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes” (1956)
  • 2003: Peter, Paul & Mary “Blowin' in the Wind” (1963)
  • 1998: Edith Piaf “La Vie En Rose” (1950)
  • 1999: Wilson Pickett “In the Midnight Hour” (1965)
  • 2000: Wilson Pickett “Mustang Sally” (1966)
  • 1999: The Platters “Only You (And You Alone)” (1955)
  • 2002: The Platters “The Great Pretender” (1955)
  • 2019: The Platters “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” (1958)
  • 2008: The Police “Roxanne” (1978)
  • 2007: Charlie Poole & His North Carolina Ramblers “Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues” (1925)
  • 1999: Bud Powell Trio “Un Poco Loco” (1951)
  • 2005: Dick Powell “Lullaby of Broadway” (1935)
  • 1998: Elvis Presley “That's All Right, Mama” (1954)
  • 1988: Elvis Presley “Hound Dog” (1956)
  • 1995: Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956)
  • 2002: Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel” (1956)
  • 2017: Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock” (1957)
  • 2007: Elvis Presley “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” (1960)
  • 1999: Elvis Presley “Suspicious Minds” (1969)
  • 1999: Ray Price “Crazy Arms” (1956)
  • 1998: Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (1967)
  • 1998: Professor Longhair “Tipitina” (1953)
  • 2018: Public Enemy “Fight the Power” (1989)
  • 2002: Tito Puente “Oye Como Va” (1953)

Q

R
  • 2004: Ma Rainey “See See Rider Blues” (1925)
  • 2017: Bonnie Raitt “I Can't Make You Love Me” (1991)
  • 1999: The Rascals “Groovin'“ (1967)
  • 1998: Johnnie Ray “Cry” (1951)
  • 2011: Otis Redding “I've Been Loving You Too Long” (1965)
  • 2015: Otis Redding “Try a Little Tenderness” (1966)
  • 1998: Otis Redding “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” (1968)
  • 2020: Blind Alfred Reed “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live” (1930)
  • 2015: Lou Reed “Walk on the Wild Side” (1972)
  • 1999: Jim Reeves “He'll Have to Go” (1959)
  • 1999: Martha Reeves & the Vandellas “Dancing in the Street” (1964)
  • 2000: Django Reinhardt, “Nuages” (1940)
  • 2017: R.E.M. “Losing My Religion” (1991)
  • 1999: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors” (1973)
  • 2005: Harry Richman “Puttin' on the Ritz” (1930)
  • 1998: The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” (1964)
  • 2000: The Righteous Brothers “Unchained Melody” (1965)
  • 2019: Jeannie C. Riley “Harper Valley P.T.A.” (1968)
  • 1998: Marty Robbins “El Paso” (1959)
  • 2015: Paul Robeson “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (1926)
  • 2006: Paul Robeson “Ol’ Man River” (1927)
  • 1985: Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)” (1928)
  • 2007: Jimmie Rodgers “In the Jailhouse Now” (1928)
  • 2007: Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel #9 (Standing on the Corner)” (1930)
  • 2021: Kenny Rogers “The Gambler” (1978)
  • 2009: Roy Rogers “Happy Trails” (1948)
  • 1998: The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965)
  • 2018: The Rolling Stones “Paint It Black” (1966)
  • 2014: The Rolling Stones “Honky Tonk Women” (1969)
  • 2019: Sonny Rollins Quartet featuring John Coltrane “Tenor Madness” (1956)
  • 1999: The Ronettes “Be My Baby” (1963)
  • 2004: David Rose “Holiday for Strings” (1943)
  • 2014: Run-D.M.C. with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry “Walk This Way” (1986)
  • 2018: Leon Russell “A Song for You” (1970)

S
  • 1999: Sam & Dave “Soul Man” (1967)
  • 2009: Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs “Wooly Bully” (1965)
  • 1998: Mongo Santamaria “Watermelon Man” (1963)
  • 2009: Carlo Savina “The Godfather (Love Theme from)” (1972)
  • 1984: Bidu Sayao “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 - Aria” (1945)
  • 2017: Lalo Schifrin “Mission Impossible” (1968)
  • 2014: Gil Scott-Heron “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” (1970)
  • 1999: Pete Seeger “We Shall Overcome” (1963)
  • 2002: Pete Seeger “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” (1964)
  • 2007: Ben Selvin “Happy Days Are Here Again” (1930)
  • 2002: Del Shannon “Runaway” (1961)
  • 1977: Artie Shaw “Begin the Beguine” (1938)
  • 2001: Artie Shaw “Any Old Time” (1938)
  • 2000: Artie Shaw “Frenesi” (1940)
  • 1988: Artie Shaw “Stardust” (1941)
  • 1999: The Shirelles “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” (1960)
  • 2004: Carly Simon “You're So Vain” (1972)
  • 2004: Simon & Garfunkel “The Sounds of Silence” (1965)
  • 1999: Simon & Garfunkel “Mrs. Robinson” (1968)
  • 1998: Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970)
  • 2000: Nina Simone “I Loves You, Porgy” (1959)
  • 2019: Nina Simone “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black” (1969)
  • 1998: Frank Sinatra “The House I Live In” (1946)
  • 2005: Frank Sinatra “One for My Baby and One More for the Road” (1949)
  • 2004: Frank Sinatra “I've Got the World on a String” (1953)
  • 1998: Frank Sinatra “I've Got You Under My Skin” (1956)
  • 2008: Frank Sinatra “Strangers in the Night” (1966)
  • 2000: Frank Sinatra “My Way” (1969)
  • 2013: Frank Sinatra “New York New York (Theme from)” (1980)
  • 2020: Nancy Sinatra “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” (1965)
  • 2016: Sir Douglas Quintet “She's About a Mover” (1965)
  • 2008: Sister Sledge “We Are Family” (1979)
  • 1999: Percy Sledge “When a Man Loves a Woman” (1966)
  • 1998: Sly & the Family Stone “Dance to the Music” (1968)
  • 2017: Sly & the Family Stone “Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin” (1969)
  • 2006: Bessie Smith “Down Hearted Blues” (1923)
  • 1993: Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (1925)
  • 1983: Bessie Smith “Empty Bed Blues” (1928)
  • 1983: Clarence “Pinetop” Smith “Pine Top's Boogie Woogie” (1929)
  • 1982: Kate Smith “God Bless America” (1939)
  • 1994: Mamie Smith “Crazy Blues” (1920)
  • 1998: Sammi Smith “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (1971)
  • 2000: Hank Snow “I'm Moving On” (1950)
  • 2002: The Sons of the Pioneers “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” (1934)
  • 1986: The Sons of the Pioneers “Cool Water” (1941)
  • 1998: John Philip Sousa “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (1897)
  • 2008: Dusty Springfield “The Look of Love” (1967)
  • 1998: Jo Stafford “You Belong to Me” (1952)
  • 2020: The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” (1951)
  • 1999: The Staple Singers “Uncloudy Day” (1956)
  • 2002: The Staple Singers “Respect Yourself” (1971)
  • 1999: The Staple Singers “I'll Take You There” (1972)
  • 1999: Edwin Starr “War” (1970)
  • 1998: Kay Starr “Wheel of Fortune” (1952)
  • 2013: W.H. Stepp “Bonaparte's Retreat” (1937)
  • 2002: Steppenwolf “Born to Be Wild” (1968)
  • 2017: Rod Stewart “Maggie May” (1971)
  • 2013: Ernest Van (Pop) Stoneman “The Titanic” (1925)
  • 1998: Barbra Streisand “People” (1964)
  • 2008: Barbra Streisand “The Way We Were” (1973)
  • 2014: The Sugarhill Gang “Rapper’s Delight” (1979)
  • 1999: The Supremes “Where Did Our Love Go” (1964)
  • 2001: The Supremes “Stop! In the Name of Love” (1965)
  • 1999: The Supremes “You Keep Me Hangin' On” (1966)
  • 2020: The Surfaris “Wipe Out” (1963)
  • 2020: The Swan Silvertones “Oh Mary Don’t You Weep” (1959)

T
  • 1986: Art Tatum “Tea for Two” (1939)
  • 1998: James Taylor “Fire and Rain” (1970)
  • 2002: James Taylor “You’ve Got a Friend” (1971)
  • 1998: The Temptations “My Girl” (1964)
  • 1999: The Temptations “Papa Was a Rollin' Stone” (1972)
  • 2016: Sister Rosetta Tharpe “This Train” (1939)
  • 2014: Sister Rosetta Tharpe “Strange Things Happening Every Day” (1944)
  • 2014: B.J. Thomas “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” (1969)
  • 2021: Irma Thomas “Time Is on My Side” (1964)
  • 2002: Rufus Thomas “Walking the Dog” (1963)
  • 1999: Hank Thompson “The Wild Side of Life” (1952)
  • 2013: Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton “Hound Dog” (1953)
  • 2019: The Troggs “Wild Thing” (1966)
  • 1977: Frankie Trumbauer “Singin' the Blues” (1927)
  • 1998: Ernest Tubb “Walking the Floor Over You” (1941)
  • 1995: Sophie Tucker “Some of These Days” (1911)
  • 1998: Big Joe Turner “Shake, Rattle and Roll” (1954)
  • 1999: Ike & Tina Turner “River Deep, Mountain High” (1966)
  • 2003: Ikie & Tina Turner “Proud Mary” (1971)
  • 2012: Tina Turner “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” (1984)
  • 2007: The Turtles “Happy Together” (1967)
  • 1999: Conway Twitty “Hello Darlin’” (1970)

U-V
  • 2021: U.S.A. for Africa “We Are the World” (1985)
  • 2000: Ritchie Valens “La Bamba” (1958)
  • 1998: Sarah Vaughan “If You Could See Me Now” (1946)
  • 2019: Sarah Vaughan “Tenderly” (1947)
  • 2006: The Ventures “Walk Don't Run” (1960)
  • 1997: Victor Symphony Orchestra “An American in Paris” (1929)
  • 2021: Village People “Y.M.C.A.” (1978)
  • 1999: Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps “Be-Bop-A-Lula” (1956)

W
  • 2002: Junior Walker & the All Stars “Shotgun” (1965)
  • 1991: T-Bone Walker “Call It Stormy Monday” (1947)
  • 1984: Fats Waller “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (1929)
  • 1999: Fats Waller “Honeysuckle Rose” (1935)
  • 2015: Fats Waller “Jitterbug Waltz” (1942)
  • 2014: War “Low Rider” (1975)
  • 2000: Dionne Warwick “Don't Make Me Over” (1962)
  • 1998: Dionne Warwick “Walk on By” (1964)
  • 2008: Dionne Warwick “Alfie” (1967)
  • 1999: Dinah Washington “Teach Me Tonight” (1954)
  • 1998: Dinah Washington “What a Diff'rence a Day Makes” (1959)
  • 2001: Dinah Washington “Unforgettable” (1959)
  • 1998: Ethel Waters “Dinah” (1926)
  • 2007: Ethel Waters “Am I Blue?” (1929)
  • 2003: Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1933)
  • 2010: Muddy Waters “I Feel Like Going Home” (1948)
  • 2000: Muddy Waters “Rollin' Stone” (1950)
  • 1998: Muddy Waters “Hoochie Coochie Man” (1954)
  • 1999: Muddy Waters “Got My Mojo Working” (1957)
  • 2006: Doc Watson “Black Mountain Rag” (1964)
  • 2010: Weather Report “Birdland” (1977)
  • 2006: The Weavers “Goodnight Irene” (1950)
  • 1998: Kitty Wells “It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (1952)
  • 1999: Mary Wells “My Guy” (1964)
  • 2012: Bukka White “Fixin' to Die” (1940)
  • 1998: Paul Whiteman “Whispering” (1920)
  • 1974: Paul Whiteman with George Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue” (1924)
  • 2012: Paul Whtieman “Anything Goes” (1934)
  • 1999: The Who “My Generation” (1965)
  • 2018: Andy Williams “Moon River” (1962)
  • 1981: Bert Williams “Nobody” (1906)
  • 2015: Hank Williams “Honky Tonkin’” (1948)
  • 1999: Hank Williams liams, Hank “I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry” (1949)
  • 2011: Hank Williams “Lovesick Blues” (1949)
  • 2001: Hank Williams “Hey Good Lookin’” (1951)
  • 2002: Hank Williams “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)” (1952)
  • 1983: Hank Williams “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (1953)
  • 2011: Bob Wills “Steel Guitar Rag” (1936)
  • 2015: Bob Wills “San Antonio Rose” (1939)
  • 1998: Bob Wills “New San Antonio Rose” (1940)
  • 2010: Dooley Wilson “As Time Goes By” (1942)
  • 1999: Jackie Wilson “Lonely Teardrops” (1958)
  • 1999: Jackie Wilson “Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher and Higher” (1967)
  • 1999: Bill Withers “Ain't No Sunshine” (1971)
  • 2007: Bill Withers “Lean on Me” (1972)
  • 1998: Stevie Wonder “Superstition” (1972)
  • 2002: Stevie Wonder “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” (1972)
  • 2019: Link Wray & His Men “Rumble” (1958)
  • 2021: Betty Wright “Clean Up Woman” (1971)
  • 1999: Tammy Wynette “Stand by Your Man” (1968)

X-Y-Z
  • 1999: Frank Yankovic & His Yanks “Just Because” (1948)
  • 2000: Faron Young “Hello Walls” (1961)
  • 1999: Lester Young “Just You, Just Me” (1944)
  • 2016: The Zombies “She's Not There” (1964)

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