Showing posts with label Billie Holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Billie Holiday. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

United States Postage Stamps: Music-Related

United States Postage Stamps:

Music-Related (1940-2022)

Originally this post was regarding the Legends of American Music Series, the first of which was issued on January 8, 1993, on what would have been Elvis Presley’s 58th birthday. More than 70 artists were honored in all styles of music from 1993 to 1999.

Since then, this page has been updated with other music makers who have been honored with stamps through 2022.

See other lifetime achievement awards.

A-B-C

D-E-F-G

H-I-J

K-L-M

N-O-P

Q-R-S

T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z

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First posted 1/30/2013; last updated 6/2/2026.
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Sunday, March 8, 2026

The Top 50 Jazz Musicians of All Time

Jazz:

Top 50 Acts

These are the top 50 jazz artists of all time according to Dave’s Music Database. The term “jazz” is used to incorporate instrumental jazz performed by small ensembles, big band jazz, vocal jazz, and traditional pop. That means this list includes musicians, singers, and band leaders. The list was determined by aggregating 17 best-of lists. Those acts appearing on 3 or more lists were re-ordered based on overall status in Dave’s Music Database.

See other lists of Acts/Music Makers by Genre.

1. Frank Sinatra
2. Benny Goodman
3. Louis Armstrong
4. Glenn Miller
5. Nat “King” Cole
6. Duke Ellington
7. Billie Holiday
8. Ella Fitzgerald
9. Miles Davis
10. Fats Waller

11. Bessie Smith
12. Artie Shaw
13. Count Basie
14. John Coltrane
15. Woody Herman
16. Herbie Hancock
17. Nina Simone
18. Thelonious Monk
19. Charles Mingus
20. Sarah Vaughan

21. Charlie Christian
22. Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton
23. Charlie Parker
24. Dizzy Gillespie
25. Teddy Wilson
26. Dave Brubeck
27. Art Tatum
28. Lionel Hampton
29. Erroll Garner
30. Bill Evans

31. Stan Kenton 32. Oscar Peterson
33. Django Reinhardt
34. Max Roach
35. Stan Getz
36. Wes Montgomery
37. Sonny Rollins
38. Coleman Hawkins
39. Bud Powell
40. Scott Joplin

41. Keith Jarrett
42. Lester Young
43. Art Blakey
44. Ornette Coleman
45. Cannonball Adderley
46. Wayne Shorter
47. Benny Carter
48. John McLaughlin
49. McCoy Tyner
50. Jimmy Smith

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First posted 12/23/2011; last updated 3/8/2026.

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Saturday, February 28, 2026

Traditional Pop/Vocal Jazz: Top 25 Albums

Traditional Pop/Vocal Jazz:

The Top 25 Albums

While traditional pop and vocal jazz aren’t quite the same thing, they share a lot of commonalities. Traditional pop is considered a genre of music that generally pre-dates rock and roll in the 1950s and generally consists of artists performing standards from the American songbook. Crooners such as Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Perry Como are popular singers of the genre. Musically, the singers were frequently backed by swing bands.

Vocal jazz is a sub-genre of jazz in which a singer’s voice is used as an instrument, which includes techniques such as vocal improvisations and scatting in which the singer imitates the instruments. It emerged out of the New Orleans jazz tradition which was built on the field hollers and work songs of African-American slaves. Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan are some of the genre’s most notable performers. Like traditional pop, it often leans on standards.

18 sources focused on the best traditional pop, vocal jazz, and standards albums were aggregtated to create this exclusive Dave’s Music Database list.

Check out other best-of-genre/category lists here.

1. Norah Jones Come Away with Me (2002)
2. Frank Sinatra Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! (1956)
3. Frank Sinatra In the Wee Small Hours (1955)
4. Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook (1956)
5. Natalie Cole Unforgettable…With Love (1991)

6. Billie Holiday Lady in Satin (1958)
7. Judy Garland Judy at Carnegie Hall (live, 1961)
8. Ray Charles The Genius of Ray Charles (1959)
9. Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958)
10. Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (1954)

11. Frank Sinatra Come Dance with Me (1959)
12. Frank Sinatra Come Fly with Me (1957)
13. Frank Sinatra September of My Years (1965)
14. Frank Sinatra A Swingin’ Affair (1957)
15. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Ella & Louis (1957)

16. John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963)
17. Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (box set: recorded 1959)
18. Chet Baker Chet Baker Sings (1954)
19. Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967)
20. Frank Sinatra Songs for Young Lovers (1953)

21. Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues (1956)
22. Nina Simone Pastel Blues (1965)
23. Nina Simone Wild Is the Wind (1966)
24. Billie Holiday Songs for Distingué Lovers (1957)
25. Sarah Vaughan & Clifford Brown Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown (1955)

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First posted 9/15/2024; last updated 2/28/2026.

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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Dave's Music Database Hall of Fame: Album Inductees (Feb. 2025)

The Top Traditional Pop/Jazz Albums

Originally posted 2/22/2025.

January 22, 2019 marked the 10-year anniversary of the DMDB blog. To honor that, Dave’s Music Database announced its own Hall of Fame. This month marks the 25th group of album inductees. These are the top 10 traditional pop/vocal jazz albums of all time (see the DMDB’s top 25 list here). Three were inducted in previous classes – Frank Sinatra’s Songs for Swingin’ Lovers, Judy Garland’s Judy at Carnegie Hall, and Norah Jones’ Come Away with Me.

See the full list of album inductees here.

Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (1954)

Inducted February 2025 as “Top Traditional Pop/Jazz Albums.”

AllMusic.com: “This recording was not only Louis Armstrong's finest record of the 1950s but one of the truly classic jazz sets.” He covers 11 songs written by W.C. Handy, including the notable “St. Louis Blues.” This is “essential music for all serious jazz collections.” Read more at Wikipedia.

Ray Charles The Genius of Ray Charles (1959)

Inducted February 2025 as “Top Traditional Pop/Jazz Albums.”

Ray Charles was one of the most influential singers of all time with “a revolutionary fusion of blues, jazz, R&B, and gospel.” RD The Genius of Ray Charles showed an artist “still in his twenties and signaled both his eagerness and ability to transcend genres at will.” RD It “comes on strong with a ravishing set of six big-band-flavored jazz numbers.” RD On the second side, “Charles turned in a more seductive direction and arrived at a roster of ballads backed by massive, swooning string sections.” RD Read more.

Natalie Cole Unforgettable…With Love (1991)

Inducted February 2025 as “Top Traditional Pop/Jazz Albums.”

Natalie Cole was born into music royalty as the daughter of Nat “King” Cole, a jazz crooner who charted more than 100 times in the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s. She became a star in her own right, winning the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1976 and charting sixteen top-10 R&B hits in the ‘70s and ‘80s. However, she found her greatest success in 1991 when she recorded an album of songs her father had made famous. It won her the Grammy for Album of the Year and sold seven million copies in the U.S. Read more.

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook (1956)

Inducted February 2025 as “Top Traditional Pop/Jazz Albums.”

“Ella Fitzgerald was already the preeminent voice in the jazz world when she began what became her signature project in 1956; a series of recordings devoted to works by each of the great stage and screen composers of postwar America.” TM They “are all wonderful, but her natural wit and intelligence was at its most perfect” AZ on Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, the first collection. She “shines as the perfect interpreter of Cole Porter’s bittersweet love songs.” AM It “is a dream pairing of singer and song,” TM “arguably history’s finest jazz singer singing some of the best-written American pop standards.” AM Read more.

Billie Holiday Lady in Satin (1958)

Inducted February 2025 as “Top Traditional Pop/Jazz Albums.”

“Lady Day was in big trouble by 1958.” BL “Although not yet 43, she could have passed for 73.” AM “Her raspy singing reflected a lifetime riddled with abusive relationships, drug addiction and time spent in prison.” PM “The sweet tones of Holiday’s upper register were practically non-existent, but her voice remained an immovable force.” PM Lady in Satin is “as heartbreaking and necessary as it is gorgeous,” PM a “startling masterpiece rooted in tough times.” BL Without it, “there would simply have been no divas like Nina Simone or Janis Joplin crying their hearts out so uncompromisingly in the decades to come.” RD Read more.

Frank Sinatra In the Wee Small Hours (1955)

Inducted February 2025 as “Top Traditional Pop/Jazz Albums.”

Sinatra’s “break-up with Ava Gardner provided the perfect catalyst” TL for what has been hailed as “the all-time greatest break-up album.” RD “The wisecracking, finger-snapping Sinatra of popular legend is absent;” RD this is an “authoritative take on masculine loneliness.” TL It is also “one of the finest jazz albums of all time.” CAD and “considered by many to be the first concept album.” CAD Read more.

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958)

Inducted February 2025 as “Top Traditional Pop/Jazz Albums.”

“The sad songs come one after another on this album, Sinatra’s definitive ballad collection.” TM “Only the Lonely follows the same formula as his previous down albums, but the tone is considerably bleaker and more desperate.” AM The “world’s greatest saloon singer is in his element” TM playing the part of “a wounded Everyman…who lurk[s] in the lounge nursing their disappointment, bending the ear of the barkeep, seeking consolation in the woozy hues of jazz and cocktails.” TM “It’s a heartbreaking record, the ideal late-night album.” AM Read more.
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Thursday, April 22, 2021

Jazz: Top 100 Songs of All Time

Jazz:

Top 100 Songs

This is an aggregate of 30 lists (see sources at the bottom of the page) focused on the best jazz songs of all time. Many of these were not originally jazz compositions and have higher-ranked versions in Dave’s Music Database. As such, the listings here are not necessarily the most popular versions of the song, but the one attributed specifically to a jazz artist.

Click here to see other genre-specific song lists.

1. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong “Summertime” (1957)
2. Dave Brubeck “Take Five” (1961)
3. Duke Ellington “Take the ‘A’ Train” (1941)
4. Coleman Hawkins “Body and Soul” (1940)
5. Thelonious Monk “‘Round Midnight” (1947)
6. Miles Davis “So What” (1959)
7. Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World” (1967)
8. Stan Getz with Joao Gilberto “The Girl from Ipanema” (1964)
9. Dizzy Gillespie “A Night in Tunisia” (1946)
10. Cannonball Adderley “Autumn Leaves” (1958)

11. Benny Goodman “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)” (1938)
12. Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit” (1939)
13. Frank Sinatra “Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)” (1964)
14. Ray Charles “Georgia on My Mind” (1960)
15. Erroll Garner Trio “Misty” (1954)
16. Glenn Miller “In the Mood” (1939)
17. Miles Davis “All Blues” (1959)
18. John Coltrane “Acknowledgement (A Love Supreme, Part I)” (1965)
19. John Coltrane “My Favorite Things” (1960)
20. Miles Davis “Blue in Green” (1959)

21. Weather Report “Birdland” (1977)
22. Fats Waller “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (1929)
23. Duke Ellington “Sophisticated Lady” (1933)
24. Duke Ellington & John Coltrane “In a Sentimental Mood” (1962)
25. Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (1925)
26. Duke Ellington “Mood Indigo“ (1931)
27. Louis Armstrong “West End Blues” (1928)
28. Count Basie Orchestra “One O’Clock Jump” (1937)
29. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers “Moanin’” (1958)
30. Etta James “At Last” (1961)

31. Benny Goodman “Stompin’ at the Savoy” (1936)
32. Duke Ellington “Satin Doll” (1953)
33. John Coltrane “Giant Steps” (1959)
34. Dizzy Gillespie “All the Things You Are” (1945)
35. Louis Armstrong “On the Sunny Side of the Street” (1933)
36. Artie Shaw “Stardust” (1941)
37. Dizzy Gillespie “Salt Peanuts” (1945)
38. Duke Ellington “It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got That Swing” (1932)
39. Glenn Miller “Moonlight Serenade” (1939)
40. Louis Armstrong “I Got Rhythm” (1932)

41. Dizzy Gillespie “Manteca” (1947)
42. Peggy Lee “Fever” (1957)
43. Cab Calloway “Minnie the Moocher” (1931)
44. Ella Fitzgerald “The Man I Love” (1959)
45. Ella Fitzgerald “Mack the Knife“ (1960)
46. Artie Shaw “Begin the Beguine” (1938)
47. Ella Fitzgerald “Night and Day” (1956)
48. Herbie Hancock “Watermelon Man” (1962)
49. Duke Ellington “Caravan” (1937)
50. Count Basie “April in Paris” (1955)

51. Paul Whitman with George Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue” (1924)
52. John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman “Lush Life” (1963)
53. Louis Armstrong “Sweet Georgia Brown” (1955)
54. Billie Holiday “God Bless the Child” (1941)
55. Louis Armstrong “All of Me” (1932)
56. Ella Fitzgerald with the Daydreamers “How High the Moon” (1947)
57. Art Tatum “Tea for Two” (1939)
58. Natalie Cole with Nat “King” Cole “Unforgettable” (1991)
59. Glenn Miller “The Nearness of You” (1940)
60. Norah Jones “Don’t Know Why” (2002)

61. Charlie Parker with Miles Davis & Dizzy Gillespie “Ko-Ko” (1945)
62. Louis Armstrong “When the Saints Go Marching In” (1939)
63. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong “Cheek to Cheek” (1956)
64. Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton “King Porter Stomp” (1923)
65. Billie Holiday “The Way You Look Tonight” (1936)
66. Fats Waller “Honeysuckle Rose” (1935)
67. Ella Fitzgerald “Someone to Watch Over Me” (1958)
68. Ray Charles “Come Rain or Come Shine” (1960)
69. Henry Mancini with Audrey Hepburn “Moon River” (1961)
70. Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (1938)

71. Bill Withers with Grover Washington, Jr. “Just the Two of Us” (1981)
72. Dizzy Gillespie “I Can’t Get Started” (1945)
73. Louis Armstrong “I’m in the Mood for Love” (1935)
74. Billie Holiday “Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)” (1945)
75. Benny Goodman “Moonglow” (1934)
76. Louis Armstrong “Hello Dolly!” (1964)
77. Benny Goodman with Mildred Bailey “Darn That Dream” (1940)
78. Woody Herman “Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me)” (1941)
79. Pee Wee Hunt “Twelfth Street Rag” (1948)
80. Nat “King” Cole “Mona Lisa” (1950)

81. Woody Herman “Laura” (1945)
82. Nat “King” Cole “Straighten Up and Fly Right” (1944)
83. Artie Shaw “Dancing in the Dark” (1941)
84. Bobby McFerrin “Don’t Worry Be Happy” (1988)
85. Lionel Hampton “Flying Home” (1942)
86. Frank Sinatra “One for My Baby and One for the Road” (1949)
87. Dinah Washington “What a Diff’rence a Day Makes” (1959)
88. Ella Fitzgerald “But Not for Me” (1959)
89. Tommy Dorsey “Opus One” (1943)
90. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra “Cherokee (Indian Love Song)” (1939)

91. Duke Ellington “Perdido” (1942)
92. Chet Baker “My Funny Valentine” (1953)
93. Woody Herman “I’ll Remember April” (1942)
94. George Benson “On Broadway” (live, 1978)
95. George Benson “This Masquerade” (1976)
96. Stan Kenton “Artistry in Rhythm” (1944)
97. Herb Alpert “Rise” (1979)
98. Stan Getz & Charlie Bird “Desafinado” (1962)
99. Louis Armstrong “Potato Head Blues” (1927)
100. Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France “Nuages” (1940)

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First posted 3/3/2011; last updated 4/22/2021.

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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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