December
19
Grammys Honor 'Thriller,' 'The Wall' and, Most Importantly, The Genius Of Arthur Lee And Love
Love's "Forever Changes," released by Elektra in 1967 and one of my favorite all-time albums,has finally been given its due by the Recording Academy, which has placed Arthur Lee and Bryan Maclean's masterpiece in its Hall of Fame.
Seventy recordings, ranging from Pink Floyd's "The Wall" to Ethel Merman singing "You're the Top," will be added to the Grammy Hall of Fame, which was started in 1973. The list now includes 798 titles.
The oldest tune on the list is 1905's "Give My Regards To Broadway" by Billy Murray; the youngest is Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album from 1982. Sixteen of the new entries are from the classical field.
Other personal faves on the list: John Coltrane Quartet's "Ballads"; the Broadway cast album of "Company"; "The Harder They Come" soundtrack; Junior Wells' "Hoodoo Man Blues"; Slim Harpo's tune "I'm a King Bee"; Dusty Springfield's "The Look of Love"; Prince's double album "1999"; Little Walter's "Juke"; "Velvet Underground & Nico"; the Chords' do-wop classic "Sh-Boom"; Mstislav Rostropovich performing Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1in E flat, Op. 107 with the Philadelphia Orchestra; the Mississippi Sheiks' "Sittin on Top of the World"; and Etta James' "The Wallflower."
The full list is after the jump:
"ALFIE"
Dionne Warwick
Scepter (1967)
Pop (Single)
"ALWAYS ON MY MIND"
Willie Nelson
Columbia (1982)
Country (Single)
"AT SEVENTEEN"
Janis Ian
Columbia (1975)
Pop (Single)
BALLADS
John Coltrane Quartet
Impulse/MCA (1962)
Jazz (Album)
BEETHOVEN: THE FIVE PIANO CONCERTI (COMPLETE)
George Szell cond. Cleveland Orchestra; Leon Fleisher, piano
Columbia (1959–61)
Classical (Album)
BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 5
Arthur Nikisch cond. Berlin Philharmonic
Grammophon/Polydor (1914)
Classical (Album)
BELLINI: "CASTA DIVA (FROM NORMA)"
Rosa Ponselle; Giulio Setti cond. the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Victor (1929)
Classical (Single)
BIZET: CARMEN
Rise Stevens, Jan Peerce, Licia Albanese and Robert Merrill; Fritz Reiner, conductor; Robert Shaw, choral director; RCA Victor Orchestra; Robert Shaw Chorale
RCA (1951)
Classical (Album)
BREEZIN'
George Benson
Warner Bros. (1976)
Pop (Album)
CABARET
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
ABC (1972)
Film & TV Soundtracks (Album)
"CHOO CHOO CH'BOOGIE"
Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five
Decca (1946)
R&B (Single)
COMPANY
Original Broadway Cast
Columbia (1970)
Musical Show (Album)
"CRYING IN THE CHAPEL"
The Orioles
Jubilee (1953)
R&B (Single)
"DEAD MAN'S CURVE"
Jan & Dean
Liberty (1964)
Rock (Single)
DON'T GO TO STRANGERS
Etta Jones
Prestige (1960)
Jazz (Album)
FOREVER CHANGES
Love
Elektra (1967)
Rock (Album)
"FREE BIRD"
Lynyrd Skynyrd
MCA (1973)
Rock (Single)
GADE: "JALOUSIE"
Arthur Fiedler cond. Boston Pops Orchestra
RCA Victor (1935)
Classical (Single)
"GENTLE ON MY MIND"
Glen Campbell
Capitol (1967)
Country (Single)
"GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY"
Billy Murray
Columbia (1905)
Traditional Pop (Single)
"GOLDFINGER"
Shirley Bassey
United Artists (1964)
Pop (Single)
THE HARDER THEY COME
Jimmy Cliff with Toots & The Maytals, Desmond Dekker, The Melodians, Scotty, and The Slickers
Island (1973)
Film & TV Soundtracks (Album)
"HELP!"
The Beatles
Capitol (1965)
Rock (Single)
"HE'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS"
Marian Anderson
RCA Victor (1936)
Gospel (Single)
HOODOO MAN BLUES
Junior Wells
Delmark (1966)
Blues (Album)
HOTEL CALIFORNIA
Eagles
Asylum (1976)
Rock (Album)
"I'M A KING BEE"
Slim Harpo
Excello (1957)
Blues (Single)
"INDIAN LOVE CALL"
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy
Victor (Red Seal) (1936)
Traditional Pop (Single)
"IT DON'T MEAN A THING (IF IT AIN'T GOT THAT SWING)"
Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra
Brunswick (1932)
Jazz (Single)
"IT'S NOT FOR ME TO SAY"
Johnny Mathis
Columbia (1957)
Traditional Pop (Single)
IVES: SYMPHONY NO. 2
Leonard Bernstein cond. New York Philharmonic
Columbia (1958)
Classical (Album)
"THE JAMES BOND THEME"
The John Barry Seven And Orchestra
United Artists (1962)
Pop (Single)
"JUKE"
Little Walter
Checker (1952)
Blues (Single)
"KING PORTER (STOMP)"
Benny Goodman And His Orchestra
Victor (1935)
Jazz (Single)
KORNGOLD: VIOLIN CONCERTO
Jascha Heifetz with Alfred Wallenstein cond. Los Angeles Philharmonic
RCA Victor (1949)
Classical (Album)
LISZT: SONATA IN B MINOR
Vladimir Horowitz
RCA Victor (1932)
Classical (Album)
"THE LOOK OF LOVE"
Dusty Springfield
RCA (1967)
Pop (Single)
MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 2
Otto Klemperer cond. Philharmonia Orchestra
EMI-Angel (1963)
Classical (Album)
"MONDAY, MONDAY"
The Mamas & The Papas
Dunhill (1966)
Pop (Single)
1999
Prince
Warner Bros. (1982)
Pop (Album)
OFF THE WALL
Michael Jackson
Epic (1979)
Pop (Album)
OLIVER!
Original Broadway Cast
Columbia (1962)
Musical Show (Album)
"OVER THERE"
Nora Bayes
Victor (1917)
Traditional Pop (Single)
PROKOFIEV: PETER AND THE WOLF (OPUS 67)
Serge Koussevitzky cond. Boston Symphony Orchestra; Richard Hale, narrator
Victor (Red Seal) (1939)
Classical (Album)
RAVEL: DAPHNIS ET CHLOE (COMPLETE BALLET)
Charles Munch cond. Boston Symphony Orchestra
RCA Victor (1955)
Classical (Album)
"ROXANNE"
The Police
A&M (1978)
Rock (Single)
"SEVEN COME ELEVEN"
Benny Goodman Sextet
Columbia (1940)
Jazz (Single)
"SH-BOOM"
The Chords
Cat (1954)
R&B (Single)
"SHINING STAR"
Earth, Wind & Fire
Columbia (1975)
R&B (Single)
SHOSTAKOVICH: CELLO CONCERTO NO. 1 IN E FLAT, OP. 107
Eugene Ormandy cond. Philadelphia Orchestra; Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist
Columbia (1960)
Classical (Album)
"SITTIN' ON TOP OF THE WORLD"
The Mississippi Sheiks
Okeh (1930)
Blues (Single)
"SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME"
Gertrude Lawrence
Victor (1927)
Traditional Pop (Single)
"ST. LOUIS BLUES"
Louis Armstrong
Okeh (1929)
Jazz (Single)
THE STRANGER
Billy Joel
Columbia (1977)
Pop (Album)
"STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT"
Frank Sinatra
Reprise (1966)
Traditional Pop (Single)
STRAUSS: ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA, OP. 30
Serge Koussevitzky cond. Boston Symphony Orchestra
RCA Victor (1935)
Classical (Album)
STRAUSS: DER ROSENKAVALIER, OP. 59 (ABRIDGED)
Robert Heger cond. the Vienna State Opera Chorus & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Lotte Lehmann, Elisabeth Schumann and Richard Mayr
RCA Victor (1933)
Classical (Album)
STRAUSS: DER ROSENKAVALIER
Herbert von Karajan cond. Philharmonia Orchestra; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig and Teresa Stich-Randall
Angel (1957)
Classical (Album)
"A TASTE OF HONEY"
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
A&M (1965)
Pop (Single)
THRILLER
Michael Jackson
Epic (1982)
Pop (Album)
"TOP HAT, WHITE TIE AND TAILS"
Fred Astaire
Brunswick (1935)
Traditional Pop (Single)
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Verve (1967)
Rock (Album)
VERDI: OTELLO
Arturo Toscanini cond. NBC Symphony; Herva Nelli, Ramon Vinay and Giuseppe Valdengo
RCA Victor (1953)
Classical (Album)
THE WALL
Pink Floyd
Capitol (1979)
Rock (Album)
"THE WALLFLOWER"(aka "ROLL WITH ME HENRY")
Etta James
Modern Records (1955)
R&B (Single)
"THE WAY WE WERE"
Barbra Streisand
Columbia (1974)
Pop (Single)
"WE ARE FAMILY"
Sister Sledge
Cotillion/Atlantic (1979)
R&B (Single)
"WEATHER BIRD"
Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines
Okeh (1928)
Jazz (Single)
"WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE"
Jackie DeShannon
Imperial (1965)
Pop (Single)
"YOU'RE THE TOP"
Ethel Merman
Brunswick (1934)
Traditional Pop (Single)
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I love Lynyrd Skynyrd, and they songs in my player 4ever..!
Posted by: Skynyrd | December 20, 2007 at 01:21 AM
Thank you to the Academy for honoring Nelson Eddy snd Jeanette MacDonald by choosing their 1936 recording of 'Indian Love Call for the Grammy Hall of Fame.
It`s nice to see Fred Astaire`s 1935 recording of 'Top Hat and White Tails honored too.
Lorraine Chandler
Posted by: Lorraine Chandler | December 20, 2007 at 09:39 AM
Glad to see Little Walter on this list. What an influence he was to so many people.
Posted by: The Blues Blogger | December 20, 2007 at 07:01 PM
Wonderful to see 'Indian Love Call' on the Grammy Hall of Fame list, elevating its performers, Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald to the list of the very best in music.
Posted by: Diane P. Flaherty, President, NEAS | December 21, 2007 at 07:25 AM