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Grammy Hall of Fame Award Winners - Singles
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The Grammy Hall of Fame Award is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance". Songs awarded Grammy Hall of Fame designation have been updated through 2016 inductions. This topic does not include songs awarded Grammy Song of the Year designation or for Lifetime Accomplishments or for any other categories.
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| 3 O'Clock Blues | | B.B. King |
1951 - inducted in 2014
| Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive | | Johnny Mercer |
1945 - inducted in 1998
| Act Naturally | | Buck Owens |
1963 - inducted in 2013
| Ain't It a Shame | | Fats Domino |
1955 - inducted in 2002; peaked at #10 on the Billboard pop chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Ain't Misbehavin | | Fats Waller |
1929 - inducted in 1984
| Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens | | Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five |
1946 - inducted in 2013
| Ain't No Mountain High Enough | | Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell |
1967 - inducted in 1999
| Ain't No Sunshine | | Bill Withers |
1971 - inducted in 1999; peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Alexander's Ragtime Band | | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan |
1911 - inducted in 2005
| Alfie | | Dionne Warwick |
1967 - inducted in 2008
| Alice's Restaurant | | Arlo Guthrie |
1967 - inducted in 2002
| All Along the Watchtower | | The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
1968 - inducted in 2001; peaked at #20 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| All I Have to Do Is Dream | | The Everly Brothers |
1958; 4 weeks as #1 on the Billboard chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth | | Spike Jones & His City Slickers |
1948 - inducted in 2007
| All of Me | | Louis Armstrong |
1932 - inducted in 2005
| Allons à Lafayette (Lafayette) | | Joe Falcon |
1928 - inducted in 2013
| Always on My Mind | | Willie Nelson |
1982 - inducted in 2008
| Amazing Grace | | The Dixie Hummingbirds |
1946 - inducted in 2000
| America the Beautiful | | Ray Charles |
1972 - inducted in 2005
| American Pie | | Don McLean |
1971 - inducted in 2002; 4 weeks as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
| Am I Blue? | | Ethel Waters |
1929 - inducted in 2007
| And the Angels Sing | | Benny Goodman |
1939 - inducted in 1987
| Any Old Time | | Artie Shaw and His Orchestra |
1938 - inducted in 2001
| Anything Goes | | Cole Porter |
1934 - inducted in 2012
| April in Paris | | Count Basie |
1955 - inducted in 1985
| Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In | | The 5th Dimension |
1969 - inducted in 2004; #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 6 weeks
| Are You Lonesome Tonight? | | Elvis Presley |
1960 - inducted in 2007; 5 weeks as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960-61; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Artistry in Rhythm | | Stan Kenton and His Orchestra |
1945 - inducted in 1985
| As Time Goes By | | Dooley Wilson |
1944 - inducted in 2010
| A-Tisket, A-Tasket | | Chick Webb With Ella Fitzgerald |
1938 - inducted in 1986
| At Last | | Etta James |
1961 - inducted in 1999
| At Seventeen | | Janis Ian |
1975; inducted in 2008; Grammy Song of the Year in 1976
| Bach-Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor | | Leopold Stokowski Cond. Philadelphia Orchestra |
1927 - inducted in 1978
| Back in the Saddle Again | | Gene Autry |
1939 - inducted in 1997
| Banana Boat (Day-O) | | Harry Belafonte |
1956 - inducted in 2009; peaked at #5 on the Billboard pop chart
| The Battle of New Orleans | | Johnny Horton |
1959 - inducted in 2002; 6 weeks as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; 10 weeks as #1 on the C&W chart
| Be-Bop-A-Lula | | Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps |
1956 - inducted in 1999; peaked at #7 on the Billboard pop chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Begin the Beguine | | Artie Shaw and His Orchestra |
1938 - inducted in 1977
| Behind Closed Doors | | Charlie Rich |
1973 - inducted in 1999
| Bei Mir Bist Du Schon | | The Andrews Sisters |
1938 - inducted in 1996
| Bellini: Casta Diva | | Rosa Ponselle, Giulio Setti Cond. Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus |
1929 - inducted in 2008; from Norma
| Be My Baby | | The Ronettes |
1963 - inducted in 1999; peaked at #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Big Girls Don't Cry | | The Four Seasons |
1962 - inducted in 2015; #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks
| Bill | | Helen Morgan |
1928 - inducted in 1998
| Billie's Bounce | | Charlie Parker |
1945 - inducted in 2002
| Birdland | | Weather Report |
1977 - inducted in 2010
| Black and Tan Fantasy | | Duke Ellington |
1928 - inducted in 1981
| Black, Brown and Beige | | Duke Ellington |
1944 - inducted in 1990
| Black Mountain Rag | | Doc Watson |
1964 - inducted in 2006
| Blowin' in the Wind | | Bob Dylan |
1963 - inducted in 1994; #2 on the U.S. pop chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Blueberry Hill | | Fats Domino |
1956 - inducted in 1987;11 weeks as #1 on the Billboard R&B chart; peaked at #2 on the Billboard chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Blue Moon of Kentucky | | Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys |
1945 - inducted in 1998
| Blues Stay Away From Me | | The Delmore Brothers |
1949 - inducted in 2007
| Blue Suede Shoes | | Carl Perkins |
1956 - inducted in 1986; peaked at #2 on the Billboard pop chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas) | | Jimmie Rodgers |
1927 - inducted in 1985
| Blue Yodel #9 (Standin' on the Corner) | | Jimmie Rodgers Feat. Louis Armstrong |
1930 - inducted in 2007
| Bo Diddley | | Bo Diddley |
1955 - inducted in 1998; did not chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Body and Soul | | Coleman Hawkins |
1939 - inducted in 1974
| Bogalusa Boogie | | Clifton Chenier |
1975 - inducted in 2011; zydeco gem
| Bohemian Rhapsody | | Queen |
1976 - inducted in 2004; peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Bonaparte's Retreat | | W.H. Stepp |
1937 - inducted in 2013
| Boogie Chillun | | John Lee Hooker |
1948 - inducted in 1999
| Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy | | The Andrews Sisters |
1941 - inducted in 2000
| Boom Boom | | John Lee Hooker |
1962 - inducted in 2016; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Born to Be Wild | | Steppenwolf |
1968 - inducted in 2002
| Both Sides Now | | Judy Collins |
1968 - inducted in 2003
| Brazil (Aquarela Do Brasil) | | Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra |
1942 - inducted in 2009
| Bridge Over Troubled Water | | Simon & Garfunkel |
1970 - inducted in 1998; 6 weeks as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | | Bing Crosby |
1932 - inducted in 2005
| Brown Eyed Girl | | Van Morrison |
1967 - inducted in 2007; peaked as #10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Bye Bye Blackbird | | Gene Austin |
1926 - inducted in 2005
| Bye Bye Love | | The Everly Brothers |
1957 - inducted in 1998; peaked at #20 on the Billboard chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| By the Time I Get to Phoenix | | Glen Campbell |
1967 - inducted in 2004; Grammy Album of Year in 1969
| Caldonia Boogie | | Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five |
1945 - inducted in 1998
| California, Here I Come | | Al Jolson |
1924 - inducted in 2005
| California Dreamin' | | The Mamas and the Papas |
1966 - inducted in 2001; peaked at #4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| California Girls | | The Beach Boys |
1965 - Inducted in 2010; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad) | | T-Bone Walker |
1948 - inducted in 1991
| Candy | | Big Maybelle |
1953 - inducted in 1999
| Caravan | | Duke Ellington |
1937 - inducted in 2009
| Cat's In the Cradle | | Harry Chapin |
1974 - inducted in 2011; #1 for one week on the Billboard Hot 100
| Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye) | | The Carter Family |
1935 - inducted in 1998
| Celebration | | Kool & The Gang |
1980 - inducted in 2016
| Chain of Fools | | Aretha Franklin |
1967 - inducted in 2001
| Chances Are | | Johnny Mathis |
1957 - inducted in 1998; 1 week as #1 on the Billboard pop chart
| A Change Is Gonna Come | | Sam Cooke |
1965 - inducted in 2000
| Chattanooga Choo Choo | | Glenn Miller and His Orchestra |
1941 - inducted in 1996
| Cheek to Cheek | | Fred Astaire With the Leo Reisman Orchestra |
1935 - inducted in 2000
| Chega De Saudade | | João Gilberto |
1958 - inducted in 2000
| Cherokee | | Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra |
1939 - inducted in 1998
| Chimes Blues | | King Oliver |
1923 - inducted in 1996
| Choo Choo Ch'Boogie | | Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five |
1946 - inducted in 2008
| The Christmas Song | | Nat King Cole |
1946 - inducted in 1974
| Cissy Strut | | The Meters |
1969 - inducted in 2011
| Coal Miner's Daughter | | Loretta Lynn |
1970 - inducted in 1998; #1 on the Billboard Country chart; lasting popularity
| Cocktails for Two | | Duke Ellington |
1934 - inducted in 2007
| Cocktails for Two | | Spike Jones & His City Slickers |
1945 - inducted in 1995
| Cold Sweat - Part 1 | | James Brown |
1967 - inducted in 2016
| Cool Water | | Sons of the Pioneers |
1941 - inducted in 1986
| Copland: Appalachian Spring | | Leonard Bernstein Cond. New York Philharmonic |
1961 - inducted 2009
| Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man | | Aaron Copland Cond. London Symphony Orchestra |
1968 - inducted in 2009
| Crazy Arms | | Ray Price |
1956 - inducted in 1999
| Crazy Blues | | Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds |
1920 - inducted in 1994
| Crazy He Calls Me | | Billie Holiday |
1949 - inducted in 2010
| Crazy | | Patsy Cline |
1962 - inducted in 1992
| Cross Road Blues | | Robert Johnson |
1936 - inducted in 1998; delta blues cornerstone
| Crying in the Chapel | | The Orioles |
1953 - inducted in 2008
| Crying | | Roy Orbison |
1961 - inducted in 2002
| Cry | | Johnnie Ray |
1951 - inducted in 1998; #1 on the Billboard pop chart
| Cry Me a River | | Julie London |
1955 - inducted in 2001
| Dance to the Music | | Sly & the Family Stone |
1968 - inducted in 1998
| Dancing in the Street | | Martha Reeves and the Vandellas |
1964 - inducted in 1999
| Dancing Queen | | ABBA |
1976 - inducted in 2015; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Dang Me | | Roger Miller |
1964 - inducted in 1998
| The Dark End of the Street | | James Carr |
1967 - inducted in 2016
| Darktown Strutters' Ball | | Original Dixieland Jazz Band |
1917 - inducted in 2006; landmark recording of jazz standard
| Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground | | Blind Willie Johnson |
1972 - inducted 2011
| Days of Wine and Roses | | Henry Mancini |
1963 - inducted in 2003; Academy Award winner for Best Original Song for movie of the same name
| Dead Man's Curve | | Jan and Dean |
1964 - inducted in 2008
| (Dear Mr. Gable) You Made Me Love You | | Judy Garland |
1937 - inducted in 1998
| Deep in the Heart of Texas | | Gene Autry |
1942 - inducted in 2012
| Desafinado | | Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd |
1962 - inducted in 2000
| Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue | | Duke Ellington |
1956 - inducted in 1999
| Dinah | | Ethel Waters |
1925 - inducted in 1998
| Dipper Mouth Blues | | King Oliver |
1923 - inducted in 2010
| Djangology | | Quintet of the Hot Club of France Feat. Django Reinhardt |
1935 - inducted in 1999
| Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me | | Duke Ellington |
1944 - included in 2011
| Don't Be Cruel | | Elvis Presley |
1956 - inducted in 2002; 11 weeks as #1 on the Billboard pop chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Don't Fence Me In | | Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters |
1944 - inducted in 1998
| Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Never No Lament) | | Duke Ellington |
1940 - inducted in 2010
| Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues | | Charlie Poole |
1925 - inducted in 2007
| Don't Make Me Over | | Dionne Warwick |
1962 - inducted in 2000
| Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) | | The Andrews Sisters |
1942 - inducted in 2016
| Downhearted Blues | | Bessie Smith |
1923 - inducted in 2006
| Downtown | | Petula Clark |
1964 - inducted in 2004
| Do You Believe in Magic | | The Lovin' Spoonful |
1965 - inducted in 2002; peaked at #9 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Duke of Earl | | Gene Chandler |
1961 - inducted in 2002
| Dust My Broom | | Elmore James |
1952 - inducted in 1998; seminal cove of Robert Johnson's classic blues tune
| Early Autumn | | Woody Herman and His Orchestra |
1949 - inducted in 2000
| Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine) | | The Penguins |
1954 - inducted in 1998; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| East-West | | The Paul Butterfield Blues Band |
1966 - inducted in 1999
| Eight Miles High | | The Byrds |
1966 - inducted in 1999; peaked at #14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| El DÃa Que Me Quieras | | Carlos Gardel |
1935 - inducted in 2013; from the film of the same name
| Eleanor Rigby | | The Beatles |
1966 - inducted in 2002
| El Paso | | Marty Robbins |
1959 - inducted in 1998; 7 weeks as #1 on the Billboard C&W chart; 2 weeks as #1 on the pop chart
| Embraceable You | | Billie Holiday |
1944 - inducted in 2005
| Empty Bed Blues | | Bessie Smith |
1928 - inducted in 1983
| Everybody Loves Somebody | | Dean Martin |
1964 - inducted in 1999
| Everybody's Talkin' | | Harry Nilsson |
1969 - inducted in 1999
| Every Day I Have the Blues | | Count Basie Orchestra With Joe Williams |
1955 - inducted in 1992
| Fascinating Rhythm | | Fred and Adele Astaire Accompanied by George Gershwin |
1926 - inducted in 2006
| The Fat Man | | Fats Domino |
1949 - inducted in 2016
| Feliz Navidad | | José Feliciano |
1970 - inducted in 2010
| Fire and Rain | | James Taylor |
1970 - inducted in 1998; peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | | Roberta Flack |
1972; 6 weeks as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; Grammy Song of the Year
| Fixin' to Die | | Bukka White |
| Flying Home | | Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra |
1942 - inducted in 1996
| Foggy Mountain Breakdown | | Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs |
1950 - inducted in 2001; iconic c&W tune; lasting acclaim
| Folsom Prison Blues | | Johnny Cash |
1956 - inducted in 2001; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| For Dancers Only | | Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra |
1937 - inducted in 1999
| For the Love of Money | | The O'Jays |
1974 - inducted in 2016
| For Me and My Gal | | Judy Garland and Gene Kelly |
From 1942 film of the same name - inducted in 2010
| For Once in My Life | | Stevie Wonder |
1968 - inducted in 2009
| Fortunate Son | | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
1969 - inducted in 2014; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Times"
| For What It's Worth | | Buffalo Springfield |
1967 - inducted in 2000
| Four Brothers | | Woody Herman and His Orchestra |
1938 - inducted in 1984
| Frankie | | Mississippi John Hurt |
1928 - inducted in 2011
| Free Bird | | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
1973 - inducted in 2008; included in Rolling Stone magazines' "500 Greatest Songs of All Times"
| Frenesi | | Artie Shaw and His Orchestra |
1940 - inducted in 2000
| Gade: Jalouisie | | Arthur Fiedler Cond. Boston Pops Orchestra |
1935 - inducted in 2008
| Gentle on My Mind | | Glen Campbell |
1967 - inducted in 2008
| Georgia on My Mind | | Hoagy Carmichael |
1930 - inducted in 2014
| Georgia on My Mind | | Ray Charles |
1960 - inducted in 1993
| Gershwin: An American in Paris | | George Gershwin, Celesta: Nathaniel Shilkret Cond. Victor Symphony Orchestra |
1929 - inducted in 1997
| Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue | | George Gershwin, Piano With Paul Whiteman Cond. |
1927 - inducted in 1974
| Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine | | James Brown |
1970 - inducted in 2014; included in the Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Get Up, Stand Up | | Bob Marley and the Wailers |
1973 - inducted in 1999; did not chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 | | The King Cole Trio |
1946 - inducted in 2002
| Gimme Some Lovin' | | The Spencer Davis Group |
1966 - inducted in 1999; peaked at #7 on U.S. Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| The Girl from Ipanema | | Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto |
1964 - inducted in 2000
| Give My Regards to Broadway | | Billy Murray |
1905 - inducted in 2008
| Gloria | | Them With Van Morrison |
1965 - inducted in 1999; Belfast garage band with very young Van Morrison; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| God Bless America | | Kate Smith |
1939 - inducted in 1982
| God Bless the Child | | Billie Holiday |
1941 - inducted in 1976
| Goldfinger | | Shirley Bassey |
1964 - inducted in 2008; from James Bond movie of the same name
| Goodnight, Irene | | Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra and The Weavers |
1950 - inducted in 2006; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Goodnight, Irene | | Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter |
1936 - inducted in 2002
| Good Rockin' Tonight | | Wynonie Harris |
1948 - inducted in 2009
| Good Vibrations | | The Beach Boys |
1966 - inducted in 1994
| Got My Mojo Workin' | | Muddy Waters |
1957 - inducted in 1999; did not chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Great Balls of Fire | | Jerry Lee Lewis |
1957 - inducted in 1998; peaked at #2 on the Billboard chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| The Great Pretender | | The Platters |
1956 - inducted in 2002;11 weeks as #1 on the Billboard R&B chart; reached #1 on the pop chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Great Speckled Bird | | Roy Acuff |
1936 - inducted in 2009
| Green Onions | | Booker T & the MG's |
1962 - inducted in 1999
| Groovin' High | | Dizzy Gillespie |
1945 - inducted in 2000
| Groovin' | | The Young Rascals |
1967 - inducted in 1999
| Happy Days Are Here Again | | Ben Selvin |
1930 - inducted in 2007
| Happy Together | | The Turtles |
1967 - inducted in 2007; #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks
| Happy Trails | | Roy Rogers and Dale Evans |
1952 - inducted in 2009
| Heartbreak Hotel | | Elvis Presley |
1956 - inducted in 1995; #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 8 weeks; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Heart of Glass | | Blondie |
1979 - inducted in 2016; included in Rolling Stones magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Heebie Jeebies | | Louis Armstrong |
1926 - inducted in 1999
| He'll Have to Go | | Jim Reeves |
1959 - inducted in 1999
| Hello Darlin' | | Conway Twitty |
1970 - inducted in 1999
| Hello, Dolly! | | Louis Armstrong |
1964 - inducted in 2001
| Hello Walls | | Faron Young |
1961 - inducted in 2000
| Help! | | The Beatles |
1965 - inducted in 2008; #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Help Me Make It Through the Night | | Sammi Smith |
1970 - inducted in 1998; peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100
| He's Got the Whole World in His Hands | | Marian Anderson |
1936 - inducted in 2008
| He's a Rebel | | The Crystals |
1962 - inducted in 2004; two weeks as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| He Stopped Loving Her Today | | George Jones |
1980 - inducted in 2007
| Hey Good Lookin' | | Hank Williams and The Drifting Cowboys |
1951 - inducted in 2001
| Hey Jude | | The Beatles |
1968 - inducted in 2001; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"; 9 weeks as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
| Hey There | | Rosemary Clooney |
1954 - inducted in 1999; 6 weeks as #1 on the Billboard pop chart
| Hide Away | | Freddy King |
1961 - inducted in 1999
| His Eye Is on the Sparrow | | Mahalia Jackson |
1956 - inducted in 2010
| Hit the Road Jack | | Ray Charles |
1961 - inducted 2013; #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Hits of All Time"
| Holiday for Strings | | David Rose and His Orchestra |
1943 - inducted in 2004
| Honeysuckle Rose | | Fats Waller |
1934 - inducted in 1999
| Honky Tonkin' | | Hank Williams and The Drifting Cowboys |
1947 - inducted in 2015
| Honky Tonk (Parts 1 and 2) | | Bill Doggett |
1956 - inducted in 1998; peaked at #2 on the Billboard pop chart
| Honky Tonk Women | | The Rolling Stones |
1969 - inducted in 2014; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Times"; #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks
| Hotel California | | Eagles |
1977 - inducted in 2003; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Hound Dog | | Elvis Presley |
1956 - inducted in 1988; 11 weeks as #1 on the Billboard pop chart; #19 on the Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Hound Dog | | Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton |
1952 - inducted in 2013
| The House I Live In | | Frank Sinatra |
1946 - inducted in 1998
| The House of the Rising Sun | | The Animals |
1964 - inducted in 1999; #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks: included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| How High the Moon | | Ella Fitzgerald |
1960 - inducted in 2002
| How High the Moon | | Les Paul and Mary Ford |
1951 - inducted in 1979; 9 weeks as #1 on the Billboard pop chart
| How Long, How Long Blues | | Leroy Carr |
1928 - inducted in 2012
| I Apologize | | Billy Eckstine |
1949 - inducted in 1999
| (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction | | The Rolling Stones |
1965 - inducted in 1998; #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks; #2 on Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| I Can't Get Started | | Bunny Berigan |
1938 - inducted in 1975; peaked at #10 on the Billboard chart
| I Can't Stop Loving You | | Ray Charles |
1962 - inducted in 2001
| I Fall to Pieces | | Patsy Cline |
1961 - inducted in 2001
| I Feel Like Going Home | | Muddy Waters |
1948 - inducted in 2010
| If I Didn't Care | | The Ink Spots |
1939 - inducted in 1987
| I Fought the Law | | The Bobby Fuller Four |
1965 - inducted in 2015; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| If You Could See Me Now | | Sarah Vaughan |
1946 - inducted in 1998
| If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time | | Lefty Frizzell |
1950 - inducted in 1999
| I Got You (I Feel Good) | | James Brown |
1965 - inducted in 2013; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| I Have a Dream | | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
1963 - inducted in 2012
| I Heard It Through the Grapevine | | Marvin Gaye |
1968 - inducted in 1998; 3 weeks as U.K. #1; 7 weeks as U.S. #1; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| I Left My Heart in San Francisco | | Tony Bennett |
1962 - inducted in 1994
| I'll Be There | | The Jackson 5 |
1970 - inducted in 2011
| I'll Never Smile Again | | Tommy Dorsey With Frank Sinatra |
1940 - inducted in 1982
| I'll Take You There | | The Staple Singers |
1972 - inducted in 1999; 4 weeks as #1 on the Billboard R&B chart; 1 week as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| I Love Rock 'n Roll | | Joan Jett & The Blackhearts |
1982 - inducted in 2016
| I Loves You, Porgy | | Nina Simone |
1959 - inducted in 2000; peaked at #18 on the Billboard Hot 100
| Imagine | | John Lennon |
1971 - inducted in 1999; peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100; 4 weeks as #1 in the U.K.; #3 on Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| I'm Getting Sentimental Over You | | Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra |
1936 - inducted in 1998
| I Miss You So | | The Cats and the Fiddle |
1939 - inducted in 1999
| I'm a King Bee | | Slim Harpo |
1957 - inducted in 2008
| I'm Moving On | | Hank Snow |
1950 - inducted in 2000
| I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry | | Hank Williams and The Drifting Cowboys |
1949 - inducted in 1999
| I'm Sorry | | Brenda Lee |
1960 - inducted in 1999
| (I'm Your) Hoochie Koochie Man | | Muddy Waters |
1954 - inducted in 1998; did not chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| The "In" Crowd | | The Ramsey Lewis Trio |
1965 - inducted in 2009
| Indian Love Call | | Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald |
1937 - inducted in 2008
| In the Jailhouse Now | | Jimmie Rodgers |
1928 - inducted in 2007
| In the Midnight Hour | | Wilson Pickett |
1965 - inducted in 1999; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| In a Mist | | Bix Beiderbecke |
1927 - inducted in 1980
| In the Mood | | Glenn Miller and His Orchestra |
1939 - inducted in 1983
| In My Room | | The Beach Boys |
1963 - inducted in 1999
| In the Still of the Night | | The Five Satins |
1956 - inducted in 1998; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| I Only Have Eyes for You | | The Flamingos |
1959 - inducted in 2003; included in the Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| I Shot the Sheriff | | Eric Clapton |
1974 - inducted in 2003; cover of song by The Wailers
| Israelites | | Desmond Dekker & The Aces |
1969 - inducted in 2007
| Is That All There Is? | | Peggy Lee |
1969 - inducted in 1999
| It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) | | Duke Ellington |
1932 - inducted in 2008
| It Had to Be You | | Isham Jones & His Orchestra |
1924 - inducted in 2007
| It's a Man's Man's Man's World | | James Brown |
1956 - inducted in 2010
| It's Not for Me to Say | | Johnny Mathis |
1957 - inducted in 2008; peaked at #5 on the Billboard pop chart
| It's Too Late | | Carole King |
1971; 5 weeks as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; Grammy Song of the Year for 1972
| It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels | | Kitty Wells |
1952 - inducted in 1998
| I've Been Loving You Too Long | | Otis Redding |
1965 - inducted in 2011
| I've Got a Tiger By the Tail | | Buck Owens |
1965 - inducted in 1999
| I've Got a Woman | | Ray Charles |
1954 - inducted in 1990
| I've Got the World On a String | | Frank Sinatra |
1953; Peaked at #13 on the Billboard pop chart
| I've Got You Under My Skin | | Frank Sinatra |
1956 - inducted in 1998
| I Walk the Line | | Johnny Cash |
1956 - inducted in 1998; peaked at #17 on the Billboard chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| I Wanna Be Loved By You | | Helen (Schroeder) Kane |
1928 - inducted in 2009
| I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart | | Patsy Montana & The Prairie Ramblers |
1935 - inducted in 2007
| I Want to Hold Your Hand | | The Beatles |
1964 - inducted in 1998; #1 in the U.S. for 7 weeks in 1964; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| I Want You Back | | The Jackson 5 |
1969 - inducted in 1999; 1 week as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; 4 weeks as #1 on the R&B chart
| I Will Always Love You | | Dolly Parton |
1974 - inducted in 2007
| I Will Survive | | Gloria Gaynor |
1978 - inducted in 2012
| I Wonder Why | | Dion & the Belmonts |
1958 - inducted in 1999; peaked at #22 on the Billboard pop chart
| Jambalaya (On the Bayou) | | Hank Williams and The Drifting Cowboys |
1952 - inducted in 2002
| The James Bond Theme | | The John Barry Seven and Orchestra |
1962 - inducted in 2008
| Jitterburg Waltz | | Fats Waller and His Rhythm |
1942 - inducted in 2015
| Johnny B. Goode | | Chuck Berry |
1958 - inducted in 1999; peaked at #8 on the Billboard pop chart; #7 on Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Jolene | | Dolly Parton |
1973 - inducted in 2014; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Juke | | Little Walter Jacobs |
1952 - inducted in 2008; 8 weeks as #1 on the Billboard R&B chart
| Just Because | | Frankie Yankovic |
1949 - inducted in 1999; polka classic
| Just the Way You Are | | Billy Joel |
1978 - inducted in 2004
| Just You, Just Me | | Lester Young Quartet |
1944 - inducted in 1999
| Kansas City Stomps | | Jelly Roll Morton |
1928 - inducted in 2010
| Kansas City | | Wilbert Harrison |
1959 - inducted in 2001; 7 weeks as #1 on the Billboard R&B chart
| Kassie Jones | | Furry Lewis |
1928 - inducted in 2012
| Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy | | Uncle Dave Macon |
1924 - inducted in 2007
| Keep on the Sunny Side | | The Carter Family |
1928 - inducted in 2006
| Key to the Highway | | Big Bill Broonzy |
1941 - inducted in 2012
| Killing Me Softly With His Song | | Roberta Flack |
1973 - inducted in 1999; 5 weeks as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| King of the Road | | Roger Miller |
1965 - inducted in 1999
| King Porter (Stomp) | | Benny Goodman |
1935 - inducted in 2008
| Ko-Ko | | Duke Ellington |
1940 - inducted in 2011
| Lady Marmalade | | LaBelle |
1975 - inducted in 2003; #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Last Date | | Floyd Cramer |
1960 - inducted in 2004
| Layla | | Derek & the Dominos |
1972 - inducted in 1998; peaked at #10; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Lazy River | | Louis Armstrong |
1931 - inducted in 2010
| La Bamba | | Ritchie Valens |
1958 - inducted in 2000; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Leoncavallo: Pagliacci Act 1: Vesti La Giubba | | Enrico Caruso |
1907 - inducted in 1975
| Lean on Me | | Bill Withers |
1972 - inducted in 2007; #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Times"
| Lester Leaps In | | Count Basie |
1939 - inducted in 2005
| Let the Good Times Roll | | Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five |
1947 - inducted in 2009
| Let It Be | | The Beatles |
1970 - inducted in 2004; 2 weeks as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; #20 on the Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Let's Stay Together | | Al Green |
1971 - inducted in 1999; 9 weeks as #1 on the Billboard R&B chart; 1 week as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| The Letter | | The Box Tops |
1967 - inducted in 2011; 4 weeks as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Light My Fire | | The Doors |
1967 - inducted in 1998; three weeks as U.S. #1; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Like a Rolling Stone | | Bob Dylan |
1965 - inducted in 1998
| The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Mbube) | | Solomon Linda and The Evening Birds |
1939 - inducted in 2007
| The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane | | Fiddlin' John Carson |
1923 - inducted in 1998
| The Loco-Motion | | Little Eva |
1962 - inducted in 2016; one week as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; included in the Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| The Lonely Bull | | Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass |
1962 - inducted in 1998
| Lonely Teardrops | | Jackie Wilson |
1958 - inducted in 1999; 7 weeks as #1 on the Billboard R&B chart; peaked at #7 on the pop chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Long Tall Sally | | Little Richard |
1956 - inducted in 1999; 8 weeks as #1 on the Billboard R&B chart; peaked at #6 on the pop chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| The Look of Love | | Dusty Springfield |
1967 - inducted in 2008
| Louie Louie | | The Kingsmen |
1963 - inducted in 1999; peaked at #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Love Is Strange | | Mickey & Sylvia |
1957 - inducted in 2004; #1 on the Billboard C&W chart; peaked at #3 on the Billboard pop chart
| Love Me or Leave Me | | Ruth Etting |
1928 - inducted in 2005
| Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) | | Billie Holiday |
1945 - inducted in 1989
| Lovesick Blues | | Emmett Miller and The Georgia Crackers |
1928 - inducted in 2007
| Lovesick Blues | | Hank Williams and The Drifting Cowboys |
1949 - inducted in 2011
| Love Theme from 'The Godfather' | | Carlo Savina |
1972 - inducted in 2009
| Love Train | | The O'Jays |
1973 - inducted in 2006
| Lucille | | Little Richard |
1957 - inducted in 2002; peaked at #27 on the Billboard pop chart
| Lullaby of Broadway | | Dick Powell |
1935 - inducted in 2005
| Lush Life | | John Coltrane With Johnny Hartman |
1963 - inducted in 2000
| La Vie En Rose | | Edith Piaf |
1950 - inducted in 1998
| Mack the Knife | | Bobby Darin |
1959 - inducted in 1999; 9 weeks as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Mack the Knife | | Louis Armstrong |
1955 - inducted in 1997; peaked at #16 on teh Billboard pop chart
| Make the World Go Away | | Eddy Arnold |
1965 - inducted in 1999
| Mama Tried | | Merle Haggard |
1968 - inducted in 1999
| Manteca | | Dizzy Gillespie |
1947 - inducted in 1999
| Many Rivers to Cross | | Jimmy Cliff |
1969 - inducted to 2011; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Margaritaville | | Jimmy Buffet |
1977 - inducted in 2016
| Marie | | Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra |
1937 - inducted in 1998
| Match Box Blues | | Blind Lemon Jefferson |
1927 - inducted in 1999
| Maybellene | | Chuck Berry |
1955 - inducted in 1988; 11 weeks as #1 on the Billboard R&B chart; peaked at #5 on the pop chart; #18 on Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time";
| Me and Bobby McGee | | Janis Joplin |
1971 - inducted in 2002; 2 weeks as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) | | Marvin Gaye |
1971 - inducted in 2002; peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100
| The Message | | Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five |
1982 - inducted in 2012
| Midnight Train to Georgia | | Gladys Knight & the Pips |
1973 - inducted in 1999; 2 weeks as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; 4 weeks as #1 on the Billboard R&B chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Minnie the Moocher | | Cab Calloway & His Orchestra |
1931 - inducted in 1999
| Misty | | Errol Garner |
1954 - inducted in 1991; significant jazz standard
| Misty | | Johnny Mathis |
1959 - inducted in 2002
| Moanin' | | Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers |
1958 - inducted in 1998
| Monday, Monday | | The Mamas and the Papas |
1966 - inducted 2008; #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks
| Money Honey | | The Drifters |
1953 - inducted in 1999; 11 weeks as #1 on the Billboard R&B chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Mona Lisa | | Nat King Cole |
1950 - inducted in 1992;5 weeks as #1 on the Billboard chart; Academy award winner for "Captain Carey, U.S.A."
| Mood Indigo | | Duke Ellington |
1931 - inducted in 1975
| Moody's Mood for Love | | James Moody |
1952 - inducted in 2001
| Moonglow | | Benny Goodman |
1936 - inducted in 1998
| Moonlight Serenade | | Glenn Miller and His Orchestra |
1939 - inducted in 1991
| Moon River | | Henry Mancini |
1961 - inducted in 1999
| Move On Up a Little Higher | | Mahalia Jackson |
1948 - inducted in 1998
| Mr. Bojangles | | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
1970 - inducted in 2010
| Mr. Sandman | | The Chordettes |
1954 - inducted in 2002; 7 weeks as #1 on the Billboard pop chart
| Mrs. Robinson | | Simon & Garfunkel |
1968 - inducted in 1999
| Mr. Tambourine Man | | Bob Dylan |
1965 - inducted in 2002; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Mr. Tambourine Man | | The Byrds |
1965 - inducted in 2002; 2 weeks as U.K. #1; 1 week as U.S. #1; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Mule Skinner Blues | | Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys |
1940 - inducted in 2009
| Mussorgsky: Song of the Flea | | Feodor Chaliapin |
1926 - inducted in 1999
| Mustang Sally | | Wilson Pickett |
1967 - inducted in 2000; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| My Black Mama (Parts 1 & 2) | | Son House |
1930 - inducted in 2013
| My Blue Heaven | | Gene Austin |
1928 - inducted in 1978
| My Country, 'Tis of Thee | | Marian Anderson |
1939 - inducted in 2009
| My Generation | | The Who |
1966 - inducted in 1999; #11 on Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| My Girl | | The Temptations |
1965 - inducted in 1998; 1 week as US #1; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| My Guy | | Mary Wells |
1964 - inducted in 1999
| My Heart Belongs to Daddy | | Mary Martin |
1938 - inducted in 2007
| My Man | | Fanny Brice |
1922 - inducted in 1999; from Ziegfield Follies of 1921
| My Way | | Frank Sinatra |
1969 - inducted in 2000
| Nature Boy | | Nat King Cole |
1948 - inducted in 1999
| Near You | | Francis Craig and His Orchestra |
1947 - inducted in 2013; #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks
| Night and Day | | Leo Reisman and His Orchestra, Vocals by Fred Astaire |
1932 - inducted in 2004
| A Night in Tunisia | | Dizzy Gillespie |
1946 - inducted in 2004
| Nights in White Satin | | The Moody Blues |
1972 - inducted in 1999; peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100
| Night Train | | James "Jimmy" Forrest |
1952 - inducted in 2006; 7 weeks as #1 on the Billboard R&B chart
| Nobody | | Bert Williams |
1906 - inducted in 1981
| Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen | | Louis Armstrong |
1938 - inducted in 2014
| Now He Sings, Now He Sobs | | Chick Corea |
1968 - inducted in 1999
| No Woman, No Cry | | Bob Marley and the Wailers |
1975 - inducted in 2005; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Nuages | | Django Reinhardt With the Hot Club of France |
1946 - inducted in 2000
| Ode to Billie Joe | | Bobbie Gentry |
1967 - inducted in 1999
| Oh Happy Day | | The Edwin Hawkins Singers |
1969 - inducted in 1999
| Ohio | | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young |
1970 - inducted in 2009; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Oh, Pretty Woman | | Roy Orbison |
1964 - inducted in 1999
| One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) | | Frank Sinatra |
1958 - inducted in 2004; did not chart
| One O'Clock Jump | | Count Basie |
1937 - inducted in 1979
| Only the Lonely (Know How I Feel) | | Roy Orbison |
1960 - inducted in 1999; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Only You (and You Alone) | | The Platters |
1955 - inducted in 1999; 7 weeks as #1 on the Billboard R&B chart
| On the Road Again | | Willie Nelson |
1980 - inducted in 2011
| Ornithology | | Charlie Parker |
1946 - inducted in 1989
| Over the Rainbow | | Judy Garland |
1939 - inducted in 1981; Oscar winner for "The Wizard of Oz"
| Over There | | Nora Bayes |
1917 - inducted in 2008
| Oye Coma Va | | Tito Puente |
1953 - inducted in 2002
| Pan American Blues | | De Ford Bailey |
1927 - inducted in 2007
| Paper Doll | | The Mills Brothers |
1943 - inducted in 1998
| Papa 's Got a Brand New Bag | | James Brown |
1965 - inducted in 1999
| Papa Was a Rollin' Stone | | The Temptations |
1972 - inducted in 1999; 1 week as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Peggy Sue | | Buddy Holly |
1957 - inducted in 1999; peaked at #2 on the Billboard chart; included in the Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Peg O' My Heart | | The Harmonicats |
1947 - inducted in 1999
| Pennies from Heaven | | Bing Crosby |
1936 - inducted in 2004
| Penny Lane | | The Beatles |
1967 - inducted in 2011; #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| People | | Barbra Streisand |
1964 - inducted in 1998
| People Get Ready | | The Impressions |
1965 - inducted in 1998; peaked at #14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| 'Peter Gunn' Theme | | Henry Mancini |
1958 - inducted in 2005
| Piano Man | | Billy Joel |
1973 - inducted in 2013; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Piece of My Heart | | Big Brother and the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin) |
1968 - inducted in 1999; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Pine-Top's Boogie Woogie | | Pine Top Smith |
1928 - inducted in 1983
| Pistol Packin' Mama | | Al Dexter |
1943 - inducted in 2000
| Please Mr. Postman | | The Marvelettes |
1961 - inducted 2011; #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week
| Please, Please, Please | | James Brown |
1956 - inducted in 2001; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Please Send Me Someone to Love | | Percy Mayfield |
1950 - inducted in 1999; blues ballad; #1 on the Billboard R&B chart
| Pony Blues | | Charley Patton |
1929 - inducted in 1999
| Precious Lord, Take My Hand | | Mahalia Jackson |
1956; inducted in 2012
| The Prisoner's Song | | Vernon Dalhart |
1925 - inducted in 1998
| Proud Mary | | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
1969 - inducted in 1998; peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Proud Mary | | Ike and Tina Turner |
1971 - inducted in 2003; peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100
| Purple Haze | | The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
1967 - inducted in 2000; reached #3 on the UK pop charts; #17 on Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Puttin' On the Ritz | | Harry Richman With the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra |
1930 - inducted in 2005
| Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) | | Doris Day |
1956; inducted in 2012
| Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head | | B.J. Thomas |
1969 - inducted in 2014; Academy Award Winner for Best Original Song from 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
| Rapper's Delight | | The Sugarhill Gang |
1979 - inducted in 2014; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"; did not chart highly
| Raunchy | | Bill Justis and His Orchestra |
1957 - inducted in 1998; peaked at #27 on the Billboard pop chart
| Reach Out I'll Be There | | The Four Tops |
1966 - inducted in 1998
| Rescue Me | | Fantella Bass |
1965; inducted in 2015
| Respect | | Aretha Franklin |
1967 - inducted in 1998
| Respect Yourself | | The Staple Singers |
1971 - inducted in 2002; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | | Gil Scott-Heron |
1970 - inducted in 2014
| Riders on the Storm | | The Doors |
1971 - inducted in 2009; peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100
| Ring of Fire | | Johnny Cash |
1963 - inducted in 1999
| River Deep - Mountain High | | Tina Turner |
1966 - inducted in 1999
| "Rock Around the Clock" | | Bill Haley and His Comets |
1955 - inducted in 1982; 8 weeks as #1 on the Billboard chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Rock-a Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody | | Al Jolson |
1918; inducted in 2004
| Rocket 88 | | Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats |
1951 - inducted in 1998
| Rockin' Chair | | Mildred Bailey |
1937; inducted in 2011
| Rock Island Line | | Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter |
1942 - inducted in 2016
| Rollin' Stone | | Muddy Waters |
1948 - inducted in 2000; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Roll Over Beethoven | | Chuck Berry |
1956 - inducted in 1990; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| 'Round About Midnight | | Thelonious Monk Quintet |
1948 - inducted in 1993
| Roxanne | | The Police |
1979 - inducted in 2008; did not chart highly; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer | | Gene Autry |
1949 - inducted in 1985
| Runaround Sue | | Dion |
1961 - inducted in 2002
| Runaway | | Del Shannon |
1961 - inducted in 2002
| San Antonio Rose | | Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys |
1939 - inducted in 2015
| Save the Last Dance for Me | | The Drifters |
1960 - inducted in 2001; # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Song of All Time"
| School's Out | | Alice Cooper |
1972; inducted in 2015; included in the Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Schubert: Ave Maria | | Marian Anderson |
1936 - inducted in 1999
| Secret Love | | Doris Day |
1953 - inducted in 1999; 3 weeks as #1 on the Billboard pop chart; Academy Award winner for "Calamity Jane"
| See See Rider Blues | | Ma Rainey |
1925 - inducted in 2004
| Sentimental Journey | | Les Brown Orchestra With Doris Day |
1945 - inducted in 1998
| September Song | | Walter Huston |
1938 - inducted in 1984
| Seven Come Eleven | | Benny Goodman |
1940 - inducted in 2008
| Shake, Rattle and Roll | | Big Joe Turner |
1954 - inducted in 1998; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Sh-Boom (Life Could Be a Dream) | | The Chords |
1954 - inducted in 2008
| She's About a Mover | | Sir Douglas Quintet |
1965 - inducted in 2016
| She's Not There | | The Zombies |
1964 - inducted in 2016; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| She Thinks I Still Care | | George Jones |
1962 - inducted in 1999
| Shining Star | | Earth, Wind and Fire |
1975 - inducted in 2008; #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week
| Shop Around | | Smokey Robinson and the Miracles |
1960 - inducted in 2006; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Shotgun | | Jr. Walker & The All Stars |
1965 - inducted in 2002
| Shout - Part 1 | | The Isley Brothers |
1959 - inducted in 1999; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Sincerely | | The Moonglows |
1955 - inducted in 2002; original recording; high on both the Billboard pop and R&B charts
| Singin' the Blues | | Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra |
1927 - inducted in 1977
| Singin' in the Rain | | Gene Kelly |
1952 - inducted in 1999
| Sing, Sing, Sing | | Benny Goodman |
1937 - inducted in 1982
| (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay | | Otis Redding |
1968 - inducted in 1998
| Sittin' on Top of the World | | The Mississippi Sheiks |
1930 - inducted in 2008
| Sixteen Tons | | "Tennessee" Ernie Ford |
1955 - inducted in 1998; 8 weeks as #1 on the Billboard chart; 10 weeks as #1 on the C&W chart
| "Sixty Minute Man" | | The Dominoes |
1951 - inducted in 2015
| Smokestack Lightning | | Howlin' Wolf |
1956 - inducted in 1999; did not chart; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking) | | Janis Ian |
1967 - inducted in 2002
| Some of These Days | | Sophie Tucker |
1911 - inducted in 1995
| Someone to Watch Over Me | | Gertrude Lawrence |
1927 - inducted in 2008
| Somewhere a Voice is Calling | | John McCormack |
1915 - inducted in 1999
| "Soul Man" | | Sam and Dave |
1967 - inducted in 1999; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| The Sounds of Silence | | Simon & Garfunkel |
1965 - inducted in 2004; 2 weeks as U.S. #1; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time;"
| Spanish Harlem | | Ben E. King |
1961 - inducted in 2002
| Stairway to Heaven | | Led Zeppelin |
1971 - inducted in 2003; included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
| "Stand by Me" | | Ben E. King |
1961 - inducted in 1998
| Stand By Your Man | | Tammy Wynette |
1968 - inducted in 1999
| Star Dust | | Artie Shaw and His Orchestra |
1940 - inducted in 1988
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