Recording Academy Adds 28 to Grammy Hall of Fame

The Recording Academy has added 28 new recordings to the Grammy Hall of Fame, bringing the total number 826.

All of the titles will be an integral part of the Grammy Museum at L.A. Live, which opens to the public on Saturday. One of the inductees, Let the Good Time Roll (originally by Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five ) will be part of a special performance by B.B. King and John Mayer during The Grammy Nomination Concert Live!! this Wednesday night on CBS.

"The GRAMMY Hall of Fame represents a proud tribute to the many important recordings that have enriched and even changed our lives and now they are featured in our GRAMMY Museum for all to experience and enjoy," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy. "Our 2009 inductees span decades and genres — from classical, calypso and country to R&B, soundtracks, and rock and roll — and these masterpieces possess the qualities that make them everlasting representations of how the recording arts are such a vital part of our culture."

The Grammy Hall of Fame was created in 1973 to salute those recordings that were released prior to the 1958 start of the Grammy Awards. Since that time, the eligibility has been updated to include any recording that has been in release for at least 25 years.

This year's honorees are:

• Banana Boat Song (Day-O) - Harry Belafonte
• Brazil (Aquarela Do Brasil) - Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra
• Caravan - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
• Copland: Appalachian Spring - Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic
• Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man - Aaron Copland conducting the London Symphony Orchestra
• For Once in My Life - Stevie Wonder
• Good Rockin' Tonight - Wynonie Harris
• The Good, the Bad & the Ugly - Ennio Morricone (album)
• Great Speckled Bird - Roy Acuff & the Crazy Tennesseans
• Happy Trails - Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
• Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock (album)
• I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin (album)
• I Wanna Be Loved By You - Kelen Kane
• The 'In" Crowd - Ramsey Lewis Trio
• Let the Good Times Roll - Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five
• Love Theme From the Godfather - Carlo Savina
• Man of LaMancha - Original Cast Recording (album)
• Mule Skinner Blues - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
• My Country 'Tis of Thee - Marian Anderson
• Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• Prokofiev: Piano Concerto in C Major, Op. 26 - Sergei Prokofiev (album)
• Star Dust - Louis Armstrong
• The Star Spangled Banner - Jimi Hendrix
• Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Synchronicity - Police (album)
• Time Out - Dave Brubeck Quartet (album)
• We Are the Champions/We Will Rock You - Queen
• Wooly Bully - Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs