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- Mar 2, 197490% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
The Grammy Hall of Fame Announces Its First Five Recordings
- The Recording Academy's trustees passed a proposal in May 1972 to create a hall of fame for recordings of 'lasting historical or qualitative significance'; the Grammy Hall of Fame was officially launched in 1973[1]
- A 90-member committee ratified the first five recordings: Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five's "West End Blues", Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song", Bing Crosby and the Ken Darby Singers' "White Christmas", Coleman Hawkins' "Body and Soul" and George Gershwin with Paul Whiteman's "Rhapsody in Blue"[1]
- The class was announced on the 16th Annual Grammy Awards telecast on 2 March 1974, the same night Stevie Wonder's Innervisions won Album of the Year and Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song" won Record and Song of the Year[1][2]
- Five more recordings were inducted in 1975; the Hall now holds nearly 1,000 recordings, and Paul Weston, the Academy's first chairman, said it honours 'the recordings themselves', not individuals[1]
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- [1]90%grammy.com/grammy-hall-fame-historygrammy.com· Posted Oct 3, 2026· Starts Mar 2, 1974 ✓· 33% of score
Grammy.com[2]'s Hall of Fame history says the inaugural class 'was announced on the 16th Annual GRAMMY Awards telecast on March 2, 1974'; no start time is given, so the pin is the all-day date.
- [2]90%16th Annual Grammy Awards 1974grammy.com· Added Oct 3, 2026· 33% of score
The Recording Academy's winners page for the night the class was announced: Killing Me Softly With His Song for Record and Song of the Year, Innervisions for Album of the Year, Bette Midler for Best New Artist.[1]
- [3]75%16th Annual Grammy Awardsen.wikipedia.org· Added Oct 3, 2026· Starts Mar 2, 1974· 33% of score
Gives the date (2 March 1974), the Hollywood Palladium venue and the CBS broadcast.[1]
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