Title |
Artist |
Record label |
Year of release |
Genre |
Format |
Year inducted |
Jackson Browne |
Jackson Browne |
Asylum |
1972 |
Rock |
Album |
2019 |
Jaco Pastorius |
Jaco Pastorius |
Epic |
1976 |
Jazz Fusion |
Album |
2019 |
"Jailhouse Rock" |
Elvis Presley |
RCA |
1957 |
Rock and roll |
Single |
2017 |
"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" |
Hank Williams |
MGM |
1952 |
Country |
Single |
2002 |
"James Bond Theme" |
John Barry & his Orchestra |
United Artists |
1962 |
Soundtrack |
Single |
2008 |
Jazz at Massey Hall |
"The Quintet", including: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Charles Mingus |
Debut |
1953 |
Jazz |
Album |
1995 |
Jazz Samba |
Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd |
Verve |
1962 |
Jazz |
Album |
2010 |
Jelly Roll Morton: The Saga of Mr. Jelly Lord (Library of Congress Recordings) |
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton |
Circle Sound |
1949–1950 |
Jazz |
Album |
1980 |
"Jitterbug Waltz" |
Fats Waller & his Rhythm Band |
Bluebird |
1942 |
Jazz |
Single |
2015 |
Joan Baez |
Joan Baez |
Vanguard |
1960 |
Folk |
Album |
2011 |
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman |
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman |
Impulse |
1963 |
Jazz |
Album |
2013 |
John Prine |
John Prine |
Atlantic |
1971 |
Folk |
Album |
2015 |
"Johnny B. Goode" |
Chuck Berry |
Chess |
1958 |
Rock & roll |
Single |
1999 |
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison |
Johnny Cash |
Columbia |
1968 |
Country |
Album |
2018 |
Johnny Cash at San Quentin |
Johnny Cash |
Columbia |
1969 |
Country |
Album |
2004 |
"Jolene" |
Dolly Parton |
RCA Nashville |
1973 |
Country pop |
Single |
2014 |
The Joshua Tree |
U2 |
Island |
1987 |
Rock |
Album |
2014 |
Judy at Carnegie Hall |
Judy Garland |
Capitol |
1961 |
Vocal jazz |
Album |
1998 |
"Juke" |
Little Walter & his Night Cats |
Checker |
1952 |
Chicago Blues |
Single |
2008 |
"Just Because" |
Frankie Yankovic |
Columbia |
1948 |
Polka |
Single |
1999 |
"Just the Way You Are" |
Billy Joel |
Columbia |
1977 |
Soft rock |
Single |
2004 |
"Just You, Just Me" |
Lester Young & his Quartet |
Keynote |
1943 |
Jazz |
Single |
1999 |
"Kansas City" |
Wilbert Harrison |
Fury |
1959 |
R&B |
Single |
2001 |
"Kansas City Stomps" |
Jelly Roll Morton |
Victor |
1928 |
Jazz |
Single |
2010 |
"Kassie Jones" |
Furry Lewis |
Victor |
1928 |
Blues |
Single |
2012 |
"Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy" |
Uncle Dave Macon |
Vocalion |
1924 |
Country |
Single |
2007 |
"Keep on the Sunny Side" |
The Carter Family |
Victor |
1928 |
Southern Gospel |
Single |
2006 |
"Key to the Highway" |
Big Bill Broonzy |
Okeh |
1941 |
Blues |
Single |
2012 |
Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major |
William Kapell with Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky |
RCA |
1943 |
Classical |
Album |
1999 |
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" |
Roberta Flack |
Atlantic |
1973 |
Soul |
Single |
1999 |
Kind of Blue |
Miles Davis |
Columbia |
1959 |
Jazz |
Album |
1992 |
The King and I Original Broadway Cast Recording |
Cast: Yul Brynner, Gertrude Lawrence, Dorothy Sarnoff, Doretta Morrow, Larry Douglas, Sandy Kennedy, etc. |
Decca |
1951 |
Musical show |
Album |
2000 |
"King of the Road" |
Roger Miller |
Smash |
1965 |
Country |
Single |
1999 |
"King Porter Stomp" |
Benny Goodman and his Orchestra |
Victor |
1935 |
Jazz |
Single |
2008 |
Kiss Me, Kate Original Broadway Cast Recording |
Cast: Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, etc. |
Columbia |
1948 |
Musical show |
Album |
1998 |
"Ko-Ko" |
Charlie Parker's Ri Bop Boys |
Savoy |
1945 |
Jazz |
Single |
2019 |
"Ko-Ko" |
Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra |
Victor |
1940 |
Jazz |
Single |
2011 |
The Köln Concert |
Keith Jarrett |
ECM |
1975 |
Jazz |
Album |
2011 |
Korngold: Violin Concerto |
Jascha Heifetz with Alfred Wallenstein conducted by Los Angeles Philharmonic |
RCA Victor |
1949 |
Classical Music |
Album |
2008 |
Kristofferson |
Kris Kristofferson |
Monument |
1970 |
Country |
Album |
2014 |
"La Bamba" |
El Jarocho |
Victor |
1939 |
Folk |
Single |
2019 |
"La Bamba" |
Ritchie Valens |
Del-Fi |
1958 |
Rock & roll |
Single |
2000 |
"La Vie en Rose" |
Édith Piaf |
Columbia |
1947 |
Traditional pop |
Single |
1998 |
Lady in Satin |
Billie Holiday |
Columbia |
1958 |
Jazz |
Album |
2000 |
"Lady Marmalade" |
Labelle |
Epic |
1974 |
Disco |
Single |
2003 |
Lady Sings the Blues |
Billie Holiday |
Clef |
1956 |
Jazz |
Album |
2017 |
"Last Date" |
Floyd Cramer |
RCA |
1960 |
Country |
Single |
2004 |
"Layla" |
Derek and the Dominos |
Atco |
1971 |
Rock |
Single |
1998 |
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs |
Derek and the Dominos |
Atco |
1970 |
Blues rock |
Album |
2000 |
"Lazy River" |
Louis Armstrong |
Okeh |
1931 |
Jazz |
Single |
2010 |
"Le Freak" |
Chic |
Atlantic |
1978 |
Disco |
Single |
2015 |
"Lean on Me" |
Bill Withers |
Sussex |
1972 |
Soul |
Single |
2007 |
Led Zeppelin |
Led Zeppelin |
Atlantic |
1969 |
Rock |
Album |
2004 |
Led Zeppelin IV |
Led Zeppelin |
Atlantic |
1971 |
Rock |
Album |
1999 |
Leoncavallo: "Pagliacci Act I: Vesti la Giubba" |
Enrico Caruso |
Victrola |
1907 |
Classical |
Single |
1975 |
"Lester Leaps In" |
Count Basie's Kansas City 7 Featuring Lester Young |
Vocalion |
1939 |
Jazz |
Single |
2005 |
"Let It Be" |
The Beatles |
Apple |
1970 |
Gospel |
Single |
2004 |
Let It Bleed |
The Rolling Stones |
London |
1969 |
Blues |
Album |
2005 |
"Let the Good Times Roll" |
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five |
Decca |
1946 |
Jump blues |
Single |
2009 |
Let's Get It On |
Marvin Gaye |
Tamla |
1973 |
Soul |
Album |
2004 |
"Let's Stay Together" |
Al Green |
Hi |
1971 |
R&B |
Single |
1999 |
"The Letter" |
The Box Tops |
Mala |
1967 |
Rock |
Single |
2011 |
Licensed to Ill |
Beastie Boys |
Def Jam |
1986 |
Hip hop |
Album |
2021 |
"Light My Fire" |
The Doors |
Elektra |
1967 |
Rock |
Track |
1998 |
"Like a Rolling Stone" |
Bob Dylan |
Columbia |
1965 |
Rock |
Single |
1998 |
Liszt: Sonata in B minor |
Vladimir Horowitz |
RCA Victor |
1932 |
Classical |
Album |
2008 |
"The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" |
Fiddlin' John Carson |
Okeh |
1923 |
Country |
Single |
1998 |
Live at the Apollo |
James Brown and The Famous Flames |
King |
1962 |
Soul |
Album |
1998 |
Live at the Regal |
B. B. King |
ABC |
1965 |
Blues |
Album |
2006 |
"The Loco-Motion" |
Little Eva |
Dimension |
1962 |
Pop |
Single |
2016 |
London Calling |
The Clash |
CBS |
1979 |
Punk rock |
Double album |
2007 |
"The Lonely Bull" |
Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass |
A&M |
1962 |
Pop |
Single |
1998 |
"Lonely Teardrops" |
Jackie Wilson |
Brunswick |
1958 |
R&B |
Single |
1999 |
"Long Tall Sally" |
Little Richard |
Specialty |
1956 |
Rock & roll |
Single |
1999 |
"The Look of Love" |
Dusty Springfield |
Colgems |
1967 |
Pop |
Single |
2008 |
"Losing My Religion" |
R.E.M.
Performer: Michael Stipe |
Warner Bros. |
1991 |
Alternative rock |
Single |
2017 |
Lost in the Stars Original Broadway Cast Album |
Cast: Todd Duncan, Frank Roane, Inez Matthews, Sheila Guyse, Herbert Coleman, etc. |
Decca |
1949 |
Musical show |
Album |
2013 |
"Louie Louie" |
The Kingsmen |
Jerden |
1963 |
Garage rock |
Single |
1999 |
Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy |
Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars |
Columbia |
1954 |
Jazz |
Album |
2010 |
"Love Is Strange" |
Mickey and Sylvia |
Groove |
1956 |
R&B |
Single |
2004 |
"Love Me or Leave Me" |
Ruth Etting |
Columbia |
1928 |
Pop |
Single |
2005 |
A Love Supreme |
John Coltrane |
Impulse |
1965 |
Jazz |
Album |
1999 |
"Love Theme from The Godfather" |
Orchestra conducted by Carlo Savina |
Paramount |
1972 |
Soundtrack |
Track |
2009 |
"Love Train" |
The O'Jays |
Philadelphia International |
1973 |
Soul |
Single |
2006 |
"Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" |
Billie Holiday |
Decca |
1945 |
Jazz |
Single |
1989 |
"Lovesick Blues" |
Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers |
Okeh |
1928 |
Country |
Single |
2007 |
"Lovesick Blues" |
Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys |
MGM |
1949 |
Country |
Single |
2011 |
The Low End Theory |
A Tribe Called Quest |
Jive Records |
1991 |
Hip-Hop |
Album |
2021 |
"Low Rider" |
War |
United Artists |
1975 |
Funk |
Single |
2014 |
"Lucille" |
Little Richard |
Specialty |
1957 |
Rock & roll |
Single |
2002 |
"Lullaby of Broadway" |
Dick Powell |
Brunswick |
1935 |
Soundtrack |
Single |
2005 |
Lush Life |
John Coltrane |
Prestige |
1961 |
Jazz |
Album |
2016 |
"Lush Life" |
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman |
Impulse |
1963 |
Jazz |
Single |
2000 |
"Mack the Knife" |
Louis Armstrong & the All-Stars |
Columbia |
1955 |
Jazz |
Single |
1997 |
"Mack the Knife" |
Bobby Darin |
Atco |
1959 |
Pop |
Single |
1999 |
Mad Dogs & Englishmen |
Joe Cocker |
A&M |
1970 |
Rock |
Album |
2021 |
"Maggie May" |
Rod Stewart |
Mercury |
1971 |
Rock |
Single |
2017 |
Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde |
Kathleen Ferrier & Julius Patzak with Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter |
London |
1952 |
Classical |
Album |
1981 |
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D major |
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos |
Columbia Masterworks |
1940 |
Classical |
Album |
1999 |
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 2 in D major |
Philharmonia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Otto Klemperer |
EMI-Angel |
1963 |
Classical |
Album |
2008 |
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 8 in E flat major ("The Symphony of a Thousand") |
Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Georg Solti (with Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Boys' Choir, & Wiener Singverein) |
London |
1971 |
Classical |
Album |
1998 |
Gustav Mahler: The Complete Symphonies |
New York Philharmonic & London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein |
Columbia Masterworks |
1967 |
Classical |
Album |
2002 |
Maiden Voyage |
Herbie Hancock |
Blue Note |
1965 |
Modal jazz |
Album |
1999 |
"Make the World Go Away" |
Eddy Arnold |
RCA |
1965 |
Country |
Single |
1999 |
"Mama Tried" |
Merle Haggard |
Capitol |
1968 |
Country |
Single |
1999 |
Man of La Mancha |
Original Broadway Cast: Richard Kiley, Irving Jacobson, Joan Diener, Robert Rounseville, & Ray Middleton |
Kapp |
1965 |
Musical show |
Album |
2009 |
Manhattan Tower |
Gordon Jenkins & his Orchestra |
Capitol |
1956 |
Traditional pop |
Album |
1998 |
"Manteca" |
Dizzy Gillespie & his Orchestra |
Victor |
1947 |
Afro-Cuban Jazz |
Single |
1999 |
"Many Rivers to Cross" |
Jimmy Cliff |
Trojan |
1969 |
Reggae |
Single |
2011 |
"Margaritaville" |
Jimmy Buffett |
ABC |
1977 |
Pop |
Single |
2016 |
"Marie" |
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra (featuring vocals sung by Jack Leonard) |
Victor |
1937 |
Traditional pop |
Single |
1998 |
"Mary Had a Little Lamb" |
Thomas Alva Edison |
N/A |
1878 |
Experimental |
Single |
2018 |
Mary Poppins Original Film Soundtrack |
Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber, etc. |
Walt Disney |
1964 |
Soundtrack |
Album |
2014 |
"Match Box Blues" |
Blind Lemon Jefferson |
Okeh |
1927 |
Blues |
Single |
1999 |
"Maybellene" |
Chuck Berry |
Chess |
1955 |
Rock & roll |
Single |
1988 |
"Mbube" |
Solomon Linda and The Evening Birds |
Gallo |
1939 |
Vocal |
Single |
2007 |
"Me and Bobby McGee" |
Janis Joplin |
Columbia |
1971 |
Rock |
Single |
2002 |
"Me and Mrs. Jones" |
Billy Paul |
Philadelphia International |
1972 |
Soul |
Single |
2018 |
Meet Me in St. Louis |
Judy Garland |
Decca |
1944 |
Vocal |
Album |
2005 |
Meet the Beatles! |
The Beatles |
Capitol |
1964 |
Rock |
Album |
2001 |
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E-Minor, Op. 64 |
Fritz Kreisler with Berlin State Opera Orchestra conducted by Leo Blech |
Victor |
1926 |
Classical |
Album |
1998 |
"Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" |
Marvin Gaye |
Tamla |
1971 |
Soul |
Single |
2002 |
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club' |
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet |
Capitol |
1967 |
Soul jazz |
Album |
2021 |
"The Message" |
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five |
Sugar Hill |
1982 |
Hip hop |
Single |
2012 |
Mexicantos |
Los Panchos |
Coda Records |
1945 |
Mexican Music |
Album |
2012 |
"Midnight Special" |
Lead Belly and Golden Gate Quartet |
Victor |
1940 |
Country blues |
Album |
2002 |
"Midnight Train to Georgia" |
Gladys Knight & the Pips |
Buddah |
1973 |
Soul |
Single |
1999 |
Miles Ahead |
Miles Davis with Gil Evans & His Orchestra |
Columbia |
1957 |
Jazz |
Album |
1994 |
Miles Smiles |
Miles Davis Quintet |
Columbia |
1967 |
Jazz |
Album |
2016 |
Milestones |
Miles Davis & his Sextet |
Columbia |
1958 |
Jazz |
Album |
2004 |
Mingus Ah Um |
Charles Mingus |
Columbia |
1959 |
Jazz |
Album |
2013 |
Mingus Dynasty |
Charles Mingus |
Columbia |
1960 |
Jazz |
Album |
1999 |
"Minnie the Moocher" |
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra |
Brunswick |
1931 |
Jazz |
Single |
1999 |
"Mission: Impossible" |
Lalo Schifrin |
Dot |
1967 |
Theme music |
Single |
2017 |
"Misirlou" |
Dick Dale |
Deltone Records |
1962 |
Surf rock |
Single |
2020 |
"Misty" |
Erroll Garner |
EmArcy |
1954 |
Jazz |
Single |
1991 |
"Misty" |
Johnny Mathis |
Columbia |
1959 |
Traditional pop |
Single |
2002 |
"Moanin'" |
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers |
Blue Note |
1958 |
Jazz |
Single |
1998 |
Moanin' |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers |
Blue Note |
1959 |
Hard bop jazz |
Album |
2001 |
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music |
Ray Charles |
ABC-Paramount |
1962 |
Pop |
Album |
1999 |
"Mona Lisa" |
Nat King Cole |
Capitol |
1950 |
Traditional pop |
Single |
1992 |
"Monday, Monday" |
The Mamas & the Papas |
Dunhill |
1966 |
Sunshine Pop |
Single |
2008 |
"Money Honey" |
Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters |
Atlantic |
1953 |
R&B |
Single |
1999 |
Monk's Music |
Thelonious Monk & his Jazz Septet |
Riverside |
1957 |
Jazz |
Album |
2001 |
"Mood Indigo" |
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra |
Brunswick |
1930 |
Jazz |
Single |
1975 |
"Moody's Mood for Love" |
James Moody |
Prestige |
1952 |
Jazz |
Single |
2001 |
"Moon River" |
Andy Williams |
Columbia |
1962 |
Traditional pop |
Track from Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes |
2018 |
"Moon River" |
Henry Mancini & his Chorus |
RCA Victor |
1961 |
Pop |
Single |
1999 |
Moondance |
Van Morrison |
Warner Bros. |
1970 |
R&B |
Album |
1999 |
"Moonglow" |
Benny Goodman & his Quartet |
Victor |
1936 |
Jazz |
Single |
1998 |
"Moonlight Serenade" |
Glenn Miller & his Orchestra |
Bluebird |
1939 |
Jazz |
Single |
1991 |
More Than a New Discovery |
Laura Nyro |
Verve Forecast |
1967 |
Pop |
Album |
1999 |
"Move On Up" |
Curtis Mayfield |
Curtom |
1972 |
Progressive soul |
Single |
2019 |
"Move On Up a Little Higher" |
Mahalia Jackson |
Apollo |
1947 |
Gospel |
Single |
1998 |
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte |
Cast: Helge Rosvaenge, Tiana Lemnitz, Wilhelm Strienz, Erna Berger, Gerhard Husch, etc. (with Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Thomas Beecham) |
RCA Victor |
1938 |
Opera |
Album |
1999 |
"Mr. Bojangles" |
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
Liberty |
1970 |
Country |
Single |
2010 |
Mr. Fantasy |
Traffic |
Island |
1967 |
Psychedelic rock |
Album |
1999 |
"Mr. Sandman" |
The Chordettes |
Cadence |
1954 |
Traditional pop |
Single |
2002 |
"Mr. Tambourine Man" |
The Byrds |
Columbia |
1965 |
Rock |
Single |
1998 |
"Mr. Tambourine Man" |
Bob Dylan |
Columbia |
1965 |
Rock |
Track |
2002 |
"Mrs. Robinson" |
Simon & Garfunkel |
Columbia |
1968 |
Pop |
Single |
1999 |
"Mule Skinner Blues" |
Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys |
RCA Victor |
1940 |
Bluegrass |
Single |
2009 |
Music from Big Pink |
The Band |
Capitol |
1968 |
Rock |
Album |
1998 |
The Music from Peter Gunn |
Henry Mancini & his Orchestra |
RCA Victor |
1959 |
Soundtrack |
Album |
1998 |
The Music Man Original Broadway Cast Album |
Cast: Robert Preston, Barbara Cook, Iggie Wolfington, David Burns, Helen Raymond, Pert Kelton, Eddie Hodges, etc. |
Capitol |
1957 |
Musical show |
Album |
1998 |
Music of Albéniz & Granados |
Andrés Segovia |
Decca |
1944 |
Classical |
Album |
1998 |
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition |
Vladimir Horowitz (on Piano)
(arranged by V. Horowitz) |
RCA Victor |
1947 |
Classical |
Album |
1999 |
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition |
Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rafael Kubelik
(arranged by Maurice Ravel) |
Mercury |
1951 |
Classical |
Album |
1998 |
Mussorgsky: "Song of the Flea" |
Feodor Chaliapin |
Victor |
1926 |
Classical |
Single |
1999 |
"Mustang Sally" |
Wilson Pickett |
Atlantic |
1967 |
R&B |
Single |
2000 |
My Aim is True |
Elvis Costello |
Stiff |
1977 |
Rock |
Album |
2007 |
"My Black Mama (parts 1 & 2)" |
Son House |
Paramount |
1930 |
Blues |
Single |
2013 |
"My Blue Heaven" |
Gene Austin |
Victor |
1927 |
Traditional pop |
Single |
1978 |
"My Country 'Tis of Thee" |
Marian Anderson |
Victor |
1939 |
Opera |
Single |
2009 |
My Fair Lady |
Original Broadway Cast with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews |
Columbia |
1956 |
Musical show |
Album |
1977 |
My Favorite Things |
John Coltrane & his Quartet |
Atlantic |
1961 |
Modal jazz |
Album |
1998 |
"My Generation" |
The Who |
Decca |
1966 |
Rock |
Single |
1999 |
"My Girl" |
The Temptations |
Gordy |
1964 |
R&B |
Single |
1998 |
"My Guy" |
Mary Wells |
Motown |
1964 |
Soul |
Single |
1999 |
"My Heart Belongs to Daddy" |
Mary Martin |
Decca |
1938 |
Musical theatre |
Single |
2007 |
"My Mammy" |
Al Jolson |
Brunswick |
1927 |
Soundtrack |
Single |
2011 |
"My Man" |
Billie Holiday |
Brunswick |
1937 |
Jazz |
Single |
2018 |
"My Man" (from Ziegfeld Follies of 1921) |
Fanny Brice (with Orchestra conducted by Rosario Bourdon) |
Victor |
1921 |
Traditional pop |
Single |
1999 |
"My Way" |
Frank Sinatra |
Reprise |
1969 |
Traditional pop |
Single |
2000 |
"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" |
Aretha Franklin |
Atlantic |
1967 |
Soul |
Single |
1999 |
"Nature Boy" |
Nat King Cole |
Capitol |
1947 |
Jazz |
Single |
1999 |
"Near You" |
Francis Craig |
Bullet |
1947 |
Pop |
Single |
2013 |
Negro Sinful Songs |
Lead Belly |
Musicraft |
1939 |
Blues |
Album |
1998 |
Nevermind |
Nirvana |
DGC |
1991 |
Grunge |
Album |
2018 |
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols |
Sex Pistols |
Virgin |
1977 |
Punk rock |
Album |
2015 |
"New San Antonio Rose" |
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys |
Okeh |
1940 |
Country |
Single |
1998 |
Nick of Time |
Bonnie Raitt |
Capitol |
1989 |
Rock |
Album |
2015 |
"Night and Day" |
Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman & his Orchestra |
RCA Victor |
1932 |
Musical theatre |
Single |
2004 |
A Night at Birdland Vol. 1, A Night at Birdland Vol. 2, A Night at Birdland Vol. 3 |
Art Blakey & his Quintet |
Blue Note |
1954 |
Jazz |
Album |
2000 |
A Night at the Opera |
Queen |
EMI |
1975 |
Progressive rock |
Album |
2018 |
"A Night in Tunisia" |
Dizzy Gillespie & his Sextet |
Victor |
1946 |
Jazz |
Single |
2004 |
"Night Train" |
Jimmy Forrest |
United |
1952 |
R&B |
Single |
2006 |
"Nights in White Satin" |
The Moody Blues |
Deram |
1967 |
Rock |
Single |
1999 |
1999 |
Prince |
Warner Bros. |
1982 |
Pop |
Album |
2008 |
"No Woman, No Cry" |
Bob Marley and the Wailers |
Tuff Gong |
1975 |
Reggae |
Single |
2005 |
"Nobody" |
Bert Williams |
Columbia |
1906 |
Traditional pop |
Single |
1981 |
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" |
Louis Armstrong |
Decca |
1938 |
Negro spiritual |
Single |
2014 |
"Now He Sings, Now He Sobs" |
Chick Corea |
Blue Note |
1968 |
Jazz |
Single |
1999 |
"Nuages" |
Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France |
Decca |
1946 |
Jazz |
Single |
2000 |
"Ode to Billie Joe" |
Bobbie Gentry |
Capitol |
1967 |
Country |
Single |
1999 |
Off the Wall |
Michael Jackson |
Epic |
1979 |
Pop |
Album |
2008 |
"Oh Happy Day" |
Edwin Hawkins & his Singers |
Buddah |
1967 |
Gospel |
Single |
1999 |
"Oh Mary Don’t You Weep" |
Swan Silvertones |
Vee Jay |
1959 |
Folk |
Single |
2020 |
"Oh, Pretty Woman" |
Roy Orbison |
Monument |
1964 |
Pop |
Single |
1999 |
"Ohio" |
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young |
Atlantic |
1970 |
Hard rock |
Single |
2009 |
Okie from Muskogee |
Merle Haggard |
Capitol |
1969 |
Country |
Album |
2017 |
Oklahoma! Original Broadway Cast Recording |
Cast: Alfred Drake, Harry Stockwell, Joan Roberts, Betty Garde, Lee Dixon, Celeste Holm, Howard Da Silva, etc. |
Decca |
1943 |
Musical show |
Album |
1976 |
"Ol' Man River" |
Paul Robeson with Paul Whiteman & his Concert Orchestra |
Victor |
1928 |
Musical theatre |
Single |
2006 |
Oliver! Original Broadway Cast Recording |
Cast: Bruce Prochnik, Clive Revill, Georgia Brown, Danny Sewell, etc. |
RCA Victor |
1962 |
Musical show |
Album |
2008 |
"On Broadway" |
The Drifters |
Atlantic |
1963 |
Soul |
Single |
2013 |
"On the Road Again" |
Willie Nelson |
Columbia |
1980 |
Country rock |
Single |
2011 |
"One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" |
Frank Sinatra |
Capitol |
1958 |
Vocal jazz |
Single |
2005 |
"One Love" |
The Wailers |
Studio One |
1965 |
Gospel |
Single |
2007 |
"One O'Clock Jump" |
Count Basie |
Decca |
1937 |
Jazz |
Single |
1979 |
"Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)" |
Roy Orbison |
Monument |
1960 |
Pop |
Single |
1999 |
"Only You (And You Alone)" |
The Platters |
Mercury |
1955 |
Doo-wop |
Single |
1999 |
"Ornithology" |
Charlie Parker & his Septet |
Dial |
1946 |
Bebop |
Single |
1989 |
"Over the Rainbow" |
Judy Garland |
MGM |
1939 |
Soundtrack |
Single |
1981 |
"Over There" |
Nora Bayes |
Victor |
1917 |
Traditional pop |
Single |
2008 |
"Oye Como Va" |
Tito Puente |
Tico |
1963 |
Latin jazz |
Single |
2002 |
"Paint It Black" |
The Rolling Stones |
Decca |
1966 |
Rock |
Single |
2018 |
"Pan American Blues" |
DeFord Bailey |
Brunswick |
1927 |
Blues |
Single |
2007 |
Pancho & Lefty |
Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson |
Epic |
1983 |
Country |
Album |
2020 |
"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" |
The Temptations |
Gordy |
1972 |
Psychedelic soul |
Single |
1999 |
"Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (Part 1) |
James Brown |
King |
1965 |
R&B |
Single |
1999 |
"Paper Doll" |
Mills Brothers |
Decca |
1943 |
Traditional pop |
Single |
1998 |
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme |
Simon & Garfunkel |
Columbia |
1966 |
Folk |
Album |
1999 |
"Pata Pata" |
Miriam Makeba |
Reprise |
1967 |
R&B |
Single |
2019 |
Peace Be Still |
Rev. James Cleveland & The Angelic Choir |
Savoy |
1963 |
Gospel |
Album |
1999 |
Pearl |
Janis Joplin with Full Tilt Boogie Band |
Columbia |
1971 |
Rock |
Album |
2010 |
"Peg o' My Heart" |
The Harmonicats |
Vitacoustic |
1947 |
Traditional pop |
Single |
1999 |
"Peggy Sue" |
Buddy Holly |
Coral |
1957 |
Rockabilly |
Single |
1999 |
"Pennies from Heaven" |
Bing Crosby |
Decca |
1936 |
Traditional pop |
Single |
2004 |
"Penny Lane" |
The Beatles |
Parlophone |
1967 |
Baroque pop |
Single |
2011 |
"People" |
Barbra Streisand |
Columbia |
1964 |
Musical theatre |
Single |
1998 |
"People Get Ready" |
The Impressions |
ABC-Paramount |
1965 |
Gospel |
Single |
1998 |
Pet Sounds |
The Beach Boys |
Capitol |
1966 |
Rock |
Album |
1998 |
"Peter Gunn" |
Henry Mancini & Jazz Ensemble |
RCA Victor |
1958 |
Soundtrack |
Track |
2005 |
"Piano Man" |
Billy Joel |
Columbia |
1973 |
Soft rock |
Single |
2013 |
Piano Rags by Scott Joplin |
Joshua Rifkin |
Nonesuch |
1970 |
Ragtime |
Album |
2020 |
"Piece of My Heart" |
Big Brother & the Holding Company |
Columbia |
1968 |
Psychedelic rock |
Single |
1999 |
"Pine-Top's Boogie Woogie" |
Pine Top Smith |
Vocalion |
1928 |
Jazz |
Single |
1983 |
The Pink Panther |
Henry Mancini & his Orchestra |
RCA Victor |
1963 |
Soundtrack |
Album |
2001 |
Pinocchio: Motion Picture Soundtrack |
Cast: Dickie Jones, Cliff Edwards, Walter Catlett, etc. |
Victor |
1940 |
Soundtrack |
Album |
2002 |
"Pistol Packin' Mama" |
Al Dexter |
Okeh |
1943 |
Country |
Single |
2000 |
Play of Daniel |
New York Pro Musica directed by Noah Greenberg |
Decca |
1958 |
Musical show |
Album |
1998 |
"Please Mr. Postman" |
The Marvelettes |
Tamla |
1961 |
R&B |
Single |
2011 |
"Please, Please, Please" |
James Brown & The Famous Flames |
Federal |
1956 |
R&B |
Single |
2001 |
"Please Send Me Someone to Love" |
Percy Mayfield |
Specialty |
1950 |
R&B |
Single |
1999 |
"Pony Blues" |
Charley Patton |
Paramount |
1929 |
Delta blues |
Single |
1999 |
Porgy and Bess |
Miles Davis |
Columbia |
1959 |
Third stream jazz |
Album |
2000 |
Porgy and Bess |
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong |
Verve |
1958 |
Jazz |
Album |
2001 |
Porgy and Bess |
Lawrence Tibbett and Helen Jepson (with Orchestra conducted by Alexander Smallens and Nathaniel Shilkret) |
RCA Victor |
1935 |
Opera |
Album |
2002 |
Selections from George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess |
Original Broadway Cast: Todd Duncan, Anne Brown, etc. |
Decca |
1940-42 |
Opera |
Album |
1990 |
Portrait in Jazz |
Bill Evans & his Trio |
Riverside |
1960 |
Jazz |
Album |
2007 |
"Precious Lord, Take My Hand" |
Mahalia Jackson |
Columbia |
1956 |
Gospel |
Single |
2012 |
Pretenders |
The Pretenders |
Sire |
1980 |
Punk rock |
Album |
2016 |
"The Prisoner's Song" |
Vernon Dalhart |
Victor |
1924 |
Country |
Single |
1998 |
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf |
Serge Koussevitzky conducted by Boston Symphony Orchestra; Narrated by Richard Hale |
RCA Red Seal & RCA Victor |
1939 |
Classical |
Album |
2008 |
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no. 3 in C major, op. 26 |
Sergei Prokofiev conducted by London Symphony Orchestra; Piano by Piero Coppola |
His Master's Voice |
1932 |
Classical |
Album |
2009 |
"Proud Mary" |
Creedence Clearwater Revival |
Fantasy |
1968 |
Rock |
Single |
1998 |
"Proud Mary" |
Ike & Tina Turner |
Liberty |
1970 |
Funk rock |
Single |
2003 |
Puccini: La bohème |
Cast: Victoria de los Angeles, Lucine Amara, Jussi Bjorling, Robert Merrill, Giorgio Tozzi, John Reardon, etc. (with Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Thomas Beecham) |
RCA Victor |
1956 |
Opera |
Album |
2000 |
Puccini: Tosca |
Cast: Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, etc. (with La Scala Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Victor de Sabata) |
EMI Classics |
1953 |
Opera |
Album |
1987 |
"Purple Haze" |
The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
Track |
1967 |
Rock |
Single |
2000 |
Purple Rain |
Prince and The Revolution |
Warner Bros. |
1984 |
Minneapolis sound |
Album |
2011 |
"Puttin' On the Ritz" |
Harry Richman (with Earl Burtnett & his Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra), |
Brunswick |
1930 |
Soundtrack |
Single |
2005 |