(Santa Monica, CA - January 12, 2006) The Recording Academy® announced the newest additions to its GRAMMY Hall Of Fame®, adding 25 recordings to a timeless list that now includes 684 titles. The Hall Of Fame serves as a celebration and reminder of the triumphs and achievements of the recording arts. Selections are drawn from all major categories of music, acknowledging the diversity of musical expression for which The Recording Academy has become renowned.

"This year's inductees represent an array of genres, including folk, blues, R&B, and country as well as musical shows," said Recording Academy President Neil Portnow. "The GRAMMY Hall of Fame is one of the Academy's most prized endeavors and it represents the most significant recorded musical masterpieces that have had a profound impact on our culture. They all greatly deserve to be commemorated."

GRAMMY Hall Of Fame selections include original cast recordings from musical shows Camelot and Hair, as well as show recordings of "Fascinating Rhythm" by Fred and Adele Astaire, "Ol' Man River" by Paul Robeson and "Yankee Doodle Boy" by Billy Murray. Recordings also chosen this year include B.B. King's Live At The Regal, the O'Jays' "Love Train," the Carter Family's "Keep On The Sunny Side," Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Marley and the Wailers' Exodus,and Barbra Streisand's The Barbra Streisand Album. Other artists with selections include Jimmy Forrest, the Miracles, Anton Karas, Doc Watson, Bessie Smith, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

The Recording Academy's National Trustees established the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in 1973 to honor recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance that are at least 25 years old. Hall Of Fame recordings are reviewed annually by a special member committee of eminent and knowledgeable professionals from all branches of the recording arts and final approval is made by Recording Academy Trustees. For more information about the Hall Of Fame or the 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards (to be broadcast live on Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the CBS Television Network), please visit www.grammy.com.

A complete list of GRAMMY Hall Of Fame inductees for 2006 follows. An entire list of GRAMMY Hall Of Fame recipients through 2005 can be found at www.grammy.com/awards/hall_fame.aspx.

GRAMMY Hall Of Fame 2006 Inductees

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Original Motion Picture Cast (Gene Kelly)
MGM (1951)
Film & TV Soundtracks (Album)

AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Reprise (1968)
Rock (Album)

THE BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM
Barbra Streisand
Columbia (1963)
Traditional Pop (Album)

BLACK MOUNTAIN RAG
Doc Watson
Vanguard (1964)
Country (Single)

BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME
Bob Dylan
Columbia (1965)
Rock (Album)

CAMELOT
Original Broadway Cast (Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, and Robert Goulet)
Columbia (1960)
Musical Show (Album)

CHOPIN WALTZES
Artur Rubinstein
RCA Victor (1965)
Classical (Album)

DARKTOWN STRUTTERS' BALL
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Columbia (1917)
Jazz (Single)

DOWNHEARTED BLUES
Bessie Smith
Columbia (1923)
Blues (Single)

EXODUS
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Island/Tuff Gong (1977)
Reggae (Album)

FASCINATING RHYTHM
Fred and Adele Astaire accompanied by George Gershwin
English Columbia (1926)
Musical Show (Single)

GONE WITH THE WIND
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Max Steiner)
MGM (1967)
Film & TV Soundtracks (Album)

GOODNIGHT IRENE
Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra and The Weavers
Decca (1950)
Folk (Single)

HAIR
Original Broadway Cast
RCA Victor (1968)
Musical Show (Album)

KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE
The Carter Family
Victor (1928)
Country (Single)

LIVE AT THE REGAL
B.B. King
ABC Paramount (1965)
Blues (Album)

LOVE TRAIN
The O'Jays
Philadelphia International (1973)
R&B (Single)

NIGHT TRAIN
Jimmy Forrest
United (1952)
Jazz (Single)

OL' MAN RIVER
Paul Robeson with Paul Whiteman & His Concert Orchestra
Victor (1928)
Musical Show (Single)

SHOP AROUND
The Miracles
Tamla (1960)
R&B (Single)

THE THIRD MAN THEME
Anton Karas
London (1950)
Film & TV Soundtracks (Single)

THE WIZARD OF OZ — MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC SELECTIONS RECORDED DIRECTLY FROM THE SOUNDTRACK OF MGM'S TECHNICOLOR FILM
Original Motion Picture Cast (Judy Garland)
MGM Records (1956)
Film & TV Soundtracks (Album)

WALK DON'T RUN
The Ventures
Dolton (1960)
Rock (Single)

WORRIED LIFE BLUES
Big Maceo (Merriweather)
Bluebird (1941)
Blues (Single)

YANKEE DOODLE BOY
Billy Murray
Columbia (1905)
Musical Show (Single)

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