Every year, starting in January:
20 songs & sheet music pieces (including 5 themes/scores/compositions)
10 albums (with an additional 5 compilations and 5 soundtracks/cast recordings)
10 musical artists & performers (with an additional 2 musical composers/conductors)
5 songwriters & lyricists
3 producers, arrangers, & engineers
3 session musicians & vocalists
3 record labels & executives
are inducted into Frequent Rewind’s Musical Honors, acknowledging notable musical texts & figures in the realm of the recorded
music period.
There are also an additional two special yearly awards:
The “Outstanding Preservation & Historical Documentation Award” category selects one organization or document that preserves musical history
The “Pre-Recorded Era Celebratory Award” highlights pivotal figures before the recorded music period
Records & Sheet Music
Billie Jean (1982) – Michael Jackson
Good Rockin’ Tonight (1948) – Wynonie Harris
I Feel Love (1977) – Donna Summer
I Pagliacci – Vesti la giubba (1902) – Enrico Caruso
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (1949) – Hank Williams
Johnny B. Goode (1958) – Chuck Berry
Maple Leaf Rag (1899) – Scott Joplin
The Message (1982) – Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Move On Up a Little Higher (1947) – Mahalia Jackson
Over the Rainbow (1939) – Judy Garland
Oye Como Va (1962) – Tito Puente
Rock Around the Clock (1954) – Bill Haley & His Comets
The Saint Louis Blues (1914) – W.C. Handy
Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991) – Nirvana
Strange Fruit (1939) – Billie Holiday
The Stars and Stripes Forever (1897) – John Philip Sousa
This Land Is Your Land (1945) – Woody Guthrie
West End Blues (1928) – Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
White Christmas (1942) – Bing Crosby
Yesterday (1965) – The Beatles
Themes/Scores/Compositions
4’33” (1952) – John Cage
Peter Gunn (1959) – Henry Mancini
Rhapsody in Blue (1924) – George Gershwin
Star Wars (Main Title) (1977) – John Williams
The Rite of Spring (1913) – Igor Stravinsky
Albums
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook (1956) – Ella Fitzgerald
Elvis Presley (1956) – Elvis Presley
In the Wee Small Hours (1955) – Frank Sinatra
Kind of Blue (1959) – Miles Davis
Live at the Apollo (1963) – James Brown
Mariah Carey (1990) – Mariah Carey
Miriam Makeba (1960) – Miriam Makeba
Pet Sounds (1966) – The Beach Boys
Siembra (1978) – Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
Run-D.M.C. (1984) – Run-D.M.C.
Compilations
The Best Best of Fela Kuti (1999) – Fela Kuti
The Essential Bessie Smith (1997) – Bessie Smith
From Spirituals To Swing – The Legendary 1938 & 1939 Carnegie Hall Concerts Produced By John Hammond (1999, Vanguard) – various
Greatest Hits (1998) – 2Pac
The Rough Guide To… (music anthology series by Rough Guides Ltd.)
Soundtracks/Cast Recordings
The Bodyguard (1992) – Whitney Houston/various
The Harder They Come (1972) – various
Purple Rain (1984) – Prince & the Revolution
Saturday Night Fever (1977) – various
West Side Story (1957) – original Broadway cast of West Side Story
Artists & Performers
Al Jolson
Asha Bhosle
Bob Dylan
Celia Cruz
Duke Ellington
Johnny Cash
Kraftwerk
Lead Belly
Madonna
Ray Charles
Musical Composers & Conductors
Charles Ives
Percy Faith
Songwriters & Lyricists
Bob Marley
Irving Berlin
Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
Thomas A. Dorsey
Willie Dixon
Producers, Arrangers, & Engineers
John Henry Hammond
Phil Spector
Quincy Jones
Session Musicians & Vocalists
Benny Goodman
The Sweet Inspirations
Record Labels & Executives
Atlantic Records
Berry Gordy, Jr.
Victor
Pre-Recorded Era Celebratory Award
Stephen Foster
Outstanding Preservation & Historical Documentation Award
Cylinder Preservation & Digitization Project, Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Santa Barbara