The GRAMMY Hall of Fame has announced its 2015 class of inductees. Today (Dec. 15), the body announced the 13 albums and 14 songs that will be honored in the new year, including cuts from ABBA, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and Leonard Cohen.
The 27 recordings range from a 1909 version of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" by the Fisk Jubilee Singers to Raitt's 1989 album Nick of Time, Radio.com reports. Other entries include Chic's "Le Freak," Otis Redding's "Try a Little Tenderness," Kraftwerk's album Autobahn and the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bullocks.
Songs or albums must be 25 years old before they are considered for the Hall of Fame.
Check out the full list of Grammy Hall of Fame Inductees for 2015 below:
Songs:
ABBA, "Dancing Queen" (1976)
Fontella Bass, "Rescue Me" (1965)
Chic, "Le Freak" (1978)
Alice Cooper, "School's Out" (1972)
The Dominoes, "Sixty Minute Man" (1951)
Fisk Jubilee Singers, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (1909)
The 4 Seasons, "Big Girls Don't Cry" (1962)
Bobby Fuller Four, "I Fought the Law" (1965)
Aaron Neville, "Tell It Like It Is" (1966)
Otis Redding, "Try a Little Tenderness" (1966)
Lou Reed, "Walk on the Wild Side" (1972)
Paul Robeson, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (1926)
"Fats" Waller, His Rhythm And His Orchestra, "Jitterbug Waltz" (1942)
Hank Williams And His Drifting Cowboys, "Honky Tonkin'" (1947)
Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys, "San Antonio Rose" (1939)
Albums:
Harry Belafonte, Calypso (1956)
Leonard Cohen, Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks (1975)
Kraftwerk, Autobahn (1974)
Willie Nelson, Stardust (1978)
John Prine, John Prine (1971)
Bonnie Raitt, Nick of Time (1989)
Sonny Rollins, The Bridge (1962)
Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977)
Sly And The Family Stone, Stand! (1969)
Neil Young, Harvest (1972)
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