The Rolling Stones' 1972 album "Exile on Main Street" is getting a 2012 induction in the Grammy Hall of Fame. The 2012 Grammy ceremony takes place February 12 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
"Exile on Main Street" was originally released on Rolling Stones Records/Atlantic Records, and has since been reissued multiple times. A remastered reissue of "Exile on Main Street" (with previously unreleased bonus tracks) was released in 2010. The Rolling Stones documentary "Stones in Exile" (released on DVD and Blu-ray in 2010) chronicled the making of "Exile on Main Street." The album is best known for the hits "Tumbling Dice" and "Happy."
Grammy Hall of Fame inductees are featured at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. "Exile on Main Street" is one of 25 recordings (songs, tracks or albums) that are 2012 Grammy Hall of Fame inductees, bringing the total to 906 inductees.
Here is the complete list of the 25 recordings to be inducted in 2012:
2012 Grammy Hall Of Fame Inductees
ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC Various Artists Folkways (1952) Folk (Album)
"ANYTHING GOES" Cole Porter (Cole Porter) His Master's Voice (1934) Pop (Single)
BORN IN THE U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen Columbia (1984) Rock (Album) "DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS" Gene Autry (June Hershey & Don Swander) Decca (1942) Country (Single)
DÉJÀ VU Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Atlantic (1970) Rock (Album)
EXILE ON MAIN STREET The Rolling Stones Rolling Stones/Atlantic (1972) Rock (Album)
"FIXIN' TO DIE" Bukka White (Bukka White) Okeh (1940) Blues (Single) FOGGY MOUNTAIN JAMBOREE Lester Flatt And Earl Scruggs Columbia (1957) Bluegrass (Album)
GRACELAND Paul Simon Warner Bros. (1986) Pop (Album)
HERB ALPERT PRESENTS SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL '66 Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 A&M (1966) Pop (Album)
"HOW LONG, HOW LONG BLUES" Leroy Carr (Leroy Carr) Vocalion (1928) Blues (Single)
"I HAVE A DREAM" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom March On Washington 20th Century Fox (1963) Spoken Word (Track)
I STARTED OUT AS A CHILD Bill Cosby Warner Bros. (1964) Comedy (Album)
"I WILL SURVIVE" Gloria Gaynor (Freddie Perren & Dino Fekaris) Polydor (1978) Disco (Single)
"KASSIE JONES" Furry Lewis (Walter "Furry" Lewis) Victor (1928) Blues (Single)
"KEY TO THE HIGHWAY" Big Bill Broonzy (Big Bill Broonzy & Charles Segar) Okeh (1941) Blues (Single)
"THE MESSAGE" Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five Featuring Melle Mel And Duke Bootee (Jiggs Chase, Melvin Glover, Sylvia Robinson & Edward Fletcher) Sugar Hill (1982) Rap (Single)
MEXICANTOS Los Panchos Coda (1945) Latin (Album)
"PRECIOUS LORD, TAKE MY HAND" Mahalia Jackson (Thomas A. Dorsey) Columbia (1956) Gospel (Single)
"QUE SERA, SERA (WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL BE)" Doris Day (Jay Livingston & Ray Evans) Columbia (1956) Pop (Single)
ROY HARRIS SYMPHONY NO. 3 Serge Koussevitzky, cond. Boston Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor (1940) Classical (Album)
SANTANA Santana Columbia (1969) Rock (Album)
ST. LOUIS WOMAN Original Broadway Cast Capitol (1946) Musical Show (Album)
"WASTED DAYS AND WASTED NIGHTS" Freddy Fender (Freddy Fender & Wayne Duncan) ABC-Dot (1975) Country (Single)
"WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT" Tina Turner (Terry Britten & Graham Lyle) Capitol (1984) Pop (Single)
"Exile on Main Street" album