| Year |
Recipient(s) |
Ref.
|
| 1967 |
Georg Solti and John Culshaw |
| 1968 |
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, Krzysztof Penderecki |
| 1970 |
Robert Moog |
| 1971 |
Chris Albertson, John Hammond, Larry Hiller, Paul Weston |
| 1972 |
The Beatles |
| 1977 |
Thomas Edison, Leopold Stokowski |
| 1979 |
Goddard Lieberson, Frank Sinatra |
| 1981 |
Count Basie, Aaron Copland |
| 1983 |
Les Paul |
| 1984 |
Béla Bartók |
| 1985 |
Eldridge Johnson |
| 1986 |
George and Ira Gershwin |
| 1987 |
Harold Arlen, Emile Berliner, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer |
| 1989 |
Walt Disney, Quincy Jones, Cole Porter |
| 1990 |
Dick Clark |
| 1991 |
Milt Gabler, Berry Gordy, Sam Phillips |
| 1992 |
Thomas A. Dorsey, Christine Farnon, Oscar Hammerstein II, Lorenz Hart |
| 1993 |
Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun, W. C. Handy, George T. Simon |
| 1994 |
Norman Granz |
| 1995 |
Pierre Cossette |
| 1996 |
George Martin, Jerry Wexler |
| 1997 |
Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller |
| 1998 |
Holland-Dozier-Holland, Frances Preston, Richard Rodgers |
| 1999 |
Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff |
| 2000 |
Clive Davis, Phil Spector |
| 2001 |
Arif Mardin, Phil Ramone |
| 2002 |
Tom Dowd, Alan Freed |
| 2003 |
Alan Lomax, New York Philharmonic |
| 2004 |
Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Orrin Keepnews, Marian McPartland |
| 2005 |
Hoagy Carmichael, Don Cornelius, Alfred Lion, Billy Taylor |
| 2006 |
Chris Blackwell, Owen Bradley, Al Schmitt |
| 2007 |
Estelle Axton, Cosimo Matassa, Stephen Sondheim |
| 2008 |
Clarence Avant, Jac Holzman, Willie Mitchell |
| 2009 |
George Avakian, Elliott Carter, Allen Toussaint |
| 2010 |
Harold Bradley, Florence Greenberg, Walter C. Miller |
| 2011 |
Al Bell, Wilma Cozart Fine, Bruce Lundvall |
| 2012 |
Dave Bartholomew, Steve Jobs, Rudy Van Gelder |
| 2013 |
Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Leonard and Phil Chess, Alan Livingston |
| 2014 |
Ennio Morricone, Rick Hall, Jim Marshall |
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|
| 2015 |
Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Richard Perry, George Wein |
| 2016 |
John Cage, Fred Foster, Chris Strachwitz |
| 2017 |
Thom Bell, Mo Ostin, Ralph S. Peer |
| 2018 |
Bill Graham, Seymour Stein, John Williams |
| 2019 |
Lou Adler, Ashford & Simpson, Johnny Mandel |
| 2020 |
Frank Buckley Walker, Ken Ehrlich, Philip Glass |
| 2021 |
Ed Cherney, Benny Golson, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds |
| 2023 |
Henry Diltz, Ellis Marsalis Jr., Jim Stewart |
| 2024 |
Peter Asher, DJ Kool Herc, Joel Katz |
| 2025 |
Erroll Garner, Glyn Johns, Tania León |
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