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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech was one of the 50 recordings added on the first year of existence of the United States National Recording Registry.
The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000,[1] which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by the Librarian of Congress. The recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry form a registry of recordings selected yearly by the National Recording Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress.[2]
The legislative intent of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 was to develop a national program to guard America's sound recording heritage. The Act resulted in the formations of the National Recording Registry, The National Recording Preservation Board and a fund-raising foundation to aid their efforts.[3] The act established the Registry specifically for the purpose of maintaining and preserving sound recordings and collections of sound recordings that are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.[1] Beginning in 2002, the National Recording Preservation Board began selecting nominated recordings each year to be preserved.
The first four yearly lists included 50 selections. However, since 2006, 25 recordings have been selected annually. Thus, a total of 300 recordings have been preserved in the Registry as of 2009[update]. Each year, open nominations are accepted until July 1 for inclusion in that year's list of selections to be announced the following spring. Thus, nominations for the 2010 list to be announced in the spring of 2011 had to be submitted by July 1, 2010 although nominations are accepted year round.[2][4] Nominations are made in the following categories:
- Blues
- Broadway/Musical Theatre/Soundtrack
- Cajun/Zydeco/"Swamp"
- Children's recordings
- Choral
- Classical
- Comedy/Novelty
- Country/Bluegrass
- Documentary/Broadcast/Spoken Word
- Environmental
- Field
- Folk/Ethnic
- Gospel/Spiritual
- Heavy Metal
- Jazz
- Latin
- Pop (pre-1955)
- Pop (post-1955)
- R&B
- Radio
- Rap/Hip-hop
- Rock
- Technology
Each yearly list has often included a few recordings that have also been selected for inclusion in the holdings of the National Archives' audiovisual collection. Those recordings on the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry that are of a political nature will tend to overlap with the audiovisual collection of the National Archives. The list shows overlapping items and whether the National Archives has an original or a copy of the recording.
Contents
Selection criteria
The criteria for selection are as follows:[5]
- Recordings selected for the National Recording Registry are those that are culturally, historically or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States.
- For the purposes of recording selection, "sound recordings" are defined as works that result from the fixation of a series of musical, spoken, or other sounds, but not including the sound component of a moving image work, unless it is available as an autonomous sound recording or is the only extant component of the work.
- Recordings may be a single item or group of related items; published or unpublished; and may contain music, non-music, spoken word, or broadcast sound.
- Recordings will not be considered for inclusion into the National Recording Registry if no copy of the recording exists.
- No recording should be denied inclusion into the National Recording Registry because that recording has already been preserved.
- No recording is eligible for inclusion into the National Recording Registry until ten years after the recording's creation.
2002
On January 27, 2003, the following 50 selections were announced by the National Recording Preservation Board.[6]
Selected exhibitions recording for the phonograph were added in 2002.
Louis Armstrong was one of American music's most important and influential figures. The sessions preserved in the registry, and his solos in particular, set a standard musicians still strive to equal in their beauty and innovation.[6]
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band's "Tiger Rag" launched jazz as a music genre, and is preserved in the registry.
Booker T. Washington recreated his controversial 1895 Atlanta Exposition Speech in 1906.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Fireside Chats" "redefined the relationship between the president and the American people."[6]
Orson Welles' 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio drama created alarm and panic across the United States.Recording or collection Performer or agent Year National
ArchivesEdison exhibition recordings (Group of three cylinders):[7] - "Around the World on the Phonograph"
- "The Pattison Waltz"
- "Fifth Regiment March"
Thomas Edison 1888–1889 Passamaquoddy Indians field recordings Recorded by Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890 "Stars and Stripes Forever"
(Berliner Gramophone disc recording)Military Band 1897 Metropolitan Opera cylinder recordings (the Mapleson Cylinders) Lionel Mapleson and the Metropolitan Opera 1900–1903 Ragtime compositions piano rolls Scott Joplin 1900s 1895 Atlanta Exposition speech Booker T. Washington 1906 recreation copy "Vesti la giubba" from Pagliacci Enrico Caruso 1907 "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" Fisk Jubilee Singers 1909 Lovey's Trinidad String Band Lovey's Trinidad String Band 1912 "Casey at the Bat" DeWolf Hopper 1915 "Tiger Rag" Original Dixieland Jazz Band 1918 "Arkansas Traveler" and "Sallie Gooden" Eck Robertson 1922 "Downhearted Blues" Bessie Smith 1923 Rhapsody in Blue George Gershwin, piano; Paul Whiteman Orchestra 1924 Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven 1925–1928 Victor Talking Machine Company sessions in Bristol, Tennessee Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Ernest Stoneman, and others 1927 Harvard Vocarium record series T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and others 1930–1940s Highlander Center Field Recordings Collection Rosa Parks, Esau Jenkins and others 1930s–1980s Bell Laboratories experimental stereo recordings Philadelphia Orchestra; Leopold Stokowski, conductor 1931–1932 "Fireside Chats" radio broadcasts[A] Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933–1944 original "New Music Quarterly" recordings series Henry Cowell, producer 1934–1949 Description of the crash of the Hindenburg Herbert Morrison May 6, 1937 original "Who's on First?"
Earliest existing radio broadcast versionAbbott and Costello March, 1938 "War of the Worlds" Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre October 30, 1938 copy "God Bless America"
Radio broadcast premiereKate Smith November 11, 1938 The Cradle Will Rock
(Marc Blitzstein)Original cast 1938 The John and Ruby Lomax Southern States Recording Trip John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Grand Ole Opry
First network radio broadcastUncle Dave Macon, Roy Acuff, and others October 14, 1939 "Strange Fruit" Billie Holiday 1939 Blanton-Webster era recordings Duke Ellington Orchestra 1940–1942 Béla Bartók and Joseph Szigeti in Concert at the Library of Congress Béla Bartók, piano; Joseph Szigeti, violin 1940 The Rite of Spring Igor Stravinsky conducting the New York Philharmonic 1940 "White Christmas" Bing Crosby 1942 "This Land Is Your Land" Woody Guthrie 1944 D-Day radio address to
the Allied NationsDwight D. Eisenhower June 6, 1944 original "Ko Ko" ("Ko-Ko") Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and others 1945 "Blue Moon of Kentucky" Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys 1947 "How High the Moon" Les Paul and Mary Ford 1951 Sun Records sessions Elvis Presley 1954–1955 Songs for Young Lovers Frank Sinatra 1954 "Dance Mania" Tito Puente 1958 Kind of Blue Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, and others 1959 "What'd I Say," parts 1 and 2 Ray Charles 1959 "I Have a Dream" speech Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. August 28, 1963 copy The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan 1963 "Respect" Aretha Franklin 1967 Philomel: For Soprano Bethany Beardslee, recorded soprano,
and synthesized sound1971 Precious Lord: New Recordings of the Great Gospel Songs of Thomas A. Dorsey Thomas A. Dorsey,
Marion Williams,
and others1973 Crescent City Living Legends Collection
(New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Archive/WWOZ New Orleans)1973–1990 "The Message" Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 1982 2003
"He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands" was one of Marian Anderson’s favorite spirituals, and she often performed it at the conclusion of her recitals.[8]
O. Winston Link's recordings of the sounds produced by a variety of locomotive models capture "the unique and now-lost sounds of the engines which united the United States."[8]
The Cole Porter Songbook was the first of Ella Fitzgerald's many anthologies.
Chuck Berry is widely considered to have "laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance".In March 2004, the following 50 selections were made by the National Recording Preservation Board.[8]
Recording or collection Performer or agent Year National
Archives"The Lord’s Prayer" and
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"Emile Berliner c. 1890 "Honolulu Cake Walk" Vess Ossman 1898 Victor Releases Bert Williams and
George Walker1901 "You're a Grand Old Rag [Flag]" Billy Murray 1906 Chippewa/Ojibwe Cylinder Collection Frances Densmore 1907–1910 The Bubble Book
(the first Bubble Book)1917 "Cross of Gold"
Speech re-enactmentWilliam Jennings Bryan 1921 Cylinder recordings
of African-American musicGuy B. Johnson 1920s "OKeh Laughing Record" Lucie Bernardo and Otto Rathke 1922 "Adeste Fideles" Associated Glee Clubs of America 1925 Cajun-Creole Columbia releases Amadé Ardoin and
Dennis McGee1929 "Goodnight, Irene" Lead Belly 1933 "Every Man a King" speech Huey P. Long February 23, 1935 copy "He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands" Marian Anderson 1936 The Complete Recordings Robert Johnson 1936–1937 Interviews conducted by Alan Lomax Jelly Roll Morton, Alan Lomax 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert Benny Goodman 1938 Complete day of radio broadcasting, WJSV (Washington, D.C.) WJSV, Washington, D.C. September 21, 1939 original "New San Antonio Rose" Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys 1940 World Series-Game Four New York Yankees
vs. Brooklyn DodgersOctober 5, 1941 Bach B-Minor Mass Robert Shaw Chorale 1947 Beethoven String Quartets Budapest Quartet 1940–1950 Porgy and Bess
(George Gershwin)Original cast 1940, 1942 Oklahoma!
(Rodgers and Hammerstein)Original cast 1943 Othello Paul Robeson, Uta Hagen,
José Ferrer, and others1943 The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) Louis Kaufman and
the Concert Hall String Orchestra1947 Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord" (Ives)
John Kirkpatrick 1948 Steam locomotive recordings, 6 vol. O. Winston Link 1957–1977 Pictures at an Exhibition (Modest Mussorgsky) Rafael Kubelík conducting
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra1951 "Problems of the American Home" Billy Graham 1954 Goldberg Variations (Bach) Glenn Gould 1955 Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook Ella Fitzgerald 1956 "Roll Over Beethoven" Chuck Berry 1956 Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk 1956 Complete Ring Cycle (Richard Wagner) Georg Solti and
the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra1958–1965 Winds in Hi-Fi Eastman Wind Ensemble
with Frederick Fennell1958 Mingus Ah Um Charles Mingus 1959 New York Taxi Driver Tony Schwartz 1959 "Crazy" Patsy Cline 1961 Kennedy Inauguration Ceremony John Fitzgerald Kennedy,
Robert Frost, and othersJanuary 20, 1961 original Judy at Carnegie Hall Judy Garland 1961 "I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)" Otis Redding 1965 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles 1967 At Folsom Prison Johnny Cash 1968 Ali Akbar College of Music,
Archive Selections1960s–1970s What's Going On Marvin Gaye 1971 Tapestry Carole King 1971 A Prairie Home Companion
First broadcastGarrison Keillor July 6, 1974 Born to Run Bruce Springsteen 1975 Live at Yankee Stadium Fania All-Stars 1975 2004
In April 2005, the following 50 selections were made by the National Recording Preservation Board.[9]
The traditional pop music song "Fascinating Rhythm," sung by Fred and Adele Astaire in Lady, Be Good, was preserved in 2004.
The NBC's coverage of Colonel Lindbergh in Washington was an important achievement for the network, and involved reporters in three locations in the city.
Among those to have claimed musical satirist Tom Lehrer as an influence are Lenny Bruce and Weird Al Yankovic.
"Houston. Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed.... I’m going to step off the LEM now. That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong's words upon landing on the moon "have become some of the most recognizable and memorable sentences spoken in United States history."[9]Recording or collection Performer or agent Year National
Archives"Gypsy Love Song" Eugene Cowles 1898 "Some of These Days" Sophie Tucker 1911 "The Castles in Europe One-Step
(Castle House Rag)"Europe’s Society Orchestra 1914 "Swanee" Al Jolson 1920 Armistice Day radio broadcast Woodrow Wilson November 10, 1923 original "See See Rider" Gertrude "Ma" Rainey 1923 "Charleston" Golden Gate Orchestra 1925 "Fascinating Rhythm" Fred and
Adele Astaire;
George Gershwin, piano1926 NBC radio coverage of
Charles A. Lindbergh’s
arrival and reception
in Washington, D.C.June 11, 1927 copy "Stardust" Hoagy Carmichael 1927 "Blue Yodel (T for Texas)" Jimmie Rodgers 1927 "Ain't Misbehavin'" Thomas "Fats" Waller 1929 "Gregorio Cortez" Trovadores Regionales 1929 Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano;
Leopold Stokowski, conductor;
Philadelphia Orchestra1929 "The Suncook Town Tragedy" Mabel Wilson Tatro July 1930 Oral narrative from
the Lorenzo D. Turner CollectionRosina Cohen 1932 "Stormy Weather" Ethel Waters 1933 "Body and Soul" Coleman Hawkins 1939 Peter and the Wolf
(Sergey Prokofiev)Serge Koussevitzky, conductor;
Richard Hale, narrator;
Boston Symphony Orchestra1939 "In the Mood" Glenn Miller and His Orchestra 1939 Broadcasts from London Edward R. Murrow 1940 copy We Hold These Truths
(Norman Corwin)December 15, 1941 original Piano Concerto No. 1, op. 23, Bb minor
(Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)Vladimir Horowitz, piano;
Arturo Toscanini; conductor;
NBC Symphony Orchestra1943 "Down by the Riverside" Sister Rosetta Tharpe 1944 U.S. Highball
(A Musical Account of
a Transcontinental Hobo Trip)Harry Partch, Gate 5 Ensemble 1946 Four Saints in Three Acts (Virgil Thomson) Original cast 1947 "Manteca" Dizzy Gillespie Big Band
with Chano Pozo1947 The Jack Benny Program Jack Benny March 28, 1948 "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs 1949 "Lovesick Blues" Hank Williams 1949 Guys & Dolls Original cast 1950 "Old Soldiers Never Die"
(Farewell Address to the United States Congress)General Douglas MacArthur April 19, 1951 copy Songs by Tom Lehrer Tom Lehrer 1953 "Hoochie Coochie Man" Muddy Waters 1954 "Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)" The Penguins 1954 Tuskegee Institute Choir Sings Spirituals Tuskegee Institute Choir,
directed by William L. Dawson1955 Messiah Eugene Ormandy, conductor;
Richard P. Condie, choir director;
Mormon Tabernacle Choir;
Philadelphia Orchestra1958 Giant Steps John Coltrane 1959 Drums of Passion Michael Babatunde Olatunji 1960 Peace Be Still James Cleveland 1962 "The Girl from Ipanema"
(Garota de Ipanema)Stan Getz,
João Gilberto,
Antonio Carlos Jobim,
Astrud Gilberto1963 Live at the Apollo James Brown 1963 Pet Sounds The Beach Boys 1966 King James version of the Bible Alexander Scourby 1966 Remarks broadcast from the moon Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong July 21, 1969 original At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band 1971 Star Wars (Soundtrack) John Williams 1977 Recordings of Asian elephants Katharine B. Payne 1984 Fear of a Black Planet Public Enemy 1990 Nevermind Nirvana 1991 2005
In April 2006, the following 50 selections were made by the National Recording Preservation Board.[10]
An athlete, a gentleman and a scholar, Robeson used his diverse talents to pave a successful career as a performer and become active in sociopolitical affairs.
Former champion Max Schmeling handed Joe Louis his first loss.
B. B. King and his guitar Lucille.
Stevie Wonder has been awarded over 20 Grammy Awards. His 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life won the Grammy that year for Album of the Year.Recording or collection Performer or agent Year National
Archives"Canzone del Porter"
from Martha (von Flotow)Edouard de Reszke 1903 "Listen to the Lambs" Hampton Quartette;
recorded by Natalie Curtis Burlin1917 "Over There" Nora Bayes 1917 "Crazy Blues" Mamie Smith 1920 "My Man" and "Second Hand Rose" Fanny Brice 1921 "Ory's Creole Trombone" Kid Ory June 1922 Second inauguration of Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge March 4, 1925 "Tanec Pid Werbamy/
Dance Under the Willows"Pawlo Humeniuk 1926 "Singin' the Blues" Frankie Trumbauer and
His Orchestra
with Bix Beiderbecke1927 First official transatlantic
telephone conversationW.S. Gifford and Sir Evelyn P. Murray January 7, 1927 original "El Manisero" ("The Peanut Vendor")
(Two versions)Rita Montaner,
vocal with orchestra;
Don Azpiazu and
His Havana Casino orchestra1927;
1930Light's Golden Jubilee Celebration October 21, 1929 copy Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, Op. 84 Modesto High School Band 1930 Show Boat Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson,
James Melton and others;
Victor Young, conductor;
Louis Alter, piano1932 "Wabash Cannonball" Roy Acuff 1936 "One O'Clock Jump" Count Basie and His Orchestra 1937 The Fall of the City (Columbia Workshop) Orson Welles, narrator;
Burgess Meredith, Paul StewartApril 11, 1937 copy The Adventures of Robin Hood
(Erich Wolfgang Korngold)May 11, 1938 Joe Louis-Max Schmeling fight Clem McCarthy, announcer June 22, 1938 John the Revelator Golden Gate Quartet 1938 "Adagio for Strings" Arturo Toscanini, conductor;
NBC SymphonyNovember 5, 1938 Command Performance,
show No. 21Bob Hope, master of ceremonies July 7, 1942 copy "Straighten Up and Fly Right" Nat “King” Cole 1943 The Fred Allen Show Fred Allen October 7, 1945 "Jole Blon (Jolie Blonde)" Harry Choates 1946 Tubby the Tuba Victor Jory 1946 "Move On Up a Little Higher" Mahalia Jackson 1948 Anthology of American Folk Music Edited by Harry Smith 1952 "Schooner Bradley" Pat Bonner 1952–60 Damnation of Faust Boston Symphony Orchestra
with the Harvard Glee Club
and Radcliffe Choral Society1954 "Blueberry Hill" Fats Domino 1956 Variations for Orchestra
Representative of the Louisville Orchestra
First Edition Recordings seriesLouisville Orchestra 1956 "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On" Jerry Lee Lewis 1957 "That'll Be the Day" The Crickets 1957 Poeme Electronique Edgard Varèse 1958 Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet 1959 Studs Terkel interview
with James Baldwin
Representative of the Studs Terkel Collection at the Chicago History Museum (formerly the Chicago Historical Society)Studs Terkel, James Baldwin September 29, 1962 United States Military Academy address William Faulkner April 19–20, 1962 "Dancing in the Street" Martha and the Vandellas 1964 Live at the Regal B.B. King 1965 Are You Experienced The Jimi Hendrix Experience 1967 We're Only in It for the Money Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention 1968 Switched-On Bach Wendy Carlos 1968 "Oh Happy Day" Edwin Hawkins Singers 1969 Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers Firesign Theatre 1970 "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" Gil Scott-Heron 1970 Will the Circle Be Unbroken Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 1972 The old foghorn, Kewaunee, Wisconsin Recorded by James A. Lipsky 1972 Songs in the Key of Life Stevie Wonder 1976 Daydream Nation Sonic Youth 1988 2006
On March 6, 2007, the following 25 selections were made by the National Recording Preservation Board.[11]
Cal Stewart was among the most prolific and popular recording artists of the first 20 years of commercial recording.
President Roosevelt signs the declaration of war against Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the "date which will live in infamy".
Folk singer Pete Seeger adapted a gospel song, "I Shall Overcome", by changing "I" to "We", and it became a standard for the civil rights movement.Recording or collection Performer or agent Year National
Archives"Uncle Josh and the Insurance Agent" Cal Stewart 1904 "Il Mio Tesoro" John McCormack; orchestra
conducted by Walter Rogers1916 National Defense Test General John J. Pershing September 12, 1924 copy "Black Bottom Stomp" Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers 1926 "Wildwood Flower" Carter Family 1928 "Pony Blues" Charley Patton 1929 "You're the Top" Cole Porter 1934 The Lone Ranger
Episode: "The Osage Bank Robbery"Earle Graser, John Todd December 17, 1937 "Day of Infamy" speech to Congress Franklin D. Roosevelt December 8, 1941 copy Native Brazilian music recorded
under the supervision of Leopold StokowskiPixinguinha, Donga, Cartola,
Jararaca, Ratinho and José Espinguela1942 "Peace in the Valley" Red Foley and the Sunshine Boys 1951 "Polonaise in A Major" ("Polonaise militaire"),
Op. 40, No. 1, by Frédéric ChopinArtur Rubinstein 1952 "Blue Suede Shoes" Carl Perkins 1955 Interviews with William "Billy" Bell
(Canadian-Irish northwoods work songs)Recorded by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives 1956 Howl Allen Ginsberg 1959 The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart Bob Newhart 1960 "Be My Baby" The Ronettes 1963 "We Shall Overcome" Pete Seeger 1963 "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" The Rolling Stones 1965 "A Change Is Gonna Come" Sam Cooke 1965 The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground and Nico 1967 The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake Eubie Blake 1969 Burnin' The Wailers 1973 Live in Japan Sarah Vaughan 1973 Graceland Paul Simon 1986 2007
"Allons à Lafayette" was the best-known recording by Cajun accordionist Joe Falcon.
Fiorella LaGuardia read the comics on WNYC radio during the 1945 newspaper delivery strike.
Murmurs of Earth is an eclectic 90-minute record of life and culture, sent into space by NASA.On May 14, 2008, the following 25 selections were made by the National Recording Preservation Board.[12][13]
Recording or collection Performer or agent Year National
ArchivesThe first transatlantic broadcast March 14, 1925 "Allons a Lafayette" Joe Falcon 1928 "Casta Diva" from Bellini's Norma Rosa Ponselle and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Giulio Setti December 31, 1928 and January 30, 1929 "If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again" Thomas A. Dorsey 1934 "Sweet Lorraine" Art Tatum 1940 Fibber McGee and Molly
Fibber's closet opens for the first timeJim Jordan, Marian Jordan March 4, 1940 Wings Over Jordan May 10, 1942 Fiorello H. La Guardia reading the comics Fiorello H. La Guardia 1945 "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" T-Bone Walker 1947 Speech at the 1948 Democratic National Convention Harry S. Truman July 15, 1948 The Jazz Scene Various artists, produced by Norman Granz 1949 "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" Kitty Wells 1952 My Fair Lady Original cast 1956 Navajo Shootingway Ceremony Field Recordings Recorded by David McAllester 1957–1958 "Freight Train" and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes Elizabeth Cotten 1959 United States Marine Band Recordings for the National Cultural Center 1963 "Oh, Pretty Woman" Roy Orbison 1964 "The Tracks of My Tears" Smokey Robinson and the Miracles 1965 You’ll Sing a Song and I’ll Sing a Song Ella Jenkins 1966 Music from the Morning of the World Various artists, recorded by David Lewiston 1966 For the Roses Joni Mitchell 1972 Head Hunters Herbie Hancock 1973 Ronald Reagan radio broadcasts Ronald Reagan 1976–79 Murmurs of Earth
Disc prepared for the Voyager spacecraft1977 Thriller Michael Jackson 1982 2008
Shortly after his Carnegie Hall debut on November 7, 1917, violinist Jascha Heifetz made his first recordings for Victor.
Marian Anderson performed for more than 75,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial, opening with "My Country, 'Tis of Thee."
Winston Churchill's "Sinews of Peace" address originated the term "Iron Curtain."On June 10, 2009, the following 25 selections were made by the National Recording Preservation Board.[14]
2009
On June 23, 2010, the following 25 selections were made by the National Recording Preservation Board.[15]
Bill Cosby
Little Richard
Mississippi John Hurt
Willie NelsonRecording or collection Performer or agent Year National
Archives"Fon der Choope (From the Wedding)" Abe Elenkrig’s Yidishe Orchestra April 4, 1913 "Canal Street Blues" King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band April 5, 1923 Tristan und Isolde, NBC broadcast Metropolitan Opera, featuring Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior, March 9, 1935 "When You Wish Upon a Star" Cliff Edwards 1938 (recorded) / 1940 (released) America's Town Meeting of the Air: "Should Our Ships Convoy Materials to England?" George V. Denny (host); Reinhold Niebuhr, John Flynn (guests) May 8, 1941 The Library of Congress Marine Corps Combat Field Recording Collection, Second Battle of Guam. 1944 "Evangeline Special" and "Love Bridge Waltz" Iry LeJeune 1948 The Little Engine that Could Paul Wing, narrator 1949 Leon Metcalf Collection of recordings of the First People of western Washington State Leon Metcalf 1950–1954 "Tutti Frutti" Little Richard 1955 "Smokestack Lightning" Howlin' Wolf 1956 Gypsy Original cast recording 1959 The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings Bill Evans Trio June 25, 1961 "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)" Max Mathews 1961 I Started Out as a Child Bill Cosby 1964 Azucar Pa' Ti Eddie Palmieri 1965 Today! Mississippi John Hurt 1966 "Silver Apples of the Moon" Morton Subotnick 1967 Soul Folk in Action The Staple Singers 1968 The Band The Band 1969 "Coal Miner's Daughter" Loretta Lynn 1970 Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson 1975 Horses Patti Smith 1975 "Radio Free Europe"
original Hib-Tone singleR.E.M. 1981 "Dear Mama" 2Pac 1995 2010
Ishi, last surviving member of the Yahi tribe
Willis Conover, broadcaster with the Voice of America
Don Van Vliet, better known by the stage name Captain Beefheart
A humpback whale, known for producing whale songsOn April 6, 2011, the following 25 selections were announced.[16]
Recording or collection Performer or agent Year National
ArchivesPhonautograms Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville ca. 1853–1861 "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" Edward Meeker, accompanied by the Edison Orchestra 1908 Yahi language cylinder recordings Ishi, last surviving member of the Yahi tribe 1911–1914 "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" Blind Willie Johnson 1927 "It's the Girl" The Boswell Sisters with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra 1931 "Mal Hombre" Lydia Mendoza 1934 "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" The Sons of the Pioneers 1934 Talking Union The Almanac Singers 1941 Jazz at the Philharmonic Nat "King" Cole, Les Paul, Buddy Rich, others July 2, 1944 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's "Pope Marcellus Mass" Roger Wagner Chorale 1951 "The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest" Reverend C. L. Franklin 1953 "Tipitina" Professor Longhair 1953 "At Sunset" Mort Sahl 1955 Interviews with jazz musicians for the Voice of America Willis Conover 1956 The Music from Peter Gunn Henry Mancini 1958 United Sacred Harp Musical Convention in Fyffe, Alabama field recordings by Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins 1959 Blind Joe Death John Fahey 1959, 1964, 1967 "Stand by Your Man" Tammy Wynette 1968 Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band 1969 Songs of the Humpback Whale Frank Watlington, Roger Payne, and others 1970 "Let's Stay Together" Al Green 1971 "Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land)" New York Strings Quartet 1972 Aja Steely Dan 1977 GOPAC Strategy and Instructional Tapes Newt Gingrich, others 1986–1994 3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul 1989 Trivia
- As of 2010[update], the oldest recording on the list is Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville's Phonautograms which date back to 1853. The most recent is the song "Dear Mama" by 2Pac which came out in 1995 on his album Me Against the World.[17]
- Selections vary widely in duration. Both the early Edison recordings and the instrumental "Rumble" by Link Wray clock in at under three minutes. Meanwhile Georg Solti’s recording of Wagner’s complete Ring Cycle is approximately 15 hours in duration and Alexander Scourby’s recitation of the King James Bible is over 80 hours in length.[17]
- As of 2010[update], there are nine cast show recordings on the Registry, including Oklahoma!, Show Boat, Gypsy and The Cradle Will Rock.[17]
- As of 2010[update], there is one TV theme on the list, Henry Mancini's music for Peter Gunn.
- As of 2010[update], excluding radio series, there are 10 comedy recordings on the Registry, including The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart by Bob Newhart, 2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, I Started Out as a Child by Bill Cosby, At Sunset by Mort Sahl and “No News, or What Killed the Dog” by Nat M. Wills.[17]
- As of 2010[update], there are 32 solo female musical artists represented on the list, including Sophie Tucker, Carole King, Tammy Wynette, Lydia Mendoza, Judy Garland, Joni Mitchell, Fanny Brice, Ella Fitzgerald, Patti Smith, Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline. (Women are also represented as members of groups, for example: the Velvet Underground and Nico with Maureen Tucker and Nico; the Carter Family with “Mother” Maybelle Carter and Sara Carter, and Sonic Youth featuring Kim Gordon).[17]
- Some of the country music titles on the list include: “Crazy” by Patsy Cline, “He Stopped Loving Her Today” by George Jones, “Wildwood Flower” by the Carter Family, "Coal Miner's Daughter" by Loretta Lynn, Tumbling Tumbleweeds by The Sons of the Pioneers and “Blue Moon of Kentucky” by Bill Monroe.[17]
- Some of the radio series or broadcasts so far included on the list include: Gang Busters; Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast; A Prairie Home Companion; America's Town Meeting of the Air; The Fred Allen Show; and Norman Corwin’s We Hold These Truths.[17]
- As of 2010[update], the spoken words of seven U.S. Presidents are represented on the Registry, including Woodrow Wilson, Harry S. Truman, and John F. Kennedy. Franklin D. Roosevelt is featured twice—for his Fireside Chats and his December 8, 1941 address to Congress. Registry items by some Presidents—Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan—either precede or follow their Presidential terms.[17]
See also
Notes
- A The original 25 recordings from July 24, 1933 and July 28, 1934 are preserved at the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York.[18]
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- ^ "The National Recording Registry 2005". The Library of Congress. October 25, 2006. http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/nrpb-2005reg.html. Retrieved February 9, 2007.
- ^ "The National Recording Registry 2006". The Library of Congress. March 6, 2007. http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/nrpb-2006reg.html. Retrieved March 7, 2007.
- ^ Logue, Susan (May 15, 2008). "Jackson, Reagan Added to National Recording Registry". VOA News (Voice of America). http://voanews.com/english/archive/2008-05/2008-05-15-voa24.cfm. Retrieved January 3, 2009.[dead link]
- ^ "The National Recording Registry 2007". The Library of Congress. May 14, 2008. http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/nrpb-2007reg.html. Retrieved August 9, 2008.
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External links
- National Recording Preservation Board
- Full National Recording Registry
- NPR All Things Considered – series spotlighting selections from the Registry
Categories:- United States history-related lists
- Library of Congress
- Music-related lists
- Reference material lists
- United States National Recording Registry recordings
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