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tax dollars well spent (RR related)

jleejlee 1,539 Posts
edited April 2006 in Strut Central
Sorry if it has already been posted... The Library of Congress inducted 50 new recordings for 2005. Mad decent. Gill Scott, Stevie and Sonic Youth. Pretty decent write ups too.2005 National Recording Registry (in chronological order)[/b]Canzone del Porter??? from ???Martha(von Flotow),??? Edouard de Reszke (1903) Listen to the Lambs,??? Hampton Quartette; recorded by Natalie Curtis Burlin (1917) 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) Inauguration of Calvin Coolidge (March 4, 1925) ???Tanec pid werbamy/Dance Under the Willows,??? Pawlo Huemiuk (1926) ???Singin??? the Blues,??? Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke (1927) First official transatlantic telephone conversation (Jan. 7, 1927) ???El Manisero??? (???The Peanut Vendor???), Rita Montaner, vocal with orchestra (1927); ???El Manisero,??? Don Azpiazu and his orchestra (1930) Light???s Golden Jubilee Celebration (Oct. 21, 1929) 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, piano (1932) ???Wabash Cannonball,??? Roy Acuff (1936) ???One o???Clock Jump,??? Count Basie and his Orchestra (1937) Archibald MacLeish???s ???Fall of the City,??? Orson Welles, narrator, Burgess Meredith, Paul Stewart (April 11, 1937) ???The Adventures of Robin Hood??? radio broadcast of 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 Symphony (1938) ???Command Performance??? show No.21, Bob Hope, master of ceremonies (July 7, 1942) ???Straighten Up and Fly Right,??? Nat ???King??? Cole (1943) Allen???s Alley segment from ???The Fred Allen Show???(Radio broadcast of Oct. 7, 1945) ???Jole Blon,??? Harry Choates (1946) ???Tubby the Tuba,??? Paul Tripp (words) and George Kleinsinger (music) (1946) ???Move on up a Little Higher,??? Mahalia Jackson (1948) ???Anthology of American Folk Music,??? edited by Harry Smith (1952) ???Schooner Bradley,??? performed by Pat Bonner (??1952-60) ???Damnation of Faust,??? Boston Symphony Orchestra with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society (1954) ???Blueberry Hill,??? Fats Domino (1956) ???Variations for Orchestra,??? Louisville Orchestra (1956) ???Whole Lotta Shakin??? Goin??? On,??? Jerry Lee Lewis (1957) ???That???ll Be the Day,??? Buddy Holly (1957) ???Poeme Electronique,??? Edgard Varese (1958) ???Time Out,??? The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959) Studs Terkel interview with James Baldwin (Sept. 29, 1962) William Faulkner address at West Point Military Academy (1962) ???Dancing in the Street,??? Martha and the Vandellas (1964) ???Live at the Regal,??? B.B. King (1965) ???Are You Experienced???? 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 fog horn, Kewaunee, Wis., recorded by James A. Lipsky (1972) ???Songs in the Key of Life,??? Stevie Wonder (1976) ???Daydream Nation,??? Sonic Youth (1988)

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