„National Recording Registry“ – Versionsunterschied

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, 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.

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. 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. 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 450 recordings have been preserved in the Registry Vorlage:As of. Each calendar year, public nominations are accepted for inclusion in that year's list of selections to be announced the following spring. 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.

Selection criteria

The criteria for selection are as follows:

• 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.

Selected exhibition recordings for the phonograph were added in 2002.

Booker T. Washington recreated his controversial 1895 Atlanta Exposition Speech in 1906.

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The Original Dixieland Jazz Band's "Tiger Rag" launched jazz as a music genre.

"Downhearted Blues" was the first release by Bessie Smith.

Louis Armstrong was one of American music's most important figures. The preserved sessions, and his solos in particular, set a standard musicians still strive to equal in their beauty and innovation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Fireside Chats" "redefined the relationship between the president and the American people."

Orson Welles' 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio drama created alarm and panic across the United States.

Bob Dylan is considered one of the 20th century's most influential figures.

Recording or collection	Performer or agent	Year	National Archives
Edison exhibition recordings (Group of three cylinders): "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
"Casey at the Bat"	DeWolf Hopper	1906
"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
"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
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 broadcastsVorlage:Ref label	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1933–1944	original
Harvard Vocarium record series	T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and others	1933–1956
"New Music Quarterly" recordings series	Henry Cowell, producer	1934–1949
Description of the crash of the Hindenburg	Herbert Morrison	May 6, 1937	original
The Cradle Will Rock (Marc Blitzstein)	Original cast	1938
"Who's on First?" Earliest existing radio broadcast version	Abbott and Costello	October 6, 1938
The War of the Worlds	Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre on the Air	October 30, 1938	copy
"God Bless America" Radio broadcast premiere	Kate Smith	November 11, 1938
The John and Ruby Lomax Southern States Recording Trip	John and Ruby Lomax	1939
"Strange Fruit"	Billie Holiday	1939
Grand Ole Opry First network radio broadcast	Uncle Dave Macon, Roy Acuff, and others	October 14, 1939
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
Blanton-Webster era recordings	Duke Ellington Orchestra	1940–1942
"White Christmas" original 1942 single	Bing Crosby	1942
"This Land is Your Land"	Woody Guthrie	1944
D-Day radio address to the Allied Nations	Dwight D. Eisenhower	June 6, 1944	original
"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
Songs for Young Lovers	Frank Sinatra	1954
Sun Records sessions	Elvis Presley	1954–1955
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
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	Bob Dylan	1963
"I Have a Dream" speech	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	August 28, 1963	copy
"Respect"	Aretha Franklin	1967
Philomel: For Soprano	Bethany Beardslee, recorded soprano, and synthesized sound	1971
Precious Lord: New Recordings of the Great Gospel Songs of Thomas A. Dorsey	Thomas A. Dorsey, Marion Williams, and others	1973
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.

The Cole Porter Songbook was the first of Ella Fitzgerald's many anthologies.

Chuck Berry- widely considered to have "laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance".

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."

The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is arguably one of the most important albums in popular music.

Marvin Gaye has been covered by artists from The Who to Alicia Keys.

In March 2004, the following 50 selections were made by the National Recording Preservation Board.

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 Walker	1901
"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
Cylinder recordings of African-American music	Guy B. Johnson	1920s
"Cross of Gold" speech Speech re-enactment	William Jennings Bryan	1921
"The OKeh Laughing Record"	Lucie Bernardo and Otto Rathke	1922
"Adeste Fideles"	Associated Glee Clubs of America	1925
Cajun-Creole Columbia releases	Amédé Ardoin and Dennis McGee	1929
"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
Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin)	Original cast	1940, 1942
Beethoven String Quartets	Budapest Quartet	1940–1950
World Series-Game Four	New York Yankees vs. Brooklyn Dodgers	October 5, 1941
Oklahoma! (Rodgers and Hammerstein)	Original cast	1943
Othello	Paul Robeson, Uta Hagen, José Ferrer, and others	1943
Bach B-Minor Mass	Robert Shaw Chorale	1947
The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)	Louis Kaufman and the Concert Hall String Orchestra	1947
Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord" (Ives)	John Kirkpatrick	1948
Pictures at an Exhibition (Modest Mussorgsky)	Rafael Kubelík conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra	1951
"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
Steam locomotive recordings, 6 vol.	O. Winston Link	1957–1977
Complete Ring Cycle (Richard Wagner)	Georg Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra	1958–1965
Winds in Hi-Fi	Eastman Wind Ensemble with Frederick Fennell	1958
Mingus Ah Um	Charles Mingus	1959
New York Taxi Driver	Tony Schwartz	1959
Ali Akbar College of Music, Archive Selections		1960s–1970s
"Crazy"	Patsy Cline	1961
Kennedy Inauguration Ceremony	John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Robert Frost, and others	January 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
What's Going On	Marvin Gaye	1971
Tapestry	Carole King	1971
A Prairie Home Companion First broadcast	Garrison 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.

The traditional pop music song "Fascinating Rhythm," was sung by Fred and Adele Astaire in Lady, Be Good.

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.

In spite of the controversy surrounding MacArthur at the time, his farewell speech to congress is noted for its eloquence and effectiveness.

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 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."

Nirvana are considered one of the modern era's most influential bands, helping popularize alternative rock.

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, piano	1926
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 Orchestra	1929
"The Suncook Town Tragedy"	Mabel Wilson Tatro	July 1930
Oral narrative from the Lorenzo D. Turner Collection	Rosina 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 Orchestra	1939
"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 Orchestra	1943
"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 Pozo	1947
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. Dawson	1955
Messiah	Eugene Ormandy, conductor; Richard P. Condie, choir director; Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Philadelphia Orchestra	1958
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 Gilberto	1963
Live at the Apollo	James Brown and The Famous Flames	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.

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.

Count Basie, prominent band leader during the big band era, influenced many musicians of his day.

Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

Former champion Max Schmeling handed Joe Louis his first loss.

B. B. King and his guitar Lucille.

Don't Crush That Dwarf ... was the first comedy album to utilize such production techniques including 16-track recording and Dolby noise reduction.

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 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
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 Beiderbecke	1927
First official transatlantic telephone conversation	W.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 orchestra	1927; 1930
Light'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, piano	1932
"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 Stewart	April 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 Symphony	November 5, 1938
Command Performance, show No. 21	Bob 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 Society	1954
"Blueberry Hill"	Fats Domino	1956
Variations for Orchestra Representative of the Louisville Orchestra First Edition Recordings series	Louisville Orchestra	1956
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On"	Jerry Lee Lewis	1957
"That'll Be the Day"	Buddy Holly and 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.

Cal Stewart was among the most prolific and popular recording artists of the first 20 years of commercial recording.

Pete Seeger adapted a gospel song, "I Shall Overcome", by changing "I" to "We", and it became a civil rights standard.

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones' first U.S. No. 1 is thought to be one of the greatest rock songs.

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 Rogers	1916
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 Stokowski	Pixinguinha, Donga, Cartola, Jararaca, Ratinho and José Espinguela	1942
"Peace in the Valley"	Red Foley and the Sunshine Boys	1951
"Polonaise in A Major" ("Polonaise militaire"), Op. 40, No. 1, by Frédéric Chopin	Artur 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
"A Change Is Gonna Come"	Sam Cooke	1964
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"	The Rolling Stones	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.

Fiorello La Guardia read the comics on WNYC radio during the 1945 newspaper delivery strike.

T-Bone Walker- one of the first electric guitarists.

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.

Recording or collection	Performer or agent	Year	National Archives
The 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 time	Jim 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 spacecraft		1977
Thriller	Michael Jackson	1982

2008

Shortly after his Carnegie Hall debut, violinist Jascha Heifetz made his first recordings for Victor.

Mary Lou Williams was a prolific jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.

Winston Churchill's "Sinews of Peace" address originated the term "Iron Curtain."

With Rumble, Link Wray popularized the power chord.

On June 10, 2009, the following 25 selections were made by the National Recording Preservation Board.

Recording or collection	Performer or agent	Year	National Archives
"No News, or What Killed the Dog"	Nat M. Wills	1908
Acoustic recordings for Victor Talking Machine Company	Jascha Heifetz	1917–1924
"Night Life"	Mary Lou Williams	1930
Sounds of the ivory-billed woodpecker		1935
Gang Busters		1935–1957
"Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"	The Andrews Sisters	1938
"O Que É Que A Baiana Tem?"	Carmen Miranda	1939
NBC Radio coverage of Marian Anderson's recital at the Lincoln Memorial	Marian Anderson	April 9, 1939
"Tom Dooley"	Frank Proffitt	1940
Mary Margaret McBride	Mary Margaret McBride and Zora Neale Hurston	January 25, 1943
"Uncle Sam Blues" (V-Disc)	Oran "Hot Lips" Page, accompanied by Eddie Condon's Jazz Band	1944
"Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain) Speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri	Winston Churchill	March 5, 1946
"The Churkendoose"	Ray Bolger	1947
"Boogie Chillen'"	John Lee Hooker	1948
A Child's Christmas in Wales	Dylan Thomas	1952
A Festival of Lessons and Carols as Sung on Christmas Eve in King's College Chapel, Cambridge	King's College Choir; Boris Ord, director	1954
West Side Story	Original cast	1957
"Tom Dooley"	The Kingston Trio	1958
"Rumble"	Link Wray	1958
The Play of Daniel: A Twelfth-Century Drama	New York Pro Musica under the direction of Noah Greenberg	1958
"Rank Stranger"	The Stanley Brothers	1960
"At Last"	Etta James	1961
2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks	Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks	1961
The Who Sings My Generation	The Who	1966
"He Stopped Loving Her Today"	George Jones	1980

2009

On June 23, 2010, the following 25 selections were made by the National Recording Preservation Board.

Little Richard

Bill Cosby

Mississippi John Hurt

Willie Nelson

Patti Smith

R.E.M.

Recording 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 single	R.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 songs

On April 6, 2011, the following 25 selections were announced.

Recording or collection	Performer or agent	Year	National Archives
Phonautograms	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

2011

On May 23, 2012, the following 25 selections were made by the National Recording Preservation Board.

Lillian Russell

Leonard Bernstein

Bo Diddley

Dolly Parton

Grateful Dead

Recording or collection	Performer or agent	Year	National Archives
Edison Talking Doll cylinder		November 1888
"Come Down Ma Evenin' Star"	Lillian Russell	1912
"Ten Cents A Dance"	Ruth Etting	1930
Voices from the Days of Slavery	Various	1932–1975
"I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart"	Patsy Montana	1935
"Fascinating Rhythm"	Sol Hoopii	1938
"Artistry In Rhythm"	Stan Kenton	1943
New York Philharmonic debut of Leonard Bernstein	Leonard Bernstein	November 14, 1943
Hottest Women's Band of the 1940s	International Sweethearts of Rhythm	1944–1946 (released 1984)
"Hula Medley"	Gabby Pahinui	1947
Indians for Indians (Hour)	Don Whistler	March 25, 1947
I Can Hear It Now: 1933-1945	Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly	1948
"Let's Go Out to the Programs"	The Dixie Hummingbirds	1953
Also Sprach Zarathustra	Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra	1954, 1958
"Bo Diddley"/ "I'm a Man"	Bo Diddley	1955
"Green Onions"	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	1962
A Charlie Brown Christmas	Vince Guaraldi Trio	1965
Forever Changes	Love	1967
The Continental Harmony: The Gregg Smith Singers Perform Music of William Billings	The Gregg Smith Singers	1969
"Coat of Many Colors"	Dolly Parton	1971
Mothership Connection	Parliament	1975
Barton Hall Concert at Cornell University	Grateful Dead	1977
"I Feel Love"	Donna Summer	1977
"Rapper's Delight"	Sugarhill Gang	1979
Purple Rain	Prince and The Revolution	1984

2012

Will Rogers

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ornette Coleman

Big Brother and the Holding Company

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Pink Floyd

On March 21, 2013, the following 25 selections were announced.

Recording or collection	Performer or agent	Year	National Archives
"After You've Gone"	Marion Harris	1918
"Bacon, Beans and Limousines"	Will Rogers	October 18, 1931
"Begin the Beguine"	Artie Shaw	1938
"You Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis	1940
D-Day Radio Broadcast	George Hicks	June 5–6, 1944
"Just Because"	Frank Yankovic & His Yanks	1947
South Pacific Original Cast Recording	Original Cast	1949
Descargas: Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature	Cachao	1957
Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1	Van Cliburn	April 11, 1958
President's Message Relayed from Atlas Satellite	Dwight D. Eisenhower	December 19, 1958
A Program of Song	Leontyne Price	1959
The Shape of Jazz to Come	Ornette Coleman	1959
"Crossing Chilly Jordan"	Blackwood Brothers	1960
"The Twist"	Chubby Checker	1960
Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's	Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson, others	1960–1962
Hoodoo Man Blues	Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band feat. Buddy Guy	1965
Sounds Of Silence	Simon & Garfunkel	1966
Cheap Thrills	Big Brother and the Holding Company	1968
The Dark Side of the Moon	Pink Floyd	1973
Music Time In Africa	Leo Sarkisian	July 29, 1973
The Wild Tchoupitoulas	The Wild Tchoupitoulas	1976
Ramones	Ramones	1976
Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack	The Bee Gees, et al.	1977
Einstein On The Beach	Philip Glass and Robert Wilson	1979
The Audience With Betty Carter	Betty Carter	1980

2013

Louis Jordan

The Everly Brothers

Lyndon B. Johnson

Isaac Hayes

Larry Norman

U2

On April 2, 2014, the following 25 selections were announced.

Recording or collection	Performer or agent	Year	National Archives
"The Laughing Song"	George W. Johnson	c.1896
"They Didn’t Believe Me"	Harry Macdonough and Alice Green	1915
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (Two Versions)	Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee	1932
Recordings of Kwakwaka’wakw Chief Dan Cranmer	Franz Boas and George Herzog	1938
"Were You There"	Roland Hayes	1940
"Sammy Goes to the Army"	The Goldbergs	July 9, 1942
"Caldonia"	Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five	1945
"Dust My Broom"	Elmore James	1951
A Night of Birdland (Vols. 1 & 2)	Art Blakey	1954
"When I Stop Dreaming"	The Louvin Brothers	1955
"Cathy's Clown"	The Everly Brothers	1960
Texas Sharecropper and Songster	Mance Lipscomb	1960
The First Family	Vaughn Meader	1962
Lawrence Ritter’s Interviews with Baseball Pioneers of the Late 19th and Early 20th Century	Lawrence Ritter	1962-1966
Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson	Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969
Carnegie Hall Concert with Buck Owens and His Buckaroos	Buck Owens and His Buckaroos	1966
"Fortunate Son"	Creedence Clearwater Revival	1969
Shaft	Isaac Hayes	1971
Only Visiting This Planet	Larry Norman	1972
Celia & Johnny	Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco	1974
Copland Conducts Copland: Appalachian Spring	Aaron Copland	1974
Heart Like a Wheel	Linda Ronstadt	1974
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Original Cast Recording	Original Cast	1979
The Joshua Tree	U2	1987
"Hallelujah"	Jeff Buckley	1994

2014

Johnny Mercer

Joan Baez

The Doors

Sly and the Family Stone

Steve Martin

Lauryn Hill

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Marin Alsop

On March 25, 2015, the following 25 selections were announced.

Recording or collection	Performer or agent	Year	National Archives
The Vernacular Wax Cylinder Recordings at University of California, Santa Barbara Library	University of California, Santa Barbara	1890-1910
The Benjamin Ives Gilman Collection, recorded at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago	Benjamin Ives Gilman	1893
"The Boys of the Lough"/"The Humours of Ennistymon"	Michael Coleman	1922
"Black Snake Moan"/ "Match Box Blues"	Blind Lemon Jefferson	1928
"Sorry, Wrong Number" (episode of Suspense radio series)	Suspense	May 25, 1943
"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive"	Johnny Mercer	1944
Radio Coverage of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Funeral	Arthur Godfrey, et al.	April 14, 1945
Kiss Me, Kate Original Cast Recording	Original Cast	1949
John Brown's Body	Tyrone Power, Judith Anderson, and Raymond Massey; directed by Charles Laughton	1953
"My Funny Valentine"	The Gerry Mulligan Quartet featuring Chet Baker	1953
"Sixteen Tons"	Tennessee Ernie Ford	1955
"Mary Don't You Weep"	The Swan Silvertones	1959
Joan Baez	Joan Baez	1960
"Stand By Me"	Ben E. King	1961
New Orleans’ Sweet Emma Barrett and her Preservation Hall Jazz Band	Sweet Emma Barrett and her Preservation Hall Jazz Band	1964
"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"	The Righteous Brothers	1964
The Doors	The Doors	1967
Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues	Lincoln Mayorga	1968
Stand!	Sly and the Family Stone	1969
A Wild and Crazy Guy	Steve Martin	1978
Sesame Street: All-Time Platinum Favorites	Various	1995
OK Computer	Radiohead	1997
Songs of the Old Regular Baptists	Various	1997
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	Lauryn Hill	1998
Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman	Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, conductor; Joan Tower, composer	1999

2015

Peerless Quartet

George Marshall

Wilt Chamberlain

Merle Haggard

George Carlin

Gloria Gaynor

On March 23, 2016, the following 25 selections were announced.

Recording or collection	Performer or agent	Year	National Archives
"Let Me Call You Sweetheart"	Peerless Quartet	1911
"Wild Cat Blues"	Clarence Williams' Blue Five	1923
"Statesboro Blues"	Blind Willie McTell	1928
"Bonaparte's Retreat"	W.H. Stepp	1937
Mahler Symphony No. 9	Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Bruno Walter, conductor	1938
Carousel of American Music	George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, Arthur Freed, Shelton Brooks, Hoagy Carmichael, others	September 24, 1940
"Decoration Day"	Vic and Sade	June 4, 1937
The Marshall Plan Speech	George C. Marshall	June 5, 1947	copy
"A Garage in Gainesville" and "Execution Awaited"	Destination Freedom	September 25 and October 2, 1949
A Streetcar Named Desire soundtrack	Alex North	1951
"Cry Me a River"	Julie London	1955
"Mack the Knife" (Two Versions)	Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin	1956 and 1959
Fourth-quarter radio coverage of Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game	Bill Campbell, announcer	March 2, 1962
A Love Supreme	John Coltrane	1964
It's My Way!	Buffy Sainte-Marie	1964
"Where Did Our Love Go"	The Supremes	1964
"People Get Ready"	The Impressions	1965
"Mama Tried"	Merle Haggard	1968
Abraxas	Santana	1970
Class Clown	George Carlin	1972
Robert and Clara Schumann Complete Piano Trios	Beaux Arts Trio	1972
"Piano Man"	Billy Joel	1973
Bogalusa Boogie	Clifton Chenier	1976
"I Will Survive"	Gloria Gaynor	1978
Master of Puppets	Metallica	1986

Statistics

Vorlage:As of, the oldest recording on the list is Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville's Phonautograms which date back to 1853. The most recent is Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman by Joan Tower, performed by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Marin Alsop, which was released in 1999.

Selections vary widely in duration. Both the early Edison recordings and the instrumental "Rumble" by Link Wray clock in at under three minutes; the Edison Talking Doll cylinder is only 17 seconds long. 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.

See also

• National Film Registry
• Sounds of Australia

Notes

• Vorlage:Note labelThe original 25 recordings from July 24, 1933 and July 28, 1934 are preserved at the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York.

External links

• National Recording Preservation Board
• Full National Recording Registry
• NPR All Things Considered – series spotlighting selections from the Registry