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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Lamont Dozier, part of Motown's fabled Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team, talks about writing "Reach Out I'll Be There," a hit for the Four Tops and part of the 2022 class of the National Recording Registry class.
Posted in: Music, National Recording Registry
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Journey's "Don'r Stop Believin' " became a pop-culture staple and a stadium anthem for several sports teams. This year it was inducted into the National Recording Registry. We caught up with lead singer Steve Perry about the record.
Posted in: Music, National Recording Registry
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The 2022 Class of the National Recording Registry includes albums such as Alicia Keys' "Songs in A Minor" and singles such as Journey's "Don't Stop Believin' " and Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca," along with with important inductions of hip-hop and Latin music, including recordings by Linda Ronstadt, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan and the Buena Vista Social Club.
Posted in: Music, National Recording Registry
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jelly Roll Morton's 1938 concerts at the Library's Coolidge auditorium became a landmark jazz recording and the basis for his biography, "Mister Jelly Roll."
Posted in: African American History, LCM, Music
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Lionel Richie smiled, the cameras flashed, the bass thumped, the music soared and the concert celebrating the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song popped back into life two years after COVID-19 shut down much of public life in the nation’s capital.
Posted in: Concerts, Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Music, Performing Arts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
"The Metropolitan Opera Murders," the latest entry in the Library's Crime Classics series, is a novel from a woman who knows the score. Helen Traubel, a longtime star soprano who performed at the Met for years, wrote the book in 1951, shortly before she left the opera to pursue a career in popular entertainment.
Posted in: Music, Performing Arts, Theater, Women's History, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Lionel Richie, the Alabama-born songwriter with a smooth voice and a deft touch for the romantic ballad, is the 2022 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song honoree.
Posted in: Concerts, Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Music, News
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The National Audio-Visual Conservation Center has found a never-before-seen home movie of the infamous Altamont Free Concert in 1969, during which a member of the Hell's Angels killed a member of the audience. The incident became a cultural turning point of the era.
Posted in: Library Work and Employees, Music, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Performing Arts, Preservation and Conservation
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Mark Eden Horowitz, a senior music specialist in the Music Division, recounts his long friendship with Stephen Sondheim and how the maestro's papers will come to the Library.
Posted in: Library Work and Employees, Music, Performing Arts, Theater