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.
During Hispanic Heritage Month, we pause to appreciate the impact of Selena, the superstar Tejano singer. Her breakthrough 1990 album, “Ven Conmigo,” was added to the Library's National Recording Registry in 2019.
Glen Campbell's hit recording of "Wichita Lineman" is one of the inductees into the National Recording Registry. Here's how Campbell, songwriter Jimmy Webb and studio musicians put the song together.
Kermit the Frog stops in to chat with Librarian Carla Hayden about his induction into the 2020 class of the National Recording Registry with his banjo-strumming ballad, "The Rainbow Connection" from 1979's "The Muppet Movie."
The 2020 class of the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress incudes hits from Janet Jackson, Nas, Jackson Browne, Flaco Jimenez, Jimmy Cliff, newscast recordings and one of the first recordings of an American voice, by Thomas Edison, in 1878,
Victor Willis, the lead singer and songwriter for The Village People, recounts how he wrote "Y.M.C.A," the group's massive hit that was just added to the Library's National Recording Registry.
Cary O’Dell at the Library’s National Recording Registry is the maestro of our ever-popular Mystery Photo Contest. He’s back with another round, featuring some of Hollywood’s not-so-famous faces. Hello fellow photo sleuths! For your frustration, we submit to you nine more super-hard, super-obscure publicity stills that the Library is trying to identify. This new batch, …
These audio documentaries in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress document the genius, and the impact, of some of most signficant recordings in American history.