The Library Announces 25 New Titles to the National Recording Registry!
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The Library of Congress announces its newest additions to its National Recording Registry!
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Category: National Recording Registry
Just Added to the Festival of Film & Sound
Posted by: Stacie Seifrit-Griffin
Library of Congress Festival of Film & Sound announces the addition of Oscar-Winning Sound Designer Ben Burtt The Library of Congress is pleased to announce that four-time Oscar-winning motion picture sound designer and sound mixer Ben Burtt will be a special guest for the inaugural Library of Congress Festival of Film & Sound, a new …
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Happy 50th: “Dark Side of the Moon”
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
As Pink Floyd's great album celebrates a golden anniversary, professor Daniel J. Levitin looks back at this landmark recording.
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Happy Anniversary “Schoolhouse Rock!”
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As the beloved ABC interstitials turn 50, in an essay exclusive to the Library of Congress, TV historian Billy Ingram, looks back at the very entertaining and very educational series.
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From the National Recording Registry: “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” (1952)
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Since its inception, the National Recording Registry has been about far more than just music. (Though, of course, music–of all kinds–plays an important part in the Registry.) A case in point is this 1952 recording of the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas who was recorded reading his seminal prose poem “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.” …
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Zappa by Zappa
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
In 2005, the album “We’re Only in It for the Money” by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention” was added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry. Recently, we asked Dweezil Zappa–an accomplished musician in his own right–to look back at the album from a perspective that only he can give us–a son’s. …
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Remembering Jerry Lee Lewis (1935 – 2022)
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Not surprisingly, Jerry Lee Lewis (who passed away last month at age 87) was a very early addition to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry. For his song “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” recorded in 1957 and added to the NRR in 2005, author Joe Bonomo wrote for the LC the following essay on/tribute …
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From the National Film Registry: “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” (1939)
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Eighty-three years ago, on October 19, 1939, the Capra classic “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” had its debut in–where else?–Washington, DC. Named by the Librarian of Congress to the Library’s National Film Registry in 1989, “Mr. Smith” is, for better or worse, as timely today as it ever was. In the essay below, the late …
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When Shawn Found Joni
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Since the start of her own illustrious career as a singer and songwriter, Grammy-winner Shawn Colvin has noted the important role that Joni Mitchell has played in inspiring and influencing her. Back in 2007, the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry welcomed Mitchell’s 1972 album “For the Roses” to its esteemed ranks. Knowing of Ms. …
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