National Recording Registry

List of sound recordings preserved in the U.S. Library of Congress

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech was one of 50 recordings preserved in 2002, 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 significant, and inform or reflect life in the United States."[1] The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000,[2] 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.[2]

The National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 established a national program to guard America's sound recording heritage. The Act created the National Recording Registry, the National Recording Preservation Board, and a fundraising foundation.[3] The purpose of the Registry is to maintain and preserve sound recordings and collections of sound recordings that are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.[2] In 2002, the National Recording Preservation Board selected recordings nominated each year to be preserved. On January 27, 2003, the first 50 recordings were announced by James Billington, the Librarian of Congress.[4]

The first four yearly lists had 50 selections each. Since 2006, 25 recordings have been selected annually. As of 2025[update], 675 recordings have been preserved in the Registry. Each calendar year, public nominations are accepted for inclusion in that year's list of selections, which are announced the following spring.

Registry title works, original or copies, are housed at the Library of Congress's Packard Campus for Audio Video Conservation. Each yearly list typically includes a few recordings that have also been selected for inclusion in the holdings of the National Archives' audiovisual collection. Political recordings on the National Recording Registry tend to overlap with the audiovisual collection of the National Archives.

## Selection criteria

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The criteria for selection are:

* Recordings selected for the National Recording Registry are "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant", and inform or reflect culture in the United States.[5][1]
* Recordings will not be considered for inclusion in the National Recording Registry if no copy of the recording exists.[5]
* No recording is eligible for inclusion in the National Recording Registry until ten years after the recording's creation.[5]

## Inductees

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The list shows overlapping items and whether the National Archives has an original or a copy of the recording.

Recording or collection  | Performer or agent  | Release year  | Induction
year  | National
Archives

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Edison exhibition recordings (Group of three cylinders):[6]

* "Around the World on the Phonograph"
* "The Pattison Waltz"
* "Fifth Regiment March"

| Thomas Edison | 1888–1889  | 2002[7] |
Passamaquoddy Indians field recordings | Recorded by Jesse Walter Fewkes | 1890  |
"The 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  |
"Casey at the Bat"  | DeWolf Hopper | 1906  |
"Vesti la giubba" from Pagliacci | Enrico Caruso | 1907  |
1895 Atlanta Exposition speech | Booker T. Washington | 1908 recreation  | copy
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"  | Fisk Jubilee Singers | 1909  |
Lovey's Trinidad String Band recordings for Columbia Records  | Lovey's Trinidad String Band | 1912  |
Ragtime compositions piano rolls | Scott Joplin | 1916 [8] |
"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 broadcasts[α] | 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 16, 1937 | original
The Cradle Will Rock | Marc Blitzstein and the original cast of The Cradle Will Rock | 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  | April 13, 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 (June 6, 1944, order of the day and People of Western Europe speech)[10] | 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 | 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 (Milton Babbitt)  | 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) | Clifton Chenier, Professor Longhair, Queen Ida, and other performers  | 1973–1990  |
"The Message"  | Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five | 1982  |
"The Lord's Prayer" and "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"  | Emile Berliner | c. 1890 | 2003[11] |
"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, 1934 | copy
The Complete Recordings | Robert Johnson | 1936–1937  |
Interviews conducted by Alan Lomax | Jelly Roll Morton, Alan Lomax | 1938  |
Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert | Benny Goodman | January 16, 1938 (released 1998)  |
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  |
Selections from George Gershwin's Folk Opera Porgy and Bess | George Gershwin and the original Broadway cast of Porgy and Bess | 1940, 1942  |
Beethoven String Quartets | Budapest String Quartet | 1940–1950  |
World Series – Game Four
New York Yankees vs. Brooklyn Dodgers | Red Barber, Bob Elson and Bill Corum | October 5, 1941 |
Oklahoma!
Original Broadway cast recording[β] | The original Broadway cast of Oklahoma! | 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 Song Book | Ella Fitzgerald | 1956  |
"He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"  | Marian Anderson | 1956[γ] |
"Roll Over Beethoven"  | Chuck Berry | 1956  |
Brilliant Corners | Thelonious Monk | 1956  |
Steam locomotive recordings, 6 vol.  | O. Winston Link[13] | 1956–1960 (released 1957–1977)  |
Complete Ring Cycle (Richard Wagner)  | Georg Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic | 1958–1965[14] |
Winds in Hi-Fi | Eastman Wind Ensemble with Frederick Fennell | 1958[15] |
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 F. 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  |
"Gypsy Love Song"  | Eugene Cowles | 1898  | 2004[16] |
"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 | 1924  |
"Charleston"
Representative of the Edison Disc Master Mold Collection at the Edison National Historic Site | 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 No. 1 (T for Texas)"  | Jimmie Rodgers | 1927  |
"Ain't Misbehavin'"  | Thomas "Fats" Waller | 1929  |
"Gregorio Cortez"
Representative of the Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection, University of California | Trovadores Regionales  | 1929  |
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor | Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano; Leopold Stokowski conducting the 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  |
Broadcast from London  | Edward R. Murrow | September 21, 1940 | copy
King James version of the Bible | Alexander Scourby | 1940–1944, released 1966  |
We Hold These Truths | Norman Corwin | December 15, 1941 | original
Piano Concerto No. 1, op. 23, B♭ minor
(Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)  | Vladimir Horowitz, piano;
Arturo Toscanini, conductor;
NBC Symphony Orchestra | April 25, 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[δ] |
Four Saints in Three Acts
Broadway cast recording | Virgil Thomson and members of the original Broadway cast of Four Saints in Three Acts | 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 and Dolls
Original Broadway cast recording | The original Broadway cast of Guys and Dolls | 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  |
Giant Steps | John Coltrane | 1959  |
Messiah | Eugene Ormandy, conductor; Richard P. Condie, choir director; Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Philadelphia Orchestra | 1959  |
Drums of Passion | Babatunde Olatunji | 1960  |
Peace Be Still | James Cleveland | 1962  |
"The Girl from Ipanema" (Garota de Ipanema)  | Stan Getz, João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto | 1963  |
Live at the Apollo | James Brown and The Famous Flames | 1963  |
Pet Sounds | The Beach Boys | 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)[ε] | John Williams | 1977  |
Recordings of Asian elephants  | Katharine B. Payne | 1984  |
Fear of a Black Planet | Public Enemy | 1990  |
Nevermind | Nirvana | 1991  |
"Canzone del Porter"
from Martha by von Flotow
Representative of the Columbia Grand Opera Series | Édouard de Reszke | 1903  | 2005[18] |
"Listen to the Lambs"
Representative of the Hampton Quartet Collection, Hampton University | Hampton Quartette; recorded by Natalie Curtis Burlin | 1917  |
"Over There"  | Nora Bayes | 1917  |
"Crazy Blues"[19] | 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 27, 1927 | original
"El manisero (The Peanut Vendor)"
(Two versions) | Rita Montaner, vocal with orchestra
and
Don Azpiazú and His Havana Casino Orchestra  | 1927
and
1930  |
Light's Golden Jubilee Celebration
(Thomas Edison, honoree) | Graham McNamee, host;
speeches by Herbert Hoover, Marie Curie, Henry Ford, Albert Einstein | 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  |
Columbia Workshop
Episode: The Fall of the City | Orson Welles, narrator;
Burgess Meredith, Paul Stewart | April 11, 1937 | copy
The Adventures of Robin Hood radio broadcast[ε] | Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer;
Basil Rathbone, narrator  | May 11, 1938 |
Joe Louis-Max Schmeling fight | Clem McCarthy, announcer  | June 22, 1938 |
"John the Revelator"  | Golden Gate Quartet | 1938  |
"Adagio for Strings" (Samuel Barber)  | Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra[20] | November 5, 1938 |
Command Performance
Episode: No. 21  | Bob Hope, master of ceremonies; Lena Horne; Ginny Simms; Les Baxter & His Orchestra; Rosalind Russell | July 7, 1942 | copy
"Straighten Up and Fly Right"  | Nat "King" Cole | 1943  |
The Fred Allen Show
debut of Senator Claghorn | Fred Allen, Kenny Delmar | October 7, 1945 |
"Jole Blon (Jolie Blonde)"  | Harry Choates | 1946  |
Tubby the Tuba | Victor Jory & Léon Barzin | 1946  |
"Move On Up a Little Higher"  | Mahalia Jackson | 1948  |
Anthology of American Folk Music | Edited by Harry Smith | 1952  |
Damnation of Faust (Hector Berlioz)  | Boston Symphony Orchestra with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society | 1954  |
"Blueberry Hill"  | Fats Domino | 1956  |
Variations for Orchestra by Elliott Carter
Louisville Orchestra First Edition Recordings series | Louisville Orchestra conducted by
Robert S. Whitney | 1956  |
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"  | Jerry Lee Lewis | 1957  |
"That'll Be the Day"  | Buddy Holly and The Crickets | 1957  |
Poème électronique | Edgard Varèse | 1958  |
Time Out | The Dave Brubeck Quartet | 1959  |
"Schooner Bradley" and/or "Clifton's Crew"[ζ]
Representative of the Ivan Walton Collection at Bentley Library, University of Michigan | Pat Bonner  | June 1960[η] |
United States Military Academy address  | William Faulkner | April 19–20, 1962  |
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[28] |
"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 | The Firesign Theatre | 1970  |
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"  | Gil Scott-Heron | 1971  |
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  |
"Uncle Josh and the Insurance Agent"  | Cal Stewart | 1904  | 2006[29] |
"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 |
Native Brazilian Music | Pixinguinha, Donga, Cartola, José Espinguela and others; recording supervised by Leopold Stokowski | 1940 (released 1942)  |
"Day of Infamy" speech to Congress | Franklin D. Roosevelt | December 8, 1941 | copy
"Peace in the Valley"  | Red Foley and the Sunshine Boys  | 1951  |
"Polonaise in A Major" ("Polonaise militaire"), Op. 40, No. 1, by Frédéric Chopin | Arthur Rubinstein | 1952  |
"Blue Suede Shoes"  | Carl Perkins | 1955  |
Interviews with William "Billy" Bell
(Canadian-Irish northwoods work songs)
Representative of the Edward D. Ives Collection at the Maine Folklife Center, University of Maine | 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  |
The first transatlantic broadcast  |  | March 14, 1925 | 2007[30][31] |
"Allons à 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[32] |
"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 Broadway cast recording | Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, and the original Broadway cast of My Fair Lady | 1956  |
Navajo Shootingway ceremony field recordings
Representative of the David McAllester Collection at Wesleyan University | Recorded by David P. McAllester
Ray Winnie and Diné Tsosi, singers[33] | 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 | 1975–79  |
Murmurs of Earth
Disc prepared for the Voyager spacecraft | compilation produced by Carl Sagan | 1977  |
Thriller | Michael Jackson | 1982  |
"No News, or What Killed the Dog"  | Nat M. Wills | 1908  | 2008[34] |
Acoustic recordings for Victor Talking Machine Company | Jascha Heifetz | 1917–1924  |
"Night Life"  | Mary Lou Williams | 1930  |
Sounds of the ivory-billed woodpecker | Recorded by Arthur Allen and Peter Paul Kellogg  | 1935  |
Gang Busters
First episode, broadcast under the title G-Men |  | July 20, 1935 |
"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 Broadway cast recording | The original Broadway cast of West Side Story and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein | 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  |
"Fon der Choope (From the Wedding)"  | Abe Elenkrig's Yidishe Orchestra  | April 4, 1913 | 2009[35] |
"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"[ε] | Cliff Edwards | 1938 (recorded) / 1940 (released)  |
America's Town Meeting of the Air: "Should Our Ships Convoy Materials to England?"  | George V. Denny Jr. (host); Reinhold Niebuhr, John Flynn (guests)  | May 8, 1941 |
The Library of Congress Marine Corps Combat Field Recording Collection, Second Battle of Guam | Alvin M. Josephy Jr., et al.  |  July 20 – August 11, 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 Broadway cast recording | Ethel Merman and the original Broadway cast of Gypsy | 1959  |
"Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)"
First song sung with computer speech synthesis | Max Mathews | 1961  |
The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings | Bill Evans Trio | June 25, 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[36] | R.E.M. | 1981  |
"Dear Mama"  | 2Pac | 1995  |
Phonautograms[37] | Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville | ca. 1853–1861  | 2010[38] |
"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"  | 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 | 1955–56  |
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) (George Crumb)  | New York Strings Quartet  | 1972  |
Aja | Steely Dan | 1977  |
GOPAC Strategy and Instructional Tapes  | Newt Gingrich, others  | 1986–1994  |
3 Feet High and Rising[39] | De La Soul | 1989  |
Edison Talking Doll cylinder  |  | 1888 | 2011[40] |
"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 Hoʻopiʻi | 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"[41] | 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 | Gregg Smith Singers | 1969  |
"Coat of Many Colors"  | Dolly Parton | 1971  |
Mothership Connection | Parliament | 1975  |
Barton Hall Concert at Cornell University[42] | Grateful Dead | May 8, 1977 |
"I Feel Love"  | Donna Summer | 1977  |
"Rapper's Delight"[43] | The Sugarhill Gang | 1979  |
Purple Rain[ε] | Prince and The Revolution | 1984  |
"After You've Gone"  | Marion Harris | 1918  | 2012[44] |
"Bacon, Beans and Limousines"[45] | 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 Broadway cast recording[β] | Mary Martin, Ezio Pinza, and the original Broadway cast of South Pacific | 1949  |
Descargas: Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature | Cachao | 1957  |
Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 | Van Cliburn[46] | April 11, 1958 |
President's Message Relayed from Atlas Satellite | Dwight D. Eisenhower | December 19, 1958 |
A Program of Song[47][48] | 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
Episode: "Mauritania" (premiere episode)  | Leo Sarkisian | July 29, 1973 |
The Wild Tchoupitoulas | The Wild Tchoupitoulas | 1976  |
Ramones | Ramones | 1976  |
Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack[ε] | Bee Gees, et al.  | 1977  |
Einstein on the Beach | Philip Glass and Robert Wilson | 1979  |
The Audience with Betty Carter | Betty Carter | 1980  |
"The Laughing Song"  | George W. Johnson | c. 1896 | 2013[49][50] |
"They Didn't Believe Me"  | Harry Macdonough and Alice Green  | 1915  |
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"
(Two Versions) | Bing Crosby
and
Rudy Vallée | 1932  |
Recordings of Kwakwaka'wakw Chief Dan Cranmer  | Franz Boas and George Herzog | 1938  |
"Were You There"  | Roland Hayes | 1940  |
The Goldbergs
Episode: "Sammy Goes to the Army"  | Gertrude Berg and cast  | July 9, 1942 |
"Caldonia"  | Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five | 1945  |
"Dust My Broom"  | Elmore James | 1951  |
A Night at 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[51] |
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[ε] | Isaac Hayes | 1971  |
Only Visiting This Planet | Larry Norman | 1972[52] |
Celia & Johnny[53] | 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 Broadway cast recording | The original Broadway cast of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 1979  |
The Joshua Tree | U2 | 1987  |
"Hallelujah"  | Jeff Buckley | 1994  |
The Vernacular Wax Cylinder Recordings at University of California, Santa Barbara Library  | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1890–1910  | 2014[54] |
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"[55] | Michael Coleman | 1922  |
"That Black Snake Moan"/ "Matchbox Blues"  | Blind Lemon Jefferson | 1928  |
Suspense
Episode: "Sorry, Wrong Number"[56] | Agnes Moorehead | 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 Broadway cast recording | Cole Porter, Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, and the original Broadway cast of Kiss Me Kate | 1949  |
John Brown's Body | Tyrone Power, Judith Anderson, and Raymond Massey; directed by Charles Laughton | 1953  |
"My Funny Valentine"
May 20, 1953, live recording | The Gerry Mulligan Quartet featuring Chet Baker | 1953  |
"Sixteen Tons"  | Tennessee Ernie Ford | 1955  |
"Mary Don't You Weep"  | 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 (formerly known as Sheffield S9)[57] | Lincoln Mayorga | 1968 (released 1971)[58][59] |
Stand! | Sly and the Family Stone | 1969  |
A Wild and Crazy Guy | Steve Martin | 1978  |
Sesame Street: Platinum All-Time Favorites | Various  | 1995  |
OK Computer | Radiohead | 1997  |
Old Regular Baptists: Lined-Out Hymnody from Southeastern Kentucky | Indian Bottom Association  | 1997  |
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill | Lauryn Hill | 1998  |
Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman | Colorado Symphony, Marin Alsop, conductor; Joan Tower, composer  | 1999[60] |
"Let Me Call You Sweetheart"  | Peerless Quartet | 1911  | 2015[61][62] |
"Wild Cat Blues"  | Clarence Williams' Blue Five  | 1923  |
"Statesboro Blues"  | Blind Willie McTell | 1928  |
"Bonaparte's Retreat"
Representative of Alan and Elizabeth Lomax's 1937 Kentucky recordings  | W. H. Stepp | 1937  |
Vic and Sade
Episode: "Decoration Day Parade"[25] |  | May 28, 1937[25] |
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 | Vienna Philharmonic; 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 |
The Marshall Plan Speech | George C. Marshall | June 5, 1947 | copy
Destination Freedom
Episodes: "A Garage in Gainesville" and "Execution Awaited"  | Richard Durham | September 25 and October 2, 1949[63] |
A Streetcar Named Desire soundtrack[ε] | 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[64] | Beaux Arts Trio | 1972  |
"Piano Man"  | Billy Joel | 1973  |
Bogalusa Boogie[65] | Clifton Chenier | 1976  |
"I Will Survive"  | Gloria Gaynor | 1978  |
Master of Puppets | Metallica | 1986  |
1888 London cylinder recordings of Col. George Gouraud | George Gouraud | 1888  | 2016[66] |
"Lift Every Voice and Sing"
(Two Versions) | Manhattan Harmony Four
and
Melba Moore & Friends  | 1923
and
1990  |
"Puttin' On the Ritz"  | Harry Richman | 1929  |
"Over the Rainbow"[ε] | Judy Garland | 1939  |
"I'll Fly Away"  | The Chuck Wagon Gang | 1948  |
"Hound Dog"  | Big Mama Thornton | 1952  |
Saxophone Colossus | Sonny Rollins | 1956  |
New York Giants vs. Brooklyn Dodgers final game commentary  | Vin Scully | September 8, 1957 |
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs | Marty Robbins | 1959  |
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery | Wes Montgomery | 1960  |
People | Barbra Streisand | 1964  |
"In the Midnight Hour"  | Wilson Pickett | 1965[67] |
"Amazing Grace"  | Judy Collins | 1970  |
All Things Considered
first broadcast | National Public Radio | May 3, 1971 |
"American Pie"  | Don McLean | 1971[68] |
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars | David Bowie | 1972  |
The Wiz
Original Broadway cast recording | The original Broadway cast of The Wiz | 1975  |
Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) | Eagles | 1976  |
Scott Joplin's Treemonisha | Gunther Schuller, arr.  | 1976  |
Wanted: Live in Concert | Richard Pryor | 1978[69] |
"We Are Family"  | Sister Sledge | 1979  |
Remain in Light | Talking Heads | 1980  |
Straight Outta Compton | N.W.A | 1988  |
Rachmaninoff's Vespers (All-Night Vigil) | The Robert Shaw Festival Singers  | 1990  |
Signatures | Renée Fleming | 1997[70] |
"Dream Melody Intermezzo: Naughty Marietta"  | Victor Herbert and his Orchestra  | 1911  | 2017[71] |
Standing Rock Preservation Recordings  | George Herzog and Members of the Yanktoni Tribe | 1928  |
"Lamento Borincano"  | written by Rafael Hernández Marín
performed by Canario y Su Grupo (including Davilita on lead vocals)  | 1930  |
"Sitting on Top of the World"  | Mississippi Sheiks | 1930  |
The Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas | Artur Schnabel | 1932–1935  |
"If I Didn't Care"  | The Ink Spots | 1939  |
Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on International Organization |  | April 25 – June 26, 1945  |
Folk Songs of the Hills | Merle Travis | 1946  |
"How I Got Over"  | Clara Ward and the Ward Singers | 1950  |
"(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock"  | Bill Haley & His Comets | 1954  |
Calypso | Harry Belafonte | 1956  |
"I Left My Heart in San Francisco"  | Tony Bennett | 1962  |
"My Girl"  | The Temptations | 1964  |
King Biscuit Time | Sonny Boy Williamson II and others  | 1965  |
The Sound of Music soundtrack[ε] | Various  | 1965  |
"Alice's Restaurant Massacree"  | Arlo Guthrie | 1967  |
New Sounds in Electronic Music | Steve Reich, Richard Maxfield, Pauline Oliveros | 1967  |
An Evening with Groucho | Groucho Marx | 1972  |
Rumours | Fleetwood Mac | 1977  |
"The Gambler"  | Kenny Rogers | 1978  |
"Le Freak"  | Chic | 1978  |
"Footloose"  | Kenny Loggins | 1984  |
Raising Hell | Run-DMC | 1986  |
"Rhythm Is Gonna Get You"  | Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine | 1987  |
Yo-Yo Ma Premieres: Concertos for Violoncello and Orchestra | Yo-Yo Ma & the Philadelphia Orchestra performing Christopher Rouse, Leon Kirchner, and Richard Danielpour | 1996  |
Yiddish Cylinders from the Standard Phonograph Company of New York and the Thomas Lambert Company  |  | c. 1901–1905 | 2018[72] |
"The Memphis Blues"  | Victor Military Band  | 1914  |
Melville Jacobs Collection of Native Americans of the American Northwest  | Melville Jacobs | 1929–1939  |
"Minnie the Moocher"  | Cab Calloway | 1931  |
Bach Six Cello Suites | Pablo Casals | 1936–1939  |
"They Look Like Men of War"  | Deep River Boys | 1941  |
Gunsmoke
Episode: "The Cabin"  | William Conrad and cast  | December 27, 1952 |
Complete Recorded Monologues  | Ruth Draper | 1954–1956  |
"La Bamba"  | Ritchie Valens | 1958  |
"Long Black Veil"  | Lefty Frizzell | 1959  |
Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume One: The Early Years | Stan Freberg | 1961[73] |
Go | Dexter Gordon | 1962  |
War Requiem | Benjamin Britten | 1963  |
"Mississippi Goddam"  | Nina Simone | 1964[74] |
"Soul Man"  | Sam & Dave | 1967  |
Hair
Original Broadway cast recording | The original Broadway cast of Hair | 1968  |
Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. | Robert F. Kennedy | April 4, 1968 |
"Sweet Caroline"  | Neil Diamond | 1969  |
Super Fly[ε] | Curtis Mayfield | 1972  |
Ola Belle Reed | Ola Belle Reed | 1973  |
"September"  | Earth, Wind & Fire | 1978  |
"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)"  | Sylvester | 1978  |
She's So Unusual | Cyndi Lauper | 1983  |
Schoolhouse Rock!: The Box Set | Various  | 1996[75] |
The Blueprint | Jay-Z | 2001[76] |
"Whispering"  | Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra  | 1920  | 2019[77][78] |
"Protesta per Sacco e Vanzetti"/"Sacco e Vanzetti"  | Compagnia Columbia; Raoul Romito  | 1927  |
"La Chicharronera"  | Narciso Martínez and Santiago Almeida | 1936  |
Arch Oboler's Plays
Episode: "The Bathysphere"  |  | November 18, 1939 |
"Me and My Chauffeur Blues"  | Memphis Minnie | 1941  |
The 1951 National League Tiebreaker: New York Giants vs. Brooklyn Dodgers | Russ Hodges, announcer  | October 3, 1951 |
Tosca (Puccini)  | Victor de Sabata, conductor, with Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano and others  | 1953  |
"Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah"  | Allan Sherman | 1963  |
WGBH broadcast of the Boston Symphony on the day of the John F. Kennedy assassination | Boston Symphony Orchestra | November 22, 1963  |
Fiddler on the Roof
Original Broadway Cast recording | Zero Mostel and the original Broadway cast of Fiddler on the Roof | 1964  |
"Make the World Go Away"  | Eddy Arnold | 1965  |
Hiromi Lorraine Sakata collection of Afghan traditional music | Recorded by Hiromi Lorraine Sakata  | 1966–67, 1971–73  |
"Wichita Lineman"  | Glen Campbell | 1968  |
Dusty in Memphis | Dusty Springfield | 1969  |
Mister Rogers Sings 21 Favorite Songs from "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" | Fred Rogers | 1973[79] |
Cheap Trick at Budokan | Cheap Trick | 1978  |
Suite No. 1 in E flat, Suite No. 2 in F (Holst) / Music for the Royal Fireworks (Handel) / Fantasia in G (Bach)
Special edition audiophile pressing | Frederick Fennell and the Cleveland Symphonic Winds  | 1978  |
"Y.M.C.A."  | Village People | 1978  |
A Feather on the Breath of God | Gothic Voices; Christopher Page, conductor; Hildegard von Bingen, composer  | 1981/2 (released 1985)[80] |
Private Dancer | Tina Turner | 1984  |
Ven Conmigo | Selena | 1990[81] |
The Chronic | Dr. Dre | 1992[82] |
"I Will Always Love You"  | Whitney Houston | 1992  |
Concert in the Garden | Maria Schneider Orchestra  | 2004  |
Percussion Concerto (Higdon)  | Colin Currie | 2008[83] |
"St. Louis tinfoil" recording  | Thomas Edison  | 1878  | 2020[84] |
"Nikolina"  | Hjalmar Peterson | 1917  |
"Smyrneikos Balos"  | Marika Papagika | 1928  |
"When the Saints Go Marching In"  | Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra | 1938  |
Christmas Eve broadcast  | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill | December 24, 1941 |
The Guiding Light
Episode: November 22, 1945  |  | November 22, 1945 |
Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues | Odetta | 1957  |
"Lord, Keep Me Day by Day"  | Albertina Walker and the Caravans | 1959  |
Roger Maris hits his 61st home run  | Phil Rizzuto[85] | October 1, 1961 |
Aida | Leontyne Price, et al.  | 1962  |
"Once a Day"  | Connie Smith | 1964  |
Born Under a Bad Sign | Albert King | 1967  |
Free to Be ... You & Me | Marlo Thomas and Friends  | 1972  |
The Harder They Come | Jimmy Cliff | 1972[86] |
"Lady Marmalade"  | Labelle | 1974  |
Late for the Sky | Jackson Browne | 1974[87] |
Bright Size Life | Pat Metheny | 1976  |
"Rainbow Connection"[ε] | Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson)[88] | 1979[89] |
"Celebration"  | Kool & the Gang | 1980  |
Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs | Jessye Norman | 1983[90] |
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World"  | Israel Kamakawiwo'ole | 1988, released 1993[91] |
Rhythm Nation 1814 | Janet Jackson | 1989  |
Partners[92] | Flaco Jiménez[93] | 1992[94][95] |
Illmatic | Nas | 1994  |
This American Life: "The Giant Pool of Money"  | Ira Glass, Adam Davidson & Alex Blumberg[96] | May 9, 2008 |
"Harlem Strut"  | James P. Johnson | 1921  | 2022[θ][98] |
Complete presidential speeches  | Franklin D. Roosevelt  | 1933–1945  |
"Walking the Floor Over You"  | Ernest Tubb | 1941  |
On a Note of Triumph | Norman Corwin | May 8, 1945 |
"Jesus Gave Me Water"  | The Soul Stirrers | 1950  |
Ellington at Newport | Duke Ellington  | 1956  |
We Insist! | Max Roach | 1960  |
"The Christmas Song"
1961 stereo recording | Nat "King" Cole  | 1961  |
Tonight's the Night | The Shirelles | 1961  |
"Moon River"  | Andy Williams | 1962  |
"It's a Small World (After All)"  | Disneyland Boys Choir[99] | 1964  |
"Reach Out I'll Be There"  | Four Tops | 1966  |
In C | Terry Riley | 1968  |
Hank Aaron's 715th career home run  | Milo Hamilton[100] | April 8, 1974 |
"Bohemian Rhapsody"  | Queen | 1975  |
"Don't Stop Believin'"  | Journey | 1981[101] |
Canciones de Mi Padre[102] | Linda Ronstadt  | 1987  |
Nick of Time | Bonnie Raitt | 1989  |
The Low End Theory | A Tribe Called Quest | 1991  |
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | Wu-Tang Clan | 1993[103] |
Buena Vista Social Club | Buena Vista Social Club | 1997  |
"Livin' la Vida Loca"  | Ricky Martin | 1999  |
Songs in A Minor | Alicia Keys | 2001[104] |
Broadcasts for the day of 9/11[105] | WNYC[106] | September 11, 2001 |
WTF with Marc Maron
Episode 67: "Robin Williams"[107] | Marc Maron and Robin Williams  | April 26, 2010 |
The Very First Mariachi Recordings | Cuarteto Coculense  | 1907–1909 (reissued 1998)  | 2023[108] |
"St. Louis Blues"  | Handy's Memphis Blues Band  | 1922  |
"Sugar Foot Stomp"  | Fletcher Henderson | 1925  |
Commentary and analysis of the European situation for NBC Radio  | Dorothy Thompson | Aug. 23 – September 6, 1939  |
"Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around"  | The Fairfield Four | 1947  |
"Sherry"  | The Four Seasons | 1962  |
"What the World Needs Now is Love"  | Jackie DeShannon | 1965  |
"Wang Dang Doodle"  | Koko Taylor | 1966  |
"Ode to Billie Joe"  | Bobbie Gentry | 1967  |
Déjà Vu | Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young | 1970  |
"Imagine"  | John Lennon | 1971  |
"Stairway to Heaven"  | Led Zeppelin | 1971  |
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"  | John Denver | 1971  |
"Margaritaville"  | Jimmy Buffett | 1977  |
"Flashdance…What a Feeling"  | Irene Cara | 1983  |
"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"  | Eurythmics | 1983  |
Synchronicity | The Police | 1983  |
Like a Virgin | Madonna | 1984; 1985 reissue[25] |
Black Codes (From the Underground) | Wynton Marsalis | 1985  |
Super Mario Bros. theme | Koji Kondo | 1985  |
All Hail the Queen | Queen Latifah | 1989  |
"All I Want for Christmas is You"  | Mariah Carey | 1994  |
Pale Blue Dot
Audiobook | Carl Sagan | 1994[109] |
"Gasolina"  | Daddy Yankee[110] | 2004[111] |
Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra (Zwilich)  | Chamber Music Northwest[112] | 2012[113] |
"Clarinet Marmalade"  | Lt. James Reese Europe's 369th U.S. Infantry Band  | 1919  | 2024[114] |
"Kauhavan Polkka"  | Viola Turpeinen and John Rosendahl  | 1928  |
Wisconsin Folksong Collection |  | 1937–1946  |
"Rose Room"  | Benny Goodman Sextet with Charlie Christian | 1939  |
"Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer"  | Gene Autry | 1949  |
"Tennessee Waltz"  | Patti Page | 1950  |
"Rocket 88"  | Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats  | 1951  |
"Catch a Falling Star"/"Magic Moments"  | Perry Como | 1957  |
"Chances Are"  | Johnny Mathis | 1957  |
The Sidewinder | Lee Morgan | 1964  |
Surrealistic Pillow | Jefferson Airplane | 1967  |
"Ain't No Sunshine"  | Bill Withers | 1971  |
This Is a Recording | Lily Tomlin | 1971  |
J. D. Crowe & The New South | J. D. Crowe and The New South | 1975  |
Arrival | ABBA | 1976  |
"El Cantante"  | Héctor Lavoe | 1978  |
The Cars | The Cars | 1978  |
Parallel Lines | Blondie | 1978  |
"La Di Da Di"  | Doug E. Fresh and MC Ricky D | 1985  |
"Don't Worry, Be Happy"  | Bobby McFerrin | 1988  |
"Amor eterno"  | Juan Gabriel | 1990  |
Pieces of Africa | Kronos Quartet | 1992  |
Dookie | Green Day | 1994  |
Ready to Die | The Notorious B.I.G. | 1994  |
Wide Open Spaces | The Chicks | 1998  |
"Aloha 'Oe"  | Hawaiian Quintette  | 1913  | 2025[115] |
"Sweet Georgia Brown"  | Brother Bones and His Shadows | 1949  |
"Happy Trails"  | Roy Rogers and Dale Evans | 1952  |
Radio Broadcast of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series | Chuck Thompson, announcer  | October 13, 1960 |
Harry Urata field recordings  |  | 1960–1980  |
Hello Dummy! | Don Rickles | 1968  |
Chicago Transit Authority | Chicago | 1969  |
Bitches Brew | Miles Davis | 1970  |
"Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'"  | Charley Pride | 1971  |
"I Am Woman"  | Helen Reddy | 1972  |
"El Rey"  | Vicente Fernández | 1973  |
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | Elton John | 1973  |
Nimrod Workman Collection  |  | 1973–1994  |
"Before the Next Teardrop Falls"  | Freddy Fender | 1975  |
I've Got the Music in Me | Thelma Houston | 1975  |
The Köln Concert | Keith Jarrett | 1975  |
Fly Like an Eagle | Steve Miller Band | 1976  |
Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | 1988  |
My Life | Mary J. Blige | 1994  |
"The Microsoft Sound"  | Brian Eno | 1995  |
"My Heart Will Go On"[ε] | Celine Dion | 1997  |
Our American Journey | Chanticleer | 2002[116] |
Back to Black | Amy Winehouse | 2006  |
Minecraft – Volume Alpha | C418 (Daniel Rosenfeld)[117] | 2011  |
Hamilton
Original Broadway cast recording[β] | Original Broadway Cast  | 2015  |

### Notes

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1. ^ The original 25 recordings from July 24, 1933, and July 28, 1934, are preserved at the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York.[9]
2. ^ a b c This recording is, or was made for, the soundtrack of a Pulitzer Prize-winning production.
3. ^ Described elsewhere on website as 1936.[12]
4. ^ The essay accompanying the U.S. Highball listing seems to concern the later 1958 Gate 5 recording.[17]
5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l This recording is, or was made for, the soundtrack of a National Film Registry inductee.
6. ^ Library of Congress sources conflict regarding the Pat Bonner recording(s) in the registry. The original press release names "Schooner Bradley",[21] while the full registry list and an expanded essay name "Clifton's Crew".[22][23] A list of available audio clips for registry titles includes both "Schooner Bradley" and "Clifton's Crew".[24]
7. ^ Dates listed for the Pat Bonner selections include 1952–60,[25] June 1960,[22] and June 11, 1960,[26] although the essay for "Clifton's Crew" says "the only known recording" was made August 24, 1938.[27]
8. ^ The class of 2022 saw a shift with the current calendar year being cited as the "induction year", as opposed to the previous year. Consequently, 2021 was skipped over.[97]

## Statistics

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As of 2025[update], the oldest recording on the list is Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville's Phonautograms, which date back to the 1850s.[118] The most recent is the original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton from 2015.[115]

Selections vary widely in duration. The early Edison recordings, the instrumental "Rumble" by Link Wray, "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets, and the Super Mario Bros. theme by Koji Kondo each clock in at under three minutes. The Edison "Talking Doll" cylinder is only 17 seconds long, "The Microsoft Sound" by Brian Eno lasts 6 seconds and some of Scott de Martinville's Phonautographs are just as brief. Meanwhile, Georg Solti's recording of Wagner's complete Ring Cycle is approximately 15 hours in duration,[119] Alexander Scourby's recitation of the King James Bible is over 80 hours, and Lyndon B. Johnson's recordings are nearly 850 hours in length.

Two significant podcast episodes are included: "The Giant Pool of Money" from This American Life (focusing on the subprime mortgage crisis causing the Great Recession) and the Robin Williams interview from WTF with Marc Maron (before his death from suicide in 2014).[120][121]

The Super Mario Bros. theme was the first piece of video game music to be selected for the Registry.[122][123][124]

## Multiple entries

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List of names

* Roy Acuff: Grand Ole Opry debut and "Wabash Cannonball"
* Harold Arlen: "Over the Rainbow" (both Judy Garland and Israel Kamakawiwoʻole versions) and Judy at Carnegie Hall
* Marin Alsop: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman (Joan Tower) and Percussion Concerto (Jennifer Higdon)
* Marian Anderson: 1939 recital at the Lincoln Memorial and "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"
* Julie Andrews: The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady
* Louis Armstrong: Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings, Canal Street Blues (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band), Murmurs of Earth ("Melancholy Blues"), "When the Saints Go Marching In" and "Mack The Knife"
* Clarence Ashley: Anthology of American Folk Music and Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's
* Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor (Robert Shaw Chorale), Switched-On Bach (Wendy Carlos), Fantasia in G (Frederick Fennell and the Cleveland Symphonic Winds), Cello Suites (Pablo Casals), Murmurs of Earth (Bradenburg Concerto, The Well-Tempered Clavier & Partita for Violin Solo No. 3 in E Major) and Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould)
* Ludwig van Beethoven: Kreutzer Sonata (Béla Bartók and Joseph Szigeti), Complete String Quartets (Budapest Quartet), Egmont Overture (Modesto High School Band), Complete Piano Sonatas (Artur Schnabel), Murmurs of Earth (a section of Symphony No.5 conducted by Otto Klemperer) and Marcia Funebre (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
* Harry Belafonte: Calypso and Free to Be... You and Me (with Marlo Thomas)
* Irving Berlin: "God Bless America", "Puttin' on the Ritz", and Carousel of American Music
* Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story and New York Philharmonic debut
* Chuck Berry: "Roll Over, Beethoven" and Murmurs of Earth (containing "Johnny B. Goode")
* William Billings: The Continental Harmony (Gregg Smith Singers) and "David's Lamentation" (Chanticleer's cover on Our American Journey)
* Bertolt Brecht: "Mack the Knife" (both versions by Armstrong and Darin) and Saxophone Colossus (Rollins)
* Benjamin Britten: War Requiem and Signatures (Fleming)
* Jackson Browne: Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) (Eagles) and Late for the Sky (solo)
* Hoagy Carmichael: "Stardust" and Carousel of American Music
* The Carter Family: "Wildwood Flower", Anthology of American Folk Music and Bristol sessions
* Mother Maybelle Carter: "Wildwood Flower", Anthology of American Folk Music, and Bristol sessions
* Clifton Chenier: Crescent City Living Legends Collection and Bogalusa Boogie
* Winston Churchill: "Sinews of Peace" and 1941 Christmas Eve broadcast
* Nat King Cole: "Straighten Up and Fly Right", "The Christmas Song" and Jazz at the Philharmonic
* John Coltrane: Kind of Blue (Miles Davis), Giant Steps, and A Love Supreme
* Sam Cooke: "A Change Is Gonna Come" and "You Send Me" (Steve Miller Band's cover on Fly Like an Eagle)
* Norman Corwin: We Hold These Truths and On a Note of Triumph
* Bing Crosby: "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" and "White Christmas"
* Celia Cruz: Celia & Johnny and Fania All-Stars Live At Yankee Stadium (vocals)
* Miles Davis: "Ko-Ko", Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew
* Fats Domino: "Blueberry Hill", Cheap Trick at Budokan (band's cover of "Ain't That a Shame") and J.D. Crowe & The New South (cover of "I'm Walkin")
* Thomas A. Dorsey: Precious Lord: New Recordings of the Great Gospel Songs of Thomas A. Dorsey and "If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again"
* Dr. Dre: Straight Outta Compton (N.W.A) and The Chronic (solo)
* Thomas Edison: 1888–89 exhibition recordings ("Around the World on the Phonograph", "The Pattison Waltz" and "Fifth Regiment March") and 1878 "St. Louis tinfoil" recording
* Bernard Edwards: "Le Freak" (Chic), "We Are Family" (Sister Sledge), and Like a Virgin (Madonna) (bass guitar)
* Duke Ellington: At Newport and Blanton-Webster era recordings
* Brian Eno: The Microsoft Sound, Remain in Light (Talking Heads) and The Joshua Tree (U2) (latter two as producer)
* Bill Evans: Kind of Blue and The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961
* The Everly Brothers: Graceland (additional vocals) and "Cathy's Clown" (performers)
* Joe Falcon: "Allons à Lafayette" and Anthology of American Folk Music
* Frederick Fennell: Winds in Hi-Fi and Suite No. 1 in E flat, Suite No. 2 in F (Gustav Holst) / Music for the Royal Fireworks (Handel) / Fantasia in G (Bach)
* Stephen Foster: "My Old Kentucky Home", "Hard Times Come Again No More", "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming" (Vernacular Wax Cylinder Recordings), "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" and "Camptown Races" (Chanticleer's covers on Our American Journey)
* Judy Garland: Judy at Carnegie Hall and "Over the Rainbow"
* Marvin Gaye: What's Going On and "Dancing in the Street" (Martha & the Vandellas) (songwriter)
* George Gershwin: "Rhapsody in Blue", Porgy and Bess, "Swanee", "Love Walked In" (Chanticleer's cover on Our American Journey), "Summertime" (Janis Joplin cover on Cheap Thrills) and "Fascinating Rhythm"
* Dizzy Gillespie: "Ko-Ko" and Manteca
* Benny Goodman: "Rose Room" (with Charlie Christian) and Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
* Merle Haggard: "Mama Tried" and Barton Hall concert at Cornell University (Grateful Dead's cover of "Mama Tried")
* Herbie Hancock: Songs in the Key of Life and Head Hunters
* George Frideric Handel: Messiah (Eugene Ormandy), Concerto Grosso in B flat major (Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra) and Music for the Royal Fireworks (Frederick Fennell and the Cleveland Symphonic Winds)
* Don Henley: Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) (Eagles) and Late for the Sky (vocals)
* Jim Henson: "Rainbow Connection" and Sesame Street: Platinum All-Time Favorites ("Bein' Green") (both as Kermit the Frog); ("Rubber Duckie" and "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon", as Ernie)
* Mississippi John Hurt: Anthology of American Folk Music and Today!
* Blind Lemon Jefferson: "That Black Snake Moan/Matchbox Blues" and Anthology of American Folk Music
* Blind Willie Johnson: Anthology of American Folk Music, "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" and Murmurs of Earth (also featuring "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground")
* James P. Johnson: "Charleston" (Golden Gate Orchestra) and "Harlem Strut"
* Scott Joplin: Ragtime piano rolls and Treemonisha
* Carol Kaye: Pet Sounds (Beach Boys), "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" (The Righteous Brothers), and Forever Changes[125][126] (Love) (each as part of The Wrecking Crew)
* Carole King: Tapestry and Tonight's the Night (The Shirelles)
* John Lennon: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles) and Imagine (solo)
* Alan Lomax: Jelly Roll Morton interviews and United Sacred Harp Musical Convention in Fyffe, Alabama
* Professor Longhair: "Tipatina" and Crescent City Living Legends Collection
* Teo Macero: Mingus Ah Um (Charles Mingus) and Time Out (Brubeck) (each as producer)
* Uncle Dave Macon: Anthology of American Folk Music and Grand Ole Opry debut
* Henry Mancini: The Music from Peter Gunn and "Moon River" (Andy Williams)
* Curtis Mayfield: "People Get Ready" (The Impressions) and Super Fly (solo)
* Lincoln Mayorga: Sheffield S9 and I've Got the Music in Me (Thelma Houston)
* Paul McCartney: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles) and Thriller (Michael Jackson)
* Graham McNamee: Inauguration of Calvin Coolidge, Charles Lindbergh's arrival, and Light's Golden Jubilee (announcer)
* Giorgio Moroder: "I Feel Love" (Donna Summer) and "Flashdance... What a Feeling" (Irene Cara)
* Jelly Roll Morton: Alan Lomax interviews and "Black Bottom Stomp"
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Murmurs of Earth (The Magic Flute) and Signatures (Fleming)
* Edward R. Murrow: I Can Hear It Now: 1933–1945 and 1941 broadcasts from London
* Johnny Pacheco: Celia & Johnny and Fania All-Stars Live At Yankee Stadium (conductor)
* Cole Porter: "You're the Top" and Kiss Me, Kate
* Leontyne Price: A Program of Song and Aida (Verdi)
* Ismael Quintana: Azúcar Pa' Ti (Eddie Palmieri), Fania All-Stars Live At Yankee Stadium (vocals), and Celia & Johnny (maracas)
* Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor and All-Night Virgil
* Bonnie Raitt: Nick of Time and Wide Open Spaces (The Chicks)
* Paul Robeson: Show Boat and Othello
* Marty Robbins: Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs and Barton Hall concert at Cornell University (Grateful Dead's cover of "El Paso")
* Jimmie Rodgers: "Blue Yodel (T for Texas)" and Bristol sessions
* Nile Rogers: "Le Freak" (Chic), "We Are Family" (Sister Sledge), and Like a Virgin (Madonna)
* Rodgers and Hammerstein: South Pacific, Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music
* Sonny Rollins: Brilliant Corners (Thelonious Monk) and Saxophone Colossus (solo)
* Linda Ronstadt: Graceland (backup vocals), Partners (duet), Canciones de Mi Padre and Heart Like a Wheel (solo)
* Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1941 Christmas Eve broadcast, complete presidential speeches and "Fireside chats"
* Diana Ross: "Where Did Our Love Go" (The Supremes) and Free to Be... You and Me (solo)
* Carl Sagan: Voyager Record (producer) and Pale Blue Dot (narrator of the audiobook)
* Pete Seeger: We Shall Overcome and Talking Union (The Alamanac Singers)
* Robert Shaw: Mass in B minor (Robert Shaw Chorale) and All-Night Vigil (Robert Shaw Festival Singers)
* Paul Simon: Sounds of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel) and Graceland (solo)
* Stephen Sondheim: West Side Story, Gypsy and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
* Phil Spector: "Be My Baby" (The Ronettes) and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin" (The Righteous Brothers)
* Leopold Stokowski: 1942 recording of Native Brazilian music and Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (Rachmaninoff)
* Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Fritz Reiner), Winds in Hi-Fi (Frederick Fennell and the Cleveland Symphonic Winds), Four Last Songs (Jessye Norman), Leonard Bernstein debut (sections of Don Quixote),[127] A Program of Song (Leontyne Price) and Signatures (Fleming)
* Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring and Murmurs of Earth (also containing a section of the same piece)
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 (Van Cliburn) and Signatures (Renée Fleming)
* Big Mama Thorton: "Hound Dog" and Cheap Thrills (Janis Joplin cover of "Ball and Chain")
* Arturo Toscanini: Piano Concerto No. 1 and "Adagio for Strings" (Samuel Barber)
* Jimmy Webb: "Wichita Lineman" (Glen Campbell) and "Up, Up and Away (Lincoln Mayorga's cover on Sheffield S9)[59]
* Kurt Weill: "Mack the Knife" (both versions by Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin) and Saxophone Colossus (Rollins)
* Orson Welles: War of the Worlds and The Fall of the City
* Paul Whiteman: Rhapsody in Blue and "Whispering"
* Brian Wilson: Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys) and "Good Vibrations" (Lincoln Mayorga's cover on Sheffield S9)[59]
* Stevie Wonder: "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (Melba Moore & Friends), I've Got the Music in Me (Thelma Houston) and Songs in the Key of Life (solo)
* Frank Zappa: We're Only in It for the Money (Mothers of Invention) and Trout Mask Replica (producer)

## See also

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* Music portal
* Radio portal

* Grammy Hall of Fame
* National Film Registry
* Sounds of Australia
* Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

## References

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32. ^ "NYC Mayor LaGuardia's Legendary Radio Readings". NPR.org. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
33. ^ "2Wesleyan Recording Accepted Into National Registry". The Wesleyan Connection. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
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37. ^ "Phonautogram". WNYC.
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41. ^ "Gabby Pahinui and the Hula Medley". WNYC.
42. ^ Jackson, Blair (May 25, 2012). "Cornell '77 Enshrined for the Ages". dead.net. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
43. ^ 1979: A Year in Music: World Cafe: NPR
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45. ^ "Will Rogers: Bacon, Beans and Limousines". WNYC.
46. ^ Library of Congress Adds Glass Opera, Van Cliburn to Recording Registry|WQXR Blog|WQXR
47. ^ "Leontyne Price and A Program of Song". WNYC.
48. ^ Leontyne Price – A Program of Song – RCA – Presto Music
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50. ^ "Library of Congress Beefs Up Recordings Collection, but Watch Out for That Barber". April 2, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
51. ^ Making Fun of the Kennedys|Studio 360|WNYC
52. ^ Christian rocker Larry Norman recognized as an American musical treasure – Music-World
53. ^ "Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco: They Invented Salsa". WNYC.
54. ^ "2014 National Recording Registry inductees". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
55. ^ "The Boys of the Lough". WNYC.
56. ^ ""Sorry, Wrong Number"". WNYC.
57. ^ Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues
58. ^ Inductee's Gallery|Library of Congress
59. ^ a b c Vinyl Review: Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues – Sheffield Lab S9 – From Vinyl To Plastic
60. ^ National Recording Registry Adds Joan Tower's Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman|WQXR Blog|WQXR
61. ^ "National Recording Registry Recognizes "Mack the Knife," Motown and Mahler". Library of Congress. March 23, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
62. ^ "2015 National Recording Registry inductees". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
63. ^ Ellett, Ryan. "Destination Freedom, 'A Garage in Gainesville' and 'Execution Awaited' (September 25; October 2, 1949)" (PDF). Library of Congress.
64. ^ "Clara Schumann and the LOC". WNYC.
65. ^ "Clifton Chenier and the Bogalusa Boogie". WNYC.
66. ^ "2016 National Recording Registry inductees". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
67. ^ Wilson Pickett's 'In The Midnight Hour'-Inside the National Recording Registry-WNYC
68. ^ Don McLean's 'American Pie'-Inside the Recording Registry-WNYC
69. ^ Richard Pryor's 'Wanted: Live in Concert-Inside the National Recording Registry-WNYC
70. ^ Renée Fleming – Great Opera Scenes – Decca: E4457602 – Presto Music
71. ^ "2017 National Recording Registry inductees". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
72. ^ "2018 National Recording Registry inductees". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
73. ^ Cyndi Lauper, Neil Diamond, Jay-Z Music Inducted Into National Recording Registry| Hollywood Reporter
74. ^ Nina Simone and Ritchie Valens Songs Added to National Recording Registry – The New York Times
75. ^ Jay-Z's 'Blueprint' Named to National Registry, Along With 'Schoolhouse Rock', 'Superfly', Nina Simone and More-MSN.com
76. ^ Members Of The 2018 National Recording Registry Class Announced: NPR
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78. ^ "2019 National Recording Registry inductees". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
79. ^ National Recording Registry Inducts Classics by Dr. Dre, Mister Rogers, Cheap Trick — Variety
80. ^ Abbess Hildegard of Bingen – A feather on the breath of God|Presto Classical
81. ^ Selena's 1990 album is inducted into the National Recording Registry|Univision
82. ^ Dr. Dre's 1992 Classic 'The Chronic' Inducted Into Library Of Congress|HipHopDX
83. ^ Jennifer Higdon – Recordings by Work Title
84. ^ "2020 National Recording Registry inductees". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
85. ^ Janet Jackson, Louis Armstrong, more voices that 'shaped our culture' join National Recording Registry : USA Today
86. ^ The Sounds of America: The Harder They Come – BMP Audio
87. ^ The Sounds Of America: 'Late For The Sky' – 1A
88. ^ The Sounds of America: "Rainbow Connection" – BMP Audio
89. ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (March 24, 2021). "Janet Jackson and Kermit the Frog Added to National Recording Registry". The New York Times. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
90. ^ Srauss – Four Last Songs – Philips: 4110522|Presto Classical
91. ^ Israel Kamakawiwo’ole's Famous Medley Added to National Recording Registry|Hawai'i Public Radio
92. ^ Flaco Jimenez album 'Partners' added to National Recording Registry at Library of Congress – San Antonio Express-News
93. ^ Library of Congress Inducts 10 BMI Musical Works into National Recording Registry|News|BMI.com
94. ^ Barnes, Mike (March 24, 2021). "Music from Janet Jackson, Connie Smith, Nas, Jimmy Cliff Enter National Recording Registry". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
95. ^ The Sounds of America: Flaco Jiménez’s Partners album – BMP Audio
96. ^ National Recording Registry adds its first frog (Kermit) and its first podcast – Washington Post
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98. ^ "2022 National Recording Registry inductees". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
99. ^ Disneyland Ride's Iconic Song Added to National Recording Registry – ComicBook.com
100. ^ "National Recording Registry Inducts Music from Alicia Keys, Ricky Martin, Journey and More in 2022". Library of Congress. April 13, 2022. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
101. ^ 'Perfect rock song' among 25 titles added to National Recording Registry – The Mercury News
102. ^ Alicia Keys, Ricky Martin, Bonnie Raitt added to National Recording Registry : NPR
103. ^ Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest Albums Archived in Library of Congress|Pitchfork
104. ^ "National Recording Registry's new additions: Marc Maron, Alicia Keys and more". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
105. ^ Ink, Radio (April 13, 2022). "WNYC Recordings Go Into National Registry". Radio Ink. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
106. ^ "New Items Added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry | All Of It". WNYC. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
107. ^ "Sounds of America: Robin Williams and Marc Maron". 1A. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
108. ^ "2023". National Recording Preservation Board. Library of Congress. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
109. ^ The Sounds of America: ‘Pale Blue Dot’|1A
110. ^ The 2023 Sounds of America|1A
111. ^ 'Gasolina' is first reggaeton hit in National Recording Registry|NBC News
112. ^ Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra – Ellen Taaffe Zwilich|Chamber Music Northwest: David Shifrin|Delos Productions
113. ^ David Shifrin & Friends - Delos: DE3423|Presto Music
114. ^ "National Recording Registry Inducts Sounds of ABBA, Blondie, The Cars, The Chicks, Juan Gabriel, Green Day, The Notorious B.I.G. and Lily Tomlin". LOC.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved April 16, 2024.
115. ^ a b "National Recording Registry Inducts Sounds of Elton John, Chicago, Broadway's 'Hamilton,' Mary J. Blige, Amy Winehouse, Minecraft and Microsoft". LOC.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved April 9, 2025.
116. ^ 'Our American Journey' – CBS News
117. ^ Minecraft soundtrack to enter US National Recording Registry|GamesIndustry.biz
118. ^ Rosen, Jody (March 27, 2008). "Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
119. ^ "Why Sir Georg Solti's 'Ring Cycle' Recording Remains An Enduring Part of His Legacy". Opera Wire. October 21, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
120. ^ Smith, Troy L. (April 13, 2022). "Wu-Tang Clan, Robin Williams and Hank Aaron's 715th homerun call added to National Recording Registry". Cleveland.com. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
121. ^ Pedersen, Erik (April 13, 2022). "9/11 & FDR Tapes, 'Bohemian Rhapsody', Alicia Keys Album, Ricky Martin Hit & More Added To National Recording Registry". Deadline. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
122. ^ "National Recording Registry Inducts Music from Madonna, Mariah Carey, Queen Latifah, Daddy Yankee". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
123. ^ "Mario, Mariah, Madonna added to National Recording Registry". Associated Press. April 12, 2023. Retrieved April 13, 2023.
124. ^ The Sounds of America: The Super Mario Bros. theme song|1A
125. ^ 50th Anniversary Edition of Love 'Forever Changes' Coming – Noise11.com music news
126. ^ Love: Forever Changes (Collector's Edition)|PopMatters
127. ^ New York Philharmonic|Programs: Season 1943–44

## External links

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* National Recording Preservation Board
* Full National Recording Registry
* NPR All Things Considered – series spotlighting selections from the Registry
* Selection spotlights on WNYC
* 1A The Sounds of America – series spotlighting selections from the Registry

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* MusicBrainz series

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