Don McLean‘s 1971 hit “American Pie,” Sister Sledge’s “We are Family” and Barbra Streisand‘s “People” are way over simply catchy songs. According to the Library of Congress, those tunes are worthy of preservation as a part of America’s heritage, in conjunction with N.W.A.’s Straight Outta Compton and the Eagles’ first compilation album.
These recordings are amongst 25 new additions to the Library’s National Recording Registry, which preserves an ever-expanding record of sound recordings as a result of they’re identified to be “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” The new additions convey the whole selection of titles at the registry to 475.
As neatly as songs through McLean, Sister Sledge and Streisand, the record now contains David Bowie’s 1972 thought album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Judy Garland’s “Over the Rainbow,” carried out in The Wizard of Oz, and Talking Head’s fourth studio album, Remain in Light. Two renditions of the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the nationwide anthem of the U.S.’ African-American group, additionally made the record, in addition to country-gospel crew The Chuck Wagon Gang’s 1948 model of “I’ll Fly Away.”
“It is so humbling and satisfying to be told that my recording of the music ‘People’ through composer Jule Styne and lyricist Bob Merrill will probably be put in within the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress,” stated Streisand in a commentary. “I believe “People” touched our common desire to relate to others with love and caring, and I’ve always tried to express this in my renditions of this magical song.”
Not the entire new additions to the Registry are musical ones. The first broadcast of All Things Considered, NPR’s flagship information program, is incorporated, in addition to Richard Pryor’s 1978 comedy album Wanted: Live in Concert and Vin Scully’s 1957 announcement of the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants on the Polo Grounds.
Below is the whole record of recordings newly named to the registry:
The 1888 London cylinder recordings of Col. George Gouraud (1888)
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” (singles), Manhattan Harmony Four (1923); Melba Moore and Friends (1990)
“Puttin’ on the Ritz” (unmarried), Harry Richman (1929)
“Over the Rainbow” (unmarried), Judy Garland (1939)
“I’ll Fly Away” (unmarried), The Chuck Wagon Gang (1948)
“Hound Dog” (unmarried), Big Mama Thornton (1953)
Saxophone Colossus, Sonny Rollins (1956)
The Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants on the Polo Grounds, introduced through Vin Scully (September eight, 1957)
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, Marty Robbins (1959)
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery, Wes Montgomery (1960)
“People” (unmarried), Barbra Streisand (1964)
“In the Midnight Hour” (unmarried), Wilson Pickett (1965)
“Amazing Grace” (unmarried), Judy Collins (1970)
“American Pie” (unmarried), Don McLean (1971)
All Things Considered, first broadcast (May three, 1971)
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, David Bowie (1972)
The Wiz, authentic forged album (1975)
Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975), Eagles (1976)
Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, Gunter Schuller, arr. (1976)
Wanted: Live in Concert, Richard Pryor (1978)
“We Are Family” (unmarried), Sister Sledge (1979)
Remain in Light, Talking Heads (1980)
Straight Outta Compton, N.W.A. (1988)
Rachmaninoff’s Vespers (All-Night Vigil), Robert Shaw Festival Singers (1990)
Signatures, Renée Fleming (1997)
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