Library of Congress makes 25 additions to National Recording Registry
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Source: Washington Post
By Chris Richards, Mar 21, 2013 07:28 AM EDT
The Washington Post
The sounds of silence, psychedelia and “Saturday Night Fever” are headed to the Library of Congress.
The library announced 25 fresh additions to its National Recording Registry on Thursday, a growing collection of audio recordings recognized for their “cultural, artistic and historic importance” to be preserved for the ages.
Among them: a D-Day radio broadcast by journalist George Hicks, the original cast album of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific,” Simon and Garfunkel’s 1966 breakthrough “The Sound of Silence,” Pink Floyd’s rock opus “Dark Side of the Moon” and the defining platter of the disco era, the “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack.
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This year’s registry announcement comes a little more than a month after the library shared its National Recording Preservation Plan, a 32-point program outlining its approach for protecting sound recordings for the ears of generations of Americans to come.
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See: Library of Congress has plan to preserve U.S. history in recorded sound, some now lost
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Let's go to the Library of Congress:
News from the Library of Congress
March 21, 2013
The 2012 National Recording Registry With a Twist
Van Cliburn, Pink Floyd, Simon & Garfunkel Recordings Marked for Preservation
From the cultural significance of Chubby Checker’s song-and-dance phenomenon and the historic moment of Van Cliburn’s triumphant Cold War performance in Moscow to the artistry of Cuban bassist Israel "Cachao" Lopez’s all-star jam sessions, the 2012 inductees to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress reflect the diversity and creativity of the American experience. The Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington, today announced the selection of 25 sound recordings to the registry, marked for preservation because of their cultural, artistic and historic importance to the nation’s aural legacy.
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Additions to the registry feature notable performances by Leontyne Price, Ornette Coleman, The Ramones, The Bee Gees, Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson, Philip Glass, Betty Carter, Junior Wells, Jimmie Davis, Frank Yankovic, The Blackwood Brothers and The Neville Brothers.
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As part of its congressional mandate, the Library is identifying and preserving the best existing versions of each recording on the registry. These recordings will be housed in the Library’s Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Va., a state-of-the-art facility that was made possible through the generosity of David Woodley Packard and the Packard Humanities Institute, with benefaction from the U.S. Congress. The Packard Campus (www.loc.gov/avconservation/) is home to more than 6 million collection items, including nearly 3.5 million sound recordings.
There's a lot of good stuff in there. It used to be that I'd see a copy of "Saturday Night Fever" at every yard sale I went to.
I wonder if the recording of DSOTM they selected is Capitol SMAS 11163 or EMI SHVL 804.
How they missed this one, I'll never know:
Frostie the Dancing Cockatoo
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