Twenty-five culturally important sound recordings were selected Tuesday by the Librarian of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry established by Congress in 2000:
– “Uncle Josh and the Insurance Agent,” Cal Stewart (1904)
– “Il mio tesoro,” John McCormack, orchestra conducted by Walter Rogers (1916)
National Defense Test (1924)
– “Black Bottom Stomp,” Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers (1926)
– “Wildwood Flower,” The Carter Family (1928)
– “Pony Blues,” Charley Patton (1929)
– “You’re the Top,” Cole Porter (1934)
– Episode of “The Lone Ranger” (1937)
– Address to Congress, President Franklin Roosevelt (1941)
– Brazilian Music, recorded under Leopold Stokowski (1942)
– “Peace in the Valley,” Red Foley and the Sunshine Boys (1951)
– Chopin Polonaise, op. 40, No. 1, Artur Rubinstein (1952)
– “Blue Suede Shoes,” Carl Perkins (1955)
– Interviews with William “Billy” Bell, recorded by Edward Ives (1956)
– “Howl,” Allen Ginsberg (1959)
– “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart” (1960)
– “Be My Baby,” The Ronettes (1963)
– “We Shall Overcome,” Pete Seeger (1963)
– “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” Rolling Stones (1965)
– “A Change Is Gonna Come,” Sam Cooke (1965)
– “Velvet Underground and Nico,” Velvet Underground (1967)
– “The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake,” Eubie Blake (1969)
– “Burnin’ The Wailers,” Bob Marley and the Wailers (1973)
– “Live in Japan,” Sarah Vaughan (1973)
– “Graceland,” Paul Simon (1986)
— Associated Press
