New National Recording Registry just announced

[Brandon Burke]

2005 National Recording Registry (in chronological order)

1. "Canzone del Porter" from "Martha (von Flotow)," Edouard de Reszke (1903)

2. "Listen to the Lambs," Hampton Quartette; recorded by Natalie Curtis Burlin (1917)

3. "Over There," Nora Bayes (1917)

4. "Crazy Blues," Mamie Smith (1920)

5. "My Man" and "Second Hand Rose," Fanny Brice (1921)

6. "Ory's Creole Trombone," Kid Ory (June 1922)

7. Inauguration of Calvin Coolidge (March 4, 1925)

8. "Tanec pid werbamy/Dance Under the Willows," Pawlo Huemiuk (1926)

9. "Singin' the Blues," Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke (1927)

10. First official transatlantic telephone conversation (Jan. 7, 1927)

11. "El Manisero" ("The Peanut Vendor"), Rita Montaner, vocal with orchestra (1927); "El Manisero," Don Azpiazu and his orchestra (1930)

12. Light's Golden Jubilee Celebration (Oct. 21, 1929)

13. Beethoven's Egmont Overture, Op. 84, Modesto High School Band (1930)

14. "Show Boat," Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, James Melton and others; Victor Young, conductor; Louis Alter, piano (1932)

15. "Wabash Cannonball," Roy Acuff (1936)

16. "One o'Clock Jump," Count Basie and his Orchestra (1937)

17. Archibald MacLeish's "Fall of the City," Orson Welles, narrator, Burgess Meredith, Paul Stewart (April 11, 1937)

18. "The Adventures of Robin Hood" radio broadcast of May 11, 1938

19. Joe Louis-Max Schmeling fight, Clem McCarthy, announcer (June 22,1938)

20. "John the Revelator," Golden Gate Quartet (1938)

21. "Adagio for Strings," Arturo Toscanini, conductor; NBC Symphony (1938)

22. "Command Performance" show No.21, Bob Hope, master of ceremonies (July 7, 1942)

23. "Straighten Up and Fly Right," Nat "King" Cole (1943)

24. Allen's Alley segment from "The Fred Allen Show"(Radio broadcast of Oct. 7, 1945)

25. "Jole Blon," Harry Choates (1946)

26. "Tubby the Tuba," Paul Tripp (words) and George Kleinsinger (music) (1946)

27. "Move on up a Little Higher," Mahalia Jackson (1948)

28. "Anthology of American Folk Music," edited by Harry Smith (1952)

29. "Schooner Bradley," performed by Pat Bonner (??1952-60)

30. "Damnation of Faust," Boston Symphony Orchestra with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society (1954)

31. "Blueberry Hill," Fats Domino (1956)

32. "Variations for Orchestra," Louisville Orchestra (1956)

33. "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," Jerry Lee Lewis (1957)

34. "That'll Be the Day," Buddy Holly (1957)

35. "Poeme Electronique," Edgard Varese (1958)

36. "Time Out," The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959)

37. Studs Terkel interview with James Baldwin (Sept. 29, 1962)

38. William Faulkner address at West Point Military Academy (1962)

39. "Dancing in the Street," Martha and the Vandellas (1964)

40. "Live at the Regal," B.B. King (1965)

41. "Are You Experienced?" Jimi Hendrix Exerience (1967)

42. "We're Only in It for the Money," Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (1968)

43. "Switched-On Bach," Wendy Carlos (1968)

44. "Oh Happy Day," Edwin Hawkins Singers (1969)

45. "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers," Firesign Theatre (1970)

46. "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," Gil Scott-Heron (1970)

47. "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1972)

48. The old fog horn, Kewaunee, Wis., recorded by James A. Lipsky (1972)

49. "Songs in the Key of Life," Stevie Wonder (1976)

50. "Daydream Nation," Sonic Youth (1988)

Press release to follow...here

[ep1str0phy]

Switched-On Bach. Really?

[Rooster_Ties]

from link just provided...

"The Library will also announce the discovery and preservation of a previously unknown recording of one of the world’s most celebrated jazz instrumentalists."

So, what/who was it???

[Adam]

Where did you get the actual list of recordings? It's not up at that link yet.

[rostasi]

Oh man! Shoes For Industry! It's the Firesign Theatre!

[BruceH]

from link just provided...

"The Library will also announce the discovery and preservation of a previously unknown recording of one of the world’s most celebrated jazz instrumentalists."

So, what/who was it???

Lester Young, perhaps?

[BruceH]

Switched-On Bach. Really?

That was my first reaction, too!

[paul secor]

from link just provided...

"The Library will also announce the discovery and preservation of a previously unknown recording of one of the world’s most celebrated jazz instrumentalists."

So, what/who was it???

Lester Young, perhaps?

Yes - Pres. There was an interview with someone from the Smithsonian on PBS a couple of nights ago. The recording is supposedly from a club and done in the very early 40's, sometime after he left Basie and before he entered the army. There was no information given as to whether it will become commercially available.