The Vernal Equinox: Spring has sprung, allergy season has officially started, and the National Recording Registry has picked its 2018 inductees. Links for each entry are embedded in the text when available. Don’t have time to listen to all of these recordings? The NRR has provided this handy video as well!
- Yiddish Cylinders from the Standard Phonograph Company of New York and the Thomas Company (c. 1901-1905)
- “Memphis Blues” , Victory Military Band (1914)
- Melville Jacobs Collection of Native Americans of the American Northwest (1929-1939)
- “Minnie the Moocher” Cab Calloway (1931)
- “Bach Six Cello Suites” Pablo Casals (c. 1939)
- “They Look Like Men of War” Deep River Boys (1941)
- “Gunsmoke: The Cabin” (1952)
- Ruth Draper: Complete recorded monologues (1954-1956)
- “La Bamba” Ritchie Valens (1958)
- “Long Black Veil” Lefty Frizzell (1959)
- “Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, Vol. 1: The Early Years” (1961)
- “GO” Dexter Gordon (1962)
- “War Requiem” Benjamin Britten (1963)
- “Mississippi Goddam” Nina Simone (1964)
- “Soul Man” Sam & Dave (1967)
- “Hair” Original Broadway Cast (1968)
- Speech on the Death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy (1968)
- “Sweet Caroline” Neil Diamond (1969)
- “Superfly” Curtis Mayfield (1972)
- “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 Artists (1996)
- “The Blueprint” Jay-Z (2001)
And just for the hell of it, here’s “I’m Just a Bill”, now considered by the National Recording Registry just as significant as Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” broadcast or Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta compromise speech.
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