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Wednesday, April 9, 2025

National Recording Registry: Songs (2002-2025)

National Recording Registry:

Song Inductees, 2002-2025

The National Recording Registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000. The Librarian of Congress appoints members to the National Recording Preservation Board which, since 2002, has selected 25 recordings annually for preservation in the Library of Congress. As the website says, the recordings showcase “the range and diversity of American recorded sound heritage in order to increase preservation awareness.” This particular page lists songs which have inducted into the Registry. Click here to see albums which have been inducted.

Click here to see other awards and Hall of Fame inductees for songs.

Year of Induction: Performer “Song” (Year released/recorded)

A

B

  • 2005: Count Basie “One O’Clock Jump” (1937)
  • 2005: Nora Bayes “Over There” (1917)
  • 2017: Tony Bennett “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” (1962)
  • 2003: Emile Berliner “The Lord’s Prayer” (1890)
  • 2003: Emile Berliner “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” (1890)
  • 2003: Lucie Bernardo and Otto Rathke “The Okeh Laughing Record” (1922)
  • 2003: Chuck Berry “Roll Over Beethoven” (1956)
  • 2012: Blackwood Brothres “Crossing Chilly Jordan” (1960)
  • 2005: Pat Bonner “Schooner Bradley” (1960)
  • 2011: Booker T. & the MG’s “Green Onions” (1962)
  • 2010: The Boswell Sisters with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra “It’s the Girl” (1931)
  • 2024: Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats “Rocket 88” (1951)
  • 2005: Fanny Brice “Second Hand Rose” (1921)
  • 2005: Fanny Brice “My Man (Mon Homme)” (1922)
  • 2025: Brother Bones & His Shadows “Sweet Georgia Brown” (1948)
  • 2013: Jeff Buckley “Hallelujah” (1994)
  • 2023: Jimmy Buffett “Margaritaville” (1977)

C

D

  • Daddy Yankee with Glory “Gasolina” (2004)
  • 2015: Bobby Darlin “Mack the Knife” (1959)
  • 2012: Jimmie Davis “You Are My Sunshine” (1940)
  • 2005: Edouard de Reszke “Canzone del Porter from Martha (von Flotow)” (1903)
  • 2018: Deep River Boys “They Look Like Men of War” (1941)
  • 2023: John Denver “Take Me Home, Country Roads” (1971)
  • 2023: Jackie DeShannon “What the World Needs Now Is Love” (1965)
  • 2018: Neil Diamond “Sweet Caroline” (1969)
  • 2011: Bo Diddley “Bo Diddley” (1955)
  • 2011: Bo Diddley “I’m a Man” (1955)
  • 2025; Celine Dion “My Heart Will Go On” (1997)
  • 2022: The Disneyland Boys Choir “It’s a Small World After All” (1964)
  • 2011: The Dixie Hummingbirds “Let’s Go Out to the Programs” (1953)
  • 2005: Fats Domino “Blueberry Hill” (1956)
  • 2007: Thomas A. Dorsey “If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again” (1934)

E

  • 2018: Earth, Wind & Fire “September” (1978)
  • 2009: Cliff Edwards “When You Wish Upon a Star” (1940)
  • 2009: Abe Elenkrig's Yidishe Orchestra “Fon der Choope (From the Wedding)” (1913)
  • 2017: Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine “Rhythm Is Gonna Get You” (1987)
  • 2011: Ruth Etting “Ten Cents a Dance” (1930)
  • 2004: James Reese Europe’s Society Orchestra “The Castles in Europe One-Step (Castle House Rag)” (1914)
  • 2024: James Reese Europe & the 369th US Infantry (Hell Fighters) Band “Clarinet Marmalade” (1919)
  • 2023: Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This” (1983)
  • 2013: The Everly Brothers “Cathy’s Clown” (1960)

F

  • 2023: The Fairfield Four “Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around” (1947)
  • 2007: Joe Falcon “Allons a Lafayette” (1928)
  • 2025: Freddy Fender “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” (1975)
  • 2025: Vicente Fernandez “El Rey” (1973)
  • 2002: Fisk Jubilee Singers “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (1910)
  • 2004: Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” (1949)
  • 2006: Red Foley & the Sunshine Boys “Peace in the Valley” (1951)
  • 2014: Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons” (1955)
  • 2023: The Four Seasons “Sherry” (1962)
  • 2022: Four Tops “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” (1966)
  • 2002: Aretha Franklin “Respect” (1967)
  • 2024: Doug E. Fresh & Slick Rick “La Di Da Di” (1985)
  • 2018: Lefty Frizzell “Long Black Veil” (1959)

G

  • Juan Gabriel “Amor Eterno” (1990)
  • 2016: Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (1939)
  • 2015: Gloria Gaynor “I Will Survive” (1978)
  • 2023: Bobbie Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe” (1967)
  • 2002: Paul Whiteman with George Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue” (1924)
  • 2004: Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto “The Girl from Ipanema” (1964)
  • 2004: Dizzy Gillespie with Chano Pozo “Manteca” (1947)
  • 2004: Golden Gate Orchestra “Charleston” (1925)
  • 2005: Golden Gate Quartet “John the Revelator” (1938)
  • 2024: Benny Goodman’s Orchestra with Charlie Christian “Rose Room” (1939)
  • 2002: Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five “The Message” (1982)
  • 2010: Al Green “Let’s Stay Together” (1971)
  • 2017: Arlo Guthrie “Alice’s Restaurant Massacre” (1967)
  • 2002: Woody Guthrie “This Land Is Your Land” (1944)

H

  • 2017: Bill Haley & His Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (1954)
  • 2005: Hampton Quartette “Listen to the Lambs” (1917)
  • 2023: W.C. Handy “St. Louis Blues” (1923)
  • 2012: Marion Harris “After You’ve Gone” (1919)
  • 2025: Hawaiian Quintette “Aloha ‘Oe” (1913)
  • 2004: Coleman Hawkins “Body and Soul” (1940)
  • 2005: Edwin Hawkins Singers “Oh Happy Day” (1969)
  • 2013: Roland Hayes “Were You There” (1940)
  • 2023: Fletcher Henderson “Sugar Foot Stomp” (1925)
  • 2017: Victor Herbert and his Orchestra “Dream Melody Intermezzo: Naughty Marietta” (1911)
  • 2002: Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit” (1939)
  • 2005: Buddy Holly & the Crickets “That’ll Be the Day” (1957)
  • 2008: John Lee Hooker “Boogie Chillen” (1948)
  • 2011: Sol Hoʻopiʻi “Fascinating Rhythm” (1938)
  • 2019: Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” (1992)
  • 2009: Howlin’ Wolf “Smokestack Lightning” (1956)
  • 2005: Pawlo Humeniuk “Tanec Pid Werbamy (Dance Under the Willows)” (1926)

I

  • 2015: The Impressions “People Get Ready” (1965)
  • 2017: The Ink Spots “If I Didn’t Care” (1939)

J

  • 2005: Mahalia Jackson “Move on Up a Little Higher” (1948)
  • 2013: Elmore James “Dust My Broom” (1951)
  • 2008: Etta James “At Last” (1960)
  • 2014: Blind Lemon Jefferson “Black Snake Moan” (1928)
  • 2014: Blind Lemon Jefferson “Match Box Blues” (1928)
  • 2015: Billy Joel “Piano Man” (1973)
  • 2010: Blind Willie Johnson “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” (1927)
  • 2013: George W. Johnson “The Laughing Song” (1896)
  • 2022: James P. Johnson “Harlem Strut” (1921)
  • 2008: George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (1980)
  • 2013: Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five “Caldonia” (1945)
  • 2004: Al Jolson “Swanee” (1920)
  • 2022: Journey “Don’t Stop Believin’” (1981)

K

  • 2020: Israel Kamakawiwo’ole “Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World” (1993)
  • 2020: Kermit the Frog “The Rainbow Connection” (1979)
  • 2011: Stan Kenton “Artistry in Rhythm” (1943)
  • 2005: Kid Ory “Ory’s Creole Trombone” (1922)
  • 2014: Ben E. King “Stand by Me” (1961)
  • 2008: The Kingston Trio “Tom Dooley” (1958)
  • 2023: Koji Kondo “Super Mario Bros. Theme” (1986)
  • 2020: Kool & the Gang “Celebration” (1980)

L

  • 2020: LaBelle “Lady Marmalade” (1974)
  • 2024: Héctor Lavoe “El Cantante” (1978)
  • 2003: Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter “Goodnight Irene” (1933)
  • 2023: Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” (1971)
  • 2009: Iry LeJeune “Evangeline Special” (1948)
  • 2009: Iry LeJeune “Love Bridge Waltz” (1948)
  • 2023: John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)
  • 2005: Jerry Lee Lewis “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” (1957)
  • 2009: Little Richard “Tutti Frutti” (1955)
  • 2017: Kenny Loggins “Footloose” (1984)
  • 2015: Julie London “Cry Me a River” (1955)
  • 2010: Professor Longhair “Tipitina” (1953)
  • 2013: The Louvin Brothers “When I Stop Dreaming” (1955)
  • 2009: Loretta Lynn “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (1970)

M

  • 2013: Harry MacDonough with Olive Kline “They Didn’t Believe Me” (1915)
  • 2016: Manhattan Harmony “Lift Every Voice” (1923)
  • 2005: Martha & the Vandellas “Dancing in the Street (1964)
  • 2017: Canario y Su Grupo with Davilita on lead vocals, written by Rafael Hernández Marín “Lamento Borincano” (1930)
  • 2022: Ricky Martin “Livin’ La Vida Loca” (1999)
  • 2019: Narciso Martínez and Santiago Almeida “La Chicharronera” (1936)
  • 2009: Max Mathews/John L. Kelly Jr./Carol Lockbaum “Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)” (1961)
  • 2024: Johnny Mathis “Chances Are” (1957)
  • 2006: John McCormack “Il Mio Tesoro” (1916)
  • 2024: Bobby McFerrin “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” (1988)
  • 2016: Don McLean “American Pie” (1971)
  • 2015: Blind Willie McTell “Statesboro Blues” (1928)
  • 2010: Edward Meeker “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908)
  • 2019: Memphis Minnie “Me and My Chauffeur Blues” (1941)
  • 2010: Lydia Mendoza “Mal Hombre” (1934)
  • 2014: Johnny Mercer with the Pied Pipers “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” (1945)
  • 2002: John Philip Sousa “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (1897)
  • 2004: Glenn Miller “In the Mood” (1939)
  • 2007: The Miracles “The Tracks of My Tears” (1965)
  • 2008: Carmen Miranda “O Que É Que A Bahiana Tem?” (1939)
  • 2017: The Mississippi Sheiks “Sitting on Top of the World” (1930)
  • 2011: Patsy Montana “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” (1935)
  • 2005: Rita Montaner “El Manisero (The Peanut Vendor)” (1927)
  • 2016: Melba Moore & Friends “Lift Every Voice” (1990)
  • 2006: Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers “Black Bottom Stomp” (1926)
  • 2014: Gerry Mulligan Quartet featuring Chet Baker “My Funny Valentine” (1953)
  • 2003: Billy Murray “You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)” (1906)

N-O

  • 2005: NBC Symphony conducted by Arturo Toscanini “Adagio for Strings” (1938)
  • 2009: King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band “Canal Street Blues” (1923)
  • 2007: Roy Orbison “(Oh) Pretty Woman” (1964)
  • 2002: Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Tiger Rag” (1918)
  • 2003: Vess Ossman “Honolulu Cake Walk” (1898)

P

  • 2008: Oran “Hot Lips” Page with Eddie Condon’s Jazz Band “Uncle Sam’s Blues” (1944)
  • 2024: Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)
  • 2011: Gabby Pahinui “Hula Medley” (1947)
  • 2020: Marika Papagika “Smyrneikos Balos” (1928)
  • 2002: Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, et al “Ko-Ko” (1945)
  • 2011: Dolly Parton “Coat of Many Colors” (1971)
  • 2006: Charley Patton “Pony Blues” (1929)
  • 2002: Les Paul & Mary Ford “How High the Moon” (1951)
  • 2015: Peerless Quartet “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” (1911)
  • 2004: The Penguins “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)” (1954)
  • 2006: Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes” (1956)
  • 2020: Hjalmar Peterson “Nikolina” (1917)
  • 2016: Wilson Pickett “In the Midnight Hour” (1965)
  • 2007: Rosa Ponselle and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Giulio Setti “Casta Diva from Bellini’s Norma” (1929)
  • 2006: Cole Porter “You’re the Top” (1934)
  • 2025: Charley Pride “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” (1971)
  • 2008: Frank Proffitt “Tom Dooley” (1940)

Q-R

S

  • 2018: Sam & Dave “Soul Man” (1967)
  • 2005: Gil Scott-Heron “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” (1970)
  • 2009: Tupac Shakur “Dear Mama” (1995)
  • 2012: Artie Shaw “Begin the Beguine” (1938)
  • 2019: Allan Sherman “Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh” (1963)
  • 2018: Nina Simone “Mississippi Goddam” (1964)
  • 2016: Sister Sledge “We Are Family” (1979)
  • 2002: Bessie Smith “Down Hearted Blues” (1923)
  • 2020: Connie Smith “Once a Day” (1964)
  • 2002: Kate Smith “God Bless America” (1938)
  • 2005: Mamie Smith “Crazy Blues” (1920)
  • 2010: The Sons of the Pioneer “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” (1934)
  • 2022: The Soul Stirrers “Jesus Gave Me Water” (1950)
  • 2008: The Stanley Brothers “Rank Stranger” (1960)
  • 2015: W.H. Stepp “Bonaparte’s Retreat” (1937)
  • 2006: Cal Stewart “Uncle Josh and the Insurance Agent” (1904)
  • 2011: Sugarhill Gang “Rapper’s Delight” (1979)
  • 2011: Donna Summer “I Feel Love” (1977)
  • 2015: The Supremes “Where Did Our Love Go” (1964)
  • 2014: The Swan Silvertones “Mary Don’t You Weep” (1959)
  • 2018: Sylvester “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” (1978)

T

  • 2004: Mable Wilson Tatro “The Suncook Town Tragedy” (1930)
  • 2007: Art Tatum “Sweet Lorraine” (1940)
  • 2023: Koko Taylor “Wang Dang Doodle” (1966)
  • 2017: The Temptations “My Girl” (1965)
  • 2004: Sister Rosetta Tharpe “Down by the Riverside” (1944)
  • 2016: Big Mama Thornton “Hound Dog” (1952)
  • 2005: Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke “Singin’ the Blues” (1927)
  • 2022: Ernest Tubb “Walking the Floor Over You” (1941)
  • 2004: Sophie Tucker “Some of These Days” (1911)
  • 2024: Viola Turpeinen & John Rosendahl “Kauhavan Polkka” (1928)

U-V

W-X-Y-Z

  • 2020: Albertina Walker & the Caravans “Lord, Keep Me Day by Day” (1959)
  • 2007: T-Bone Walker “Call It Stormy Monday” (1947)
  • 2004: Fats Waller “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (1929)
  • 2017: Clara Ward & the Ward Singers “How I Got Over” (1950)
  • 2004: Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1933)
  • 2004: Muddy Waters “Hoochie Coochie Man” (1954)
  • 2007: Kitty Wells “It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (1952)
  • 2019: Paul Whiteman “Whispering” (1920)
  • 2022: Andy Williams “Moon River” (1962)
  • 2015: Clarence Williams’ Blue Five “Wild Cat Blues” (2015)
  • 2004: Hank Williams “Lovesick Blues” (1949)
  • 2008: Mary Lou Williams “Night Life” (1930)
  • 2003: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys “New San Antonio Rose” (1940)
  • 2024: Bill Withers “Ain’t No Sunshine” (1971)
  • 2008: Link Wray “Rumble” (1958)
  • 2010: Tammy Wynette “Stand by Your Man” (1968)
  • 2012: Frank Yankovic & His Yanks “Just Because” (1947)

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First posted 3/24/2019; last updated 4/9/2025.

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song

Gershwin Prize:

2007-2024

The Gershwin Prize for Popular Song was created by the Library of Congress in 2007. As explained on the site, it is given to celebrate “the work of an artist whose career reflects lifetime achievement in promoting song as a vehicle of musical expression and cultural understanding. The styles in which these works are composed reflect myriad contemporary traditions like rock, jazz, country, pop, blues, folk, and gospel. The recipient – whether composer, singer/songwriter, or interpreter – is recognized for entertaining and informing audiences, for drawing upon the acknowledged foundations of popular song, and for inspiring new generations of performers on their own professional journeys.” The Library of Congress selects the recipient in consultation with a board consisting of members which may include music critics, performers, producers, scholars, and songwriters. The award was named after the brother/composer team of George and Ira Gershwin. Here are the recipients:

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First posted 12/13/2012; last updated 3/20/2024.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

National Recording Registry: Albums

National Recording Registry:

Album Inductees, 2002-2022

The National Recording Registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000. The Librarian of Congress appoints members to the National Recording Preservation Board which, since 2002, has selected 25 recordings annually for preservation in the Library of Congress. As the website says, the recordings showcase “the range and diversity of American recorded sound heritage in order to increase preservation awareness.” This particular page lists albums which have inducted into the Registry. Click here to see songs which have been inducted into the National Recording Registry.

Check out other Hall of Fame-style album awards here.

Year of Induction: Performer/Composer/Recorder Album (Year released/years recorded)

A

B
  • 2002: Milton Babbitt (composer)/Bethany Beardslee (performer) Philomel: For Soprano (1971)
  • 2018: Johann Sebastian Bach (composer)/Pablo Casals (performer) Cello Suites (6) (classical, composed 1717-23, recorded 1939)
  • 2003: Johann Sebastian Bach (composer)/Glenn Gould (performer) Goldberg Variations (classical, composed 1741, performed 1955)
  • 2003: Johann Sebastian Bach (composer)/Robert Shaw Chorale (performer) Mass in B Minor (classical, composed 1733-1749, recorded 1947)
  • 2014: Joan Baez Joan Baez (1960)
  • 2009: The Band The Band (1969)
  • 2014: Sweet Emma Barrett/Preservation Hall Jazz Band New Orleans’ Sweet Emma Barrett and Her Preservation Hall Jazz Band (1964)
  • 2004: The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966)
  • 2003: The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
  • 2007: Ludwig van Beethoven (composer)/Artur Schnabel (performer) Piano Sonatas (32) (classical, composed 1795-1822, recorded 1932-35)
  • 2005: Ludwig van Beethoven (composer)/Modesto High School Band (performer) Egmont Overture (classical, composed 1809-10, recorded 1930)
  • 2003: Ludwig van Beethoven (composer)/Budapest Quartet (performer) String Quartets (16) (classical, composed 1798-1826, performed 1940-50)
  • 2017: Harry Belafonte Calypso (1956)
  • 2014: Stephen Vincent Benét (composer)/Tyrone Power, Judith Anderson, and Raymond Massey (performers)/Charles Laughton (director) John Brown’s Body (poetry reading, composed 1928, performed 1953)
  • 2008: Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim (composers) West Side Story (cast album: 1957)
  • 2012: Big Brother & the Holding Company Cheap Thrills (1968)
  • 2011: William Billings (composer)/The Gregg Smith Singers (performer) The Continental Harmony: The Gregg Smith Singers Perform Music of William Billings (1969)
  • 2006: Eubie Blake The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake (1969)
  • 2013: Art Blakey A Night at Birdland (Volumes 1 & 2 (1954)
  • 2005: Hector Berlioz (composer)/ Boston Symphony Orchestra with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society (performer) La Damanation of Faust (The Damnation of Faust) (classical, composed 1846, performed 1954)
  • 2002: Marc Blitzstein (composer) The Cradle Will Rock (cast: 1938)
  • 2019: Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick (composers) Fiddler on the Roof (cast, 1964)
  • 2016: David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
  • 2018: Lord Benjamin Britten (composer) War Requiem (classical, composed 1962, performed 1963)
  • 2004: James Brown Live at the Apollo Volume 1 (live, 1962)
  • 2020: Jackson Browne Late for the Sky (1974)
  • 2005: Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out (1959)
  • 2022: Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club (1997)

C
  • 2010: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica (1969)
  • 2015: George Carlin Class Clown (comedy, 1972)
  • 2005: Wendy Carlos Switched-On Bach (1968)
  • 2012: Betty Carter The Audience with Betty Carter (1980)
  • 2005: Elliott Carter (composer)/Louisville Orchestra (performer) Variations for Orchestra (composed 1955, performed 1956)
  • 2003: Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison (live, 1968)
  • 1978: Cheap Trick At Budokan (live: recorded 1978, released 1979)
  • 2015: Clifton Chenier Bogalusa Boogie (1976)
  • 2004: Reverend James Cleveland Peace Be Still (1962)
  • 2020: Jimmy Cliff et al The Harder They Come (1972)
  • 2012: Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
  • 2004: John Coltrane Giant Steps (1960)
  • 2015: John Coltrane A Love Supreme (1965)
  • 2013: Aaron Copland (composer) Appalachian Spring (ballet, composed 1944, performed 1974)
  • 2009: Bill Cosby I Started Out as a Child (comedy, 1964)
  • 2007: Elizabeth Cotten Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes (1959)
  • 2010: George Crumb (composer)/New York Strings Quartet (performer) Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land) (1972)
  • 2013: Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco Celia & Johnny (1974)
  • 2019: Colin Currie Percussion Concerto (2008)

D

E
  • 2016: Eagles Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 (compilation: 1971-75, released 1976)
  • 2003: Eastman Wind Ensemble with Frederick Fennell Winds in Hi-Fi (opera, 1958)
  • 2002: Duke Ellington The Blanton-Webster Band (box set: 1939-42, released 1990)
  • 2022: Duke Ellington At Newport (live, 1956)
  • 2009: Bill Evans Trio The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings (live, recorded 1961)

F
  • 2010: John Fahey Blind Joe Death (1959)
  • 2003: Fania All-Stars Live at Yankee Stadium (live, 1975)
  • 2005: Firesign Theatre Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers (1970)
  • 2003: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book (covers, 1956)
  • 2017: Fleetwood Mac Rumours (1977)
  • 2016: Renée Fleming Signatures (1997)
  • 2018: Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume One: The Early Years (comedy, 1961)

G
  • 2003: Judy Garland Judy at Carnegie Hall (live, 1961)
  • 2003: Marvin Gaye What’s Going On (1971)
  • 2003: George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/Dubose Heyward (composers) Porgy and Bess (opera/musical, composed 1935, cast: 1942)
  • 2012: Philip Glass (composer) Einstein on the Beach (1979)
  • 2003: Benny Goodman The Complete Legendary Carnegie Hall Concert (live, recorded 1938)
  • 2018: Dexter Gordon Go! (1962)
  • 2003: Billy Graham Problems of the American Home (spoken, 1954)
  • 2011: Grateful Dead Barton Hall Concert at Cornell University (live, 1977)
  • 2011: Vince Guaraldi A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

H
  • 2007: Herbie Hancock Head Hunters (1973)
  • 2004: George Friedrich Handel (composer)/Mormon Tabernacle Choir/Philadelphia Orchestra (performers)/Eugene Ormandy (conductor)/Richard Condie (choir director) Messiah (classical, composed 1741, performed 1958)
  • 2013: Isaac Hayes Shaft (soundtrack, 1971)
  • 2008: Jascha Heifetz Acoustic Recordings for Victor Records (1917-24)
  • 2005: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced? (1967)
  • 2014: Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)
  • Holst/Handel/Bach (composers)/Frederick Fennell and the Cleveland Symphonic Winds (performers) Holst: Suite No. 1 in E-Flat, Suite No. 2 in F / Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks / Bach: Fantasia in G (1978)
  • 2009: Mississippi John Hurt Today! (1966)

I
  • 2014: Indian Bottom Association Old Regular Baptists: Lined-Out Hymnody from Southeastern Kentucky (1997)
  • 2011: International Sweethearts of Rhythm Hottest Women’s Band of the 1940s (1944-46)
  • 2003: Charles Ives (composer)/John Kirkpatrick (performer) Piano Sonata No. 2 “Concord” (classical, composed and performed 1948)

J
  • 2020: Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989)
  • 2007: Michael Jackson Thriller (1982)
  • 2018: Jay-Z The Blueprint (2001)
  • 2007: Ella Jenkins You’ll Sing a Song and I’ll Sing a Song (1966)
  • 2020: Flaco Jiménez Partners (1992)
  • 2003: Robert Johnson The Complete Recordings (compilation: 1936-37, released 1990)
  • 2016: Scott Joplin (composer)/Gunther Schuller (arranger) Treemonisha (musical, composed 1911, performed 1976)
  • 2005: Victor Jory (narrator) Tubby the Tuba (children, 1946)

K
  • 2005: Jerome Kern (music) & Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) Show Boat (stage debut: 12/27/27, cast recorded 1933)
  • 2022: Alicia Keys Songs in A Minor (2001)
  • 2020: Albert King Born Under a Bad Sign (1967)
  • 2005: B.B. King Live at the Regal (live, recorded 1964, released 1965)
  • 2003: Carole King Tapestry (1971)
  • 2008: King’s College Choir (performer)/Boris Ord (director) A Festival of Lessons and Carols as Sung on Christmas Eve in King's College Chapel, Cambridge (1954)
  • 2005: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (composer) The Adventures of Robin Hood (film score, 1938)

L
  • 2018: Cyndi Lauper She’s So Unusual (1983)
  • 2004: Tom Lehrer Songs by Tom Lehrer (1953)
  • 2007: Alan Jay Lerner/Frederick Loewe (composers) My Fair Lady (cast recording, 1956)
  • 2013: Mance Lipscomb Texas Sharecropper and Songster (1960)
  • 2004: Frank Loesser (composer) Guys and Dolls (cast recording: 1950)
  • 2012: Israel “Cachao” López/Su Ritmo Caliente Descargas: Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature (1957)
  • 2011: Love Forever Changes (1967)
  • 2002: Lovey’s Trinidad String Band Recordings for Columbia Records (New York City session) (1912)

M
  • 2017: Yo-Yo Ma/Philadelphia Orchestra (performers)Christopher Rouse/Leon Kirchner/Richard Danielpour (composers) Concertos for Violoncello and Orchestra (classical, 1996)
  • 2018: Galt MacDermot (music) with Gerome Ragni & James Rado (lyrics) Hair (cast recording, 1968)
  • 2015: Gustav Mahler (composer)/Vienna Philharmonic (performers)/Bruno Walter (conductor) Symphony No. 9 in D major (classical, composed 1909, performed 1938)
  • 2010: Henry Mancini The Music from Peter Gunn (soundtrack, 1959)
  • 2006: Bob Marley/The Wailers Burnin’ (1973)
  • 2014: Steve Martin A Wild and Crazy Guy (comedy, 1978)
  • 2017: Groucho Marx An Evening with Groucho (comedy, 1972)
  • 2018: Curtis Mayfield Superfly (soundtrack, 1972)
  • 2014: Lincoln Mayorga Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues (1968)
  • 2013: Vaughn Meader The First Family (comedy, 1962)
  • 2015: Metallica Master of Puppets (1986)
  • 2020: Pat Metheny Bright Size Life
  • 2003: Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um (1959)
  • 2007: Joni Mitchell For the Roses (1972)
  • 2003: Thelonious Monk Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1 (recorded 1947, released 1951)
  • 2016: Wes Montgomery The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960)
  • 2011: Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly I Can Hear It Now (radio news broadcasts, 1933-45)
  • 2003: Modest Mussorgsky (composer)/Chicago Symphony Orchestra (performers)/Rafael Kubelik (conductor) Tableaux d'une Exposition (Pictures at an Exhibition) (classical, composed for piano in 1874, reworked for orchestra in 1922, performed 1951)

N
  • 2020: Nas Illmatic (1994)
  • 2009: Willie Nelson Red Headed Stranger (1975)
  • 2008: New York Pro Musica under the direction of Noah Greenberg (performers)/students from the school of Beauvais Cathedral (composers) The Play of Daniel: A Twelfth-Century Drama (composed 1227-34, performed 1958)
  • 2006: Bob Newhart The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart (comedy, 1960)
  • 2004: Nirvana Nevermind (1991)
  • 2005: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will the Circle Be Unbroken (1972)
  • 2013: Larry Norman Only Visiting This Planet (1972)
  • 2015: Alex North (composer) A Streetcar Named Desire (soundtrack, 1951)
  • 2016: N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton (1989)

O
  • 2020: Odetta Sings Ballads & Blues (1957)
  • 2004: Michael Babatunde Olatunji Drums of Passion (1960)
  • 2013: Buck Owens & His Buckaroos Carnegie Hall Concert (live, 1966)

P-Q
  • 2010: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (composer)/Roger Wagner Chorale (performer) Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass) (classical, composed 1562, performed 1951)
  • 2009: Eddie Palmieri Azucar Pa' Ti (1965)
  • 2011: Parliament Mothership Connection (1975)
  • 2004: Harry Partch (composer)/Gate 5 Ensemble (performer) U.S. Highball (A Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip) (1946)
  • 2010: Roger Payne (producer) Songs of the Humpback Whale (nature recordings, 1970)
  • 2012: Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
  • 2014: Cole Porter (composer) Kiss Me, Kate (cast recording, 1949)
  • 2002: Elvis Presley The Sun Sessions (archives, 1954-55)
  • 2012: Leontyne Price A Program of Song (1959)
  • 2011: Prince & the Revolution Purple Rain (1984)
  • 2004: Sergey Prokofiev (composer)/Richard Hale (narrator)/Serge Koussevitzky (conductor)/Boston Symphony Orchestra (performer) Peter and the Wolf (1939)
  • 2016: Richard Pryor Wanted: Live in Concert (comedy, 2016)
  • 2004: Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet (1990)
  • 2019: Giacomo Puccini (composer) Tosca (opera, 1900)
  • 2002: Tito Puente Dance Mania (1958)

R
  • 2004: Sergei Rachmaninov (composer/pianist)/Philadelphia Orchestra (performer)/Leopold Stowoski (conductor) Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (classical, composed 1901, performed 1929)
  • 2016: Sergei Rachmaninov (composer)/The Robert Shaw Festival Singers (performers) Vespers (All-Night Vigil) (classical, composed 1915, performed 1990)
  • 2014: Radiohead OK Computer (1997)
  • 2022: Bonnie Raitt Nick of Time (1989)
  • 2012: Ramones Ramones (1976)
  • 2018: Ola Belle Reed Ola Belle Reed (1973)
  • 2017: Steve Reich/Richard Maxfield/Pauline Oliveros (composers) New Sounds in Electronic Music (1967)
  • 2008: Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks 2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks (comedy, 1961)
  • 2022: Teddy Riley In C (1968)
  • 2022: Max Roach We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (1960)
  • 2016: Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959)
  • 2003: Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II (composers) Oklahoma! (cast recording, 1944)
  • 2012: Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II (composers) South Pacific (cast recording, 1949)
  • 2017: Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II (composers) The Sound of Music (soundtrack, 1965)
  • 2019: Fred Rogers Mister Rogers Sings 21 Favorite Songs from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1973)
  • 2016: Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus (1956)
  • 2013: Linda Ronstadt Heart Like a Wheel (1974)
  • 2022: Linda Ronstadt Canciones de Mi Padre (Songs of My Father) (1987)
  • 2017: Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell (1986)

S
  • 2010: Mort Sahl At Sunset (1955)
  • 2015: Buffy Sainte-Marie It’s My Way! (1964)
  • 2015: Santana Abraxas (1970)
  • 2015: Robert and Clara Schumann (composers)/Beaux Arts Trio (performer) Complete Piano Trios (classical, composed 1846-51, performed 1972)
  • 2003: Tony Schwartz New York Taxi Driver (spoken, 1959)
  • 2019: Maria Schneider Concert in the Garden (2004)
  • 2016: Pete Seeger We Shall Overcome (live, 1963)
  • 2019: Selena Ven Conmigo (1990)
  • 2014: Sesame Street All-Time Platinum Favorites (children, 1995)
  • 2022: The Shirelles Tonight’s the Night (1961)
  • 2012: Simon & Garfunkel Sounds of Silence (1966)
  • 2006: Paul Simon Graceland (1986)
  • 2002: Frank Sinatra Songs for Young Lovers (1954)
  • 2014: Sly & the Family Stone Stand! (1969)
  • 2016: Charlie Smalls (composer) The Wiz (cast recording, 1975)
  • 2009: Patti Smith Horses (1975)
  • 2013: Stephen Sondheim (composer) Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (cast recording, 1979)
  • 2005: Sonic Youth Daydream Nation (1988)
  • 2019: Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis (1969)
  • 2003: Bruce Springsteen Born to Run (1975)
  • 2009: The Staple Singers Soul Folk in Action (1968)
  • 2010: Steely Dan Aja (1977)
  • 2011: Richard Strauss (composer)/Chicago Symphony Orchestra (performers)/Fritz Reiner (conductor) Also Sprach Zarathustra (classical, composed 1896, performed 1954)
  • 2020: Richard Strauss (composer)/Jessye Norman (performer) Four Last Songs (classical, composed 1948, performed in 1983)
  • 2002: Igor Stravinsky (composer)/New York Philharmonic (performers) Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) (ballet, composed 1913, performed 1940)
  • 2016: Barbra Streisand People (1964)
  • 2009: Jule Styne (music) & Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) Gypsy (cast recording, 1959)
  • 2009: Morton Subotnick Silver Apples of the Moon (2009)

T
  • 2016: Talking Heads Remain in Light (1980)
  • 2004: Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (composer)/Vladimir Horowitz/NBC Symphony Orchestra (performers)/Arturo Toscanini (conductor) Piano Concerto No. 1 (classical, composed 1875, performed 1943)
  • 2012: Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (composer)/Van Cliburn (performer) Piano Concerto No. 1 (classical, composed 1875, performed 1958)
  • 2004: Virgil Thomson (composer) Four Saints in Three Acts (1947)
  • 2014: Joan Tower (composer)/Colorado Symphony Orchestra (performer)/Martin Alsop (conductor) Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman (classical, composed 1986, performed 1999)
  • 2017: Merle Travis Folk Songs of the Hills (1946)
  • 2022: A Tribe Called Quest The Low-End Theory (1991)
  • 2019: Tina Turner Private Dancer (1984)
  • 2004: Tuskegee Institute Choir/Mormon Tabernacle Choir/Philadelphia Orchestra (performers)/Eugene Ormandy (conductor)/Richard P. Condie (choir director)/William L. Dawson (director) Tuskegee Institute Choir Sings Spirituals (1955)

U
  • 2013: U2 The Joshua Tree (1987)
  • 2007: United States Marine Band Recordings for the National Cultural Center (1963)

V
  • 2005: Edgard Varèse (composer) Poeme Electronique (composed 1958)
  • 2006: Sarah Vaughan Live in Japan (live, 1973)
  • 2006: Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
  • 2020: Giuseppe Verdi (composer)/Leontyne Price et al (performers) Aida (opera, composed 1871, performed 1962)
  • 2003: Antonio Vivaldi (composer)/Louis Kaufman/Concert Hall String Orchestra (performers) The Four Seasons (classical, composed 1725, performed 1947)
  • 2019: Hildegard von Bingen (composer)/Gothic Voices (performer)/Christopher Page (conductor) A Feather on the Breath of God (1982)

W

X-Y-Z

Various Artists
  • 2005: various artists (performers)/ Harry Smith (compiler) Anthology of American Folk Music (box set, recorded 1926-32, released 1952)
  • 2019: various artists (performers)/Hiromi Lorraine Sakata (compiler) Collection of Afghan Traditional Music (box, 1973)
  • 2020: various artists (Margo Thomas et al) Free to Be You and Me (1972)
  • 2010: various artists (Nat “King” Cole, Les Paul, Buddy Rich, et al) Jazz at the Philharmonic (live, 1944)
  • 2007: various artists (performers)/Norman Granz (producer) The Jazz Scene (1949)
  • 2007: various artists (performers)/David Lewiston (recorder) Music from the Morning of the World (1966)
  • 2006: various artists (Pixinguinha, Donga, Cartola, Jararaca, Ratinho and José Espinguela)/Leopold Stowowski (supervisor) Native Brazilian Music (1942)
  • 2012: various artists (Bee Gees et al) Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack, 1977)
  • 2018: various artists Schoolhouse Rock!: The Box Set (children, box set: 1996)

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Monday, January 31, 2022

Aural Fixation: National Recording Registry - Kenny Loggins' "Footloose"

Aural Fixation:

National Recording Registry - “Footloose”

“Aural Fixation” is a music-themed column I wrote for PopMatters.com from 2011-2013. They are no longer online there, but I have reformatted them here at the DMDB blog with additional videos, photos, and links, such as where to buy referenced albums. I have also used the title “Aural Fixation” for any essays I have written outside of PopMatters.com as well. To see the essays, check out the Dave’s Music Database Aural Fixation page.

The essays from PopMatters.com have been gathered in book form as Aural Fixation: Essays from a Music Obsessive. Essays written from 2009 to 2011 have been gathered in the book No One Needs 21 Versions of “Purple Haze”. You can purchase the essays in book format here.

At the request of the Library of Congress, I wrote this piece in 2022 about Kenny Loggins’ song “Footloose,” a 2017 inductee into the National Recording Registry You can read the original here or read it below.

The Movie:

Kevin Bacon bounds into the prom in the closing scene of “Footloose” with his rouse-the troops proclamation “I thought this was a party! Let’s dance!” Audiences heeded the celebratory cry and the movie danced its way to the top of the box office for three weeks in early 1984. It raked in $80 million domestically, ranking #6 for the year. 1

Thematically, the movie traversed in the classic trope of puritanical adults bent on rescuing misguided, rebellious teens from their delinquent proclivities. When outsider Ren (Bacon) comes to town, he’s stunned by the antiquated no-dancing-allowed law and becomes a rebel with a cause. His effort to fight the system puts him at odds with the town council and local preacher (John Lithgow).

It may sound like a plot set in the emergence of rock-n-roll in the 1950s, but the seemingly eyerolling fiction was based on real events in the present day. In 1981, the high school junior class in the Oklahoma town of Elmore City petitioned to overturn an 1898 law outlawing dancing so they could hold a prom. Reverend F.R. Johnson, from the nearby town of Hennepin, declared, “No good has ever come from a dance… When boys and girls hold each other they get sexually aroused.” 2

Dean Pitchford turned it into a movie. He’d never penned a screenplay before but was no novice to songwriting. He won an Academy Award as the lyricist for the title song to the 1980 film Fame. Irene Cara turned it into a top-five hit. Pitchford would also co-write the nine songs which comprised the Footloose soundtrack.

The Soundtrack:

Nineteen eight-four was one of the most important years in the history of pop music. Michael Jackson’s Thriller wrapped up a record-breaking run of seven top-ten hits. Bruce Springsteen unleashed his own blockbuster with Born in the U.S.A., eventually matching Thriller’s enviable count. Prince, Madonna, Lionel Richie, Cyndi Lauper, Tina Turner, and Huey Lewis & the News all similarly milked albums for multiple top tens in 1984.

Only five titles topped the Billboard 200 album chart that year. In addition to Thriller and Born in the U.S.A., Prince reached the summit with his Purple Rain soundtrack and Huey Lewis & the News achieved the feat with their Sports album. The only other chart-topper that year was the Footloose soundtrack, which logged ten weeks at #1.

With sales certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for nine million, Footloose ranks as one of the ten best-selling soundtracks of all time. 3 In 2007, The National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listed the soundtrack among their “Definitive 200” list of albums. Dave’s Music Database ranked the album as one of the top 100 soundtracks of all time and one of the top 100 albums of the 1980s. Like its peers, the album sent a slew of ditties into the upper echelons of the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Six of the nine songs charted, most notably the Mike Reno and Ann Wilson ballad “Almost Paradise” (#7) and “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” by Deniece Williams (#1).

The Song:

Of course, the most memorable cut was the title song, co-written and performed by Kenny Loggins. Released as the first single, the toe-tapping “Footloose” ousted Van Halen’s “Jump” (itself fueled by a can’t-sit-still manic energy) from the pinnacle the week of March 31. The call-to-dance anthem ranked #4 for the year. 4

It was the biggest hit of Loggins’ career, but it wasn’t his first venture into top-ten territory. He’d reached #4 with the 1972 Loggins & Messina song “Your Mama Don’t Dance” and hit #5 in 1978 with “Whenever I Call You Friend,” a duet with Stevie Nicks. In 1980, Loggins proved his talents could translate to the movies when “I’m Alright,” from “Caddyshack,” got to #7.

However, being part of 1984’s cream of the crop isn’t an automatic pass into the National Recording Registry. Take a gander at the top 10 songs of 1984: 4

  1. Prince, “When Doves Cry”
  2. Tina Turner, “What’s Love Got to Do With It”
  3. Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson, “Say, Say, Say”
  4. Kenny Loggins, “Footloose”
  5. Phil Collins, “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)”
  6. Van Halen, “Jump”
  7. Lionel Richie, “Hello”
  8. Yes, “Owner of a Lonely Heart”
  9. Ray Parker, Jr., “Ghostbusters”
  10. Culture Club, “Karma Chameleon”
Other than Kenny Loggins’ “Footloose,” only Prince’s “When Doves Cry” and Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” both as part of their respective albums, have been inducted into the National Recording Registry. None of the other songs have been inducted as parts of albums or as individual songs. In fact (as of this writing), only six songs from the entire decade have been inducted (not including those as parts of albums). What makes “Footloose” so special?

The American Film Institute named it one of the top 100 movie songs. Dave’s Music Database also ranks it in its top 100 movie list, as well as lists for party songs and mainstream rock tracks. It also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.

Often the tunes that capture collective hearts and souls are those that elicit the listener to bump and grind, whether it be in the bedroom or on the dance floor. In the movie “Footloose,” music serves as a clarion call for the youthful spirit to kick back against the stodgy powers-that-be who would dare to squelch that need to groove, clothed or otherwise.

However, the lyrics and mood of the song “Footloose” don’t sound the alarm to unite in extending middle fingers to some oppressive authority. They don’t incite rebellion or have any political motivation. Like Kool & the Gang’s “Celebration,” one of the other National Recording Registry inductees from the ‘80s, the song is simply about having a good time and partying the night away. Like Bill Haley & the Comets’ “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock,” Chubby Checker’s “The Twist,” and Martha & the Vandellas’ “Dancing in the Street” (all National Recording Registry inductees) it comes down to Ren’s immortal words at the closing of “Footloose”: “Let’s dance!”

Dave Whitaker has authored more than 20 books including “Music of the 1980s” and “The Top 100 Songs of the Rock Era, 1954-1999.” His website, DavesMusicDatabase.com is devoted to ranking, rating, and reviewing music of all genres and eras. It has more than two million visits while his Dave’s Music Database podcast, available on Spotify, has reached listeners in over 50 countries.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas among the new entries to the 2018 National Recording Registry

Last updated 11/16/2020.

Piano Sonatas (32)

Ludwig van Beethoven (composer)

Composed: 1795-1822

Peak: -- US, -- UK, -- CN, -- AU

Sales (in millions): -- US, -- UK, -- world (includes US and UK)

Genre: classical

Early Sonatas:

Opus 2: Three Piano Sonatas (1795)

  • No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor
  • No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major
  • No. 3: Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major

Opus 7: Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major ("Grand Sonata") (1797)

Opus 10: Three Piano Sonatas (1798)

  • No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor
  • No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major
  • No. 3: Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major

Opus 13: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor ("Pathétique") (1798)

Opus 14: Two Piano Sonatas (1799)

  • No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major (Also arranged by the composer for String Quartet in F major (H 34) in 1801)
  • No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 10 in G major

Opus 22: Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-flat major (1800)

Middle Sonatas:

Opus 26: Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major ("Funeral March") (1801)

Opus 27: Two Piano Sonatas (1801)

  • No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 13 in E-flat major 'Sonata quasi una fantasia'
  • No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor 'Sonata quasi una fantasia' ("Moonlight")

Opus 28: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major ("Pastoral") (1801)

Opus 31: Three Piano Sonatas (1802)

  • No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 16 in G major
  • No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor ("Tempest")
  • No. 3: Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat major ("The Hunt")

Opus 49: Two Piano Sonatas (composed 1795–6, published 1805)

  • No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor
  • No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major

Opus 53: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major ("Waldstein") (1803)

  • WoO 57: Andante Favori — Original middle movement of the "Waldstein" sonata (1804)

Opus 54: Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major (1804)

Opus 57: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor ("Appassionata") (1805)

Opus 78: Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major ("A Thérèse") (1809)

Opus 79: Piano Sonata No. 25 in G major (1809)

Opus 81a: Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-flat major ("Les adieux/Das Lebewohl") (1810)

Opus 90: Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor (1814)

Late Sonatas:

Opus 101: Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major (1816)

Opus 106: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major ("Hammerklavier") (1818)

Opus 109: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major (1820)

Opus 110: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major (1821)

Opus 111: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor (1822)

Average Duration: 10-11 hours

Rating:

4.625 out of 5.00 (average of 4 ratings)

Awards:

About the Sonatas:

Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas, written over more than a quarter century, were not originally intended as “a meaningful whole,” WK but “as a set they compose one of the most important collections of works in the history of music. Hans von Bülow called them ‘The New Testament’ of music (Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier being ‘The Old Testament’).” WK

“Beethoven's piano sonatas came to be seen as the first cycle of major piano pieces suited to concert hall performance. Being suitable for both private and public performance, Beethoven’s sonatas form a bridge between the worlds of the salon and the concert hall.” WK

The sonatas have been grouped as the early sonatas (1-11), middle sonatas (12-27) and late sonatas (28-32). The early sonatas “were highly influenced by those of Haydn and Mozart.” WK His middle sonatas “are very different from his earlier ones;” WK “his experimentation in modifications to the common sonata form of Haydn and Mozart became more daring, as did the depth of expression.” WK The late sonatas comprise “some of today's most difficult repertoire. Yet again, his music found a new path, often incorporating fugal technique and displaying radical departure from conventional sonata form. The Hammerklavier was deemed to be Beethoven's most difficult sonata yet. In fact, it was considered unplayable until almost 15 years later, when Liszt played it in a concert.” WK

“In a single concert cycle, the whole 32 sonatas were first performed by Hans von Bülow. A number of other pianists have emulated this feat, including Artur Schnabel (the first since Bülow to play the complete cycle in concert from memory),” WK who was also the first pianist to make a complete recording of the sonatas. He recorded them between 1932 and 1935 for EMI. WK His recordings were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1975 and the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry in 2018.

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

National Recording Registry Adds 25 Recordings: March 21, 2013

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Each year, the Library of Congress announces 25 recordings (albums, songs, radio broadcasts, and other sound recordings) to be added to its National Recording Registry. This year’s entrants are:

  1. “After You've Gone” Marion Harris (1918)
  2. Bacon, Beans and Limousines by Will Rogers (Oct. 18, 1931)
  3. “Begin the Beguine” Artie Shaw (1938)

    Begin the Beguine

  4. “You Are My Sunshine” by Jimmie Davis (1940)
  5. D-Day Radio Broadcast, George Hicks (June 5-6, 1944)
  6. “Just Because” by Frank Yankovic & His Yanks (1947)
  7. South Pacific cast album (1949)

  8. Descargas: Cuban Jam Session in Miniature by Israel "Cachao" Lopez Y Su Ritmo Caliente (1957)
  9. Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 performed by Van Cliburn (April 11, 1958)
  10. President's message relayed from Atlas satellite, Dwight D. Eisenhower (Dec. 19, 1958)
  11. A Program of Song by Leontyne Price (1959)
  12. The Shape of Jazz to Come by Ornette Coleman (1959)
  13. “Crossing Chilly Jordan” by The Blackwood Brothers (1960)
  14. “The Twist” by Chubby Checker (1960)

    The Twist

  15. Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley’s by Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson, et al. (1960-1962)
  16. Hoodoo Man Blues by Junior Wells (1965)
  17. Sounds of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel (1966)
  18. Cheap Thrills by Big Brother and the Holding Company (1968)
  19. The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd (1973)

  20. Music Time in Africa by Leo Sarkisian (July 29, 1973)
  21. Wild Tchoupitoulas by The Wild Tchoupitoulas (1976)
  22. Ramones by The Ramones (1976)
  23. Saturday Night Fever soundtrack by The Bee Gees et al (1977)

  24. Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson (1979)
  25. The Audience with Betty Carter by Betty Carter (1980)

Among this list are two songs which rank in the DMDB’s list of the Top 100 Songs of the Pre-Rock Era (“After You’ve Gone” and “Begin the Beguine”), one song which ranks in the DMDB’s list of the Top 100 Songs of the Rock Era (“The Twist”), and four albums which rank in the DMDB’s list of the Top 100 Albums of All Time (South Pacific, Dark Side of the Moon, Ramones, and Saturday Night Fever). For more information on these and other entrants in the National Recording Registry, check out the links below:

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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry 10th Anniversary

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For ten years the National Recording Registry has made 25 annual selections of sound recordings which are at least a decade old and deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” The Library of Congress established the Registry through the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000. Click here to see a full list of all 350 recordings in the Registry through 2011.

Here are the 25 selections for the 2011 National Recording Registry in chronological order:

1. Edison Talking Doll cylinder (1888)
2. “Come Down Ma Evenin’ Star,” Lillian Russell (1912)
3. “Ten Cents a Dance” by Ruth Etting (1930)
4. Voices from the Days of Slavery by Various speakers (1932-1941 interviews; 2002 compilation)
5. “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” by Patsy Montana (1935)

I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart

6. “Fascinating Rhythm” by Sol Hoopii and his Novelty Five (1938)
7. “Artistry in Rhythm” by Stan Kenton & and his Orchestra (1943)

Artistry in Rhythm

8. Debut performance with the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (Nov. 14, 1943)
9. International Sweethearts of Rhythm: Hottest Women’s Band of the 1940s (1944-1946)
10. The Indians for Indians Hour (March 25, 1947)
11. “Hula Medley” by Gabby Pahinui (1947)
12. “I Can Hear It Now” by Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow (1948)
13. “Let’s Go Out to the Programs” by The Dixie Hummingbirds (1953)
14. Also Sprach Zarathustra by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1954, 1958)
15. “Bo Diddley” and “I’m a Man” by Bo Diddley (1955)

Green Onions

16. “Green Onions” by Booker T. & the M.G.’s (1962)
17. Forever Changes Love (1967)

18. The Continental Harmony: Music of William Billings by Gregg Smith Singers (1969)
19. A Charlie Brown Christmas by the Vince Guaraldi Trio (1970)
20. “Coat of Many Colors” by Dolly Parton (1971)

21. Mothership Connection by Parliament (1975)
22. Barton Hall concert by the Grateful Dead (May 8, 1977)
23. “I Feel Love” by Donna Summer (1977)

Rapper’s Delight

24. “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang (1979)
25. Purple Rain by Prince & the Revolution (1984)

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