See the 25 New Entries to the National Recording Registry
The Library of Congress has added Tony Bennett's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine's "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" and Run-DMC's "Raising Hell" to the National Recording Registry, as part of 25 new entries this year. Newcomers to the National Recording Registry also include the soundtrack to The Sound of Music and radio recordings covering the birth of the United Nations. The Library of Congress selects 25 new titles each year to add to a growing list of recordings honored for their "cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to the American soundscape.", The recordings selected this year span spoken-word and musical sounds recorded from 1911 to 1996, and include Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors," Kenny Loggins' "Footloose" and The Temptations' "My Girl," which was co-written by Smokey Robinson. "I'm totally overwhelmed by My Girl' receiving such an honor," Robinson said in a statement. "As a songwriter, it has become my international anthem. People in countries where English is not the primary language know and sing My Girl' when I perform it.", The new selections bring the total number of titles in the National Recording Registry to 500. See the full list of recordings named to the registry below. "Dream Melody Intermezzo Naughty Marietta" single, Victor Herbert and his Orchestra 1911, Standing Rock Preservation Recordings, George Herzog and Members of the Yanktoni Tribe 1928, "Lamento Borincano" single, Canario y Su Grupo 1930, "Sitting on Top of the World" single, Mississippi Sheiks 1930, The Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas album, Artur Schnabel 1932-1935, "If I Didn't Care" single, The Ink Spots 1939, Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on International Organization 4/25/45-6/26/45, "Folk Songs of the Hills" album, Merle Travis 1946, "How I Got Over" single, Clara Ward and the Ward Singers 1950, "We're Gonna Rock Around the Clock" single, Bill Haley and His Comets 1954, "Calypso" album, Harry Belafonte 1956 album. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" single, Tony Bennett 1962, "King Biscuit Time" radio, Sonny Boy Williamson II and others 1965, "My Girl" single, The Temptations 1964, "The Sound of Music" soundtrack, Various 1965, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" single, Arlo Guthrie 1967, "New Sounds in Electronic Music" album, Steve Reich, Richard Maxfield, Pauline Oliveros 1967, "An Evening with Groucho" album, Groucho Marx 1972, "Rumours," album, Fleetwood Mac 1977, "The Gambler" single, Kenny Rogers 1978, "Le Freak" single, Chic 1978, "Footloose" single, Kenny Loggins 1984 remake released in 2011. "Raising Hell" album, Run-DMC 1986, "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" single, Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine 1987, "Yo-Yo Ma Premieres Concertos for Violoncello and Orchestra" album, Various 1996