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ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU joins National Recording Registry
I wanted it to be like, you know, make people happy and make myself happy
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♫ Piano Man ♫
What would you say to a little Billy Joel this morning? I’ve always liked this one and I haven’t played it for a while, so …
In 1972-1973, Billy Joel worked at the Executive Room bar in Los Angeles as a piano player using the name “Bill Martin”. He was in dispute with his then-recording company and took the job to pay the bills while waiting for his lawyers to straighten things out back in New…
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#Bill Martin#Billy Joel#Executive Room piano bar#Library of Congress#music trivia#National Recording Registry#Youtube
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#Madonna#2023#Library of Congress#Like A Virgin#Madonna 1984#Madonna 2023#Nile Rodgers#NatRecRegistry#Queen Of Pop#National Recording Registry#Madonna40
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Lefty Frizzell - Long Black Veil (1959)
Marijohn Wilkin / Danny Dill
from:
"Long Black Veil" / "Knock Again, True Love" (Single)
"Country Music: The Soundtrack" (2019)
(5 Disc Boxset | Disc 2)
Country | Ballad | Southern Gothic
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Personnel:
Lefty Frizzell: Vocals
Grady Martin: Guitar
Harold Bradley Guitar
Don Helms: Steel Guitar
Marijohn Wilkin: Piano
Joseph Zinkan: Bass
Buddy Harman: Drums
Produced by Don Law
Recorded:
@ The Bradley Film and Recording Studio
in Nashville, Tennessee USA
on March 3, 1959
Released:
on April 20, 1959
Columbia Records
In 2019, Frizzell's version of "Long Black Veil" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
#Lefty Frizzell#Marijohn Wilkin#Danny Dill#Country Music#Ballad#Long Black Veil#1950's#Columbia Records#Grady Martin#Buddy Harman#Don Law#Harold Bradley#National Recording Registry
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National Recording Registry: 2023 Inductees
I was going over the list of 25 pieces the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress inducted this year. It's a fun list:
“The Very First Mariachi Recordings” — Cuarteto Coculense (1908-1909)
“St. Louis Blues” — Handy’s Memphis Blues Band (1922)
“Sugar Foot Stomp” — Fletcher Henderson (1926)
Dorothy Thompson: Commentary and Analysis of the European Situation for NBC Radio (Aug. 23-Sept. 6, 1939)
“Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around” — The Fairfield Four (1947)
“Sherry” — The Four Seasons (1962)
“What the World Needs Now is Love” — Jackie DeShannon (1965)
“Wang Dang Doodle” — Koko Taylor (1966)
“Ode to Billie Joe” — Bobbie Gentry (1967)
“Déjà Vu” — Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (1970)
“Imagine” — John Lennon (1971)
“Stairway to Heaven” — Led Zeppelin (1971)
“Take Me Home, Country Roads” — John Denver (1971)
“Margaritaville” — Jimmy Buffett (1977)
“Flashdance…What a Feeling” — Irene Cara (1983)
“Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” — Eurythmics (1983)
“Synchronicity” — The Police (1983)
“Like a Virgin” — Madonna (1984)
“Black Codes (From the Underground)” — Wynton Marsalis (1985)
Super Mario Bros. theme — Koji Kondo, composer (1985)
“All Hail the Queen” — Queen Latifah (1989)
“All I Want for Christmas is You” — Mariah Carey (1994)
“Pale Blue Dot” — Carl Sagan (1994)
“Gasolina” — Daddy Yankee (2004)
“Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra” — Northwest Chamber Orchestra, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, composer (2012)
I was a little surprised that "Stairway" wasn't already in the list and that this was the first time any video game music was included, but it's honestly not a bad list. The Daddy Yankee is a fun inclusion.
One thing, though: I was going through the full list of inductees (and, honestly, it's a great list--sure, with a few things that probably should be in ahead of what's there now). But my personal complaint is that they inducted the Kubelik/Chicago version of Pictures At An Exhibition. As someone who grew up with the (kinda ubiquitous) Szell/Cleveland performance, the Kubelik version...well, the Promenades feel a little sprint-y and the heaviest (Bydlo, Great Gate) or cheekiest (Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle) bits could be a little heavier. Just a preference, of course, and I guess they had to settle on some version of it, but I feel like Szell is a little more what I think of as Mussorgsky.
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Radio Faux Show Bonus Episode (October 19, 2022): The (As Complete As I Could Make It) Complete National Recording Registry Collection
Radio Faux Show Bonus Episode (October 19, 2022): The (As Complete As I Could Make It) Complete National Recording Registry Collection
After compiling all of the recordings I could find from the National Recording Registry into one massive playlist, it seems silly not to share it.
Here is The (As Complete As I Could Make It) Complete National Recording Registry Collection.
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VERY COOL!! 💚
#green day#Billie Joe Armstrong#Dookie#Music#library of congress#National Recording Registry#April 2024
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Congratulations to Kronos Quartet, whose acclaimed 1992 Nonesuch album Pieces of Africa has been named one of twenty-five recordings to be inducted into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress for 2024. "It planted a seed for our work," Kronos founder and violinist David Harrington says of the album. "It's flowered so beautifully." You can read more here.
#kronos quartet#pieces of africa#library of congress#national recording registry#nonesuch#nonesuch records
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2023 National Recording Registry additions: John Lennon, Led Zeppelin, Madonna and
Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” John Lennon’s “Imagine,” the Madonna album “Like a Virgin,” and the theme music from the Nintendo video game “Super Mario Bros.” all now share a unique distinction: they are some of the latest recordings being added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry, to be preserved for future generations.
On Wednesday the Library announced 25 audio…
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not very related but every time I think about LGBTQ progress I think about the equal marriage act (the most high profile legal change since I've been politically aware)
and then I think about sitting with my housemate (later girlfriend. later ex) on her bed in 2012 watching and livetweeting the equal marriage debates in parliament.
and then I think about the person who tweeted, in response to a point being made about the diversity of opinions on the matter in the Christian faith and specifically the firm pro-equality stances taken by the Quakers and the Unitarian Church; "Unitarians aren't real Christians and Quakerism is witchcraft"
"Quakerism is witchcraft" has lived rent-free in my mind for over a decade. my two favourite callbacks to make with friends about my religion are "Quakers ritually bathe in oats" and "Quakerism is witchcraft."
#red said#i can never remember who the other church was bc i mix up unitarians and united reform#even though the urc dragged its feet on same sex marriage into 2017#anyway i don't think it's just my internal perspective that the Quakers were brought up more during the debate#i think maybe cause the Unitarians had been on board for longer and the Quaker commitment came in 2009#also bc Quakers are a relatively politically high profile group#like the three faith groups that came up throughout the debate as specifically pro equal marriage#were the Quakers the Unitarians and the Liberal Jews#who i think were the three who most unilaterally took equal marriage as organisational policy#for Quakers in 2009 we agreed to just start recording all marriages equally anyway and sending the paperwork to the government#even though they didn't have the legislation to recognise it#which is a thing we could do bc there's a peculiarity in law stemming from 18th century ghettoisation of Quaker communities#which means that i think uniquely among churches in England? we appoint our own registrars rather than having to use state registrars#and Quaker marriage registration uses different paperwork and processes decided by the Quaker National Meeting#so we write and witness our own paperwork then send it off to the government to make it legally recognised#whereas all other religious weddings you have to bring a civil registrar to fill out a standardised registry form#so. we had a legal capacity that other groups didn't to just say Hey Fuck You We're Going To Marry Them Anyway#and 2009-2013 the government just had to deal with getting sent marriages that were validly registered but not legally recognisable
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ahem, as someone who has never seen any of the muppets movies or shows before, do u have a recommendation for where i should start? 😚💕💕
hiya brandy 🧸🎀!!! i think the muppet movie (1979) is great place to start! it's a fun film with lots of dad jokes ☺️
the main muppets work is the muppet show (5 seasons), but i think the films alone (8 in total) can provide a good understanding of each muppet! 😄
please let me know your first impressions and your favorite muppet so far if you watch it! 🥰👉🏻👈🏻
#asks#brandycranby#ily i appreciate you! 🫂#kermit's first song in the film joined the national recording registry/library of congress in 2021! a very cool moment hehe#the holidays are months away but the muppet christmas carol is a great movie for any time of the year 🫶🏻
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The National Recording Registry, part of... https://www.xtremeservers.com/blog/marios-theme-song-is-being-preserved-alongside-led-zeppelin-madonna-albums/?feed_id=68141&_unique_id=6438e03332ad8&Mario%27s%20Theme%20Song%20Is%20Being%20Preserved%20Alongside%20Led%20Zeppelin%2C%20Madonna%20Albums
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♫ Stand By Me ♫ (Redux)
♫ Stand By Me ♫ (Redux)
I first played this song in October 2018, so it’s not too soon for a redux, is it?
There have been over 400 recorded versions of this song, performed by many artists, including John Lennon and Muhammad Ali — yes, that Muhammad Ali — “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee …”
My favourite, however, remains the original sung by Ben E. King and written by King, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller. It…
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Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
1977
"The Chain" is a song by British-American rockband Fleetwood Mac, released on their 1977 album Rumours, which won Album of the Year at the 1978 Grammy Awards and received Diamond certifications in several countries, including the UK, Canada, Australia, and the US, in where it is certified 21× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). As of February 2023, Rumours has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the 5th best-selling album of the 1970s and the 9th best-selling album of all time. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2003, and was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2017, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress.
"The Chain" was created from combinations of several previously rejected materials, including solo work by Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, and Christine McVie. The song was assembled, often manually by splicing tapes with a razor blade, at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California, with engineers Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut. Stevie Nicks wrote the lyrics about Lindsey Buckingham as their relationship was falling apart. Buckingham and Nicks share lead vocals on the song.
In 1997, Fleetwood Mac released a live concert CD/DVD package called The Dance, which featured the reunion of the Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac members. The rendition of "The Chain" reached number 30 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Additionally, the studio version began appearing on the charts in 2009, where it peaked at number 81 in the UK. In October 2023, the song was certified quadruple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales and streams of over 2,400,000 units.
"The Chain" received a total of 92% yes votes!
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I Hate How She Talks About Snow White
"People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White, where it's like, yeah, it is − because it needed that. It's an 85-year-old cartoon, and our version is a refreshing story about a young woman who has a function beyond 'Someday My Prince Will Come. "
Let me tell you a little something's about that "85-year-old cartoon," miss Zegler.
It was the first-ever cel-animated feature-length full-color film. Ever. Ever. EVER. I'm worried that you're not hearing me. This movie was Disney inventing the modern animated film. Spirited Away, Into the Spider-Verse, Tangled, you don't get to have any of these without Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937.)
Speaking of what you wouldn't get without this movie, it includes anime as a genre. Not just in technique (because again, nobody animated more than shorts before this movie) but in style and story. Anime, as it is now, wouldn't exist without Osamu Tezuka, "The God of Manga," who wouldn't have pioneered anime storytelling in the 1940s without having watched and learned from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the 1930s. No "weeb" culture, no Princess Mononoke, no DragonBall Z, no My Hero Academia, no Demonslayer, and no Naruto without this "85-year-old cartoon."
It was praised, not just for its technical marvels, not just for its synchronized craft of sound and action, but primarily and enduringly because people felt like the characters were real. They felt more like they were watching something true to life than they did watching silent, live-action films with real actors and actresses. They couldn't believe that an animated character could make kids wet their pants as she flees, frightened, through the forest, or grown adults cry with grieving Dwarves. Consistently.
Walt Disney Studios was built on this movie. No no; you're not understanding me. Literally, the studio in Burbank, out of which has come legends of this craft of animated filmmaking, was literally built on the incredible, odds-defying, record-breaking profits of just Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, specifically.
Speaking of record-breaking profits, this movie is the highest-grossing animated film in history. Still. TO THIS DAY. And it was made during the Great Depression.
In fact, it made four times as much money than any other film, in any other genre, released during that time period. It was actually THE highest-grossing film of all time, in any genre, until nothing less than Gone With the Wind, herself, came along to take the throne.
It was the first-ever animated movie to be selected for the National Film Registry. Actually, it was one of the first movies, period, to ever go into the registry at all. You know what else is in the NFR? The original West Side Story, the remake of which is responsible for Rachel Ziegler's widespread fame.
Walt Disney sacrificed for this movie to be invented. Literally, he took out a mortgage on his house and screened the movie to banks for loans to finish paying for it, because everyone from the media to his own wife and brother told him he was crazy to make this movie. And you want to tell me it's just an 85-year-old cartoon that needs the most meaningless of updates, with your tender 8 years in the business?
Speaking of sacrifice, this movie employed over 750 people, and they worked immeasurable hours of overtime, and invented--literally invented--so many new techniques that are still used in filmmaking today, that Walt Disney, in a move that NO OTHER STUDIO IN HOLLYWOOD was doing in the 30's, put this in the opening credits: "My sincere appreciation to the members of my staff whose loyalty and creative endeavor made possible this production." Not the end credits, like movies love to do today as a virtue-signal. The opening credits.
It's legacy endures. Your little "85-year-old cartoon" sold more than 1 million DVD copies upon re-release. Just on its first day. The Beatles quoted Snow White in one of their songs. Legacy directors call it "the greatest film ever made." Everything from Rolling Stones to the American Film Institute call this move one of the most influential masterpieces of our culture.
This movie doesn't need anything from anybody. This movie is a cultural juggernaut for America. It's a staple in the art of filmmaking--and art, in general. It is the foundation of the Walt Disney Company, of modern children's media in the West, and of modern adaptations of classical fairy tales in the West.
When you think only in the base, low, mean terms of "race" and "progressivism" you start taking things that are actually worlds-away from being in your league to judge, and you relegate them to silly ignorant phrases like "85-year-old cartoon" to explain why what you're doing is somehow better.
Sit down and be humble. Who the heck are you?
#Snow White#Snow White and the seven dwarfs#snow#snow white 1937#snow white and the seven dwarfs 1937#Snow White 2024#Rachel zegler#west side story#poc#Disney#live action Disney hate#animation history#Do not go see this movie. Do not stream this movie.#Anime#anime history
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In 2023, the National Recording Registry of the US Library of Congress was updated to, for the first time in its history, include a piece of video game music, namely the Super Mario Bros. overworld theme. A description of the piece and reasons for its inclusion by the Library of Congress is provided.
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