9/11 & FDR Tapes, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, Alicia Keys Album, Ricky Martin Hit & More Added To National Recording Registry
deadline.comRecordings of 9/11 news reports, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speeches and Henry Aaron’s 715th home run will be preserved alongside Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and other albums and singles — and one podcast — as the Library of Congress released its 2022 list of additions to the National Recording Registry today.
See the full list below.The 25 selections of music and spoken-word pieces added today range span more than 80 years — from James P.
Johnson’s 1927 “Harlem Strut” to Mark Maron’s 2010 WTF podcast featuring Robin Williams — alongside some of the greatest songs and albums of the past 100 years.Along with the Queen standard, other newly added singles include Nat King Cole’s 1961 holiday chestnut “The Christmas Song,” Ricky Martin’s 1999 smash “La Vida Loca,” Andy Williams’ Oscar-winning Henry Mancini-Johnny Murcer song “Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the Disneyland Boys Choir’s 1964 earworm “It’s a Small World,” Journey’s 1981 hit “Don’t Stop Believin'” — which was playing when The Sopranos cut to black in 2007 — and the Four Tops’ 1966 Motown stone classic “Reach Out, I’ll Be There.”Full albums by Duke Ellington, Alicia Keys, Buena Vista Social Club, Linda Ronstadt, Wu-Tang Clan, Bonnie Raitt, Max Roach, the Shirelles and Teddy Riley also are set for preservation.The other historical recording that made today’s cut is “On a Note of Triumph,” which aired on radio May 8, 1945 — the day Germany surrendered to the Allies.Below is the list of 2022 additions to the National Recordings Registry, in chronological order.
For the full list of National Recordings Registry inductees by year, click here.“Harlem Strut”, James P. Johnson (1921)Franklin D.
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