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List of sound recordings preserved in the U.S. Library of Congress

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech was one of 50 recordings preserved in 2002, the first year of existence of the United States National Recording Registry.

TheNational Recording Registry is a list ofsound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and inform or reflect life in theUnited States."^[1] The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000,^[2] which created theNational Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by theLibrarian of Congress. The recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry form a registry of recordings selected yearly by the National Recording Preservation Board for preservation in theLibrary of Congress.^[2]

The National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 established a national program to guard America'ssound recording heritage. The Act created the National Recording Registry, the National Recording Preservation Board, and a fundraising foundation.^[3] The purpose of the Registry is to maintain and preserve sound recordings and collections of sound recordings that are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.^[2] In 2002, the National Recording Preservation Board selected recordings nominated each year to be preserved. On January 27, 2003, the first 50 recordings were announced byJames Billington, theLibrarian of Congress.^[4]

The first four yearly lists had 50 selections each. Since 2006, 25 recordings have been selected annually. As of 2025^[update], 675 recordings have been preserved in the Registry. Each calendar year, public nominations are accepted for inclusion in that year's list of selections, which are announced the following spring.

Registry title works, original or copies, are housed at the Library of Congress'sPackard Campus for Audio Video Conservation. Each yearly list typically includes a few recordings that have also been selected for inclusion in the holdings of theNational Archives' audiovisual collection. Political recordings on the National Recording Registry tend to overlap with the audiovisual collection of the National Archives.

Selection criteria

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The criteria for selection are:

Recordings selected for the National Recording Registry are "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant", and inform or reflect culture in the United States.^[5]^[1]
Recordings will not be considered for inclusion in the National Recording Registry if no copy of the recording exists.^[5]
No recording is eligible for inclusion in the National Recording Registry until ten years after the recording's creation.^[5]

Inductees

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The list shows overlapping items and whether the National Archives has an original or a copy of the recording.

Recording or collection	Performer or agent	Release year	Induction year	National Archives
Edison exhibition recordings (Group of threecylinders):^[6] "Around the World on the Phonograph" "The Pattison Waltz" "Fifth Regiment March"	Thomas Edison	1888–1889	2002^[7]
Passamaquoddy Indians field recordings	Recorded byJesse Walter Fewkes	1890
"The Stars and Stripes Forever" Berliner Gramophone disc recording	Military Band	1897
Metropolitan Opera cylinder recordings (theMapleson Cylinders)	Lionel Mapleson and theMetropolitan Opera	1900–1903
"Casey at the Bat"	DeWolf Hopper	1906
"Vesti la giubba" fromPagliacci	Enrico Caruso	1907
1895 Atlanta Exposition speech	Booker T. Washington	1908 recreation		copy
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"	Fisk Jubilee Singers	1909
Lovey's Trinidad String Band recordings for Columbia Records	Lovey's Trinidad String Band	1912
Ragtime compositionspiano rolls	Scott Joplin	1916^[8]
"Tiger Rag"	Original Dixieland Jazz Band	1918
"Arkansas Traveler" and "Sallie Gooden"	Eck Robertson	1922
"Downhearted Blues"	Bessie Smith	1923
Rhapsody in Blue	George Gershwin, piano;Paul Whiteman Orchestra	1924
Louis Armstrong'sHot Five andHot Seven recordings	Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven	1925–1928
Victor Talking Machine Company sessions in Bristol, Tennessee	Carter Family,Jimmie Rodgers,Ernest Stoneman, and others	1927
Highlander Center Field Recordings Collection	Rosa Parks,Esau Jenkins and others	1930s–1980s
Bell Laboratories experimental stereo recordings	Philadelphia Orchestra;Leopold Stokowski, conductor	1931–1932
"Fireside chats" radio broadcasts^[α]	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1933–1944		original
Harvard Vocarium record series	T. S. Eliot,W. H. Auden and others	1933–1956
"New Music Quarterly" recordings series	Henry Cowell, producer	1934–1949
Description of thecrash of theHindenburg	Herbert Morrison	May 16, 1937		original
The Cradle Will Rock	Marc Blitzstein and the original cast ofThe Cradle Will Rock	1938
"Who's on First?" Earliest existingradio broadcast version	Abbott and Costello	October 6, 1938
The War of the Worlds	Orson Welles andThe Mercury Theatre on the Air	October 30, 1938		copy
"God Bless America" Radio broadcast premiere	Kate Smith	November 11, 1938
TheJohn andRuby Lomax Southern States Recording Trip	John and Ruby Lomax	1939
"Strange Fruit"	Billie Holiday	1939
Grand Ole Opry First network radio broadcast	Uncle Dave Macon,Roy Acuff, and others	October 14, 1939
Béla Bartók andJoseph Szigeti in Concert at theLibrary of Congress	Béla Bartók, piano;Joseph Szigeti, violin	April 13, 1940
The Rite of Spring	Igor Stravinsky conducting theNew York Philharmonic	1940
Blanton-Webster era recordings	Duke Ellington Orchestra	1940–1942
"White Christmas" original 1942 single	Bing Crosby	1942
"This Land Is Your Land"	Woody Guthrie	1944
D-Day radio address to theAllied Nations (June 6, 1944, order of the day andPeople of Western Europe speech)^[10]	Dwight D. Eisenhower	June 6, 1944		original
"Ko Ko"	Charlie Parker,Miles Davis,Dizzy Gillespie, and others	1945
"Blue Moon of Kentucky"	Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys	1947
"How High the Moon"	Les Paul and Mary Ford	1951
Songs for Young Lovers	Frank Sinatra	1954
Sun Records sessions	Elvis Presley	1954–1955
Dance Mania	Tito Puente	1958
Kind of Blue	Miles Davis	1959
"What'd I Say", Parts 1 and 2	Ray Charles	1959
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	Bob Dylan	1963
"I Have a Dream" speech	Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.	August 28, 1963		copy
"Respect"	Aretha Franklin	1967
Philomel: ForSoprano (Milton Babbitt)	Bethany Beardslee, recorded soprano, andsynthesized sound	1971
Precious Lord: New Recordings of the Great Gospel Songs of Thomas A. Dorsey	Thomas A. Dorsey,Marion Williams, and others	1973
Crescent City Living Legends Collection (New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Archive/WWOZ New Orleans)	Clifton Chenier,Professor Longhair,Queen Ida, and other performers	1973–1990
"The Message"	Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five	1982
"The Lord's Prayer" and "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"	Emile Berliner	c. 1890	2003^[11]
"Honolulu Cake Walk"	Vess Ossman	1898
Victor Releases	Bert Williams andGeorge Walker	1901
"You're a Grand Old Rag [Flag]"	Billy Murray	1906
Chippewa/Ojibwe Cylinder Collection	Frances Densmore	1907–1910
The Bubble Book (the first Bubble Book)		1917
Cylinder recordings ofAfrican-American music	Guy B. Johnson	1920s
"Cross of Gold" speech Speech re-enactment	William Jennings Bryan	1921
"TheOKeh Laughing Record"	Lucie Bernardo and Otto Rathke	1922
"Adeste Fideles"	Associated Glee Clubs of America	1925
Cajun-Creole Columbia releases	Amédé Ardoin andDennis McGee	1929
"Goodnight, Irene"	Lead Belly	1933
"Every Man a King" speech	Huey P. Long	February 23, 1934		copy
The Complete Recordings	Robert Johnson	1936–1937
Interviews conducted byAlan Lomax	Jelly Roll Morton,Alan Lomax	1938
Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert	Benny Goodman	January 16, 1938 (released 1998)
Complete day of radio broadcasting, WJSV (Washington, D.C.)	WJSV, Washington, D.C.	September 21, 1939		original
"New San Antonio Rose"	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	1940
Selections from George Gershwin's Folk Opera Porgy and Bess	George Gershwin and the original Broadway cast ofPorgy and Bess	1940, 1942
Beethoven String Quartets	Budapest String Quartet	1940–1950
World Series – Game Four New York Yankees vs.Brooklyn Dodgers	Red Barber,Bob Elson andBill Corum	October 5, 1941
Oklahoma! Original Broadway cast recording^[β]	The original Broadway cast ofOklahoma!	1943
Othello	Paul Robeson,Uta Hagen,José Ferrer, and others	1943
Bach B-Minor Mass	Robert Shaw Chorale	1947
The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)	Louis Kaufman and the Concert Hall String Orchestra	1947
Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord" (Ives)	John Kirkpatrick	1948
Pictures at an Exhibition (Modest Mussorgsky)	Rafael Kubelík conducting theChicago Symphony Orchestra	1951
"Problems of the American Home"	Billy Graham	1954
Goldberg Variations (Bach)	Glenn Gould	1955
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book	Ella Fitzgerald	1956
"He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"	Marian Anderson	1956^[γ]
"Roll Over Beethoven"	Chuck Berry	1956
Brilliant Corners	Thelonious Monk	1956
Steam locomotive recordings, 6 vol.	O. Winston Link^[13]	1956–1960 (released 1957–1977)
Complete Ring Cycle (Richard Wagner)	Georg Solti and theVienna Philharmonic	1958–1965^[14]
Winds in Hi-Fi	Eastman Wind Ensemble withFrederick Fennell	1958^[15]
Mingus Ah Um	Charles Mingus	1959
New York Taxi Driver	Tony Schwartz	1959
Ali Akbar College of Music, Archive Selections		1960s–1970s
"Crazy"	Patsy Cline	1961
KennedyInauguration Ceremony	John F. Kennedy,Robert Frost, and others	January 20, 1961		original
Judy at Carnegie Hall	Judy Garland	1961
"I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)"	Otis Redding	1965
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	The Beatles	1967
At Folsom Prison	Johnny Cash	1968
What's Going On	Marvin Gaye	1971
Tapestry	Carole King	1971
A Prairie Home Companion First broadcast	Garrison Keillor	July 6, 1974
Born to Run	Bruce Springsteen	1975
Live at Yankee Stadium	Fania All-Stars	1975
"Gypsy Love Song"	Eugene Cowles	1898	2004^[16]
"Some of These Days"	Sophie Tucker	1911
"The Castles in Europe One-Step (Castle House Rag)"	Europe's Society Orchestra	1914
"Swanee"	Al Jolson	1920
Armistice Day radio broadcast	Woodrow Wilson	November 10, 1923		original
"See See Rider"	Gertrude "Ma" Rainey	1924
"Charleston" Representative of the Edison Disc Master Mold Collection at theEdison National Historic Site	Golden Gate Orchestra	1925
"Fascinating Rhythm"	Fred andAdele Astaire;George Gershwin, piano	1926
NBC radio coverage ofCharles A. Lindbergh's arrival and reception in Washington, D.C.		June 11, 1927		copy
"Stardust"	Hoagy Carmichael	1927
"Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)"	Jimmie Rodgers	1927
"Ain't Misbehavin'"	Thomas "Fats" Waller	1929
"Gregorio Cortez" Representative of the Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection,University of California	Trovadores Regionales	1929
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor	Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano;Leopold Stokowski conducting thePhiladelphia Orchestra	1929
"The Suncook Town Tragedy"	Mabel Wilson Tatro	July 1930
Oralnarrative from the Lorenzo D. Turner Collection	Rosina Cohen	1932
"Stormy Weather"	Ethel Waters	1933
"Body and Soul"	Coleman Hawkins	1939
Peter and the Wolf (Sergey Prokofiev)	Serge Koussevitzky, conductor; Richard Hale, narrator; Boston Symphony Orchestra	1939
"In the Mood"	Glenn Miller and His Orchestra	1939
Broadcast from London	Edward R. Murrow	September 21, 1940		copy
King James version of the Bible	Alexander Scourby	1940–1944, released 1966
We Hold These Truths	Norman Corwin	December 15, 1941		original
Piano Concerto No. 1, op. 23, B♭ minor (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)	Vladimir Horowitz, piano; Arturo Toscanini, conductor; NBC Symphony Orchestra	April 25, 1943
"Down by the Riverside"	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	1944
U.S. Highball (A Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip)	Harry Partch, Gate 5 Ensemble	1946^[δ]
Four Saints in Three Acts Broadway cast recording	Virgil Thomson and members of the original Broadway cast ofFour Saints in Three Acts	1947
"Manteca"	Dizzy Gillespie Big Band withChano Pozo	1947
The Jack Benny Program	Jack Benny	March 28, 1948
"Foggy Mountain Breakdown"	Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs	1949
"Lovesick Blues"	Hank Williams	1949
Guys and Dolls Original Broadway cast recording	The original Broadway cast ofGuys and Dolls	1950
"Old Soldiers Never Die" (Farewell Address to theUnited States Congress)	GeneralDouglas MacArthur	April 19, 1951		copy
Songs by Tom Lehrer	Tom Lehrer	1953
"Hoochie Coochie Man"	Muddy Waters	1954
"Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)"	The Penguins	1954
Tuskegee Institute Choir Sings Spirituals	Tuskegee Institute Choir, directed byWilliam L. Dawson	1955
Giant Steps	John Coltrane	1959
Messiah	Eugene Ormandy, conductor;Richard P. Condie, choir director;Mormon Tabernacle Choir;Philadelphia Orchestra	1959
Drums of Passion	Babatunde Olatunji	1960
Peace Be Still	James Cleveland	1962
"The Girl from Ipanema" (Garota de Ipanema)	Stan Getz,João Gilberto,Antônio Carlos Jobim,Astrud Gilberto	1963
Live at the Apollo	James Brown andThe Famous Flames	1963
Pet Sounds	The Beach Boys	1966
Remarks broadcast from the Moon	Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong	July 21, 1969		original
At Fillmore East	The Allman Brothers Band	1971
Star Wars (soundtrack)^[ε]	John Williams	1977
Recordings of Asian elephants	Katharine B. Payne	1984
Fear of a Black Planet	Public Enemy	1990
Nevermind	Nirvana	1991
"Canzone del Porter" fromMartha byvon Flotow Representative of the Columbia Grand Opera Series	Édouard de Reszke	1903	2005^[18]
"Listen to the Lambs" Representative of the Hampton Quartet Collection,Hampton University	Hampton Quartette; recorded byNatalie Curtis Burlin	1917
"Over There"	Nora Bayes	1917
"Crazy Blues"^[19]	Mamie Smith	1920
"My Man" and "Second Hand Rose"	Fanny Brice	1921
"Ory's Creole Trombone"	Kid Ory	June 1922
Second inauguration of Calvin Coolidge	Calvin Coolidge	March 4, 1925
"Tanec Pid Werbamy (Dance Under the Willows)"	Pawlo Humeniuk	1926
"Singin' the Blues"	Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra withBix Beiderbecke	1927
First official transatlantic telephone conversation	W.S. Gifford andSir Evelyn P. Murray	January 27, 1927		original
"El manisero (The Peanut Vendor)" (Two versions)	Rita Montaner, vocal with orchestra and Don Azpiazú and His Havana Casino Orchestra	1927 and 1930
Light's Golden Jubilee Celebration (Thomas Edison, honoree)	Graham McNamee, host; speeches byHerbert Hoover,Marie Curie,Henry Ford,Albert Einstein	October 21, 1929		copy
Beethoven'sEgmont Overture, Op. 84	Modesto High School Band	1930
Show Boat	Helen Morgan,Paul Robeson, James Melton and others; Victor Young, conductor;Louis Alter, piano	1932
"Wabash Cannonball"	Roy Acuff	1936
"One O'Clock Jump"	Count Basie and His Orchestra	1937
Columbia Workshop Episode:The Fall of the City	Orson Welles, narrator; Burgess Meredith,Paul Stewart	April 11, 1937		copy
The Adventures of Robin Hood radio broadcast^[ε]	Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer; Basil Rathbone, narrator	May 11, 1938
Joe Louis-Max Schmeling fight	Clem McCarthy, announcer	June 22, 1938
"John the Revelator"	Golden Gate Quartet	1938
"Adagio for Strings" (Samuel Barber)	Arturo Toscanini conducting theNBC Symphony Orchestra^[20]	November 5, 1938
Command Performance Episode: No. 21	Bob Hope,master of ceremonies;Lena Horne;Ginny Simms;Les Baxter & His Orchestra;Rosalind Russell	July 7, 1942		copy
"Straighten Up and Fly Right"	Nat "King" Cole	1943
The Fred Allen Show debut ofSenator Claghorn	Fred Allen,Kenny Delmar	October 7, 1945
"Jole Blon (Jolie Blonde)"	Harry Choates	1946
Tubby the Tuba	Victor Jory &Léon Barzin	1946
"Move On Up a Little Higher"	Mahalia Jackson	1948
Anthology of American Folk Music	Edited byHarry Smith	1952
Damnation of Faust (Hector Berlioz)	Boston Symphony Orchestra with theHarvard Glee Club andRadcliffe Choral Society	1954
"Blueberry Hill"	Fats Domino	1956
Variations for Orchestra byElliott Carter Louisville Orchestra First Edition Recordings series	Louisville Orchestra conducted by Robert S. Whitney	1956
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"	Jerry Lee Lewis	1957
"That'll Be the Day"	Buddy Holly andThe Crickets	1957
Poème électronique	Edgard Varèse	1958
Time Out	The Dave Brubeck Quartet	1959
"Schooner Bradley" and/or "Clifton's Crew"^[ζ] Representative of the Ivan Walton Collection atBentley Library,University of Michigan	Pat Bonner	June 1960^[η]
United States Military Academy address	William Faulkner	April 19–20, 1962
Studs Terkel interview with James Baldwin Representative of the Studs Terkel Collection at theChicago History Museum (formerly theChicago Historical Society)	Studs Terkel,James Baldwin	September 29, 1962^[28]
"Dancing in the Street"	Martha and the Vandellas	1964
Live at the Regal	B. B. King	1965
Are You Experienced	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	1967
We're Only in It for the Money	Frank Zappa andthe Mothers of Invention	1968
Switched-On Bach	Wendy Carlos	1968
"Oh Happy Day"	Edwin Hawkins Singers	1969
Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers	The Firesign Theatre	1970
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"	Gil Scott-Heron	1971
Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	1972
The oldfoghorn,Kewaunee, Wisconsin	Recorded by James A. Lipsky	1972
Songs in the Key of Life	Stevie Wonder	1976
Daydream Nation	Sonic Youth	1988
"Uncle Josh and the Insurance Agent"	Cal Stewart	1904	2006^[29]
"Il Mio Tesoro"	John McCormack; orchestra conducted by Walter Rogers	1916
National Defense Test	GeneralJohn J. Pershing	September 12, 1924		copy
"Black Bottom Stomp"	Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers	1926
"Wildwood Flower"	Carter Family	1928
"Pony Blues"	Charley Patton	1929
"You're the Top"	Cole Porter	1934
The Lone Ranger Episode: "The Osage Bank Robbery"	Earle Graser, John Todd	December 17, 1937
Native Brazilian Music	Pixinguinha, Donga,Cartola, José Espinguela and others; recording supervised byLeopold Stokowski	1940 (released 1942)
"Day of Infamy" speech toCongress	Franklin D. Roosevelt	December 8, 1941		copy
"Peace in the Valley"	Red Foley and the Sunshine Boys	1951
"Polonaise in A Major" ("Polonaise militaire"), Op. 40, No. 1, byFrédéric Chopin	Arthur Rubinstein	1952
"Blue Suede Shoes"	Carl Perkins	1955
Interviews with William "Billy" Bell (Canadian-Irish northwoods work songs) Representative of the Edward D. Ives Collection at the Maine Folklife Center,University of Maine	Recorded byEdward D. "Sandy" Ives	1956
Howl	Allen Ginsberg	1959
The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart	Bob Newhart	1960
"Be My Baby"	The Ronettes	1963
We Shall Overcome	Pete Seeger	1963
"A Change Is Gonna Come"	Sam Cooke	1964
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"	The Rolling Stones	1965
The Velvet Underground & Nico	The Velvet Underground andNico	1967
The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake	Eubie Blake	1969
Burnin'	The Wailers	1973
Live in Japan	Sarah Vaughan	1973
Graceland	Paul Simon	1986
The first transatlantic broadcast		March 14, 1925	2007^[30]^[31]
"Allons à Lafayette"	Joe Falcon	1928
"Casta Diva" fromBellini'sNorma	Rosa Ponselle and theMetropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Giulio Setti	December 31, 1928, and January 30, 1929
"If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again"	Thomas A. Dorsey	1934
"Sweet Lorraine"	Art Tatum	1940
Fibber McGee and Molly Fibber's closet opens for the first time	Jim Jordan,Marian Jordan	March 4, 1940
Wings Over Jordan		May 10, 1942
Fiorello H. La Guardia reading the comics	Fiorello H. La Guardia	1945^[32]
"Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)"	T-Bone Walker	1947
Speech at the1948 Democratic National Convention	Harry S. Truman	July 15, 1948
The Jazz Scene	Various artists, produced byNorman Granz	1949
"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"	Kitty Wells	1952
My Fair Lady Original Broadway cast recording	Rex Harrison,Julie Andrews, and the original Broadway cast ofMy Fair Lady	1956
Navajo Shootingway ceremony field recordings Representative of the David McAllester Collection atWesleyan University	Recorded byDavid P. McAllester Ray Winnie and Diné Tsosi, singers^[33]	1957–1958
"Freight Train" and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes	Elizabeth Cotten	1959
United States Marine BandRecordings for theNational Cultural Center		1963
"Oh, Pretty Woman"	Roy Orbison	1964
"The Tracks of My Tears"	Smokey Robinson andthe Miracles	1965
You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song	Ella Jenkins	1966
Music from the Morning of the World	Various artists, recorded byDavid Lewiston	1966
For the Roses	Joni Mitchell	1972
Head Hunters	Herbie Hancock	1973
Ronald Reagan radio broadcasts	Ronald Reagan	1975–79
The Sounds of the Earth Disc prepared for theVoyager spacecraft	compilation produced byCarl Sagan	1977
Thriller	Michael Jackson	1982
"No News, or What Killed the Dog"	Nat M. Wills	1908	2008^[34]
Acoustic recordings forVictor Talking Machine Company	Jascha Heifetz	1917–1924
"Night Life"	Mary Lou Williams	1930
Sounds of the ivory-billed woodpecker	Recorded by Arthur Allen and Peter Paul Kellogg	1935
Gang Busters First episode, broadcast under the titleG-Men		July 20, 1935
"Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"	The Andrews Sisters	1938
"O Que É Que A Baiana Tem?"	Carmen Miranda	1939
NBC Radio coverage of Marian Anderson'srecital at the Lincoln Memorial	Marian Anderson	April 9, 1939
"Tom Dooley"	Frank Proffitt	1940
Mary Margaret McBride	Mary Margaret McBride andZora Neale Hurston	January 25, 1943
"Uncle Sam Blues" (V-Disc)	Oran "Hot Lips" Page, accompanied byEddie Condon's Jazz Band	1944
"Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain) Speech atWestminster College,Fulton, Missouri	Winston Churchill	March 5, 1946
The Churkendoose	Ray Bolger	1947
"Boogie Chillen'"	John Lee Hooker	1948
A Child's Christmas in Wales	Dylan Thomas	1952
A Festival ofLessons and Carols as Sung on Christmas Eve in King's College Chapel, Cambridge.	King's College Choir;Boris Ord, director	1954
West Side Story Original Broadway cast recording	The original Broadway cast ofWest Side Story and theNew York Philharmonic conducted byLeonard Bernstein	1957
"Tom Dooley"	The Kingston Trio	1958
"Rumble"	Link Wray	1958
The Play of Daniel: A Twelfth-Century Drama	New York Pro Musica under the direction of Noah Greenberg	1958
"Rank Stranger"	The Stanley Brothers	1960
"At Last"	Etta James	1961
2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks	Carl Reiner andMel Brooks	1961
The Who Sings My Generation	The Who	1966
"He Stopped Loving Her Today"	George Jones	1980
"Fon der Choope (From the Wedding)"	Abe Elenkrig's Yidishe Orchestra	April 4, 1913	2009^[35]
"Canal Street Blues"	King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band	April 5, 1923
Tristan und Isolde, NBC broadcast	Metropolitan Opera, featuringKirsten Flagstad andLauritz Melchior	March 9, 1935
"When You Wish Upon a Star"^[ε]	Cliff Edwards	1938 (recorded) / 1940 (released)
America's Town Meeting of the Air: "Should Our Ships Convoy Materials to England?"	George V. Denny Jr. (host);Reinhold Niebuhr, John Flynn (guests)	May 8, 1941
The Library of Congress Marine Corps Combat Field Recording Collection,Second Battle of Guam	Alvin M. Josephy Jr., et al.	July 20 – August 11, 1944
"Evangeline Special" and "Love Bridge Waltz"	Iry LeJeune	1948
The Little Engine That Could	Paul Wing, narrator	1949
Leon Metcalf Collection of recordings of the First People of western Washington State	Leon Metcalf	1950–1954
"Tutti Frutti"	Little Richard	1955
"Smokestack Lightning"	Howlin' Wolf	1956
Gypsy Original Broadway cast recording	Ethel Merman and the original Broadway cast ofGypsy	1959
"Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)" First song sung with computer speech synthesis	Max Mathews	1961
The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings	Bill Evans Trio	June 25, 1961
I Started Out as a Child	Bill Cosby	1964
Azucar Pa' Ti	Eddie Palmieri	1965
Today!	Mississippi John Hurt	1966
Silver Apples of the Moon	Morton Subotnick	1967
Soul Folk in Action	The Staple Singers	1968
The Band	The Band	1969
"Coal Miner's Daughter"	Loretta Lynn	1970
Red Headed Stranger	Willie Nelson	1975
Horses	Patti Smith	1975
"Radio Free Europe" originalHib-Tone single^[36]	R.E.M.	1981
"Dear Mama"	2Pac	1995
Phonautograms^[37]	Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville	ca. 1853–1861	2010^[38]
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game"	Edward Meeker, accompanied by the Edison Orchestra	1908
Yahi language cylinder recordings	Ishi, last surviving member of the Yahi tribe	1911–1914
"Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground"	Blind Willie Johnson	1927
"It's the Girl"	The Boswell Sisters with theDorsey Brothers Orchestra	1931
"Mal Hombre"	Lydia Mendoza	1934
"Tumbling Tumbleweeds"	Sons of the Pioneers	1934
Talking Union	The Almanac Singers	1941
Jazz at the Philharmonic	Nat King Cole,Les Paul,Buddy Rich, others	July 2, 1944
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's "Pope Marcellus Mass"	Roger Wagner Chorale	1951
"The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest"	ReverendC. L. Franklin	1953
"Tipitina"	Professor Longhair	1953
At Sunset	Mort Sahl	1955
Interviews with jazz musicians for theVoice of America	Willis Conover	1955–56
The Music from Peter Gunn	Henry Mancini	1958
UnitedSacred Harp Musical Convention inFyffe, Alabama	field recordings byAlan Lomax andShirley Collins	1959
Blind Joe Death	John Fahey	1959, 1964, 1967
"Stand by Your Man"	Tammy Wynette	1968
Trout Mask Replica	Captain Beefheart andHis Magic Band	1969
Songs of the Humpback Whale	Frank Watlington,Roger Payne, and others	1970
"Let's Stay Together"	Al Green	1971
Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land) (George Crumb)	New York Strings Quartet	1972
Aja	Steely Dan	1977
GOPAC Strategy and Instructional Tapes	Newt Gingrich, others	1986–1994
3 Feet High and Rising^[39]	De La Soul	1989
EdisonTalking Doll cylinder		1888	2011^[40]
"Come Down Ma Evenin' Star"	Lillian Russell	1912
"Ten Cents a Dance"	Ruth Etting	1930
Voices from the Days of Slavery	Various	1932–1975
"I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart"	Patsy Montana	1935
"Fascinating Rhythm"	Sol Hoʻopiʻi	1938
"Artistry in Rhythm"	Stan Kenton	1943
New York Philharmonic debut of Leonard Bernstein	Leonard Bernstein	November 14, 1943
Hottest Women's Band of the 1940s	International Sweethearts of Rhythm	1944–1946 (released 1984)
"Hula Medley"^[41]	Gabby Pahinui	1947
Indians for Indians (Hour)	Don Whistler	March 25, 1947
I Can Hear It Now: 1933–1945	Edward R. Murrow andFred W. Friendly	1948
"Let's Go Out to the Programs"	The Dixie Hummingbirds	1953
Also Sprach Zarathustra	Fritz Reiner and theChicago Symphony Orchestra	1954, 1958
"Bo Diddley"/ "I'm a Man"	Bo Diddley	1955
"Green Onions"	Booker T. & the M.G.'s	1962
A Charlie Brown Christmas	Vince Guaraldi Trio	1965
Forever Changes	Love	1967
The Continental Harmony: The Gregg Smith Singers Perform Music ofWilliam Billings	Gregg Smith Singers	1969
"Coat of Many Colors"	Dolly Parton	1971
Mothership Connection	Parliament	1975
Barton Hall Concert at Cornell University^[42]	Grateful Dead	May 8, 1977
"I Feel Love"	Donna Summer	1977
"Rapper's Delight"^[43]	The Sugarhill Gang	1979
Purple Rain^[ε]	Prince andThe Revolution	1984
"After You've Gone"	Marion Harris	1918	2012^[44]
"Bacon, Beans and Limousines"^[45]	Will Rogers	October 18, 1931
"Begin the Beguine"	Artie Shaw	1938
"You Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis	1940
D-Day Radio Broadcast	George Hicks	June 5–6, 1944
"Just Because"	Frank Yankovic & His Yanks	1947
South Pacific Original Broadway cast recording^[β]	Mary Martin,Ezio Pinza, and the original Broadway cast ofSouth Pacific	1949
Descargas: Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature	Cachao	1957
Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1	Van Cliburn^[46]	April 11, 1958
President's Message Relayed fromAtlas Satellite	Dwight D. Eisenhower	December 19, 1958
A Program of Song^[47]^[48]	Leontyne Price	1959
The Shape of Jazz to Come	Ornette Coleman	1959
"Crossing Chilly Jordan"	Blackwood Brothers	1960
"The Twist"	Chubby Checker	1960
Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's	Clarence Ashley,Doc Watson, others	1960–1962
Hoodoo Man Blues	Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band feat.Buddy Guy	1965
Sounds of Silence	Simon & Garfunkel	1966
Cheap Thrills	Big Brother and the Holding Company	1968
The Dark Side of the Moon	Pink Floyd	1973
Music Time In Africa Episode: "Mauritania" (premiere episode)	Leo Sarkisian	July 29, 1973
The Wild Tchoupitoulas	The Wild Tchoupitoulas	1976
Ramones	Ramones	1976
Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack^[ε]	Bee Gees, et al.	1977
Einstein on the Beach	Philip Glass andRobert Wilson	1979
The Audience with Betty Carter	Betty Carter	1980
"The Laughing Song"	George W. Johnson	c. 1896	2013^[49]^[50]
"They Didn't Believe Me"	Harry Macdonough and Alice Green	1915
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (Two Versions)	Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallée	1932
Recordings ofKwakwaka'wakw Chief Dan Cranmer	Franz Boas andGeorge Herzog	1938
"Were You There"	Roland Hayes	1940
The Goldbergs Episode: "Sammy Goes to the Army"	Gertrude Berg and cast	July 9, 1942
"Caldonia"	Louis Jordan and HisTympany Five	1945
"Dust My Broom"	Elmore James	1951
A Night at Birdland (Vols. 1 & 2)	Art Blakey	1954
"When I Stop Dreaming"	The Louvin Brothers	1955
"Cathy's Clown"	The Everly Brothers	1960
Texas Sharecropper and Songster	Mance Lipscomb	1960
The First Family	Vaughn Meader	1962^[51]
Lawrence Ritter'sInterviews with Baseball Pioneers of the Late 19th and Early 20th Century	Lawrence Ritter	1962–1966
Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson	Lyndon B. Johnson	1963–1969
Carnegie Hall Concert with Buck Owens and His Buckaroos	Buck Owens and HisBuckaroos	1966
"Fortunate Son"	Creedence Clearwater Revival	1969
Shaft^[ε]	Isaac Hayes	1971
Only Visiting This Planet	Larry Norman	1972^[52]
Celia & Johnny^[53]	Celia Cruz andJohnny Pacheco	1974
Copland Conducts Copland: Appalachian Spring	Aaron Copland	1974
Heart Like a Wheel	Linda Ronstadt	1974
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Original Broadway cast recording	The original Broadway cast ofSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	1979
The Joshua Tree	U2	1987
"Hallelujah"	Jeff Buckley	1994
TheVernacular Wax Cylinder Recordings atUniversity of California, Santa Barbara Library	University of California, Santa Barbara	1890–1910	2014^[54]
TheBenjamin Ives Gilman Collection, recorded at the 1893World's Columbian Exposition atChicago	Benjamin Ives Gilman	1893
"The Boys of the Lough"/"The Humours of Ennistymon"^[55]	Michael Coleman	1922
"That Black Snake Moan"/ "Matchbox Blues"	Blind Lemon Jefferson	1928
Suspense Episode: "Sorry, Wrong Number"^[56]	Agnes Moorehead	May 25, 1943
"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive"	Johnny Mercer	1944
Radio Coverage of PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt's Funeral	Arthur Godfrey, et al.	April 14, 1945
Kiss Me, Kate Original Broadway cast recording	Cole Porter,Alfred Drake,Patricia Morison, and the original Broadway cast ofKiss Me Kate	1949
John Brown's Body	Tyrone Power,Judith Anderson, andRaymond Massey; directed byCharles Laughton	1953
"My Funny Valentine" May 20, 1953, live recording	TheGerry Mulligan Quartet featuringChet Baker	1953
"Sixteen Tons"	Tennessee Ernie Ford	1955
"Mary Don't You Weep"	Swan Silvertones	1959
Joan Baez	Joan Baez	1960
"Stand By Me"	Ben E. King	1961
New Orleans'Sweet Emma Barrett and her Preservation Hall Jazz Band	Sweet Emma Barrett and her Preservation Hall Jazz Band	1964
"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"	The Righteous Brothers	1964
The Doors	The Doors	1967
Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues (formerly known as Sheffield S9)^[57]	Lincoln Mayorga	1968 (released 1971)^[58]^[59]
Stand!	Sly and the Family Stone	1969
A Wild and Crazy Guy	Steve Martin	1978
Sesame Street: Platinum All-Time Favorites	Various	1995
OK Computer	Radiohead	1997
Old Regular Baptists: Lined-Out Hymnody from Southeastern Kentucky	Indian Bottom Association	1997
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	Lauryn Hill	1998
Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman	Colorado Symphony,Marin Alsop, conductor;Joan Tower, composer	1999^[60]
"Let Me Call You Sweetheart"	Peerless Quartet	1911	2015^[61]^[62]
"Wild Cat Blues"	Clarence Williams' Blue Five	1923
"Statesboro Blues"	Blind Willie McTell	1928
"Bonaparte's Retreat" Representative ofAlan and Elizabeth Lomax's 1937 Kentucky recordings	W. H. Stepp	1937
Vic and Sade Episode: "Decoration Day Parade"^[25]		May 28, 1937^[25]
Mahler: Symphony No. 9	Vienna Philharmonic;Bruno Walter, conductor	1938
Carousel of American Music	George M. Cohan,Irving Berlin,Johnny Mercer,Arthur Freed,Shelton Brooks,Hoagy Carmichael, others	September 24, 1940
The Marshall Plan Speech	George C. Marshall	June 5, 1947		copy
Destination Freedom Episodes: "A Garage in Gainesville" and "Execution Awaited"	Richard Durham	September 25 and October 2, 1949^[63]
A Streetcar Named Desire soundtrack^[ε]	Alex North	1951
"Cry Me a River"	Julie London	1955
"Mack the Knife" (Two Versions)	Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin	1956 and 1959
Fourth-quarter radio coverage ofWilt Chamberlain's 100-point game	Bill Campbell, announcer	March 2, 1962
A Love Supreme	John Coltrane	1964
It's My Way!	Buffy Sainte-Marie	1964
"Where Did Our Love Go"	The Supremes	1964
"People Get Ready"	The Impressions	1965
"Mama Tried"	Merle Haggard	1968
Abraxas	Santana	1970
Class Clown	George Carlin	1972
Robert andClara Schumann Complete Piano Trios^[64]	Beaux Arts Trio	1972
"Piano Man"	Billy Joel	1973
Bogalusa Boogie^[65]	Clifton Chenier	1976
"I Will Survive"	Gloria Gaynor	1978
Master of Puppets	Metallica	1986
1888 London cylinder recordings of Col.George Gouraud	George Gouraud	1888	2016^[66]
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" (Two Versions)	Manhattan Harmony Four and Melba Moore & Friends	1923 and 1990
"Puttin' On the Ritz"	Harry Richman	1929
"Over the Rainbow"^[ε]	Judy Garland	1939
"I'll Fly Away"	The Chuck Wagon Gang	1948
"Hound Dog"	Big Mama Thornton	1952
Saxophone Colossus	Sonny Rollins	1956
New York Giants vs.Brooklyn Dodgers final game commentary	Vin Scully	September 8, 1957
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs	Marty Robbins	1959
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery	Wes Montgomery	1960
People	Barbra Streisand	1964
"In the Midnight Hour"	Wilson Pickett	1965^[67]
"Amazing Grace"	Judy Collins	1970
All Things Considered first broadcast	National Public Radio	May 3, 1971
"American Pie"	Don McLean	1971^[68]
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars	David Bowie	1972
The Wiz Original Broadway cast recording	The original Broadway cast ofThe Wiz	1975
Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)	Eagles	1976
Scott Joplin's Treemonisha	Gunther Schuller, arr.	1976
Wanted: Live in Concert	Richard Pryor	1978^[69]
"We Are Family"	Sister Sledge	1979
Remain in Light	Talking Heads	1980
Straight Outta Compton	N.W.A	1988
Rachmaninoff'sVespers (All-Night Vigil)	TheRobert Shaw Festival Singers	1990
Signatures	Renée Fleming	1997^[70]
"Dream Melody Intermezzo:Naughty Marietta"	Victor Herbert and his Orchestra	1911	2017^[71]
Standing Rock Preservation Recordings	George Herzog and Members of theYanktoni Tribe	1928
"Lamento Borincano"	written byRafael Hernández Marín performed byCanario y Su Grupo (includingDavilita on lead vocals)	1930
"Sitting on Top of the World"	Mississippi Sheiks	1930
The CompleteBeethoven Piano Sonatas	Artur Schnabel	1932–1935
"If I Didn't Care"	The Ink Spots	1939
Proceedings of theUnited Nations Conference on International Organization		April 25 – June 26, 1945
Folk Songs of the Hills	Merle Travis	1946
"How I Got Over"	Clara Ward and the Ward Singers	1950
"(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock"	Bill Haley & His Comets	1954
Calypso	Harry Belafonte	1956
"I Left My Heart in San Francisco"	Tony Bennett	1962
"My Girl"	The Temptations	1964
King Biscuit Time	Sonny Boy Williamson II and others	1965
The Sound of Music soundtrack^[ε]	Various	1965
"Alice's Restaurant Massacree"	Arlo Guthrie	1967
New Sounds in Electronic Music	Steve Reich,Richard Maxfield,Pauline Oliveros	1967
An Evening with Groucho	Groucho Marx	1972
Rumours	Fleetwood Mac	1977
"The Gambler"	Kenny Rogers	1978
"Le Freak"	Chic	1978
"Footloose"	Kenny Loggins	1984
Raising Hell	Run-DMC	1986
"Rhythm Is Gonna Get You"	Gloria Estefan andMiami Sound Machine	1987
Yo-Yo Ma Premieres: Concertos for Violoncello and Orchestra	Yo-Yo Ma & thePhiladelphia Orchestra performingChristopher Rouse,Leon Kirchner, andRichard Danielpour	1996
Yiddish Cylinders from the Standard Phonograph Company of New York and the Thomas Lambert Company		c. 1901–1905	2018^[72]
"The Memphis Blues"	Victor Military Band	1914
Melville Jacobs Collection of Native Americans of the American Northwest	Melville Jacobs	1929–1939
"Minnie the Moocher"	Cab Calloway	1931
Bach SixCello Suites	Pablo Casals	1936–1939
"They Look Like Men of War"	Deep River Boys	1941
Gunsmoke Episode: "The Cabin"	William Conrad and cast	December 27, 1952
Complete Recorded Monologues	Ruth Draper	1954–1956
"La Bamba"	Ritchie Valens	1958
"Long Black Veil"	Lefty Frizzell	1959
Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume One: The Early Years	Stan Freberg	1961^[73]
Go	Dexter Gordon	1962
War Requiem	Benjamin Britten	1963
"Mississippi Goddam"	Nina Simone	1964^[74]
"Soul Man"	Sam & Dave	1967
Hair Original Broadway cast recording	The original Broadway cast ofHair	1968
Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.	Robert F. Kennedy	April 4, 1968
"Sweet Caroline"	Neil Diamond	1969
Super Fly^[ε]	Curtis Mayfield	1972
Ola Belle Reed	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	1996^[75]
The Blueprint	Jay-Z	2001^[76]
"Whispering"	Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra	1920	2019^[77]^[78]
"Protesta perSacco e Vanzetti"/"Sacco e Vanzetti"	Compagnia Columbia; Raoul Romito	1927
"La Chicharronera"	Narciso Martínez andSantiago Almeida	1936
Arch Oboler's Plays Episode: "The Bathysphere"		November 18, 1939
"Me and My Chauffeur Blues"	Memphis Minnie	1941
The 1951 National League Tiebreaker:New York Giants vs.Brooklyn Dodgers	Russ Hodges, announcer	October 3, 1951
Tosca (Puccini)	Victor de Sabata, conductor, withMaria Callas,Giuseppe Di Stefano and others	1953
"Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah"	Allan Sherman	1963
WGBH broadcast of theBoston Symphony on the day of theJohn F. Kennedy assassination	Boston Symphony Orchestra	November 22, 1963
Fiddler on the Roof Original Broadway Cast recording	Zero Mostel and the original Broadway cast ofFiddler on the Roof	1964
"Make the World Go Away"	Eddy Arnold	1965
Hiromi Lorraine Sakata collection ofAfghan traditional music	Recorded by Hiromi Lorraine Sakata	1966–67, 1971–73
"Wichita Lineman"	Glen Campbell	1968
Dusty in Memphis	Dusty Springfield	1969
Mister Rogers Sings 21 Favorite Songs from "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood"	Fred Rogers	1973^[79]
Cheap Trick at Budokan	Cheap Trick	1978
Suite No. 1 in E flat,Suite No. 2 in F (Holst) /Music for the Royal Fireworks (Handel) /Fantasia in G (Bach) Special edition audiophile pressing	Frederick Fennell and the Cleveland Symphonic Winds	1978
"Y.M.C.A."	Village People	1978
A Feather on the Breath of God	Gothic Voices;Christopher Page, conductor;Hildegard von Bingen, composer	1981/2 (released 1985)^[80]
Private Dancer	Tina Turner	1984
Ven Conmigo	Selena	1990^[81]
The Chronic	Dr. Dre	1992^[82]
"I Will Always Love You"	Whitney Houston	1992
Concert in the Garden	Maria Schneider Orchestra	2004
Percussion Concerto (Higdon)	Colin Currie	2008^[83]
"St. Louis tinfoil" recording	Thomas Edison	1878	2020^[84]
"Nikolina"	Hjalmar Peterson	1917
"Smyrneikos Balos"	Marika Papagika	1928
"When the Saints Go Marching In"	Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra	1938
Christmas Eve broadcast	Franklin D. Roosevelt andWinston Churchill	December 24, 1941
The Guiding Light Episode: November 22, 1945		November 22, 1945
Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues	Odetta	1957
"Lord, Keep Me Day by Day"	Albertina Walker andthe Caravans	1959
Roger Maris hits his 61st home run	Phil Rizzuto^[85]	October 1, 1961
Aida	Leontyne Price, et al.	1962
"Once a Day"	Connie Smith	1964
Born Under a Bad Sign	Albert King	1967
Free to Be ... You & Me	Marlo Thomas and Friends	1972
The Harder They Come	Jimmy Cliff	1972^[86]
"Lady Marmalade"	Labelle	1974
Late for the Sky	Jackson Browne	1974^[87]
Bright Size Life	Pat Metheny	1976
"Rainbow Connection"^[ε]	Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson)^[88]	1979^[89]
"Celebration"	Kool & the Gang	1980
Richard Strauss:Four Last Songs	Jessye Norman	1983^[90]
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World"	Israel Kamakawiwo'ole	1988, released 1993^[91]
Rhythm Nation 1814	Janet Jackson	1989
Partners^[92]	Flaco Jiménez^[93]	1992^[94]^[95]
Illmatic	Nas	1994
This American Life: "The Giant Pool of Money"	Ira Glass,Adam Davidson &Alex Blumberg^[96]	May 9, 2008
"Harlem Strut"	James P. Johnson	1921	2022^[θ]^[98]
Complete presidential speeches	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1933–1945
"Walking the Floor Over You"	Ernest Tubb	1941
On a Note of Triumph	Norman Corwin	May 8, 1945
"Jesus Gave Me Water"	The Soul Stirrers	1950
Ellington at Newport	Duke Ellington	1956
We Insist!	Max Roach	1960
"The Christmas Song" 1961 stereo recording	Nat "King" Cole	1961
Tonight's the Night	The Shirelles	1961
"Moon River"	Andy Williams	1962
"It's a Small World (After All)"	Disneyland Boys Choir^[99]	1964
"Reach Out I'll Be There"	Four Tops	1966
In C	Terry Riley	1968
Hank Aaron's 715th career home run	Milo Hamilton^[100]	April 8, 1974
"Bohemian Rhapsody"	Queen	1975
"Don't Stop Believin'"	Journey	1981^[101]
Canciones de Mi Padre^[102]	Linda Ronstadt	1987
Nick of Time	Bonnie Raitt	1989
The Low End Theory	A Tribe Called Quest	1991
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)	Wu-Tang Clan	1993^[103]
Buena Vista Social Club	Buena Vista Social Club	1997
"Livin' la Vida Loca"	Ricky Martin	1999
Songs in A Minor	Alicia Keys	2001^[104]
Broadcasts for the day of9/11^[105]	WNYC^[106]	September 11, 2001
WTF with Marc Maron Episode 67: "Robin Williams"^[107]	Marc Maron and Robin Williams	April 26, 2010
The Very First Mariachi Recordings	Cuarteto Coculense	1907–1909 (reissued 1998)	2023^[108]
"St. Louis Blues"	Handy's Memphis Blues Band	1922
"Sugar Foot Stomp"	Fletcher Henderson	1925
Commentary and analysis of the European situation for NBC Radio	Dorothy Thompson	Aug. 23 – September 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; 1985 reissue^[25]
Black Codes (From the Underground)	Wynton Marsalis	1985
Super Mario Bros. theme	Koji Kondo	1985
All Hail the Queen	Queen Latifah	1989
"All I Want for Christmas is You"	Mariah Carey	1994
Pale Blue Dot Audiobook	Carl Sagan	1994^[109]
"Gasolina"	Daddy Yankee^[110]	2004^[111]
Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra (Zwilich)	Chamber Music Northwest^[112]	2012^[113]
"Clarinet Marmalade"	Lt.James Reese Europe's 369th U.S. Infantry Band	1919	2024^[114]
"Kauhavan Polkka"	Viola Turpeinen and John Rosendahl	1928
Wisconsin Folksong Collection		1937–1946
"Rose Room"	Benny Goodman Sextet withCharlie Christian	1939
"Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer"	Gene Autry	1949
"Tennessee Waltz"	Patti Page	1950
"Rocket 88"	Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats	1951
"Catch a Falling Star"/"Magic Moments"	Perry Como	1957
"Chances Are"	Johnny Mathis	1957
The Sidewinder	Lee Morgan	1964
Surrealistic Pillow	Jefferson Airplane	1967
"Ain't No Sunshine"	Bill Withers	1971
This Is a Recording	Lily Tomlin	1971
J. D. Crowe & The New South	J. D. Crowe andThe New South	1975
Arrival	ABBA	1976
"El Cantante"	Héctor Lavoe	1978
The Cars	The Cars	1978
Parallel Lines	Blondie	1978
"La Di Da Di"	Doug E. Fresh andMC Ricky D	1985
"Don't Worry, Be Happy"	Bobby McFerrin	1988
"Amor eterno"	Juan Gabriel	1990
Pieces of Africa	Kronos Quartet	1992
Dookie	Green Day	1994
Ready to Die	The Notorious B.I.G.	1994
Wide Open Spaces	The Chicks	1998
"Aloha 'Oe"	Hawaiian Quintette	1913	2025^[115]
"Sweet Georgia Brown"	Brother Bones and His Shadows	1949
"Happy Trails"	Roy Rogers andDale Evans	1952
Radio Broadcast of Game 7 of the1960 World Series	Chuck Thompson, announcer	October 13, 1960
Harry Urata field recordings		1960–1980
Hello Dummy!	Don Rickles	1968
Chicago Transit Authority	Chicago	1969
Bitches Brew	Miles Davis	1970
"Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'"	Charley Pride	1971
"I Am Woman"	Helen Reddy	1972
"El Rey"	Vicente Fernández	1973
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	Elton John	1973
Nimrod Workman Collection		1973–1994
"Before the Next Teardrop Falls"	Freddy Fender	1975
I've Got the Music in Me	Thelma Houston	1975
The Köln Concert	Keith Jarrett	1975
Fly Like an Eagle	Steve Miller Band	1976
Tracy Chapman	Tracy Chapman	1988
My Life	Mary J. Blige	1994
"The Microsoft Sound"	Brian Eno	1995
"My Heart Will Go On"^[ε]	Celine Dion	1997
Our American Journey	Chanticleer	2002^[116]
Back to Black	Amy Winehouse	2006
Minecraft – Volume Alpha	C418 (Daniel Rosenfeld)^[117]	2011
Hamilton Original Broadway cast recording^[β]	Original Broadway Cast	2015

Notes

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^The original 25 recordings from July 24, 1933, and July 28, 1934, are preserved at the Roosevelt Library inHyde Park, New York.^[9]
^^a ^b ^cThis recording is, or was made for, the soundtrack of aPulitzer Prize-winning production.
^Described elsewhere on website as 1936.^[12]
^The essay accompanying the U.S. Highball listing seems to concern the later 1958 Gate 5 recording.^[17]
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^lThis recording is, or was made for, the soundtrack of aNational Film Registry inductee.
^Library of Congress sources conflict regarding the Pat Bonner recording(s) in the registry. The original press release names "Schooner Bradley",^[21] while the full registry list and an expanded essay name "Clifton's Crew".^[22]^[23] A list of available audio clips for registry titles includes both "Schooner Bradley" and "Clifton's Crew".^[24]
^Dates listed for the Pat Bonner selections include 1952–60,^[25] June 1960,^[22] and June 11, 1960,^[26] although the essay for "Clifton's Crew" says "the only known recording" was made August 24, 1938.^[27]
^The class of 2022 saw a shift with the current calendar year being cited as the "induction year", as opposed to the previous year. Consequently, 2021 was skipped over.^[97]

Statistics

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As of 2025^[update], the oldest recording on the list isEdouard-Leon Scott de Martinville'sPhonautograms, which date back to the 1850s.^[118] The most recent is the original Broadway cast recording ofHamilton from 2015.^[115]

Selections vary widely in duration. The early Edison recordings, the instrumental "Rumble" byLink Wray, "Rock Around the Clock" byBill Haley and His Comets, and theSuper Mario Bros. theme byKoji Kondo each clock in at under three minutes. The Edison "Talking Doll" cylinder is only 17 seconds long, "TheMicrosoft Sound" byBrian Eno lasts 6 seconds and some of Scott de Martinville's Phonautographs are just as brief. Meanwhile,Georg Solti's recording ofWagner's completeRing Cycle is approximately 15 hours in duration,^[119]Alexander Scourby's recitation of theKing James Bible is over 80 hours, andLyndon B. Johnson's recordings are nearly 850 hours in length.