Each year, the US Library of Congress incorporates various songs and other sound works to his illustrious National Recording Registry. For this 2023, they surprise with a list that includes John Lennon, Eurythmics, Mariah Carey, Led Zeppelin, Daddy Yankeewho now boast a place in the United States Library of Congress.
Of course, they are not the only names that appear on the list. The matter is very varied because we can see mariachi compositions, video game themes, more music figures, and the whole thing. We tell you what’s up.
The Newest and Oldest Compositions Entering the US National Recording Registry in 2023
The objective of National Recording Registry, is to preserve those compositions (released as songs or under any sound format) that somehow have marked the United States in a culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant way.
To enter the list, the works must be at least 10 years old as a requirement. So each year, the list is made up of music from all eras. For this year, the oldest work on record is titled “The Very First Mariachi Recordings”, dates from between 1908 and 1909, and is the work of the Jalisco ensemble Cuarteto Coculense.
The two newest recordings are “Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra,” a 2012 work by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich with the Northwest Chamber Orchestra… And yes, “Gasolina” by Daddy Yankee, which becomes the first reggaeton song to be preserved within the United States Library of Congress.
John Lennon, Madonna, Daddy Yankee and even Super Mario Bros join the list of the United States Library of Congress
As we said, the 2023 class of the National Recording Registry includes other important pop culture artists such as John Lennon, Madonna, The Police, Led Zeppelin, Queen Latifah y Mariah Careyamong others.
In the official statement (here you can read it), the inclusion of “Like a Virgin” by Madona, along with Latifah and Carey, for being three of the most outstanding female voices in pop music of all time.
The same is true of the work of the Coculense Quartet and Daddy Yankee, highlighted as the Latinos who shine in the list of the Library of Congress of the United States. Another outstanding issue is that the issue of Super Mario Bros from 1985, composed by Koji Kondo, It is the first song from a video game to enter the National Recording Registry..
This is the complete list of songs entering the United States Library of Congress
Well, here we leave you the complete list of songs and compositions, (with Daddy Yankee, John Lennon, Madonna and more) that enter the United States Library of Congress National Recording Registry. It goes in chronological order:
- “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 (August 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)
- “Black Codes (From the Underground)” — Wynton Marsalis (1985)
- theme of Super Mario Bros — Koji Kondo (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 de Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (2012)
