National Recording Registry Inducts Music from Madonna, Mariah Carey and others

Madonna’s cultural ascent with “Like a Virgin,” Mariah Carey’s perennial No. 1 Christmas hit, Queen Latifah’s groundbreaking “All Hail the Queen” and Daddy Yankee’s reggaeton explosion with “Gasolina” are some of the defining sounds of the nation’s history and culture that will now join the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.
The 2023 class also includes the first sounds of a video game to join the registry with the Super Mario Bros. theme, powerful voices of women, important inductions of Latin music, and classic sounds of rock and pop from the 1960s to the ‘80s.

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today named 25 recordings as audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage.

National Recording Registry, 2023 Selections

“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)

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