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Music by Michael Jackson, Roy Orbison added to historic registry

Washington (AP) Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album is considered important enough to keep for all time.

It's among the 25 recordings added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. The registry preserves recorded works that are considered culturally or historically important.

This year's additions include "Oh, Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison and "The Tracks of My Tears" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Joni Mitchell's "For the Roses" album has been added, as has the original cast recording of "My Fair Lady." The recordings aren't all music. Others that have been added this year include the first Trans-Atlantic broadcast from 1925, Harry Truman's speech to the 1948 Democratic Convention and the "Sounds of Earth" disc prepared for the Voyager spacecraft in 1977.

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WHOOO HOOOOO! That is SO exciting! I'm glad, It 100% deserves to be there so people can hear it FOREVER >FORever >forever (that was my voice echoing in case u guys wanted 2 know-lol)
 
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troubleman84 said:
Doesn't a recording gotta be at least 25 years old to be preserved? If that's the case, Thriller got in just in time then.

Congrats.
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Not necessarily, although Thriller was the youngest entry added this year. Of the 250 albums in the National Recording Registry, the following are the most recent...

The Message. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. (1982)
Thriller. Michael Jackson (1982)
Recordings of Asian elephants. Katharine B. Payne. (1984)
Graceland. Paul Simon. (1986)
Daydream Nation. Sonic Youth. (1988)
Fear of a Black Planet. Public Enemy. (1989)
Nevermind. Nirvana. (1991)
 
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Not necessarily, although Thriller was the youngest entry added this year. Of the 250 albums in the National Recording Registry, the following are the most recent...

The Message. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. (1982)
Thriller. Michael Jackson (1982)
Recordings of Asian elephants. Katharine B. Payne. (1984)
Graceland. Paul Simon. (1986)
Daydream Nation. Sonic Youth. (1988)
Fear of a Black Planet. Public Enemy. (1989)
Nevermind. Nirvana. (1991)
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Gotcha! Thanks. :yes:
 
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Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ Among Cultural Treasures

14 May 2008
Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ Among Cultural Treasures

By Kevin S. Vineys

The best-selling pop album on planet Earth and a disc sent hurtling into deep space are among recordings the Library of Congress will preserve for their cultural significance.

Twenty-five selections were added to the National Recording Registry on Wednesday, part of the library’s attempt to save America’s aural history by archiving recordings deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”

The inductees range from Michael Jackson’s 1982 all-time-bestseller “Thriller” and jazz artist Herbie Hancock’s 1973 fusion smash “Headhunters” to the 1977 record of Earth sounds that flew aboard the spacecraft Voyager in the event alien life forms encountered the craft. Other recordings added to the registry include works by Roy Orbison, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Kitty Wells and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.

A collection of Navajo songs, Harry Truman’s 1948 Democratic National Convention speech, radio broadcasts from Ronald Reagan before he became president, and the original cast recording of “My Fair Lady” also made the cut, as did broadcasts of New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia reading comics to children during a 1945 newspaper delivery strike.

A recording of the first trans-Atlantic broadcast - an orchestral performance transmitted from London and relayed to the U.S. East Coast in 1925 - also was included because it represented a technological breakthrough in broadcasting.

The Library of Congress chooses 25 recordings each year to add to its registry and preserve. Nominations come from a Library of Congress preservation board and online suggestions from the public. The selections for 2007 bring the registry’s total to 250.

Source: Associated Press
 
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Works added to National Recording Registry:

The 25 recordings added Wednesday to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress:

1. The first trans-Atlantic broadcast (March 14, 1925)

2. “Allons a Lafayette,” Joseph Falcon (1928)

3. “Casta Diva,” from Bellini’s “Norma”; Rosa Ponselle, accompanied by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Giulio Setti. (recorded December 31, 1928, and January 30, 1929)

4. “If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again,” Thomas A. Dorsey (1934)

5. “Sweet Lorraine,” Art Tatum (February 22, 1940)

6. Fibber’s Closet Opens for the First Time, “Fibber McGee and Molly” radio program (March 4, 1940)

7. Wings Over Jordan, Wings Over Jordan (1941)

8. Fiorello LaGuardia reading the comics (1945)

9. “Call it Stormy Monday but Tuesday is Just As Bad,” T-Bone Walker (1947)

10. Harry S. Truman speech at the 1948 Democratic National Convention (July 15, 1948)

11. “The Jazz Scene,” various artists (1949)

12. “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” Kitty Wells (May 30, 1952)

13. “My Fair Lady,” original cast recording (1956)

14. Navajo Shootingway Ceremony Field Recordings, recorded by David McAllester (1957-1958)

15. “‘Freight Train,’ and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes,” Elizabeth Cotten (1959)

16. Marine Band Concert Album to Help Benefit the National Cultural Center (1963)

17. “Oh, Pretty Woman,” Roy Orbison (1964)

18. “Tracks of My Tears,” Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (1965)

19. “You’ll Sing a Song and I’ll Sing a Song,” Ella Jenkins (1966)

20. “Music from the Morning of the World,” various artists; recorded by David Lewiston (1966)

21. “For the Roses,” Joni Mitchell (1972)

22. “Headhunters,” Herbie Hancock (1973)

23. Ronald Reagan Radio Broadcasts (1976-1979)

24. “The Sounds of Earth,” disc prepared for the Voyager spacecraft (1977)

25. “Thriller,” Michael Jackson (1982)
 
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wow thats so cool. michael really deserves this great honor.his gifts of music to the world should always be applauded and appreciated. im soo happy about this . michael is the king.
 
his other Albums should be there too if you ask me
 
If anything needs to be saved, Thriller is the ting!

Just try to imagine a world without it!!! I would prefer loosing cars and microwaves!
 
this is wonderful news...this is part of the continuation of his legacy that's being written

and sometimes we've got to stop complaining about what's not being honoured and just celebrate WHAT IS being honoured...


This is such wonderful news...

Go Michael!
 
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This is fantastic news, MJ so deserves this :).
 
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