Library of Congress's National Jukebox, one of the largest online collections of early-twentieth-century sound recordings. It highlights the impact of the Music Modernization Act, which grants public domain status to recordings published prior to 1923, allowing for increased a...
" featured popular musical artists in short films, often played in coin-operated "jukeboxes." In his first motion picture appearance, Duke Ellington starred in the 1929 short, "Black and Tan," in which Ellington's music is spun into a tragic tale, set in Harlem, of a young woman who ...
“My Girl” was at the top of the charts for only one week, but it remained on jukeboxes for years, becoming a classic of the Motown era. “The Sound of Music” (soundtrack), various (1965) It was the era of the Beatles and big screen Hollywood ...
Stepp’s “Bonaparte’s Retreat” is among the 1937 recordings Library of Congress folk historians Alan and Elizabeth Lomax made during their musicological tour of Kentucky. In the 1930s, it was a common dance tune, but the fiddler they recorded that day, William ...
layer by layer: finger snaps, drums, Ruffin’s lead vocal, other members of the Funk Brothers, vocal harmonies by the other Temptations and, finally, strings by members of the Detroit Symphony. “My Girl” was at the top of the charts for only one week but remained on jukeboxes for ...
Well, more like all the university archives, the library archives, the not-for-profits, and all of that. However, it makes a lot of sense to be liaising and working with commercial labels as well. In fact, the Library of Congress even has that National Jukebox site, which is so wonder...
complete with a shout-out to her. It became one of the least likely hits of the year, inspiring 17 cover versions in the U.S. alone. “You hear it coming out of bars, jukeboxes, taxis, wherever you go,” Lenya marveled. “Kurt would have loved that. A taxi d...
Most registry recordings cannot be posted on the Internet because of copyright restrictions, but some are available at the online National Jukebox, which provides free access to recordings from the Library of Congress and other libraries and archives. Karen Sottosanti The Editors of Encyclopaedia Brit...