Link to the Library of Congress: Connecting with History through the National JukeboxCOPYRIGHT of musicMUSIC educationHUMANITIES educationCULTURAL awarenessMUSIC appreciationSONY Music Entertainment Inc.The article discusses about the National Jukebox which is a collection of more than ...
“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...
" 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 ...
Ludwig van Beethoven’s 32 sonatas for piano alone are legendary in the history of classical music. The German conductor and pianist Hans vonBulowcalled them music’s “New Testament,” while the scholar Charles Rosen referred to them as “a bridge between the worlds of the...
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....
In 1939, when songwriter Jack Lawrence brought his new song to Bill Kenny and the other three members of The Ink Spots, the group was at first reluctant to record it. Yet they did, and soon after, it became one of the best-selling singles in history, eventually moving 19 million copies...
Most registry recordings cannot be posted on theInternetbecause 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. ...
The Library of Congress on May 10 launched the "National Jukebox," an interactive website that allows users to play thousands of historic sound recordings—many of them unavailable to the public for more than a century.The National Jukebox provides access to more than 10,000 out-of-print ...
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 ac...