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...
Produced by the Library of Congress (LC), in partnership with the University of California-Santa Barbara's Davidson Library, EMI Music, and Sony Music, National Jukebox provides access to streaming music from the library's collection of historical sound recordings. Included are recordings from the...
The National Recording Registry is a list of audio recordings selected for preservation by the head of the U.S. Library of Congress in consultation with the National Recording Preservation Board.
“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...
In the early years of sound films, precursors of music videos, called "soundies," 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...
The Library of Congress’ Registry each year honors 25 “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” recordings, and among the aural treasures making the cut this time around are the soundtrack ofThe Sound of Music(1965); The Ink Spots’ “If I Didn’t Care,” ...
The Library of Congress’ Registry each year honors 25 “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” recordings, and among the aural treasures making the cut this time around are the soundtrack ofThe Sound of Music(1965);The Ink Spots’“If I Didn’t Care,” one of the biggest-se...
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....
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 ...
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 ...