The Library of Congress' National Recording Preservation Board adds 25 recordings to its registry, including the Velvet Underground. Previously: 2005, 2004, 2003.
Full list of the 2006 additions after the jump...
The full list of the 2006 additions:
• "Uncle Josh and the Insurance Agent," Cal Stewart (1904)
• "Il mio tesoro," John McCormack, orchestra conducted by Walter Rogers (1916)
• National Defense Test, Sept. 12, 1924 (1924)
• "Black Bottom Stomp," Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers (1926)
• "Wildwood Flower," the Carter Family (1928)
• "Pony Blues," Charley Patton (1929)
• "You're the Top," Cole Porter (1934)
• "The Osage Bank Robbery," episode of "The Lone Ranger" (Dec. 17, 1937)
• Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941)
• native Brazilian music, recorded under the supervision of Leopold Stokowski (1942)
• "Peace in the Valley," Red Foley and the Sunshine Boys (1951)
• Chopin Polonaise, Opus 40, No. 1 ("Polonaise militaire"), Artur Rubinstein (1952)
• "Blue Suede Shoes," Carl Perkins (1955)
• interviews with William "Billy" Bell, recorded by Edward D. Ives (1956)
• "Howl," Allen Ginsberg (1959)
• The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, Bob Newhart (1960)
• "Be My Baby," the Ronettes (1963)
• "We Shall Overcome," Pete Seeger (1963) recording of Pete Seeger's June 8, 1963, Carnegie Hall concert
• "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," Rolling Stones (1965)
• "A Change is Gonna Come," Sam Cooke (1965)
• Velvet Underground and Nico, Velvet Underground (1967)
• The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake, Eubie Blake (1969)
• The Wailers Burnin', The Wailers (1973)
• Live in Japan, Sarah Vaughan (1973)
• Graceland, Paul Simon (1986)
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