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New recordings added to National Recording Registry
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 10 June 2009
A new batch of recordings has been added to the US Library Of Congress’s National Recording Registry.
The latest group contains some spoken word, such as a recording of Dylan Thomas reading ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’, and Winston Churchill’s iron curtain speech, as well as music.
Amongst the pieces of music added to the archive are Carmen Miranda’s ‘O Que e Que a Baiana Tem?’, ‘Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen’ by The Andrews Sisters, ‘The Who Sings My Generation’, John Lee Hooker’s ‘Boogie Chillen’, and a recording of carols from Kings College Cambridge from 1954.
The recordings are nominated by members of the public, and decisions are made by the Librarian Of Congress and the National Recording Preservation Board. The archive now contains 275 recordings.
