Well it looks like I was wrong on a couple of items listed by the
Library of Congress National Recording Registry. #17 is not from Lux as
I had thought, but rather a special broadcast from LA station KFWB. And
#18 is not the Mercury Theater as I had assumed, but an episode of the
Columbia Workshop.
Thanks Stephen for clearing up the confusion with the Fred Allen
listing. Glad to hear that things aren't as bad as I had thought.
BC
Stephen C Leggett wrote:
>The Library did pick the complete Fred Allen broadcast but elected to chose one featuring an Allen's Alley segment. The complete broadcast was selected--the Allen's Alley serves mostly as the justification
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>Is there any reason why the "Academy" didn't see fit to elect the whole
>complete 30 minute Fred Allen broadcast, and opted instead for just the
>Allen's Alley segment? What's that all about? Now they're electing
>portions of broadcasts? This is ridiculous.
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>Also, why is there no mention of Stan Kenton backing up Nat King Cole on
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>The Robin Hood broadcast, listed as #18, is probably an episode of the
>Lux Radio Theater series.
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>And the #17 listing of an Orson Welles broadcast is most likely an
>episode of Mercury Theater, isn't it?
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>Is this what happens when Congress cuts budgets? Are we to expect more
>of this sloppiness in years to come?
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>Bob Conrad
>Fort Lee, NJ
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>>List is still not online but it and more info will soon be at:
>>http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/
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>>NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY ANNOUNCED
>>2005 National Recording Registry (in chronological order)
>>1. "Canzone del Porter" from "Martha (von Flotow)," Edouard de Reszke (1903)
>>2. "Listen to the Lambs," Hampton Quartette; recorded by Natalie Curtis Burlin (1917)
>>3. "Over There," Nora Bayes (1917)
>>4. "Crazy Blues," Mamie Smith (1920)
>>5. "My Man" and "Second Hand Rose," Fanny Brice (1921)
>>6. "Ory's Creole Trombone," Kid Ory (June 1922)
>>7. Inauguration of Calvin Coolidge (March 4, 1925)
>>8. "Tanec pid werbamy/Dance Under the Willows," Pawlo Huemiuk (1926)
>>9. "Singin' the Blues," Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke (1927)
>>10. First official transatlantic telephone conversation (Jan. 7, 1927)
>>11. "El Manisero" ("The Peanut Vendor"), Rita Montaner, vocal with orchestra (1927); "El Manisero," Don Azpiazu and his orchestra (1930)
>>12. Light's Golden Jubilee Celebration (Oct. 21, 1929)
>>13. Beethoven's Egmont Overture, Op. 84, Modesto High School Band (1930)
>>14. "Show Boat," Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, James Melton and others; Victor Young, conductor; Louis Alter, piano (1932)
>>15. "Wabash Cannonball," Roy Acuff (1936)
>>16. "One o'Clock Jump," Count Basie and his Orchestra (1937)
>>17. Archibald MacLeish's "Fall of the City," Orson Welles, narrator, Burgess Meredith, Paul Stewart (April 11, 1937)
>>18. "The Adventures of Robin Hood" radio broadcast of May 11, 1938
>>19. Joe Louis-Max Schmeling fight, Clem McCarthy, announcer (June 22,1938)
>>20. "John the Revelator," Golden Gate Quartet (1938)
>>21. "Adagio for Strings," Arturo Toscanini, conductor; NBC Symphony (1938)
>>22. "Command Performance" show No.21, Bob Hope, master of ceremonies (July 7, 1942)
>>23. "Straighten Up and Fly Right," Nat "King" Cole (1943)
>>24. Allen's Alley segment from "The Fred Allen Show"(Radio broadcast of Oct. 7, 1945)
>>25. "Jole Blon," Harry Choates (1946)
>>26. "Tubby the Tuba," Paul Tripp (words) and George Kleinsinger (music) (1946)
>>27. "Move on up a Little Higher," Mahalia Jackson (1948)
>>28. "Anthology of American Folk Music," edited by Harry Smith (1952)
>>29. "Schooner Bradley," performed by Pat Bonner (??1952-60)
>>30. "Damnation of Faust," Boston Symphony Orchestra with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society (1954)
>>31. "Blueberry Hill," Fats Domino (1956)
>>32. "Variations for Orchestra," Louisville Orchestra (1956)
>>33. "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," Jerry Lee Lewis (1957)
>>34. "That'll Be the Day," Buddy Holly (1957)
>>35. "Poeme Electronique," Edgard Varese (1958)
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>>36. "Time Out," The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959)
>>37. Studs Terkel interview with James Baldwin (Sept. 29, 1962)
>>38. William Faulkner address at West Point Military Academy (1962)
>>39. "Dancing in the Street," Martha and the Vandellas (1964)
>>40. "Live at the Regal," B.B. King (1965)
>>41. "Are You Experienced?" Jimi Hendrix Exerience (1967)
>>42. "We're Only in It for the Money," Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (1968)
>>43. "Switched-On Bach," Wendy Carlos (1968)
>>44. "Oh Happy Day," Edwin Hawkins Singers (1969)
>>45. "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers," Firesign Theatre (1970)
>>46. "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," Gil Scott-Heron (1970)
>>47. "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1972)
>>48. The old fog horn, Kewaunee, Wis., recorded by James A. Lipsky (1972)
>>49. "Songs in the Key of Life," Stevie Wonder (1976)
>>50. "Daydream Nation," Sonic Youth (1988)
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