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George Martin PBS On Record: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
An eight hour PBS documentary, ‘On Record: The Soundtrack of Our Lives,’ is in the works for broadcast in the fall of 2010. The enormous multi-media project, about the history of recorded music and it’s impact on society, is under the guidance of the legendary Sir George Martin. Martin is working with PBS and Wildheart [...]
Library of Congress expands National Recording Registry
Every year, the Library of Congress adds to the National Recording Registry. They select 25 recordings that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” to preserve for all time. Here’s the list of recordings the NRPB, the Library’s National Recording Preservation Board, selected for the 2007 National Recording Registry. It’s great to see some of my [...]
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald (April 25, 1918 – June 15, 1996) from Newport News, Virginia, was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. Her three octave vocal range was widely celebrated, and is well [...]
January 1968
No that’s not a misprint. We’re flashing back to that classic time, January 1968, to see what was happening 40 years ago in music & pop culture. And baby, it was happening!! Events in January 1968: The Beatles launch Apple Corps, Ltd., including their own recording studio, record label and fashion boutique in London. Apple [...]
Music Icon Ahmet Ertegun 1923 – 2006
Music pioneer, visionary, record label founder, jazz and R&B collector and producer, Ahmet Ertegun has passed away at age 83 from a head injury. A rock and roll fan until the very end, he slipped and fell at a Rolling Stones concert in October, and later slipped into a coma. He was a giant in [...]
National Recording Preservation Board (Library of Congress)
The National Recording Registry was established by the Library of Congress, under the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000. The registry celebrates the richness and variety of the nation’s audio legacy and underscores the responsibility to assure the long-term preservation of that legacy for future generations. The Library announced the current 2005 Registry on April [...]
Cowboys (Library of Congress) by Martin W. Sandler
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USA 1982 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS #2004 PLATE BLOCK MNH
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(20) 2000 BU LIBRARY OF CONGRESS COMMEMORATIVE DOLLAR
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Library Of Congress Washington DC Postcard LOOK
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