Who’s Added to the National Recording Registry??

Here’s a complete list of the 2023 selections for the National Recording Registry. They are listed in chronological order by release date.

• The Very First Mariachi Recordings — Cuarteto Coculense (1908-1909)
• “St. Louis Blues” — [W.C.] Handy’s Memphis Blues Band (1922)
• “Sugar Foot Stomp” — Fletcher Henderson (1926)
• Dorothy Thompson: Commentary and Analysis of the European Situation for NBC Radio (Aug. 23-Sept. 6, 1939)
• “Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around” — The Fairfield Four (1947)
• “Sherry” — The Four Seasons (1962)
• “What the World Needs Now is Love” — Jackie DeShannon (1965)
• “Wang Dang Doodle” — Koko Taylor (1966)
• “Ode to Billie Joe” — Bobbie Gentry (1967)
• Déjà Vu — Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (1970)
• “Take Me Home, Country Roads” — John Denver (1971)
• “Imagine” — John Lennon (1971)
• “Stairway to Heaven” — Led Zeppelin (1971)
• “Margaritaville” — Jimmy Buffett (1977)
• “Flashdance…What a Feeling” — Irene Cara (1983)
• “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” — Eurythmics (1983)
• Synchronicity — The Police (1983)
• Like a Virgin — Madonna (1984)
• Black Codes (From the Underground) — Wynton Marsalis (1985)
• Super Mario Bros. theme — Koji Kondo, composer (1986)
• All Hail the Queen — Queen Latifah (1989)
• “All I Want for Christmas is You” — Mariah Carey (1994)
• “Pale Blue Dot” — Carl Sagan (1994)
• “Gasolina” — Daddy Yankee (2004)
• “Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra” — Northwest Chamber Orchestra, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, composer (2012)