Re: [ARSCLIST] New National Recording Registry just announced

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger and Allison Kulp" <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>
> In all seriousness.if we are to have such a list,there needs to be some
more seriousness of thought to go into it.(I have not seen previous
lists,so for now,I will stick to the post 1950-stuff.) Motown should
definitely be included,but we ought to start with more historically
important records,like "Got a Job","Money",or "What's Goin' On".and  what
about Stax/Volt,while we're at it? There is no question American  record
labels revolutionized classical recordings,in the decade  following
WWII.From the Lp,to stereo,and whatever else you want to  name.So the most
obvious choices here,would be the 1954 "Living Stereo"  "Gaite' ",and
"Zarathustra",and of course the MG50000 "Pictures",the  record that made a
classical music lover out of me.Second tier  choices,would be the famed
Binaural Heifitz Bach,and whatever recording  Coulmbia first
made,exclusively for the new Lp format.(ML 4001 was  first issued on 78 was
it not ?)Enough time has passed,that the  contributions
>  punk,and rap have made,and the impact they have had,need  to be
recognized. Obvious choices,are "RAMONES",or "Blitzkrieg Bop"  (1976) ,and
"Super Rappin' "(Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five  1979.)Just my first
two cents here,Roger
> steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stephen C Leggett"
> > NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY ANNOUNCED
> > 2005 National Recording Registry (in chronological order)
> All these records, and STILL no "Since Willy Got a Whippet!"
> :-)
> Steven C. Barr
Well...looking at your post I can see there are BIG problems coming up!
For example, I can't comment intelligently on either your comments about
classical microgroove records or your seventies punk and rap...in fact, I
don't own any discs in any of the above genres, and as well I haven't
listened extensively thereto! Likewise for obscure fifties material (I
grew up then, but like most teens only listened to the local "Top 20"
stations--who, fortunately, played occasional Jimmy Reed tunes!);
ethnic releases of any era; "easy listening" (does that INCLUDE any
recordings worth preserving?!); and obscure blues and country
records (WAY outside my budget!).

I can comment reasonably intelligently on pop music c.1900-c.1950;
blues records c.1940 to the present; non-obscure country music
of the later 78 era; and a few odds and ends (like "Since Willy
Got a Whippet," which is a less-than-well-known Grey Gull B-side
of about 1929).

In fact, I'd be surprised if anybody...or even a group of anybodies...
would have extensive knowledge of everything that had been recorded
from Edison's first "Mary Had a Little Lamb" to all the obscure stuff
like the two CD's of my own blues band!

So, who decides...in fact, who decides who gets to decide...?!

Steven C. Barr