New additions to National Recording Registry
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Summer had found early success in Europe, before becoming an international star with her 1977 electronic dance hit “I Feel Love” (co written with producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Belotte). Summer’s voice glittered over the throbbing Moog synthesizers and bass line.
Excerpt: “I Feel Love”
Edison Canada Goose Online Talking Doll cylinder (1888)
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Excerpt: Edison talking doll
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Lillian Russell: “Come Down Ma Evenin’ Star” (1912)
Lillian Russell (left, in 1896) was a leading light of American musical theater in the latter part of the 19th century. Noted for operetta, burlesque and vaudeville, she recorded her signature tune, “Come Down Ma Evenin’ Star” in 1912. It Canada Goose Parka is her only known surviving recording.
Excerpt: “Come Down Ma Evenin’ Star”
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Excerpt: “Ten Cents a Dance”
“Voices from the Canada Goose online Days of Slavery” (1932 1941 interviews)
Between 1932 and 1941 the WPA gathered oral histories by former slaves across nine Southern states as part of various field recording projects. These included the only known audio recordings of former slaves (including one who worked 2018 Canada Goose uk for Confederate President Jefferson Davis) recalling buy canada goose jacket cheap life before Emancipation in all its details
Patsy Montana: “I Want to Be a canada goose clearance sale Cowboy’s Sweetheart” (1935)
Singing cowgirl Patsy Montana was the soloist Canada Goose Outlet with the Prairie Ramblers, and appeared on radio and in films (including the 1939 Gene Autry western “Colorado Sunset”). In 1996 she was named to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996.
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