Aja and Trout Mask Replica "worthy of preservation for all time"!

Steely Dan's Aja and Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica are among the 25 latest additions to the Libary of Congress National Recording Registry, making it part of 325 recordings "deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant and worthy of preservation for all time."

Here's the full list of the latest additions:

NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY 2010

1. Phonautograms – Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville (1853-1861)

2. Take Me Out to the Ballgame – Edward Meeker (1908)

3. Recordings of Ishi, the Last Yahi Indian – Ishi (1915)

4. Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground – Blind Willie Johnson (1927)

5. It’s the Girl – The Boswell Sisters (1931)

6. Mal Hombre – Lydia Mendoza (1934)

7. Tumbling Tumbleweeds – Sons of the Pioneers (1934)

8. Talking Union – The Almanac Singers (1941)

9. Jazz at the Philharmonic Nat “King” Cole, Les Paul et. al. (1944)

10. Missa Papae Marcelli…Roger Wagner Chorale (1951)

11. The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest – Rev. C.L. Franklin (c. 1953)

12. Tipitina – Professor Longhair (1953)

13. Mort Sahl: At Sunset – Mort Sahl (1955)

14. VOA Jazz Radio Broadcasts – Willis Conover (1956)

15. Theme from “Peter Gunn” – Henry Mancini (1958)

16. United Sacred Harp Musical Convention in Fyffe, Alabama (recorded by Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins (September 12, 1959)

17. Blind Joe Death – John Fahey (1959, 1964, 1967)

18. Stand By Your Man – Tammy Wynette (1968)

19. Trout Mask Replica – Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band (1969)

20. Songs of the Humpback Whales – Roger Payne (1970)

21. Let’s Stay Together – Al Green (1971)

22. Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land) for Electronic String Quartet – The New York Strings Quartet (1972) (Composers Recording Inc)

23. Aja – Steely Dan (1977)

24. 3 Feet High and Rising – De La Soul (1989)

25 GOPAC Audio Instruction Series – Newt Gingrich, et.al. (c. 1986-1994)

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