{"id":4544,"date":"2013-03-24T13:45:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T17:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2015-02-26T12:13:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T16:13:18","slug":"library-of-congress-honors-dark-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2013\/03\/library-of-congress-honors-dark-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Library of Congress honors &#8220;Dark Side&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>United States Library of Congress<\/strong> has included Pink Floyd&#8217;s seminal 1973 album &#8220;The Dark Side of the Moon&#8221; as one of 25 recordings added to the National Recording Registry for 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The registry is a federally-funded archive that preserves songs and sounds that&#8217;re \u201cculturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and\/or inform or reflect life in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the complete list of additions for 2012:<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>After You&#8217;ve Gone<\/em> Marion Harris (1918)<br \/>\n2. <em>Bacon, Beans and Limousines<\/em> Will Rogers (Oct. 18, 1931)<br \/>\n3. <em>Begin the Beguine<\/em> Artie Shaw (1938)<br \/>\n4. <em>You Are My Sunshine<\/em> Jimmie Davis (1940)<br \/>\n5. <em>D-Day Radio Broadcast<\/em> George Hicks (June 5-6, 1944)<br \/>\n6. <em>Just Because<\/em> Frank Yankovic &amp; His Yanks (1947)<br \/>\n7. <em>South Pacific<\/em> Original Cast Album (1949)<br \/>\n8. <em>Descargas: Cuban Jam Session in Miniature<\/em> Cachao Y Su Ritmo Caliente (1957)<br \/>\n9. <em>Tchaikovsky&#8217;s Piano Concerto No. 1<\/em> Van Cliburn (April 11, 1958)<br \/>\n10. <em>President&#8217;s Message Relayed from Atlas Satellite<\/em>, Dwight D. Eisenhower (Dec. 19, 1958)<br \/>\n11. <em>A Program of Song<\/em> Leontyne Price (1959)<br \/>\n12. <em>The Shape of Jazz to Come<\/em> Ornette Coleman (1959)<br \/>\n13. <em>Crossing Chilly Jordan<\/em> The Blackwood Brothers (1960)<br \/>\n14. <em>The Twist<\/em> Chubby Checker (1960)<br \/>\n15. <em>Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley&#8217;s<\/em> Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson, et al. (1960-1962)<br \/>\n16. <em>Hoodoo Man Blues<\/em> Junior Wells (1965)<br \/>\n17. <em>Sounds of Silence<\/em> Simon and Garfunkel (1966)<br \/>\n18. <em>Cheap Thrills<\/em> Big Brother and the Holding Company (1968)<br \/>\n19. <em>The Dark Side of the Moon <\/em> Pink Floyd (1973)<br \/>\n20. <em>Music Time in Africa<\/em> Leo Sarkisian, host (July 29, 1973)<br \/>\n21. <em>Wild Tchoupitoulas<\/em> The Wild Tchoupitoulas (1976)<br \/>\n22. <em>Ramones<\/em> Ramones (1976)<br \/>\n23. <em>Saturday Night Fever<\/em> The Bee Gees, et al (1977)<br \/>\n24. <em>Einstein on the Beach<\/em> Philip Glass and Robert Wilson (1979)<br \/>\n25. <em>The Audience with Betty Carter<\/em> Betty Carter (1980)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Library of Congress has included Pink Floyd&#8217;s seminal 1973 album &#8220;The Dark Side of the Moon&#8221; as one of 25 recordings added to the National Recording Registry for 2012. The registry is a federally-funded archive that preserves songs and sounds that&#8217;re \u201cculturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and\/or inform or reflect life in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4546,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions\/4546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}