And about the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry.
The selection process is open to the public in its early stages, though Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden makes the final decisions after recommendations from the board. This year, songs with the greatest public support included “If I Didn’t Care,” the 1939 standard by vocal group the Ink Spots, Kenny Rogers’s “The Gambler” and Kenny Loggins’s “Footloose.”
I’m not as excited about this year’s list as I have been in the past, though there are a couple of highlights other than “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”. I do love me some Groucho Marx. “New Sounds in Electronic Music” is a welcome surprise. And I’m happy to see K-Log get a nod, though I would have put “Danger Zone” in before “Footloose”.
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