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Recordings by Amy Winehouse, Celine Dion, Elton John & More Selected for National Recording Registry: Full List

Recordings by Amy Winehouse, Celine Dion, Elton John and more are the 2025 additions to the National Recording Registry (Full List).

Musician and educator Harry Urata, confined to an internment camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, encountered Japanese-American workers who had processed sugar cane leaves on Hawaiian plantations since the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Recognizing the cultural and historical significance of the songs, Urata traveled throughout Hawaii’s islands recording elderly singers who had toiled on sugar plantations. – Don Rickles (1968, Warner Bros.) Chicago Transit Authority – Chicago (1969, Columbia) Bitches Brew – Miles Davis (1970, Columbia) “Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’” – Charley Pride (1971, RCA Victor) “I Am Woman” – Helen Reddy (1972, Capitol) “El Rey” – Vicente Fernández (1973, CBS) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John (1973, MCA) “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” – Freddy Fender (1975, ABC/Dot) I’ve Got the Music in Me – Thelma Houston & Pressure Cooker (1975, Sheffield Lab) The Kӧln Concert – Keith Jarrett (1975, ECM) Fly Like an Eagle – Steve Miller Band (1976, Capitol) Nimrod Workman Collection (1973-1994) Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman (1988, Elektra) My Life – Mary J. Blige (1994, Uptown/MCA) Microsoft Windows Reboot Chime – Brian Eno (1995) “My Heart Will Go On” – Celine Dion (1997, 550 Music/Epic) Our American Journey – Chanticleer (2002) (album, Warner Classics International) Back to Black – Amy Winehouse (2006 album, Republic/Universal Music) Minecraft: Volume Alpha – Daniel Rosenfeld (2011 album, self-released) Hamilton: An American Musical – Original Broadway Cast Album (2015 album, Atlantic)

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