The Library of Congress has recently announced the selection of 25 new titles to be added to the National Recording Registry. Included in this year's selections are two historic broadcasts - George Hicks' 1944 radio reports during the D-Day invasion of Europe, and Dwight Eisenhower's prerecorded presidential message relayed from an Atlas satellite in 1958. This was the first audio "broadcast" from space. The registry was created with the passage of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 which charged the Library of Congress with preserving recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important." Several of the most recent selections can be found in the Library's collection:

• Begin the beguine - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra (1938)
• Just because - Frank Yankovic and his Yanks (1947)
• South Pacific (Original cast recording 1949)
• The shape of jazz to come - Ornette Coleman (1959)
• The Twist - Chubby Checker (1960)
• Sounds of silence (album) - Simon and Garfunkel (1966)
• The dark side of the moon - Pink Floyd (1973)
• Ramones - The Ramones (1976)
• Einstein on the beach - Phillip Glass (1979)
• Saturday night fever (movie soundtrack 1977)