National Recording Reqistry's Newest Class: "The latest selections [named to the Registry] span from 1921 to 2010. They range from rock, pop, R&B, hip-hop, and country to Latin, Motown, jazz, and recordings of history as it happened.".

• Author: Zongker, Brett
• Position: ENTERTAINMENT

ALICIA KEYS" debut album "Songs in A Minor," Ricky Martin's "Livin* La Vida Loca." and Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" are some of the unforgettable sounds of the nation's history and culture joining the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. The 2022 class includes important inductions of hip-hop and Latin music, including recordings by Linda Ronstadt. A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, and Buena Vista Social Club. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden named 25 recordings as audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical, or aesthetic importance in the nation's recorded sound heritage.

"The National Recording Registry reflects the diverse music and voices that have shaped our nation's history and culture through recorded sound. The national library is proud to help preserve these recordings, and we welcome the public's input. We received about 1.000 public nominations this year for recordings to add to the Registry."

The recordings selected for the National Recording Registry bring the number of titles to 600. representing a small portion of the national library's vast recorded sound collection of nearly 4.000,000 items.

The latest selections span from 1921 to 2010. They range from rock, pop, R&B, hiphop. and country to Latin, Motown, jazz, and recordings of history as it happened. In addition to the musical selections, the new class includes the famous speeches of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, WNYC's broadcasts on 9/11, and a podcast interview with comedian Robin Williams.

Keys described her album, "Songs in A Minor," as a story and one of her favorite albums as she recalled writing songs like "Troubles," "Rock wit U," "A Woman's Worth," and "Fallin'" in her teens and recording them in her one-bedroom Harlem apartment. "I'm so honored and grateful that 'Songs in A Minor,' the entire album, gets to be recognized as such a powerful body of work that is just going to be timeless."

Steve Perry, the lead singer of Journey, grew up in a small California farming town, the son of Portuguese immigrants. He said he was stunned for his parents and grandparents to have "Don't Stop Believin'" enshrined as one of the nation's signature recordings and that it is "one of those 'only in America' kind of things. That song, over the years, has become something that has a life of its own. It's about the people who've embraced it and found the lyrics to be something they can relate to and hold onto and...