Good Sunday Morning everyone it’s time for Jim Adam’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge. This week’s prompt is – Songs that have been preserved in the National Recording Registry.
The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that “are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States.” The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by the Librarian of Congress. The recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry form a registry of recordings selected yearly by the National Recording Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. Read more here.
Hands up I have never heard of this before so I looked it up and I found it as described above. I am not from the US. which explains my ignorance of it. Personally I would say most of it if not all of it is relevant to to the whole world not just the USA.
Anyay that aside I have chosen a Recording by Carl Sagan made in 1990. I remember watching the programme on TV at that time, it was called The Pale Blue Dot. Please listen to all of this recording if you can it is not long and it’s so important. It was entered into the National Recording Registry last year 2023.
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day’s Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.
Pale Blue Dot IMAGE SOURCE,NASA/JPL-CALTECHImage caption,New version: Voyager | |
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| Seen from about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles), Earth appears as a tiny dot within deep space: the blueish-white speck almost halfway up the rightmost band of light. |
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