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Curtis Mayfield, Jay-Z, Earth, Wind & Fire, Sylvester and Sam & Dave recordings inducted into National Recording Registry

History has once again been made with the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library, offering access to the creative record of the United States — and extensive materials from around the world — both on-site and online. It is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office.

The National Recording Registry recognizes and honors music that enhance lives and tell a clear story about

life and circumstance. Since the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 was instituted, the Library selects 25 titles that are at least 10-years-old and have proven culturally and historically significant.

With this edition, The LEGACY will spotlight some of the artists from that list and recognize each one’s marking in music history, as well as certain flashbacks that impacted black history, education and messages towards social justice and equality.

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News 2018 National Recording Registry •Yiddish

Cylinders from the Standard Phonograph Company •“GO” (album), Dexter Gordon (1962) of New York and the Thomas Lambert Company (c. 1901-1905) •“War Requiem” (album), Benjamin Britten (1963) •“Memphis Blues” (single), Victor Military Band (1914) •“Mississippi Goddam” (single), Nina Simone (1964) •Melville Jacobs Collection of Native Americans of the •“Soul Man” (single), Sam & Dave (1967) American Northwest (1929-1939) •“Hair” (original Broadway cast recording) (1968) •“Minnie the Moocher” (single), Cab Calloway (1931) •Speech on the Death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., •“Bach Six Cello Suites” (album), Pablo Casals (c. 1939) Robert F. Kennedy (April 4, 1968) •“They Look Like Men of War” (single), Deep River Boys (1941) •“Sweet Caroline” (single), Neil Diamond (1969) •“Gunsmoke” — Episode: “The Cabin” (Dec. 27, 1952) •“Superfly” (album), Curtis Mayfield (1972) •Ruth Draper: Complete recorded monologues, Ruth Draper •“Ola Belle Reed” (album), Ola Belle Reed (1973) (1954-1956) •“September” (single), Earth, Wind & Fire (1978) •“La Bamba” (single), Ritchie Valens (1958) •“You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” (single), Sylvester (1978) B:9.75” •“Long Black Veil” (single), Lefty Frizzell (1959) •“She’s So Unusual” (album), Cyndi Lauper (1983) T:9.75” •“Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, Vol. 1: •“Schoolhouse Rock!: The Box Set” (1996) S:9.75” The Early Years” (album), Stan Freberg (1961) •“The Blueprint” (album), Jay-Z (2001)

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New National Recording Registry Class is “Superfly”

Jay-Z, Cyndi Lauper and Robert Kennedy are new members of the National Recording Registry Sam & Dave’s 1967 hit single “Soul Man”; Ritchie Valens’ groundbreaking 1958 sensation “La Bamba”; the revolutionary 1968 Broadway musical “Hair”; and Neil Diamond’s 1969 “Sweet Caroline,” which became a popular sports anthem, are the newest recordings inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library, offering access to the creative record of the United States — and extensive materials from around the world — both on-site and online. It is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office.

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden named these and 20 other recordings as aural treasures worthy of preservation because of their cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to the nation’s recorded sound heritage.

“The National Recording Registry honors the music that enriches our souls, the voices that tell our stories and the sounds that mirror our lives” said Hayden. “The influence of recorded sound over its nearly 160-year history has been profound and technology has increased its reach and significance exponentially. The Library of Congress and its many collaborators are working

to preserve these sounds and moments in time, which reflect our past, present and future.”

Under the terms of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, the Librarian, with advice from the Library’s National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB), is tasked with annually selecting 25 titles that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” and are at least 10 years old.

The new recordings to the National Recording Registry bring the total number of titles on the registry to 525, a small part of the Library’s vast recorded-sound collection of nearly three million items.

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named to the registry showcase works across multiple genres, including blues, children’s recordings, classical, comedy, country, radio, jazz, pop, hiphop, rhythm and blues, Latin and Broadway.

The spoken-word and musical recordings span a century from 1901 to 2001.

The oldest recorded sounds on the 2018 registry are 20 cylinders of the earliestknown recordings of Yiddish songs (1901-1905) and the most contemporary recording is hip-hop mogul Jay-Z’s 2001 album “The Blueprint,” which solidified his reputation as one of the greatest rappers in music.

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“Superfly” (album), Curtis Mayfield (1972) “Superfly” is the soundtrack album from the blaxploitation film of the same name.

In a shrewd marketing move, the album was released weeks before the movie, increasing the interest of both the audience and film distributors.

However, while supporting the film in those ways, songwriter Curtis Mayfield was concerned that the movie glorified drug use and sought to deliberately undercut what he saw as a cocaine commercial.

Mayfield wanted to counter the film’s portrayal of drug use with songs that showed the consequences.

For example, “Freddie’s Dead” is used in the movie only as an instrumental, but Mayfield not only wrote stinging lyrics for it, he released it as the first single from the soundtrack.

Having lived in Chicago’s notorious Cabrini Green public housing project, Mayfield was all too familiar with the damage done by gangs and pushers.

Mayfield said, “It was important for me to counter the visuals — to go in and explain it in a way that the kids would not read it as an infomercial for drugs.”

Mayfield produced the recording sessions and did all the vocals, but some acknowledgement for the recording’s sound should go to Johnny Pate, credited as an arranger and orchestrator on the album. Pate had previously worked with Mayfield on some of the Impressions’ hits, including “Keep on Pushing.”

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“You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” (single), Sylvester (1978) Disco was at its peak of popularity in late 1978 when Sylvester (aka, Sylvester James, Jr., The Fabulous Sylvester) released “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real).” His urgent falsetto reflected his childhood background in both African-American gospel music and his work as a drag performer in San Francisco.

To some, “You Make Me…” was evidence that disco was just a mass-produced sound, lacking in depth or personality although, to others, Sylvester’s highly personal and emotional performance gave it gravitas while also pushing gender-bending (which Sylvester reveled in) further into the musical mainstream. Patrick Cowley’s production anticipated later developments in electronic dance music. Together, the result was an anthem that has since been successfully covered many times.

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“Schoolhouse Rock!: The Box Set” (1996) “Schoolhouse Rock” is well remembered as a series of short animated programs that aired on ABC television starting in 1973.

They featured infectiously catchy songs cleverly explaining important educational concepts such as multiplication and grammar.

The recordings began as an experiment by advertising executive David McCall to help his son remember his multiplication tables as easily as he remembered the lyrics to his favorite pop songs.

McCall then enlisted jazz pianist Bob Dorough’s songwriting and singing talents and the result was the song “Three is a Magic Number.”

Partnering later with Tom Yohe and George Newall, a series of song and animations were crafted on various subjects for Saturday morning broadcasts, including “I’m Just a Bill,” “Conjunction Junction,” “Elbow Room” and “Interjections!” The programs aired for 12 years. They might have fallen off the radar if not for the reissues produced

by Kid Rhino Records in the 1990s followed by a complete box set of the songs in 1996.

Parents who grew up watching the cartoons could play the songs for their children in the car, keeping the music alive and relevant for another generation.

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I’m shocked -- shocked! -- that wealthy parents love their kids too

By Thomas L. Knapp

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In the film version of Forrest Gump Forrest’s mother tries to convince the local elementary school principal that her son belongs at his local elementary school rather than at an institution for what we would now call “special needs” students.

The two reach an understanding on Mrs. Gump’s remarkably squeaky bed while Forrest waits on the front porch.

That scene popped to mind uninvited in early March when 50 parents, test administrators, and college sports coaches were indicted in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal.

Coaches allegedly took bribes to accept students as fake athletic recruits to get around academic standards. Test prep services supposedly taught students how to cheat on tests and bribed proctors to smooth the way for the cheating. An "admissions consultant," William Singer, is accused of orchestrating the scheme to the tune of $25 million.

I’m surprised, though, at the vitriol directed at the parents in particular.

I suspect most movie viewers empathized with the fictional Mrs. Gump, who did whatever she felt she had to do to secure the best education possible for her child.

Real-life parents like actors Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman

-- the two most famous of the indicted parents -- did whatever they felt they had to do to secure the best educations possible for their children as well.

The difference, of course, is that the fictional Mrs. Gump was poor, while Loughlin and Huffman are wealthy.

The public heartburn over Loughlin and Huffman seems less about them bribing their kids into good schools than about them being able to AFFORD to bribe their kids into good schools.

Suppose the scandal had unfolded in a different way. What if, instead of rich people writing checks they could afford, it was working class parents scraping together money they really couldn’t afford, or trading menial work or even sexual favors a la Mrs. Gump, for illicit “admissions assistance?”

In that alternative scenario, I suspect most would regard the parents as victims, not as evil-doers.

In that alternative scenario, I expect that most parents could see themselves doing exactly the same things in the same circumstances.

“Let me tell you about the very rich,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald.

“They are different from you and me.” True. But not when it comes to loving their children. I won’t.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Wealthy parents cheating to get their kids into top colleges Let’s break down this outrageous scandal that we learned about where wealthy parents, primarily super wealthy white parents, were indicted on fraud charges for hundreds of different bribes they were making to get their mediocre children into the best colleges and universities around the country.

The story went viral, in great part, because several of the parents that were indicted were celebrities and actresses like the woman who played Aunt Becky on the sitcom Full House and the actress Felicity Huffman – best known for her role on Desperate Housewives.

I take this scandal personally on so many levels because my wife and I have one daughter that just entered college and another that is a junior in high school that we are preparing for college. Hell – we’re already thinking about college for our 12 year old son – and trying to make sure that he’s on the right path.

And for each of our kids – we’ve put an enormous of pressure on them to get A’s in every single class. Our daughter who is a junior in high school this year has never received a single B her entire life. Our daughter who is in college now got a 4.0 her final two years of high school. And

we paid for them to take grueling SAT prep courses – that hardly seemed to help I might add – all so that they would have the best chance at success as they applied for college.

For generations in this country, Black parents have taught our children that they have to be twice as good to have the same open doors as white folk – and sometimes I’m not even sure if that’s true – when we learn that white parents across the country are literally paying people $15,000 – $20,000 to take the SAT for their children. In the indictments earlier this week we learned that white parents were literally bribing admissions officials and college coaches – sometimes with millions of dollars – to just let their mediocre children in to the top schools in the nation.

Some parents paid a women’s soccer coach at Yale $400,000 to let their daughter on the team. And get this – their daughter literally didn’t even play soccer. And it worked – they got their daughter into Yale. Another parent paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to get her daughter onto a rowing team at a prestigious college – even posting fake pictures of her daughter pretending to train on a rowing

machine – and it worked – even though her daughter had never been on a rowing team a day in her life.

One parent paid $6.5 million dollars to bribe their child into a top university. And it’s very frustrating as a parent to know that this is the type of stuff our children are up against. Our teenage daughter has a 4.0 and is absolutely brilliant and we’re still told that she may not even get in to some of the best colleges in the country – yet white parents are basically buying admission seats for their mediocre kids.

Most experts say this is just the tip of the iceberg. And really it is – because what we’ve learned over the past few years is that both Donald Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, got into top colleges in a similar fashion. Pro-Publica did a huge story on Kushner last year, with interviews from his high school counselors and teachers saying that he didn’t have anywhere near the GPA and test scores to get into Harvard, but his father, who eventually went to prison for financial crimes, found a way to use money to make it happen anyway.

Same thing with Trump decades ago.

It’s not just that white families bribe their way into prestigious

colleges and universities – it’s that they then use the admission as a springboard to catapult their kids to positions of power – all the way to the highest offices in the land.

Just for a moment – compare the white mediocrity of Donald and Melania Trump to Barack and Michele Obama -who had to fight and scratch and claw to get into Harvard and Princeton and Columbia – where they were literally the top students there – knowing that they had to be the best of the best of the best to get where they are today.

Melania never even went to college.

Can hardly even give a speech with plagiarizing. Trump is the first President in a generation to not go to grad school. Even George W. Bush struggled his way through an MBA from Harvard.

I’ll close with this thought – the past few weeks have really blown the lid off of white corruption and bribery and fraud – between Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort – and these white families bribing colleges – and we just want to be sure that everybody gets equal justice. Because we’ve seen Black families go to prison for years and years simply for using a different address to get their children into a quality public school.— Shaun King

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“Hair” (original Broadway cast recording) (1968) “Hair,” the self-proclaimed “Tribal Love-Rock Musical,” was essentially sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll in a Broadway show, with the Vietnam War and racial prejudice thrown in for good measure.

Given the cultural division of 1968, depending upon which side of the divide one was on, it was, surprisingly or naturally, a hit, running for 1,750 performances.

The book and lyrics were written by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, who appeared in the Broadway cast as Claude and Berger, respectively. Galt MacDermot composed the music.

Even leaving politics aside, the Broadway show received some criticism despite its considerable success, such as the complaint that it didn’t have much of a plot or that it was more of a revue than a musical. However, such criticisms are less pertinent to a cast album and they ignore the fact that the songs from “Hair” are extremely catchy.

The musical’s original Broadway cast recording was enormously successful. During 1969, The 5th Dimension (“Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In”); The Cowsills (“Hair”); Three Dog Night (“Easy to Be Hard”) and Oliver (“Good Morning Starshine”) all had major hits with covers of songs from the show. The original LP release omitted a few songs, which were later restored on the CD reissue.

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Speech on the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy (April 4, 1968)

On the night of April 4, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy flew to Indianapolis to speak at a rally in a mostly African-American neighborhood of the city in support of his campaign for the presidency.

The news of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death in Memphis reached Kennedy when he landed, but much of the assembled crowd only knew that King had been shot. After sharing the devastating news, Kennedy spoke extemporaneously from brief notes. He called for peace in the face of pain and rage and drew upon his experience of the assassination of his brother five years earlier.

The recording of the speech captures the tone and emotion of his delivery and the expressions of the crowd — their dismay at the news of King’s death as well as their support for his calls for the country to pull together in the pursuit of both peace and justice.

Kennedy himself would be shot and killed just two months later. His remarks still resonate today and recall a frightening time of political violence as well as a dream for a better future.

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“September” (single), Earth, Wind & Fire (1978) Recording artists Earth,Wind & Fire (L-R) Philip Bailey, Maurice White, Ralph Johnson,Verdine White and Larry Dunn pictured in 2004.

Earth Wind & Fire guitarist Al McKay remembers waking one morning “feeling really good” and picking up his guitar to have the central guitar groove of “September” roll out effortlessly “piece by piece.”

When he showed it to Maurice White, the band’s leader and co-writer on the track, White wrote the opening lyric after only a few repetitions. The immediate, buoyant and upbeat mood of this beginning remained imprinted on the track through the final mix and these attributes explain much of its enduring appeal.

White also singles out Thomas “Tom-Tom” Washington’s Latin-tinged horn arrangement with opening fanfare and the nonsense “ba-dee-ya” vocalization as contributing to the “feel-good, anthemic qualities” that the band strove for in their songs of the time.

The pioneering multi-track techniques employed on this recording sustained the deep groove for which the band was noted. The synthesis of funk, falsetto and forward-driving momentum of just a few chords are powered by the clarity of the individual channels and the punctuation of the horns.

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“Soul Man” (single), Sam & Dave (1967) Sam & Dave’s biggest hit was inspired by a riot.

After watching coverage of the 1967 Detroit riot, songwriters Isaac Hayes and David Porter were determined to respond with a positive song.

Hayes said, “... the word ‘soul,’ it was a galvanizing kind of thing for AfricanAmericans, and it had an effect of unity, it was said with a lot of pride.”

The result was “Soul Man,” a danceable declaration of Black Pride.

The dynamic vocal duo of Sam & Dave were chosen to record it with Hayes and Porter producing and backed by Stax Records regulars Booker T. and the M.G.’s and the MarKeys’ horns. “Soul Man” is instantly recognizable by its first few notes, guitarist Steve Cropper’s trademark sliding sixths. The engine that powers “Soul Man” is Donald “Duck” Dunn’s infectious, ebullient

bassline.

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“Soul Man” was awarded the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Group Performance, Vocal or Instrumental. “Soul Man” was released on the Stax label and was the label’s the most successful single peaking at number one on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart during that time.

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“The Blueprint” (album), Jay-Z (2001)

As Jay-Z’s fame and mainstream popularity grew, he became a tempting target for other hip-hop artists and his credibility came under threat. He was also facing charges relating to assault and weapons possession that could have dramatically affected his life and career.

There was a lot riding on the success of his sixth album, “The Blueprint,” when it was released on Sept. 11, 2001, the same day as the devastating terrorist attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. Critics recognized it as a signature achievement. Neil Strauss, writing for Rolling Stone, believed “personal and legal problems have provoked Jay-Z to write what may be his most personal, straightforward album, but also his most self-aggrandizing work.”

“The Blueprint” demonstrates Jay-Z’s range, from battle raps throwing shade on his lyrical adversaries such as Nas and Prodigy of Mob Deep, to triumphant anthems about life at the top, to heartfelt examinations of his personal history.

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“Mississippi Goddam” (single), Nina Simone (1964) Written by Nina Simone in response to the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in Mississippi and the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four young African-American girls, “Mississippi Goddam” is one of the most vital songs to emerge from the Civil Rights era.

Though surprisingly upbeat in tempo (Simone said of it, “This is a show tune, but the show hasn’t been written for it yet”), the message of “Mississippi” is brutally clear and addressed racial strife in music without the safety of abstraction and metaphor.

Simone often said when introducing the song in concert, “And I mean every word!” Simone’s lyrics and impassioned vocal performance lays out her outrage and though the curse word in its title immediately limited the recording’s radio airplay, the meaning and musicianship of this work has ensured its fame and endurance.

“Minnie the Moocher” (single), Cab Calloway (1931) By 1931, songs about dens of iniquity were nothing new, but one so deliberate, not to mention as entertaining, as Cab Calloway’s “Minnie the Moocher” was indeed remarkable. “Minnie” bears more than a slight resemblance to a 1920s ditty titled “Willie the Weeper,” a song about a “chimney sweeper” with a drug addiction.

In the song, Minnie is characterized as both “rough and tough” and big-hearted, and one who associated with types as disparate as “Cokey Joe” and the King of Sweden. An equally unlikely pairing was the wild abandon, yet perfect control, with which Cab Calloway sang this minor-keyed fable.

Calloway sang “Minnie” throughout his long career, including the rousing version he performed in the 1980 film “The Blues Brothers,” when he was an agile septuagenarian.

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“She’s So Unusual” (album), Cyndi Lauper (1983)

Her debut solo album, “She’s So Unusual,” wasn’t exactly what Cyndi Lauper had in mind, but it may have been just what she needed.

After the dissolution of her band, Blue Angel, Lauper faced bankruptcy and losing her voice, hardships that might have forced a less resilient artist to give up, but she persevered. When she finally got another chance, she wanted to make the most of it by recording her own songs although the record company suggested material by others.

As the sessions progressed, a mutual respect and trust developed between Lauper and producer Rick Chertoff. As a result, Lauper warmed to some of the proposed cover versions, including “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” which became the first of her four hit singles from this album.

Chertoff encouraged Lauper to work with singer/songwriter Rob Hyman on an additional song for the album. That effort, “Time After Time” became Lauper’s first number-one hit and, in an interesting twist, her most covered song.

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She brightened Jules Shear’s “All Through the Night” with sparkling synthesizer riffs and, what Rolling Stone’s Kurt Loder christened as her “… wild and wonderful skyrocket of a voice.”

Lauper’s version of The Brains’ “Money Changes Everything” hewed close to the original, her take on Robert Hazard’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” wasn’t a mere cover, it was a transformation of the song into a joyous feminist anthem.

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Visit 6 exhibits and 75 artist studios.

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