| Recording or collection | Performer or agent | Release year | Induction
year | National
Archives |
|---|
Edison exhibition recordings (Group of three cylinders):[5]- "Around the World on the Phonograph"
- "The Pattison Waltz"
- "Fifth Regiment March"
| Thomas Edison | 1888–1889 | 2002[6] | |
| Passamaquoddy Indians field recordings | Recorded by Jesse Walter Fewkes | 1890 | |
| "The Stars and Stripes Forever" Berliner Gramophone disc recording | Military Band | 1897 | |
| Metropolitan Opera cylinder recordings (the Mapleson Cylinders) | Lionel Mapleson and the Metropolitan Opera | 1900–1903 | |
| "Casey at the Bat" | DeWolf Hopper | 1906 | |
| "Vesti la giubba" from Pagliacci | Enrico Caruso | 1907 | |
| 1895 Atlanta Exposition speech | Booker T. Washington | 1908 recreation | copy |
| "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" | Fisk Jubilee Singers | 1909 | |
| Lovey's Trinidad String Band recordings for Columbia Records | Lovey's Trinidad String Band | 1912 | |
| Ragtime compositions piano rolls | Scott Joplin | 1916 [7] | |
| "Tiger Rag" | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | 1918 | |
| "Arkansas Traveler" and "Sallie Gooden" | Eck Robertson | 1922 | |
| "Downhearted Blues" | Bessie Smith | 1923 | |
| Rhapsody in Blue | George Gershwin, piano; Paul Whiteman Orchestra | 1924 | |
| Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings | Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven | 1925–1928 | |
| Victor Talking Machine Company sessions in Bristol, Tennessee | Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Ernest Stoneman, and others | 1927 | |
| Highlander Center Field Recordings Collection | Rosa Parks, Esau Jenkins and others | 1930s–1980s | |
| Bell Laboratories experimental stereo recordings | Philadelphia Orchestra; Leopold Stokowski, conductor | 1931–1932 | |
| "Fireside chats" radio broadcasts[α] | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1933–1944 | original |
| Harvard Vocarium record series | T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and others | 1933–1956 | |
| "New Music Quarterly" recordings series | Henry Cowell, producer | 1934–1949 | |
| Description of the crash of the Hindenburg | Herbert Morrison | May 16, 1937 | original |
| The Cradle Will Rock | Marc Blitzstein and the original cast of The Cradle Will Rock | 1938 | |
"Who's on First?"
Earliest existing radio broadcast version | Abbott and Costello | October 6, 1938 | |
| The War of the Worlds | Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre on the Air | October 30, 1938 | copy |
"God Bless America"
Radio broadcast premiere | Kate Smith | November 11, 1938 | |
| The John and Ruby Lomax Southern States Recording Trip | John and Ruby Lomax | 1939 | |
| "Strange Fruit" | Billie Holiday | 1939 | |
Grand Ole Opry
First network radio broadcast | Uncle Dave Macon, Roy Acuff, and others | October 14, 1939 | |
| Béla Bartók and Joseph Szigeti in Concert at the Library of Congress | Béla Bartók, piano; Joseph Szigeti, violin | April 13, 1940 | |
| The Rite of Spring | Igor Stravinsky conducting the New York Philharmonic | 1940 | |
| Blanton-Webster era recordings | Duke Ellington Orchestra | 1940–1942 | |
"White Christmas"
original 1942 single | Bing Crosby | 1942 | |
| "This Land Is Your Land" | Woody Guthrie | 1944 | |
D-Day radio address to
the Allied Nations (June 6, 1944, order of the day and People of Western Europe speech)[9] | Dwight D. Eisenhower | June 6, 1944 | original |
| "Ko Ko" | Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and others | 1945 | |
| "Blue Moon of Kentucky" | Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys | 1947 | |
| "How High the Moon" | Les Paul and Mary Ford | 1951 | |
| Songs for Young Lovers | Frank Sinatra | 1954 | |
| Sun Records sessions | Elvis Presley | 1954–1955 | |
| Dance Mania | Tito Puente | 1958 | |
| Kind of Blue | Miles Davis | 1959 | |
| "What'd I Say", Parts 1 and 2 | Ray Charles | 1959 | |
| The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | 1963 | |
| "I Have a Dream" speech | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | August 28, 1963 | copy |
| "Respect" | Aretha Franklin | 1967 | |
| Philomel: For Soprano (Milton Babbitt) | Bethany Beardslee, recorded soprano, and synthesized sound | 1971 | |
| Precious Lord: New Recordings of the Great Gospel Songs of Thomas A. Dorsey | Thomas A. Dorsey, Marion Williams, and others | 1973 | |
Crescent City Living Legends Collection
(New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Archive/WWOZ New Orleans) | Clifton Chenier, Professor Longhair, Queen Ida, and other performers | 1973–1990 | |
| "The Message" | Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five | 1982 | |
| "The Lord's Prayer" and "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" | Emile Berliner | c. 1890 | 2003[10] | |
| "Honolulu Cake Walk" | Vess Ossman | 1898 | |
| Victor Releases | Bert Williams and George Walker | 1901 | |
| "You're a Grand Old Rag [Flag]" | Billy Murray | 1906 | |
| Chippewa/Ojibwe Cylinder Collection | Frances Densmore | 1907–1910 | |
The Bubble Book
(the first Bubble Book) | | 1917 | |
| Cylinder recordings of African-American music | Guy B. Johnson | 1920s | |
"Cross of Gold" speech
Speech re-enactment | William Jennings Bryan | 1921 | |
| "The OKeh Laughing Record" | Lucie Bernardo and Otto Rathke | 1922 | |
| "Adeste Fideles" | Associated Glee Clubs of America | 1925 | |
| Cajun-Creole Columbia releases | Amédé Ardoin and Dennis McGee | 1929 | |
| "Goodnight, Irene" | Lead Belly | 1933 | |
| "Every Man a King" speech | Huey P. Long | February 23, 1934 | copy |
| "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" | Marian Anderson | 1936 | |
| The Complete Recordings | Robert Johnson | 1936–1937 | |
| Interviews conducted by Alan Lomax | Jelly Roll Morton, Alan Lomax | 1938 | |
| Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert | Benny Goodman | January 16, 1938 (released 1998) | |
| Complete day of radio broadcasting, WJSV (Washington, D.C.) | WJSV, Washington, D.C. | September 21, 1939 | original |
| "New San Antonio Rose" | Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys | 1940 | |
| Selections from George Gershwin's Folk Opera Porgy and Bess | George Gershwin and the original Broadway cast of Porgy and Bess | 1940, 1942 | |
| Beethoven String Quartets | Budapest String Quartet | 1940–1950 | |
World Series – Game Four
New York Yankees vs. Brooklyn Dodgers | Red Barber, Bob Elson and Bill Corum | October 5, 1941 | |
Oklahoma!
Original Broadway cast recording | The original Broadway cast of Oklahoma! | 1943 | |
| Othello | Paul Robeson, Uta Hagen, José Ferrer, and others | 1943 | |
| Bach B-Minor Mass | Robert Shaw Chorale | 1947 | |
| The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) | Louis Kaufman and the Concert Hall String Orchestra | 1947 | |
| Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord" (Ives) | John Kirkpatrick | 1948 | |
| Pictures at an Exhibition (Modest Mussorgsky) | Rafael Kubelík conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra | 1951 | |
| "Problems of the American Home" | Billy Graham | 1954 | |
| Goldberg Variations (Bach) | Glenn Gould | 1955 | |
| Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book | Ella Fitzgerald | 1956 | |
| "Roll Over Beethoven" | Chuck Berry | 1956 | |
| Brilliant Corners | Thelonious Monk | 1956 | |
| Steam locomotive recordings, 6 vol. | O. Winston Link[11] | 1956–1960 (released 1957–1977) | |
| Complete Ring Cycle (Richard Wagner) | Georg Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic | 1958–1965[12] | |
| Winds in Hi-Fi | Eastman Wind Ensemble with Frederick Fennell | 1958[13] | |
| Mingus Ah Um | Charles Mingus | 1959 | |
| New York Taxi Driver | Tony Schwartz | 1959 | |
Ali Akbar College of Music,
Archive Selections | | 1960s–1970s | |
| "Crazy" | Patsy Cline | 1961 | |
| Kennedy Inauguration Ceremony | John F. Kennedy, Robert Frost, and others | January 20, 1961 | original |
| Judy at Carnegie Hall | Judy Garland | 1961 | |
| "I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)" | Otis Redding | 1965 | |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | The Beatles | 1967 | |
| At Folsom Prison | Johnny Cash | 1968 | |
| What's Going On | Marvin Gaye | 1971 | |
| Tapestry | Carole King | 1971 | |
A Prairie Home Companion
First broadcast | Garrison Keillor | July 6, 1974 | |
| Born to Run | Bruce Springsteen | 1975 | |
| Live at Yankee Stadium | Fania All-Stars | 1975 | |
| "Gypsy Love Song" | Eugene Cowles | 1898 | 2004[14] | |
| "Some of These Days" | Sophie Tucker | 1911 | |
| "The Castles in Europe One-Step (Castle House Rag)" | Europe's Society Orchestra | 1914 | |
| "Swanee" | Al Jolson | 1920 | |
| Armistice Day radio broadcast | Woodrow Wilson | November 10, 1923 | original |
| "See See Rider" | Gertrude "Ma" Rainey | 1924 | |
"Charleston"
Representative of the Edison Disc Master Mold Collection at the Edison National Historic Site | Golden Gate Orchestra | 1925 | |
| "Fascinating Rhythm" | Fred and Adele Astaire; George Gershwin, piano | 1926 | |
| NBC radio coverage of Charles A. Lindbergh's arrival and reception in Washington, D.C. | | June 11, 1927 | copy |
| "Stardust" | Hoagy Carmichael | 1927 | |
| "Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)" | Jimmie Rodgers | 1927 | |
| "Ain't Misbehavin'" | Thomas "Fats" Waller | 1929 | |
"Gregorio Cortez"
Representative of the Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection, University of California | Trovadores Regionales | 1929 | |
| Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor | Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano; Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra | 1929 | |
| "The Suncook Town Tragedy" | Mabel Wilson Tatro | July 1930 | |
| Oral narrative from the Lorenzo D. Turner Collection | Rosina Cohen | 1932 | |
| "Stormy Weather" | Ethel Waters | 1933 | |
| "Body and Soul" | Coleman Hawkins | 1939 | |
Peter and the Wolf
(Sergey Prokofiev) | Serge Koussevitzky, conductor;
Richard Hale, narrator;
Boston Symphony Orchestra | 1939 | |
| "In the Mood" | Glenn Miller and His Orchestra | 1939 | |
| Broadcast from London | Edward R. Murrow | September 21, 1940 | copy |
| King James version of the Bible | Alexander Scourby | 1940–1944, released 1966 | |
| We Hold These Truths | Norman Corwin | December 15, 1941 | original |
Piano Concerto No. 1, op. 23, B♭ minor
(Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) | Vladimir Horowitz, piano;
Arturo Toscanini, conductor;
NBC Symphony Orchestra | April 25, 1943 | |
| "Down by the Riverside" | Sister Rosetta Tharpe | 1944 | |
| U.S. Highball (A Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip) | Harry Partch, Gate 5 Ensemble | 1946[β] | |
Four Saints in Three Acts
Broadway cast recording | Virgil Thomson and members of the original Broadway cast of Four Saints in Three Acts | 1947 | |
| "Manteca" | Dizzy Gillespie Big Band with Chano Pozo | 1947 | |
| The Jack Benny Program | Jack Benny | March 28, 1948 | |
| "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" | Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs | 1949 | |
| "Lovesick Blues" | Hank Williams | 1949 | |
Guys and Dolls
Original Broadway cast recording | The original Broadway cast of Guys and Dolls | 1950 | |
"Old Soldiers Never Die"
(Farewell Address to the United States Congress) | General Douglas MacArthur | April 19, 1951 | copy |
| Songs by Tom Lehrer | Tom Lehrer | 1953 | |
| "Hoochie Coochie Man" | Muddy Waters | 1954 | |
| "Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)" | The Penguins | 1954 | |
| Tuskegee Institute Choir Sings Spirituals | Tuskegee Institute Choir, directed by William L. Dawson | 1955 | |
| Giant Steps | John Coltrane | 1959 | |
| Messiah | Eugene Ormandy, conductor; Richard P. Condie, choir director; Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Philadelphia Orchestra | 1959 | |
| Drums of Passion | Babatunde Olatunji | 1960 | |
| Peace Be Still | James Cleveland | 1962 | |
| "The Girl from Ipanema" (Garota de Ipanema) | Stan Getz, João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto | 1963 | |
| Live at the Apollo | James Brown and The Famous Flames | 1963 | |
| Pet Sounds | The Beach Boys | 1966 | |
| Remarks broadcast from the Moon | Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong | July 21, 1969 | original |
| At Fillmore East | The Allman Brothers Band | 1971 | |
| Star Wars (soundtrack)[γ] | John Williams | 1977 | |
| Recordings of Asian elephants | Katharine B. Payne | 1984 | |
| Fear of a Black Planet | Public Enemy | 1990 | |
| Nevermind | Nirvana | 1991 | |
"Canzone del Porter"
from Martha by von Flotow
Representative of the Columbia Grand Opera Series | Édouard de Reszke | 1903 | 2005[16] | |
"Listen to the Lambs"
Representative of the Hampton Quartet Collection, Hampton University | Hampton Quartette; recorded by Natalie Curtis Burlin | 1917 | |
| "Over There" | Nora Bayes | 1917 | |
| "Crazy Blues"[17] | Mamie Smith | 1920 | |
| "My Man" and "Second Hand Rose" | Fanny Brice | 1921 | |
| "Ory's Creole Trombone" | Kid Ory | June 1922 | |
| Second inauguration of Calvin Coolidge | Calvin Coolidge | March 4, 1925 | |
| "Tanec Pid Werbamy (Dance Under the Willows)" | Pawlo Humeniuk | 1926 | |
| "Singin' the Blues" | Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke | 1927 | |
| First official transatlantic telephone conversation | W.S. Gifford and Sir Evelyn P. Murray | January 27, 1927 | original |
"El manisero (The Peanut Vendor)"
(Two versions) | Rita Montaner, vocal with orchestra
and
Don Azpiazú and His Havana Casino Orchestra | 1927
and
1930 | |
Light's Golden Jubilee Celebration
(Thomas Edison, honoree) | Graham McNamee, host;
speeches by Herbert Hoover, Marie Curie, Henry Ford, Albert Einstein | October 21, 1929 | copy |
| Beethoven's Egmont Overture, Op. 84 | Modesto High School Band | 1930 | |
| Show Boat | Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, James Melton and others;
Victor Young, conductor; Louis Alter, piano | 1932 | |
| "Wabash Cannonball" | Roy Acuff | 1936 | |
| "One O'Clock Jump" | Count Basie and His Orchestra | 1937 | |
Columbia Workshop
Episode: The Fall of the City | Orson Welles, narrator;
Burgess Meredith, Paul Stewart | April 11, 1937 | copy |
| The Adventures of Robin Hood radio broadcast[γ] | Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer;
Basil Rathbone, narrator | May 11, 1938 | |
| Joe Louis-Max Schmeling fight | Clem McCarthy, announcer | June 22, 1938 | |
| "John the Revelator" | Golden Gate Quartet | 1938 | |
| "Adagio for Strings" (Samuel Barber) | Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra[18] | November 5, 1938 | |
Command Performance
Episode: No. 21 | Bob Hope, master of ceremonies; Lena Horne; Ginny Simms; Les Baxter & His Orchestra; Rosalind Russell | July 7, 1942 | copy |
| "Straighten Up and Fly Right" | Nat "King" Cole | 1943 | |
The Fred Allen Show
debut of Senator Claghorn | Fred Allen, Kenny Delmar | October 7, 1945 | |
| "Jole Blon (Jolie Blonde)" | Harry Choates | 1946 | |
| Tubby the Tuba | Victor Jory & Léon Barzin | 1946 | |
| "Move On Up a Little Higher" | Mahalia Jackson | 1948 | |
| Anthology of American Folk Music | Edited by Harry Smith | 1952 | |
| Damnation of Faust (Hector Berlioz) | Boston Symphony Orchestra with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society | 1954 | |
| "Blueberry Hill" | Fats Domino | 1956 | |
Variations for Orchestra by Elliott Carter
Louisville Orchestra First Edition Recordings series | Louisville Orchestra conducted by
Robert S. Whitney | 1956 | |
| "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" | Jerry Lee Lewis | 1957 | |
| "That'll Be the Day" | Buddy Holly and The Crickets | 1957 | |
| Poème électronique | Edgard Varèse | 1958 | |
| Time Out | The Dave Brubeck Quartet | 1959 | |
"Schooner Bradley" and/or "Clifton's Crew"[δ]
Representative of the Ivan Walton Collection at Bentley Library, University of Michigan | Pat Bonner | June 1960[ε] | |
| United States Military Academy address | William Faulkner | April 19–20, 1962 | |
Studs Terkel interview with James Baldwin
Representative of the Studs Terkel Collection at the Chicago History Museum (formerly the Chicago Historical Society) | Studs Terkel, James Baldwin | September 29, 1962[24] | |
| "Dancing in the Street" | Martha and the Vandellas | 1964 | |
| Live at the Regal | B. B. King | 1965 | |
| Are You Experienced | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1967 | |
| We're Only in It for the Money | Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention | 1968 | |
| Switched-On Bach | Wendy Carlos | 1968 | |
| "Oh Happy Day" | Edwin Hawkins Singers | 1969 | |
| Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers | The Firesign Theatre | 1970 | |
| "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" | Gil Scott-Heron | 1971 | |
| Will the Circle Be Unbroken | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band | 1972 | |
| The old foghorn, Kewaunee, Wisconsin | Recorded by James A. Lipsky | 1972 | |
| Songs in the Key of Life | Stevie Wonder | 1976 | |
| Daydream Nation | Sonic Youth | 1988 | |
| "Uncle Josh and the Insurance Agent" | Cal Stewart | 1904 | 2006[25] | |
| "Il Mio Tesoro" | John McCormack; orchestra conducted by Walter Rogers | 1916 | |
| National Defense Test | General John J. Pershing | September 12, 1924 | copy |
| "Black Bottom Stomp" | Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers | 1926 | |
| "Wildwood Flower" | Carter Family | 1928 | |
| "Pony Blues" | Charley Patton | 1929 | |
| "You're the Top" | Cole Porter | 1934 | |
The Lone Ranger
Episode: "The Osage Bank Robbery" | Earle Graser, John Todd | December 17, 1937 | |
| Native Brazilian Music | Pixinguinha, Donga, Cartola, José Espinguela and others; recording supervised by Leopold Stokowski | 1940 (released 1942) | |
| "Day of Infamy" speech to Congress | Franklin D. Roosevelt | December 8, 1941 | copy |
| "Peace in the Valley" | Red Foley and the Sunshine Boys | 1951 | |
| "Polonaise in A Major" ("Polonaise militaire"), Op. 40, No. 1, by Frédéric Chopin | Arthur Rubinstein | 1952 | |
| "Blue Suede Shoes" | Carl Perkins | 1955 | |
Interviews with William "Billy" Bell
(Canadian-Irish northwoods work songs)
Representative of the Edward D. Ives Collection at the Maine Folklife Center, University of Maine | Recorded by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives | 1956 | |
| Howl | Allen Ginsberg | 1959 | |
| The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart | Bob Newhart | 1960 | |
| "Be My Baby" | The Ronettes | 1963 | |
| We Shall Overcome | Pete Seeger | 1963 | |
| "A Change Is Gonna Come" | Sam Cooke | 1964 | |
| "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" | The Rolling Stones | 1965 | |
| The Velvet Underground & Nico | The Velvet Underground and Nico | 1967 | |
| The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake | Eubie Blake | 1969 | |
| Burnin' | The Wailers | 1973 | |
| Live in Japan | Sarah Vaughan | 1973 | |
| Graceland | Paul Simon | 1986 | |
| The first transatlantic broadcast | | March 14, 1925 | 2007[26][27] | |
| "Allons à Lafayette" | Joe Falcon | 1928 | |
| "Casta Diva" from Bellini's Norma | Rosa Ponselle and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Giulio Setti | December 31, 1928, and January 30, 1929 | |
| "If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again" | Thomas A. Dorsey | 1934 | |
| "Sweet Lorraine" | Art Tatum | 1940 | |
Fibber McGee and Molly
Fibber's closet opens for the first time | Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan | March 4, 1940 | |
| Wings Over Jordan | | May 10, 1942 | |
| Fiorello H. La Guardia reading the comics | Fiorello H. La Guardia | 1945[28] | |
| "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" | T-Bone Walker | 1947 | |
| Speech at the 1948 Democratic National Convention | Harry S. Truman | July 15, 1948 | |
| The Jazz Scene | Various artists, produced by Norman Granz | 1949 | |
| "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" | Kitty Wells | 1952 | |
My Fair Lady
Original Broadway cast recording | Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, and the original Broadway cast of My Fair Lady | 1956 | |
Navajo Shootingway ceremony field recordings
Representative of the David McAllester Collection at Wesleyan University | Recorded by David P. McAllester
Ray Winnie and Diné Tsosi, singers[29] | 1957–1958 | |
| "Freight Train" and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes | Elizabeth Cotten | 1959 | |
| United States Marine Band Recordings for the National Cultural Center | | 1963 | |
| "Oh, Pretty Woman" | Roy Orbison | 1964 | |
| "The Tracks of My Tears" | Smokey Robinson and the Miracles | 1965 | |
| You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song | Ella Jenkins | 1966 | |
| Music from the Morning of the World | Various artists, recorded by David Lewiston | 1966 | |
| For the Roses | Joni Mitchell | 1972 | |
| Head Hunters | Herbie Hancock | 1973 | |
| Ronald Reagan radio broadcasts | Ronald Reagan | 1975–79 | |
Murmurs of Earth
Disc prepared for the Voyager spacecraft | compilation produced by Carl Sagan | 1977 | |
| Thriller | Michael Jackson | 1982 | |
| "No News, or What Killed the Dog" | Nat M. Wills | 1908 | 2008[30] | |
| Acoustic recordings for Victor Talking Machine Company | Jascha Heifetz | 1917–1924 | |
| "Night Life" | Mary Lou Williams | 1930 | |
| Sounds of the ivory-billed woodpecker | Recorded by Arthur Allen and Peter Paul Kellogg | 1935 | |
Gang Busters
First episode, broadcast under the title G-Men | | July 20, 1935 | |
| "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" | The Andrews Sisters | 1938 | |
| "O Que É Que A Baiana Tem?" | Carmen Miranda | 1939 | |
| NBC Radio coverage of Marian Anderson's recital at the Lincoln Memorial | Marian Anderson | April 9, 1939 | |
| "Tom Dooley" | Frank Proffitt | 1940 | |
| Mary Margaret McBride | Mary Margaret McBride and Zora Neale Hurston | January 25, 1943 | |
"Uncle Sam Blues"
(V-Disc) | Oran "Hot Lips" Page, accompanied by Eddie Condon's Jazz Band | 1944 | |
| "Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain) Speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri | Winston Churchill | March 5, 1946 | |
| The Churkendoose | Ray Bolger | 1947 | |
| "Boogie Chillen'" | John Lee Hooker | 1948 | |
| A Child's Christmas in Wales | Dylan Thomas | 1952 | |
| A Festival of Lessons and Carols as Sung on Christmas Eve in King's College Chapel, Cambridge. | King's College Choir; Boris Ord, director | 1954 | |
West Side Story
Original Broadway cast recording | The original Broadway cast of West Side Story and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein | 1957 | |
| "Tom Dooley" | The Kingston Trio | 1958 | |
| "Rumble" | Link Wray | 1958 | |
| The Play of Daniel: A Twelfth-Century Drama | New York Pro Musica under the direction of Noah Greenberg | 1958 | |
| "Rank Stranger" | The Stanley Brothers | 1960 | |
| "At Last" | Etta James | 1961 | |
| 2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks | Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks | 1961 | |
| The Who Sings My Generation | The Who | 1966 | |
| "He Stopped Loving Her Today" | George Jones | 1980 | |
| "Fon der Choope (From the Wedding)" | Abe Elenkrig's Yidishe Orchestra | April 4, 1913 | 2009[31] | |
| "Canal Street Blues" | King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band | April 5, 1923 | |
| Tristan und Isolde, NBC broadcast | Metropolitan Opera, featuring Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior | March 9, 1935 | |
| "When You Wish Upon a Star"[γ] | Cliff Edwards | 1938 (recorded) / 1940 (released) | |
| America's Town Meeting of the Air: "Should Our Ships Convoy Materials to England?" | George V. Denny Jr. (host); Reinhold Niebuhr, John Flynn (guests) | May 8, 1941 | |
| The Library of Congress Marine Corps Combat Field Recording Collection, Second Battle of Guam | Alvin M. Josephy Jr., et al. | July 20–August 11, 1944 | |
| "Evangeline Special" and "Love Bridge Waltz" | Iry LeJeune | 1948 | |
| The Little Engine That Could | Paul Wing, narrator | 1949 | |
| Leon Metcalf Collection of recordings of the First People of western Washington State | Leon Metcalf | 1950–1954 | |
| "Tutti Frutti" | Little Richard | 1955 | |
| "Smokestack Lightning" | Howlin' Wolf | 1956 | |
Gypsy
Original Broadway cast recording | Ethel Merman and the original Broadway cast of Gypsy | 1959 | |
| "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)" | Max Mathews | 1961 | |
| The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings | Bill Evans Trio | June 25, 1961 | |
| I Started Out as a Child | Bill Cosby | 1964 | |
| Azucar Pa' Ti | Eddie Palmieri | 1965 | |
| Today! | Mississippi John Hurt | 1966 | |
| Silver Apples of the Moon | Morton Subotnick | 1967 | |
| Soul Folk in Action | The Staple Singers | 1968 | |
| The Band | The Band | 1969 | |
| "Coal Miner's Daughter" | Loretta Lynn | 1970 | |
| Red Headed Stranger | Willie Nelson | 1975 | |
| Horses | Patti Smith | 1975 | |
"Radio Free Europe"
original Hib-Tone single[32] | R.E.M. | 1981 | |
| "Dear Mama" | 2Pac | 1995 | |
| Phonautograms[33] | Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville | ca. 1853–1861 | 2010[34] | |
| "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" | Edward Meeker, accompanied by the Edison Orchestra | 1908 | |
| Yahi language cylinder recordings | Ishi, last surviving member of the Yahi tribe | 1911–1914 | |
| "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" | Blind Willie Johnson | 1927 | |
| "It's the Girl" | The Boswell Sisters with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra | 1931 | |
| "Mal Hombre" | Lydia Mendoza | 1934 | |
| "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" | Sons of the Pioneers | 1934 | |
| Talking Union | The Almanac Singers | 1941 | |
| Jazz at the Philharmonic | Nat King Cole, Les Paul, Buddy Rich, others | July 2, 1944 | |
| Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's "Pope Marcellus Mass" | Roger Wagner Chorale | 1951 | |
| "The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest" | Reverend C. L. Franklin | 1953 | |
| "Tipitina" | Professor Longhair | 1953 | |
| At Sunset | Mort Sahl | 1955 | |
| Interviews with jazz musicians for the Voice of America | Willis Conover | 1955–56 | |
| The Music from Peter Gunn | Henry Mancini | 1958 | |
| United Sacred Harp Musical Convention in Fyffe, Alabama | field recordings by Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins | 1959 | |
| Blind Joe Death | John Fahey | 1959, 1964, 1967 | |
| "Stand by Your Man" | Tammy Wynette | 1968 | |
| Trout Mask Replica | Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band | 1969 | |
| Songs of the Humpback Whale | Frank Watlington, Roger Payne, and others | 1970 | |
| "Let's Stay Together" | Al Green | 1971 | |
| Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land) (George Crumb) | New York Strings Quartet | 1972 | |
| Aja | Steely Dan | 1977 | |
| GOPAC Strategy and Instructional Tapes | Newt Gingrich, others | 1986–1994 | |
| 3 Feet High and Rising[35] | De La Soul | 1989 | |
| Edison Talking Doll cylinder | | 1888 | 2011[36] | |
| "Come Down Ma Evenin' Star" | Lillian Russell | 1912 | |
| "Ten Cents a Dance" | Ruth Etting | 1930 | |
| Voices from the Days of Slavery | Various | 1932–1975 | |
| "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" | Patsy Montana | 1935 | |
| "Fascinating Rhythm" | Sol Hoʻopiʻi | 1938 | |
| "Artistry in Rhythm" | Stan Kenton | 1943 | |
| New York Philharmonic debut of Leonard Bernstein | Leonard Bernstein | November 14, 1943 | |
| Hottest Women's Band of the 1940s | International Sweethearts of Rhythm | 1944–1946 (released 1984) | |
| "Hula Medley"[37] | Gabby Pahinui | 1947 | |
| Indians for Indians (Hour) | Don Whistler | March 25, 1947 | |
| I Can Hear It Now: 1933–1945 | Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly | 1948 | |
| "Let's Go Out to the Programs" | The Dixie Hummingbirds | 1953 | |
| Also Sprach Zarathustra | Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra | 1954, 1958 | |
| "Bo Diddley"/ "I'm a Man" | Bo Diddley | 1955 | |
| "Green Onions" | Booker T. & the M.G.'s | 1962 | |
| A Charlie Brown Christmas | Vince Guaraldi Trio | 1965 | |
| Forever Changes | Love | 1967 | |
| The Continental Harmony: The Gregg Smith Singers Perform Music of William Billings | Gregg Smith Singers | 1969 | |
| "Coat of Many Colors" | Dolly Parton | 1971 | |
| Mothership Connection | Parliament | 1975 | |
| Barton Hall Concert at Cornell University[38] | Grateful Dead | May 8, 1977 | 011 |
| "I Feel Love" | Donna Summer | 1977 | |
| "Rapper's Delight"[39] | The Sugarhill Gang | 1979 | |
| Purple Rain[γ] | Prince and The Revolution | 1984 | |
| "After You've Gone" | Marion Harris | 1918 | 2012[40] | |
| "Bacon, Beans and Limousines"[41] | Will Rogers | October 18, 1931 | |
| "Begin the Beguine" | Artie Shaw | 1938 | |
| "You Are My Sunshine" | Jimmie Davis | 1940 | |
| D-Day Radio Broadcast | George Hicks | June 5–6, 1944 | |
| "Just Because" | Frank Yankovic & His Yanks | 1947 | |
South Pacific
Original Broadway cast recording | Mary Martin, Ezio Pinza, and the original Broadway cast of South Pacific | 1949 | |
| Descargas: Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature | Cachao | 1957 | |
| Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 | Van Cliburn[42] | April 11, 1958 | |
| President's Message Relayed from Atlas Satellite | Dwight D. Eisenhower | December 19, 1958 | |
| A Program of Song[43][44] | Leontyne Price | 1959 | |
| The Shape of Jazz to Come | Ornette Coleman | 1959 | |
| "Crossing Chilly Jordan" | Blackwood Brothers | 1960 | |
| "The Twist" | Chubby Checker | 1960 | |
| Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's | Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson, others | 1960–1962 | |
| Hoodoo Man Blues | Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band feat. Buddy Guy | 1965 | |
| Sounds of Silence | Simon & Garfunkel | 1966 | |
| Cheap Thrills | Big Brother and the Holding Company | 1968 | |
| The Dark Side of the Moon | Pink Floyd | 1973 | |
Music Time In Africa
Episode: "Mauritania" (premiere episode) | Leo Sarkisian | July 29, 1973 | |
| The Wild Tchoupitoulas | The Wild Tchoupitoulas | 1976 | |
| Ramones | Ramones | 1976 | |
| Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack[γ] | Bee Gees, et al. | 1977 | |
| Einstein on the Beach | Philip Glass and Robert Wilson | 1979 | |
| The Audience with Betty Carter | Betty Carter | 1980 | |
| "The Laughing Song" | George W. Johnson | c. 1896 | 2013[45][46] | |
| "They Didn't Believe Me" | Harry Macdonough and Alice Green | 1915 | |
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"
(Two Versions) | Bing Crosby
and
Rudy Vallée | 1932 | |
| Recordings of Kwakwaka'wakw Chief Dan Cranmer | Franz Boas and George Herzog | 1938 | |
| "Were You There" | Roland Hayes | 1940 | |
The Goldbergs
Episode: "Sammy Goes to the Army" | Gertrude Berg and cast | July 9, 1942 | |
| "Caldonia" | Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five | 1945 | |
| "Dust My Broom" | Elmore James | 1951 | |
| A Night at Birdland (Vols. 1 & 2) | Art Blakey | 1954 | |
| "When I Stop Dreaming" | The Louvin Brothers | 1955 | |
| "Cathy's Clown" | The Everly Brothers | 1960 | |
| Texas Sharecropper and Songster | Mance Lipscomb | 1960 | |
| The First Family | Vaughn Meader | 1962[47] | |
| Lawrence Ritter's Interviews with Baseball Pioneers of the Late 19th and Early 20th Century | Lawrence Ritter | 1962–1966 | |
| Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson | Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963–1969 | |
| Carnegie Hall Concert with Buck Owens and His Buckaroos | Buck Owens and His Buckaroos | 1966 | |
| "Fortunate Son" | Creedence Clearwater Revival | 1969 | |
| Shaft[γ] | Isaac Hayes | 1971 | |
| Only Visiting This Planet | Larry Norman | 1972[48] | |
| Celia & Johnny[49] | Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco | 1974 | |
| Copland Conducts Copland: Appalachian Spring | Aaron Copland | 1974 | |
| Heart Like a Wheel | Linda Ronstadt | 1974 | |
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Original Broadway cast recording | The original Broadway cast of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 1979 | |
| The Joshua Tree | U2 | 1987 | |
| "Hallelujah" | Jeff Buckley | 1994 | |
| The Vernacular Wax Cylinder Recordings at University of California, Santa Barbara Library | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1890–1910 | 2014[50] | |
| The Benjamin Ives Gilman Collection, recorded at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago | Benjamin Ives Gilman | 1893 | |
| "The Boys of the Lough"/"The Humours of Ennistymon"[51] | Michael Coleman | 1922 | |
| "That Black Snake Moan"/ "Matchbox Blues" | Blind Lemon Jefferson | 1928 | |
Suspense
Episode: "Sorry, Wrong Number"[52] | Agnes Moorehead | May 25, 1943 | |
| "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" | Johnny Mercer | 1944 | |
| Radio Coverage of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Funeral | Arthur Godfrey, et al. | April 14, 1945 | |
Kiss Me, Kate
Original Broadway cast recording | Cole Porter, Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, and the original Broadway cast of Kiss Me Kate | 1949 | |
| John Brown's Body | Tyrone Power, Judith Anderson, and Raymond Massey; directed by Charles Laughton | 1953 | |
"My Funny Valentine"
May 20, 1953, live recording | The Gerry Mulligan Quartet featuring Chet Baker | 1953 | |
| "Sixteen Tons" | Tennessee Ernie Ford | 1955 | |
| "Mary Don't You Weep" | Swan Silvertones | 1959 | |
| Joan Baez | Joan Baez | 1960 | |
| "Stand By Me" | Ben E. King | 1961 | |
| New Orleans' Sweet Emma Barrett and her Preservation Hall Jazz Band | Sweet Emma Barrett and her Preservation Hall Jazz Band | 1964 | |
| "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" | The Righteous Brothers | 1964 | |
| The Doors | The Doors | 1967 | |
| Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues (formerly known as Sheffield S9)[53] | Lincoln Mayorga | 1968[54] | |
| Stand! | Sly and the Family Stone | 1969 | |
| A Wild and Crazy Guy | Steve Martin | 1978 | |
| Sesame Street: Platinum All-Time Favorites | Various | 1995 | |
| OK Computer | Radiohead | 1997 | |
| Old Regular Baptists: Lined-Out Hymnody from Southeastern Kentucky | Indian Bottom Association | 1997 | |
| The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill | Lauryn Hill | 1998 | |
| Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman | Colorado Symphony, Marin Alsop, conductor; Joan Tower, composer | 1999[55] | |
| "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" | Peerless Quartet | 1911 | 2015[56][57] | |
| "Wild Cat Blues" | Clarence Williams' Blue Five | 1923 | |
| "Statesboro Blues" | Blind Willie McTell | 1928 | |
"Bonaparte's Retreat"
Representative of Alan and Elizabeth Lomax's 1937 Kentucky recordings | W.H. Stepp | 1937 | |
Vic and Sade
Episode: "Decoration Day Parade"[22] | | May 28, 1937[22] | |
| Mahler: Symphony No. 9 | Vienna Philharmonic; Bruno Walter, conductor | 1938 | |
| Carousel of American Music | George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, Arthur Freed, Shelton Brooks, Hoagy Carmichael, others | September 24, 1940 | |
| The Marshall Plan Speech | George C. Marshall | June 5, 1947 | copy |
Destination Freedom
Episodes: "A Garage in Gainesville" and "Execution Awaited" | Richard Durham | September 25 and October 2, 1949[58] | |
| A Streetcar Named Desire soundtrack[γ] | Alex North | 1951 | |
| "Cry Me a River" | Julie London | 1955 | |
"Mack the Knife"
(Two Versions) | Louis Armstrong
and
Bobby Darin | 1956
and
1959 | |
| Fourth-quarter radio coverage of Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game | Bill Campbell, announcer | March 2, 1962 | |
| A Love Supreme | John Coltrane | 1964 | |
| It's My Way! | Buffy Sainte-Marie | 1964 | |
| "Where Did Our Love Go" | The Supremes | 1964 | |
| "People Get Ready" | The Impressions | 1965 | |
| "Mama Tried" | Merle Haggard | 1968 | |
| Abraxas | Santana | 1970 | |
| Class Clown | George Carlin | 1972 | |
| Robert and Clara Schumann Complete Piano Trios[59] | Beaux Arts Trio | 1972 | |
| "Piano Man" | Billy Joel | 1973 | |
| Bogalusa Boogie[60] | Clifton Chenier | 1976 | |
| "I Will Survive" | Gloria Gaynor | 1978 | |
| Master of Puppets | Metallica | 1986 | |
| 1888 London cylinder recordings of Col. George Gouraud | George Gouraud | 1888 | 2016[61] | |
"Lift Every Voice and Sing"
(Two Versions) | Manhattan Harmony Four
and
Melba Moore & Friends | 1923
and
1990 | |
| "Puttin' On the Ritz" | Harry Richman | 1929 | |
| "Over the Rainbow"[γ] | Judy Garland | 1939 | |
| "I'll Fly Away" | The Chuck Wagon Gang | 1948 | |
| "Hound Dog" | Big Mama Thornton | 1952 | |
| Saxophone Colossus | Sonny Rollins | 1956 | |
| New York Giants vs. Brooklyn Dodgers final game commentary | Vin Scully | September 8, 1957 | |
| Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs | Marty Robbins | 1959 | |
| The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery | Wes Montgomery | 1960 | |
| People | Barbra Streisand | 1964 | |
| "In the Midnight Hour" | Wilson Pickett | 1965[62] | |
| "Amazing Grace" | Judy Collins | 1970 | |
All Things Considered
first broadcast | National Public Radio | May 3, 1971 | |
| "American Pie" | Don McLean | 1971[63] | |
| The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars | David Bowie | 1972 | |
The Wiz
Original Broadway cast recording | The original Broadway cast of The Wiz | 1975 | |
| Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) | Eagles | 1976 | |
| Scott Joplin's Treemonisha | Gunther Schuller, arr. | 1976 | |
| Wanted: Live in Concert | Richard Pryor | 1978[64] | |
| "We Are Family" | Sister Sledge | 1979 | |
| Remain in Light | Talking Heads | 1980 | |
| Straight Outta Compton | N.W.A | 1988 | |
| Rachmaninoff's Vespers (All-Night Vigil) | The Robert Shaw Festival Singers | 1990 | |
| Signatures | Renée Fleming | 1997[65] | |
| "Dream Melody Intermezzo: Naughty Marietta" | Victor Herbert and his Orchestra | 1911 | 2017[66] | |
| Standing Rock Preservation Recordings | George Herzog and Members of the Yanktoni Tribe | 1928 | |
| "Lamento Borincano" | written by Rafael Hernández Marín
performed by Canario y Su Grupo (including Davilita on lead vocals) | 1930 | |
| "Sitting on Top of the World" | Mississippi Sheiks | 1930 | |
| The Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas | Artur Schnabel | 1932–1935 | |
| "If I Didn't Care" | The Ink Spots | 1939 | |
| Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on International Organization | | April 25-June 26, 1945 | |
| Folk Songs of the Hills | Merle Travis | 1946 | |
| "How I Got Over" | Clara Ward and the Ward Singers | 1950 | |
| "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock" | Bill Haley & His Comets | 1954 | |
| Calypso | Harry Belafonte | 1956 | |
| "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" | Tony Bennett | 1962 | |
| "My Girl" | The Temptations | 1964 | |
| King Biscuit Time | Sonny Boy Williamson II and others | 1965 | |
| The Sound of Music soundtrack[γ] | Various | 1965 | |
| "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" | Arlo Guthrie | 1967 | |
| New Sounds in Electronic Music | Steve Reich, Richard Maxfield, Pauline Oliveros | 1967 | |
| An Evening with Groucho | Groucho Marx | 1972 | |
| Rumours | Fleetwood Mac | 1977 | |
| "The Gambler" | Kenny Rogers | 1978 | |
| "Le Freak" | Chic | 1978 | |
| "Footloose" | Kenny Loggins | 1984 | |
| Raising Hell | Run-DMC | 1986 | |
| "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" | Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine | 1987 | |
| Yo-Yo Ma Premieres: Concertos for Violoncello and Orchestra | Yo-Yo Ma & the Philadelphia Orchestra performing Christopher Rouse, Leon Kirchner, and Richard Danielpour | 1996 | |
| Yiddish Cylinders from the Standard Phonograph Company of New York and the Thomas Lambert Company | | c. 1901–1905 | 2018[67] | |
| "The Memphis Blues" | Victor Military Band | 1914 | |
| Melville Jacobs Collection of Native Americans of the American Northwest | Melville Jacobs | 1929–1939 | |
| "Minnie the Moocher" | Cab Calloway | 1931 | |
| Bach Six Cello Suites | Pablo Casals | 1936–1939 | |
| "They Look Like Men of War" | Deep River Boys | 1941 | |
Gunsmoke
Episode: "The Cabin" | William Conrad and cast | December 27, 1952 | |
| Complete Recorded Monologues | Ruth Draper | 1954–1956 | |
| "La Bamba" | Ritchie Valens | 1958 | |
| "Long Black Veil" | Lefty Frizzell | 1959 | |
| Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume One: The Early Years | Stan Freberg | 1961[68] | |
| Go | Dexter Gordon | 1962 | |
| War Requiem | Benjamin Britten | 1963 | |
| "Mississippi Goddam" | Nina Simone | 1964[69] | |
| "Soul Man" | Sam & Dave | 1967 | |
Hair
Original Broadway cast recording | The original Broadway cast of Hair | 1968 | |
| Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. | Robert F. Kennedy | April 4, 1968 | |
| "Sweet Caroline" | Neil Diamond | 1969 | |
| Super Fly[γ] | Curtis Mayfield | 1972 | |
| Ola Belle Reed | Ola Belle Reed | 1973 | |
| "September" | Earth, Wind & Fire | 1978 | |
| "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" | Sylvester | 1978 | |
| She's So Unusual | Cyndi Lauper | 1983 | |
| Schoolhouse Rock!: The Box Set | Various | 1996[70] | |
| The Blueprint | Jay-Z | 2001[71] | |
| "Whispering" | Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra | 1920 | 2019[72][73] | |
| "Protesta per Sacco e Vanzetti"/"Sacco e Vanzetti" | Compagnia Columbia; Raoul Romito | 1927 | |
| "La Chicharronera" | Narciso Martínez and Santiago Almeida | 1936 | |
Arch Oboler's Plays
Episode: "The Bathysphere" | | November 18, 1939 | |
| "Me and My Chauffeur Blues" | Memphis Minnie | 1941 | |
| The 1951 National League Tiebreaker: New York Giants vs. Brooklyn Dodgers | Russ Hodges, announcer | October 3, 1951 | |
| Tosca (Puccini) | Victor de Sabata, conductor, with Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano and others | 1953 | |
| "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" | Allan Sherman | 1963 | |
| WGBH broadcast of the Boston Symphony on the day of the John F. Kennedy assassination | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Nov. 22, 1963 | |
Fiddler on the Roof
Original Broadway Cast recording | Zero Mostel and the original Broadway cast of Fiddler on the Roof | 1964 | |
| "Make the World Go Away" | Eddy Arnold | 1965 | |
| Hiromi Lorraine Sakata collection of Afghan traditional music | Recorded by Hiromi Lorraine Sakata | 1966–67, 1971–73 | |
| "Wichita Lineman" | Glen Campbell | 1968 | |
| Dusty in Memphis | Dusty Springfield | 1969 | |
| Mister Rogers Sings 21 Favorite Songs from "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" | Fred Rogers | 1973[74] | |
| Cheap Trick at Budokan | Cheap Trick | 1978 | |
Suite No. 1 in E flat, Suite No. 2 in F (Holst) / Music for the Royal Fireworks (Handel) / Fantasia in G (Bach)
Special edition audiophile pressing | Frederick Fennell and the Cleveland Symphonic Winds | 1978 | |
| "Y.M.C.A." | Village People | 1978 | |
| A Feather on the Breath of God | Gothic Voices; Christopher Page, conductor; Hildegard von Bingen, composer | 1981/2 (released 1985)[75] | |
| Private Dancer | Tina Turner | 1984 | |
| Ven Conmigo | Selena | 1990[76] | |
| The Chronic | Dr. Dre | 1992[77] | |
| "I Will Always Love You" | Whitney Houston | 1992 | |
| Concert in the Garden | Maria Schneider Orchestra | 2004 | |
| Percussion Concerto (Higdon) | Colin Currie | 2008[78] | |
| "St. Louis tinfoil" recording | Thomas Edison | 1878 | 2020[79] | |
| "Nikolina" | Hjalmar Peterson | 1917 | |
| "Smyrneikos Balos" | Marika Papagika | 1928 | |
| "When the Saints Go Marching In" | Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra | 1938 | |
| Christmas Eve broadcast | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill | December 24, 1941 | |
The Guiding Light
Episode: November 22, 1945 | | November 22, 1945 | |
| Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues | Odetta | 1957 | |
| "Lord, Keep Me Day by Day" | Albertina Walker and the Caravans | 1959 | |
| Roger Maris hits his 61st home run | Phil Rizzuto[80] | October 1, 1961 | |
| Aida | Leontyne Price, et al. | 1962 | |
| "Once a Day" | Connie Smith | 1964 | |
| Born Under a Bad Sign | Albert King | 1967 | |
| Free to Be ... You & Me | Marlo Thomas and Friends | 1972 | |
| The Harder They Come | Jimmy Cliff | 1972[81] | |
| "Lady Marmalade" | Labelle | 1974 | |
| Late for the Sky | Jackson Browne | 1974[82] | |
| Bright Size Life | Pat Metheny | 1976 | |
| "Rainbow Connection"[γ] | Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson)[83] | 1979[84] | |
| "Celebration" | Kool & the Gang | 1980 | |
| Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs | Jessye Norman | 1983[85] | |
| "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" | Israel Kamakawiwo'ole | 1988, released 1993[86] | |
| Rhythm Nation 1814 | Janet Jackson | 1989 | |
| Partners[87] | Flaco Jiménez[88] | 1992[89][90] | |
| Illmatic | Nas | 1994 | |
| This American Life: "The Giant Pool of Money" | Ira Glass, Adam Davidson & Alex Blumberg[91] | May 9, 2008 | |
| "Harlem Strut" | James P. Johnson | 1921 | 2022[ζ][93] | |
| Complete presidential speeches | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1933–1945 | |
| "Walking the Floor Over You" | Ernest Tubb | 1941 | |
| On a Note of Triumph | Norman Corwin | May 8, 1945 | |
| "Jesus Gave Me Water" | The Soul Stirrers | 1950 | |
| Ellington at Newport | Duke Ellington | 1956 | |
| We Insist! | Max Roach | 1960 | |
"The Christmas Song"
1961 stereo recording | Nat "King" Cole | 1961 | |
| Tonight's the Night | The Shirelles | 1961 | |
| "Moon River" | Andy Williams | 1962 | |
| "It's a Small World (After All)" | Disneyland Boys Choir[94] | 1964 | |
| "Reach Out I'll Be There" | Four Tops | 1966 | |
| In C | Terry Riley | 1968 | |
| Hank Aaron's 715th career home run | Milo Hamilton[95] | April 18, 1974 | |
| "Bohemian Rhapsody" | Queen | 1975 | |
| "Don't Stop Believin'" | Journey | 1981[96] | |
| Canciones de Mi Padre[97] | Linda Ronstadt | 1987 | |
| Nick of Time | Bonnie Raitt | 1989 | |
| The Low End Theory | A Tribe Called Quest | 1991 | |
| Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | Wu-Tang Clan | 1993[98] | |
| Buena Vista Social Club | Buena Vista Social Club | 1997 | |
| "Livin' la Vida Loca" | Ricky Martin | 1999 | |
| Songs in A Minor | Alicia Keys | 2001[99] | |
| Broadcasts for the day of 9/11[100] | WNYC[101] | September 11, 2001 | |
WTF with Marc Maron
Episode 67: "Robin Williams"[102] | Marc Maron and Robin Williams | April 26, 2010 | |
| The Very First Mariachi Recordings | Cuarteto Coculense | 1907-1909 (reissued 1998) | 2023[103] | |
| "St. Louis Blues" | Handy's Memphis Blues Band | 1922 | |
| "Sugar Foot Stomp" | Fletcher Henderson | 1925 | |
| Commentary and analysis of the European situation for NBC Radio | Dorothy Thompson | Aug. 23-Sept. 6, 1939 | |
| "Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around" | The Fairfield Four | 1947 | |
| "Sherry" | The Four Seasons | 1962 | |
| "What the World Needs Now is Love" | Jackie DeShannon | 1965 | |
| "Wang Dang Doodle" | Koko Taylor | 1966 | |
| "Ode to Billie Joe" | Bobbie Gentry | 1967 | |
| Déjà Vu | Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young | 1970 | |
| "Imagine" | John Lennon | 1971 | |
| "Stairway to Heaven" | Led Zeppelin | 1971 | |
| "Take Me Home, Country Roads" | John Denver | 1971 | |
| "Margaritaville" | Jimmy Buffett | 1977 | |
| "Flashdance…What a Feeling" | Irene Cara | 1983 | |
| "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" | Eurythmics | 1983 | |
| Synchronicity | The Police | 1983 | |
| Like a Virgin | Madonna | 1984; 1985 reissue[22] | |
| Black Codes (From the Underground) | Wynton Marsalis | 1985 | |
| Super Mario Bros. theme | Koji Kondo[104] | 1985 | |
| All Hail the Queen | Queen Latifah | 1989 | |
| "All I Want for Christmas is You" | Mariah Carey | 1994 | |
Pale Blue Dot
Audiobook | Carl Sagan | 1994[105] | |
| "Gasolina" | Daddy Yankee[106] | 2004[107] | |
| Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra (Zwilich) | Chamber Music Northwest[108] | 2012[109] | |
| "Clarinet Marmalade" | Lt. James Reese Europe's 369th U.S. Infantry Band | 1919 | 2024[110] | |
| "Kauhavan Polkka" | Viola Turpeinen and John Rosendahl | 1928 | |
| Wisconsin Folksong Collection | | 1937–1946 | |
| "Rose Room" | Benny Goodman Sextet with Charlie Christian | 1939 | |
| "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" | Gene Autry | 1949 | |
| "Tennessee Waltz" | Patti Page | 1950 | |
| "Rocket 88" | Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats | 1951 | |
| "Catch a Falling Star"/"Magic Moments" | Perry Como | 1957 | |
| "Chances Are" | Johnny Mathis | 1957 | |
| The Sidewinder | Lee Morgan | 1964 | |
| Surrealistic Pillow | Jefferson Airplane | 1967 | |
| "Ain't No Sunshine" | Bill Withers | 1971 | |
| This Is a Recording | Lily Tomlin | 1971 | |
| J. D. Crowe & The New South | J. D. Crowe and The New South | 1975 | |
| Arrival | ABBA | 1976 | |
| "El Cantante" | Héctor Lavoe | 1978 | |
| The Cars | The Cars | 1978 | |
| Parallel Lines | Blondie | 1978 | |
| "La Di Da Di" | Doug E. Fresh and MC Ricky D | 1985 | |
| "Don't Worry, Be Happy" | Bobby McFerrin | 1988 | |
| "Amor eterno" | Juan Gabriel | 1990 | |
| Pieces of Africa | Kronos Quartet | 1992 | |
| Dookie | Green Day | 1994 | |
| Ready to Die | The Notorious B.I.G. | 1994 | |
| Wide Open Spaces | The Chicks | 1998 | |
