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This is 1A. I’m Jane Wide in Washington and today we celebrate Thanksgiving with a tribute to the sounds of America. For the next hour we’ll listen to the audio preserved for all time in the National Recording Registry, these are recordings chosen by the Library of Congress for their importance to American culture and society, sounds that mean America. It all started in 2002 when Congress recognized that technologies were changing : cylinders were replaced by vinyl records then along came tape cassettes then CDS then MP3s, now thanks to the National Recordings Registry, no matter what the original technology, no matter what the original technology, we’ll always be able to use these audio gems There’s music, ( extract of Minnie the Moocher), (excerpt from Stand by your Man), (excerpt from YMCA),(excerpt from When Doves Cry), (excerpt from a rap tune) and not just music. The Registry preserves comedy, (excerpt from a comedy) (excerpt from an interview), they save famous moments of sports, and protect and preserve the important events of the day : (excerpt from MLK’s I Have A Dream speech), ( excerpt from Neil Armstrong’s declaration during the landing on the Moon). The diversity of the recordings highlight the richness of our nation’s legacy and ensures that this legacy will continue for generations to come.