Super Mario
The recording archive is said to include 25 other items among the “defining sounds of the nation’s history,” including Madonna’s “Like a Virgin.”
Associated Press in Washington
Wed, Apr 12, 2023 11:51 AM BST
The original 1985 Super Mario Bros. theme, Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You, and Madonna’s 1984 album Like a Virgin are among the “defining sounds of the nation’s history and culture” that received a place in the US National Recording Registry The Library of Congress has announced.
Written by young Nintendo composer Koji Kondo, the Super Mario Bros music, officially known as Ground Theme, will become the first video game music to be included in what the library calls “the most iconic video game theme in history.” referred to as. The tune has appeared in countless Mario-related incarnations.
Queen Latifah. Photo: Mario Anzuoni/Portal
A total of 25 albums, singles and other sound artifacts spanning more than a century are included in the register, from the first known recording of mariachi music in 1908 and 1909 by the Cuarteto Coculense to the 2012 Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra of the Composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
Queen Latifah becomes the first female rapper to have a recording in the registry with the recording of her 1989 album All Hail the Queen, whose songs include the feminist anthem Ladies First.
Individual songs featured on the list contain a pair of ’80s standards: Flashdance… What a Feeling by Irene Cara (1983) and Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by Eurythmics (1983) and John Lennon’s Imagine (1971) , Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven (1971), John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads (1971), and Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville.
Full albums that receive recognition include 1970’s Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, 1983’s Synchronicity by the Police and 1985’s Black Codes (From the Underground) by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.
Mariah Carey in 1994, left, and Madonna during their 1985 Virgin tour in Seattle. Photo: AP
New additions include two non-musical contributions, astronomer Carl Sagan’s recording of his book on humanity’s place in the universe, Pale Blue Dot, and NBC radio reporter Dorothy Thompson’s commentary and analysis of Europe leading up to World War II in the year 1939.
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