Pink Floyd album to be preserved by US Library

  The Dark Side of the Moon received the highest number of public nominations

Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon is to seal its place in history at the US Library of Congress as part of its National Recording Registry.
Joining it will be Chubby Checker's 1960's dance hit The Twist and Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel.
Each year, 25 "culturally" or "historically" significant recordings are added to the registry, established in 2000.

Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" was selected in 2003.

2003

In March 2004, the following 50 selections were made by the National Recording Preservation Board.

Recording or collection	Performer or agent	Year	National Archives
"The Lord's Prayer" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"	Emile Berliner	c. 1890
"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
"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, 1935	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	1938
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
Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin)	Original cast	1940, 1942
Beethoven String Quartets	Budapest Quartet	1940–1950
World Series-Game Four	New York Yankees vs. Brooklyn Dodgers	October 5, 1941
Oklahoma! (Rodgers and Hammerstein)	Original cast	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 Songbook	Ella Fitzgerald	1956
"Roll Over Beethoven"	Chuck Berry	1956
Brilliant Corners	Thelonious Monk	1956
Steam locomotive recordings, 6 vol.	O. Winston Link	1957–1977
Complete Ring Cycle (Richard Wagner)	Georg Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra	1958–1965
Winds in Hi-Fi	Eastman Wind Ensemble with Frederick Fennell	1958
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 Fitzgerald 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

Garfunkel, 71, said he was thrilled and flattered to have his work preserved.
His song The Sound of Silence, written after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, initially flopped, only becoming a hit after it was re-edited.
Its subsequent success prompted the duo to reunite and record another album entitled Sounds of Silence in 1966, which Garfunkel said was a life changer for him and his partner, Simon.
Election campaign song "When you look at the little mesh, wire microphone and you address people on the other side of the mic, you hope that your performance will be special, and you hope that it will have lasting power,"
He added that he remembers thinking in the 60s that "if we do really good and give a very special performance to these great Paul Simon songs, we might last right into the next century and be appreciated".
The recording that received the highest number of public nominations for this year's registry was The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd's groundbreaking 1973 album.
The library said it was an example of "brilliant, innovative production in service of the music".
The selections, which span from 1918 to 1980 also feature recordings that capture the political climate of the period, including Jimmy Davis' You Are My Sunshine (1940) which became President Herbert Hoover's election campaign song while running for governor in Louisiana.
It became one of the most popular country songs of all time and the state song of Louisiana in 1977.
Other recordings chosen include the soundtrack to the popular 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta and featuring the Bee Gees, which revived the disco craze and the original 1949 cast album for South Pacific.
The classical pianist Van Cliburn's Cold War performance when he won the prestigious Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition at 23 also was selected. The American musician who performed for every US president since Harry Truman, died in February.