Also represented this year: Whitney Houston, Selena, live Cheap Trick, Village People and a chaotic home run call. With the coronavirus going around, it's not the best idea to stay at the Y.M.C.A., but that didn't prevent the Library of Congress from inducting the signature tune from Village People into the National Recording Registry.
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has named "Y.M.C.A." and 24 other aural treasures as worthy of preservation this year, picked because of their cultural, historical and aesthetic importance to the USA's recorded sound heritage, it was announced Wednesday (March 25).
Also making the playlist are such albums as Cheap Trick at Budokan, a classic live import; Tina Turner's liberating Private Dancer; The