Library of Congress

It hit number 16.

It, however, did not get a whole lot of formal nominations in terms of Grammy Awards or anything like that, but it was officially selected by the Library of Congress for the National Recording Registry back in 2009, and it also won the Heritage Prize in the 1960 to 1975 category for That was voted on by a grand jury of Canadian music critics, and that was back in 2017.

In 1975, Smokey released Changing All the Time.

This was the second album from the English rock band.

He was like a classical composer, sort of, but very talented, interesting guy.

Um, but he actually sat down with Gano and like, um, notated all of the music and sent it to the library of Congress, like this guy was serious.

And then obviously saw something in the band that, that others didn't, you know?

Right.

I love that the song names are just incredibly literal.

Bend, Finding Charlotte, Library of Congress, Declaration of Independence.

I think we just got to do the Declaration of Independence one because it's too classic and it's got a lot of what we're looking to hear.

So

And I'm happy to embrace that luxury.

But to give you an idea of the value placed on libraries, 1814, the British burnt down the Library of Congress.

There was serious thought being given in the legislature to letting the project fade, to just not rebuild it.

Can you imagine no Library of Congress? And Thomas Jefferson would not abide.

Thomas Jefferson effectively bullied the Congress into buying his private library, a collection of almost 7,000 books.

And the price that they paid for it, I'm sure translated to contemporary money, would make the jaw hang.

When he was running for president, particularly on several occasions in May of 1968, literally just a few short weeks, even days before he was murdered, Kennedy again repeated the call the United States should supply the 50 Phantom jets that Israel was requesting.

But privately, and I found a transcript of an interview done with one of his aides, Milton Griezmann, and it was fortunately online, I think it was through the Library of Congress, where Gevirtzman, who himself was Jewish, said that many of us felt that he politically might need to say these things in order to assuage and secure skeptical Jewish voters, but that some of us felt, and Robert Kennedy himself felt, that he was ambivalent about

this, that

That if he became president, he would need to deal with Arab countries, Arab heads of state.

But privately, and I found a transcript of an interview done with one of his aides, Milton Griezmann, and it was fortunately online.

I think it was through the Library of Congress.

where Gevirtzman, who himself was Jewish, said that many of us felt that he politically might need to say these things in order to assuage and secure skeptical Jewish voters, but that some of us felt, and Robert Kennedy himself felt, that he was ambivalent about

this, that

I'm interested in that.

Oh, here's a talk at the Library of Congress.

Wonder what he said there.

Oh, you know, that kind of thing.

There's Aunt Chloe and Uncle Sam, and they're not going to Well, I mean, forgive this image.

This is, whoops, I don't know who drew this, it just comes from the Library of Congress.

Or is this an image now that a lot of Americans, they may not prefer it, but are certainly willing to accept about the sons and daughters of who got really assertive, who wanted to vote, who were holding office, who were walking in their perfect white shirts and their suits in the halls of Congress and the halls of state legislatures, who insisted on education and property ownership and all those crazy rights of citizenship.

Where should black people be in that imagination? All right, the election of 1876 comes.