Winston Churchill, Kermit & Janet Jackson’s Recordings Added To The Library Of Congress

The U.S. Library of Congress admits only 25 recordings to its Recording Registry, which are works that added have to have a historical and cultural significance to be preserved for posterity.

This year’s list includes Janet Jackson, Winston Churchill and Kermit the Frog.

Churchill’s 1941 Christmas Eve speech will be added to the Library after it was broadcasted around to world to pause the horrors of World War II to celebrate Christmas.

“Let the children have their night of fun and laughter,” he said in the speech. “Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us.”

The Library of Congress has also recognized Jackson’s 1989 album Rhythm Nation to show how the pop star made an album to showcase racism, homeless and gun crime, instead of only making a mainstream pop album after the success of her previous one.

“We wanted Rhythm Nation to really communicate empowerment,” Jackson’s producer Jimmy Jam told the Library of Congress. “It was making an observation but it was also a call to action. Janet’s purpose was to lead people and do it through music, which I think is the ultimate uniter of people.”

Kermit the Frog joins the pop star and world leader in the registry through the 1979 single, “Rainbow Connection.” The song became The Muppets’ unofficial theme song.

The full list of recordings selected for this year’s admittance to the registry is as follows: