The UMG recordings -- comprising both previously released music and unreleased outtakes -- encompass material by Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, the Dorsey Brothers, the Andrews Sisters, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Jimmy Lunceford, Louis Jordan, Judy Garland and other crucial American artists.
Individual tracks in the collection include such seminal recordings as Crosby's bestselling 1947 version of "White Christmas," the Mills Brothers' "Paper Doll," Armstrong's "Ain't Misbehavin'" and Les Paul's "Guitar Boogie."
More than 5,000 linear feet of physical material -- about a mile, in terms of shelf space -- will be housed, catalogued and digitized at the library's Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation, established in Culpeper, Va., in May 2007.
Universal Music Donates Music Archive to Library of Congress
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