Robin Williams

Music by Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, Max Roach, The Four Tops and Wu-Tang Clan, speeches by FDR, and a Marc Maron-Robin Williams podcast are among ...

Win in the field, and lose in the forum." Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, as the U.S. lurched into war, writer and producer Norman Corwin created a radio tribute to the Bill of Rights, "We Hold These Truths," which received the largest radio audience to date. Keys was afforded great independence in shaping the final product, creating a fusion of musical styles. Raised by a single mom in a tough New York neighborhood, Alicia Keys' gifts as a classically-trained pianist, singer, songwriter, and student of R&B, jazz and hip hop were evident at an extraordinarily young age. Originally released as a promotional disc at the Fair, the song was reissued and became an inseparable part of the Disney brand. Bonnie Raitt grew up in the music business — her father, John Raitt, was a star of musical theater, and her mother played piano. First performed in 1964 at San Francisco's Tape Music Center, the minimalist composer Terry Riley's "In C" forgoes a traditional written score, instead consisting of 53 melodic phrases that are improvised and repeated on undefined instruments. But it was exactly the kind of evocative lyrics that singer Mel Tormé and his collaborator Robert Wells used to craft what would become a holiday standard (written, it should be noted, during the heat of July in 1945). Last year "Canciones de Mi Padre" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. What it was, was an intriguing performance piece for lead singer-songwriter Freddie Mercury, part of Queen's album "A Night at the Opera," that jolted from rock to ballad to classical in tone, like an operetta on medication withdrawal. We received about 1,000 public nominations this year for recordings to add to the Registry." The group resisted efforts to edit the song down to a length that could assure airplay.