As part of Banned Books week here at FAU Libraries, we wanted to share Party Records. Learn more about these records and why they were made in the video below.

Here at the Recorded Sound Archives , we have one Party record which you can listen to on our website to get a taste of what was deemed obscene at the time. Read More About This…

Discover RSA staff picks, as summer comes to an end and the fall semester is in full swing this week at FAU Libraries, we thought we’d share RSA Staff Picks: Our Summer ’22 Favorites.

Staff Picks: Our Summer ’22 Favorites

1. There’ll be some change made by Mildred Bailey
2. If you were but a dream by Frank Sinatra
3. Somebody loves me by Bing Crosby
4. Marianne & Goodbye Chiquita by Terry Glikyson and the Easy Riders
5. Tweedle Dee by Frank Messina and the Mavericks
6. Isle of Capri by Irving Fazolas Dixielanders & other artists
7. Ugly Woman by De Paurs Infantry Chorus
8. The Yellow Roses of Texas by Johnny Desmond
9. Clementine by John Scott Trotter and his Orchestra & other artists
10. The Morningside of the Mountain by Hugo Winterhalther and his Orchestra
11. Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32 by Boston Symphony Orchestra
12. Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks by Boston Symphony Orchestra
13. Mozart: “Jupiter” Symphony No.41 in C, K. 551 by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra
14. Take Me In Your Arms and Hold Me by Les Paul & Mary Ford
15. When Your Lips Met Mine by Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights

And let us know in the comments, what are some of your favorite songs you discovered this past summer? Read More About This…

Happy Birthday, Louis Armstrong! Today would have been Louis Armstrong’s 121st birthday. Did you know that a Jewish immigrant family helped Armstrong buy his first horn?

In a memoir from 1970 titled Louis Armstrong and the Jewish Family in New Orleans, LA the year of 1907 Armstrong described his time working for the Karnofsky family, a local Lithuanian-Jewish family who hired him to do odd jobs for their peddling business. Read More About This…

It’s National Donut Day and on this day one song comes to mind, The Donut Song by Burl Ives. Despite it’s age, this song has a wonderful message about life:

When you walk the streets you’ll have no cares Read More About This…

Over the years, whether it was a program about the war or just reminding people to remember and honor our many brave, patriotic fallen heroes, Stars and Stripes has always been playing in the background. Here at the Recorded Sound Archives we wanted to share a Piano Roll of the famous Stars and Stripes Forever March.

Did you also know that the Stars and Stripes Forever March by John Philip Sousa was RCA Victor’s billionth record played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Serge Koussevitzky? Read More About This…