- Roy Acuff: Grand Ole Opry debut, "Wabash Cannonball", and performing "The Precious Jewel", "Pins and Needles (In My Heart)", "Wreck on the Highway", and "I Saw the Light" on Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- Harold Arlen: "Over the Rainbow" (both Judy Garland and Israel Kamakawiwoʻole versions), "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Johnny Mercer), "Stormy Weather" (Ethel Waters), "Over the Rainbow" on Carousel of American Music (Garland) and on Live in Japan (Sarah Vaughan), "Don't Like Goodbyes" (from House of Flowers) on People (Barbra Streisand), and "Over the Rainbow", "The Man That Got Away", "Come Rain or Come Shine", and "Stormy Weather" on Judy at Carnegie Hall
- Marin Alsop: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman (Joan Tower, conductor) and Percussion Concerto (Jennifer Higdon, conductor)
- Marian Anderson: 1939 recital at the Lincoln Memorial and "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"
- Julie Andrews: The Sound of Music (film soundtrack) and My Fair Lady (original Broadway cast)
- Paul Anka: "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", and "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" on Heart Like a Wheel (Linda Ronstadt)
- Louis Armstrong: Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings, "When the Saints Go Marching In", "Mack the Knife", "Canal Street Blues" (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band), and "Melancholy Blues" on Murmurs of Earth
- Eddy Arnold: "Make the World Go Away" (single), "I Couldn't Believe it Was True" on Red Headed Stranger (Willie Nelson), and "You Don't Know Me" and "Just a Little Lovin' (Will Go a Long Way)" on Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (Ray Charles)
- Clarence Ashley: "The House Carpenter" and "The Coo Coo Bird" on Anthology of American Folk Music and Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor (Robert Shaw Chorale), Switched-On Bach (Wendy Carlos), Fantasia in G (Frederick Fennell and the Cleveland Symphonic Winds), Cello Suites (Pablo Casals), Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould), "Brandenburg Concerto No.2", "Prelude and Fugue in C major", and "Partita for Violin No. 3" on Murmurs of Earth (Karl Richter and the Munich Bach Orchestra, Glenn Gould, and Arthur Grumiaux, respectively), and the invitatory of A Festival of Lessons and Carols as Sung on Christmas Eve in King's College Chapel, Cambridge (The King's College Choir)
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Kreutzer Sonata (Béla Bartók and Joseph Szigeti), Complete String Quartets (Budapest Quartet), Egmont Overture (Modesto High School Band), Complete Piano Sonatas (Artur Schnabel), the first movement of Symphony No.5 on Murmurs of Earth (Otto Klemperer), "Marcia funebre" (Boston Symphony Orchestra, on the death of John F. Kennedy), "Für Elise" on A Charlie Brown Christmas (Vince Guaraldi), and "A Fifth of Beethoven" on Saturday Night Fever (adaptation of Symphony No.5 by Walter Murphy)
- Harry Belafonte: Calypso and Free to Be... You and Me (with Marlo Thomas)
- Irving Berlin: "God Bless America" (Kate Smith), "Puttin' On the Ritz" (Harry Richman), "White Christmas" (Bing Crosby), "Blue Skies" on Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (Benny Goodman), "God Bless America" on Carousel of American Music (self), "Puttin' On the Ritz" on Judy at Carnegie Hall (Judy Garland), "Supper Time" on People (Barbra Streisand), and "Get Thee Behind Me Satan" on Talking Union (The Almanac Singers)
- Leonard Bernstein: debut at the New York Philharmonic, West Side Story (original Broadway cast), performing David Diamond's "Prelude and fugue, no. 3" on the New Music Quarterly Recordings Series, and "Some Other Time" (from On the Town) on The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings (Bill Evans Trio)
- Chuck Berry: "Roll Over Beethoven", and "Johnny B. Goode" on Murmurs of Earth
- William Billings: The Continental Harmony (Gregg Smith Singers) and "David's Lamentation" on Our American Journey (Chanticleer)
- Boston Symphony Orchestra: Peter and the Wolf (Sergei Prokofiev; with Serge Koussevitzky, conductor, and Richard Hale, narrator), The Damnation of Faust (Berlioz; with Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society), and "Marcia Funebre" (Beethoven; with Erich Leinsdorf, conductor) on the death of John F. Kennedy
- Bertolt Brecht: "Mack the Knife" (both versions by Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin) and on Saxophone Colossus (Sonny Rollins) and "Alabama Song" on The Doors (The Doors)
- Benjamin Britten: War Requiem and arias from Peter Grimes on Signatures (Renée Fleming)
- Jackson Browne: Late for the Sky, and "Take It Easy" on Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) (The Eagles)
- Irving Caesar: "Swanee" (Al Jolson), "Swanee" on Judy at Carnegie Hall (Judy Garland), "You're a Real Sweetheart" on the Hot Five and Hot Seven Sessions (Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five), and"I Want to Be Happy" on The Jazz Scene (Lester Young)
- Hoagy Carmichael: "Stardust" (single), "Stardust" and "Little Old Lady" on Carousel of American Music, and "The Nearness of You" on Live in Japan (Sarah Vaughan),
- The Carter Family: "Wildwood Flower" (single), "John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man", "Engine 143", "Little Moses", and "Single Girl, Married Girl" on Anthology of American Folk Music, and "Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow ", "Little Log Cabin By The Sea", "The Poor Orphan Child", "The Storms Are On The Ocean", "Single Girl, Married Girl" and "The Wandering Boy" during the Bristol sessions
- Ray Charles: "What'd I Say", Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, and "I Got a Woman" on Green Onions (Booker T. & the M.G.'s)
- Clifton Chenier: Bogalusa Boogie, and performer in the Crescent City Living Legends Collection
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky; with Rafael Kubelik, conductor) and Also sprach Zarathustra (Richard Strauss; with Fritz Reiner, conductor)
- Winston Churchill: "Sinews of Peace" speech and 1941 Christmas Eve broadcast
- Nat King Cole: "Straighten Up and Fly Right", "The Christmas Song", and first Jazz at the Philharmonic concert (performer)
- John Coltrane: Giant Steps, A Love Supreme, and Kind of Blue (with Miles Davis)
- Sam Cooke: "A Change Is Gonna Come", "Jesus Gave Me Water" (with the Soul Stirrers), and "You Send Me" on Fly Like an Eagle (Steve Miller Band)
- Norman Corwin: We Hold These Truths and On a Note of Triumph (writer)
- Bing Crosby: "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" and "White Christmas"
- David Crosby: Déjà Vu (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; member) and "Turn! Turn! Turn!" (The Byrds; member)
- Celia Cruz: Celia & Johnny and performing "Diosa del Ritmo" on Live at Yankee Stadium (Fania All-Stars)
- Miles Davis: "Ko-Ko", Kind of Blue, Bitches Brew, and "Solar" and "Milestones" on The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings (Bill Evans Trio)
- Fats Domino: "Blueberry Hill", "Ain't That a Shame" on Cheap Trick at Budokan (Cheap Trick), and "I'm Walkin" on J.D. Crowe & The New South (J.D. Crowe and The New South)
- Thomas A. Dorsey: "If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again", Precious Lord: New Recordings of the Great Gospel Songs of Thomas A. Dorsey, and "Peace in the Valley" (Red Foley and the Sunshine Boys)
- Dr. Dre: The Chronic (self) and Straight Outta Compton (N.W.A)
- Thomas Edison: 1878 "St. Louis tinfoil" recording, 1888–89 exhibition recordings on phonograph cylinders ("Around the World on the Phonograph", "The Pattison Waltz" and "Fifth Regiment March"), and honoree of Light's Golden Jubilee
- Bernard Edwards: "Le Freak" (Chic; member), "We Are Family" (Sister Sledge), "Rapper's Delight" (The Sugarhill Gang), and Like a Virgin (Madonna; bass guitar)
- Duke Ellington: Ellington at Newport, "Sono" and "Frustration" on The Jazz Scene, "Blue Reverie" on Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (Benny Goodman), and the Blanton-Webster era recordings
- Brian Eno: "The Microsoft Sound", Remain in Light (Talking Heads; producer/composer) and The Joshua Tree (U2; producer)
- Bill Evans: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 (Bill Evans Trio), Kind of Blue (with Miles Davis), and Blues and the Abstract Truth (with Oliver Nelson)
- The Everly Brothers: "Cathy's Clown", Graceland (with Paul Simon), and "When Will I Be Loved" on Heart Like a Wheel (Linda Ronstadt, Phil Everly as writer)
- Joe Falcon: "Allons à Lafayette", and "Acadian One Step", "Le vieux soûlard et sa femme", and "C'est si triste sans lui" on Anthology of American Folk Music
- Frederick Fennell: Winds in Hi-Fi (with the Eastman Wind Ensemble) and "Suite No. 1 in E flat", "Suite No. 2 in F" (Holst) / Music for the Royal Fireworks (Handel) / "Fantasia in G" (Bach) (with the Cleveland Symphonic Winds)
- Stephen Foster: Many songs on the Vernacular Wax Cylinder Recordings at UCSB and "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" and "Camptown Races" on Our American Journey (Chanticleer)
- Judy Garland: "Over the Rainbow", Judy at Carnegie Hall, and "Over the Rainbow" on Carousel of American Music
- Marvin Gaye: What's Going On, "Dancing in the Street" (Martha & the Vandellas, single) and "Dancing in the Street" on Barton Hall Concert at Cornell University (Grateful Dead)
- George Gershwin (without Ira): "Fascinating Rhythm" (Fred & Adele Astaire, as pianist), "Rhapsody in Blue" (Paul Whiteman Orchestra), "Swanee" (Al Jolson), Porgy and Bess (original cast), "Summertime" on Cheap Thrills (Big Brother and the Holding Company), Live in Japan (Sarah Vaughan), and on Carousel of American Music (Edwin McArthur), and "Do It Again" and "Swanee" on Judy at Carnegie Hall (Judy Garland)
- George and Ira Gershwin: "Fascinating Rhythm" (Fred & Adele Astaire and Sol Hoʻopiʻi versions), "A Foggy Day" and "They Can't Take That Away from Me" on Songs for Young Lovers (Frank Sinatra), "Oh, Lady Be Good!" on Hottest Women's Band of the 1940s (International Sweethearts of Rhythm), "A Foggy Day" on Live in Japan (Sarah Vaughan), "Love Walked In" on Our American Journey (Chanticleer), "Who Cares (As Long as You Care for Me)", "A Foggy Day", and "How Long Has This Been Going On?" on Judy at Carnegie Hall (Judy Garland), "Porgy (I Loves You, Porgy)" and "My Man's Gone Now" on The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings (Bill Evans Trio), "The Man I Love" and "I Got Rhythm" on Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (Benny Goodman) and on Carousel of American Music (Edwin McArthur)
- Dizzy Gillespie: "Ko-Ko", "Manteca" (Dizzy Gillespie Big Band), and "A Night in Tunisia" on "A Night at Birdland" (Art Blakey)
- Benny Goodman: "Rose Room" (with Charlie Christian) and Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
- Merle Haggard: "Mama Tried", and "Mama Tried" on Barton Hall Concert at Cornell University (Grateful Dead)
- Herbie Hancock: Head Hunters (self) and Songs in the Key of Life (Rhodes piano on "As"; with Stevie Wonder)
- George Frideric Handel: Messiah (Eugene Ormandy and the Tabernacle Choir), Music for the Royal Fireworks (Frederick Fennell and the Cleveland Symphonic Winds), and "Concerto Grosso in B-flat major, Op. 3, no. 1" (Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra)
- Don Henley: Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) (Eagles; member) and Late for the Sky (vocals; with Jackson Browne)
- Jim Henson: Sesame Street: Platinum All-Time Favorites (as Ernie and Kermit the Frog) and "Rainbow Connection" (as Kermit)
- Mississippi John Hurt: Today! and "Frankie" and "Spike Driver Blues" on Anthology of American Folk Music
- Blind Lemon Jefferson: "That Black Snake Moan / Matchbox Blues" (single) and "Rabbit Foot Blues", "Prison Cell Blues", and "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" on Anthology of American Folk Music
- Antônio Carlos Jobim: "The Girl from Ipanema" (with Stan Getz and João Gilberto) and "Wave" on Live in Japan (Sarah Vaughan)
- Blind Willie Johnson: "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" (single, also featured on Murmurs of Earth), and "John the Revelator" on Anthology of American Folk Music
- James P. Johnson: "Harlem Strut", "Charleston" (Golden Gate Orchestra), and "Charleston", Old-Fashioned Love, and If I Could Be With You" on The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake (Eubie Blake)
- Scott Joplin: Ragtime piano rolls, Treemonisha (Gunther Schuller with the Houston Grand Opera), and "Maple Leaf Rag" on The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake (Eubie Blake)
- Carole King: Tapestry, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" on Tonight's the Night (The Shirelles), and "So Much Love", "Don't Forget About Me", "No Easy Way Down", and "I Can't Make It Alone" on Dusty in Memphis (Dusty Springfield)
- John Lennon: "Imagine", Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles; member), "Got to Get You into My Life" on I've Got the Music in Me (Thelma Houston), and "I'll Be Back" and "She's Leaving Home" on Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues
- Alan Lomax: Jelly Roll Morton interviews, United Sacred Harp Musical Convention in Fyffe, Alabama, "Bonaparte's Retreat" (William Hamilton Stepp), and "Clifton's Crew" (Pat Bonner)
- Professor Longhair: "Tipitina" and performer in the Crescent City Living Legends Collection
- Teo Macero: Mingus Ah Um (Charles Mingus; producer), Bitches Brew (Miles Davis; producer), and Time Out (Dave Brubeck; producer)
- Uncle Dave Macon: "Way Down the Old Plank Road" and "Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line" on Anthology of American Folk Music and Grand Ole Opry debut
- Henry Mancini: The Music from Peter Gunn and "Moon River" (Andy Williams)
- Curtis Mayfield: Super Fly and "People Get Ready" (The Impressions)
- Lincoln Mayorga: Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues and I've Got the Music in Me (Thelma Houston, keyboards)
- Paul McCartney: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles; member), "The Girl Is Mine" on Thriller (with Michael Jackson), "Got to Get You into My Life" on I've Got the Music in Me (Thelma Houston), and "I'll Be Back" and "She's Leaving Home" on Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues
- Graham McNamee: The second inauguration of Calvin Coolidge, Charles Lindbergh's arrival in New York following his first transatlantic flight, and Light's Golden Jubilee
- Grandmaster Melle Mel: "The Message" (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five; member) and "I Feel for You" (with Chaka Khan)
- Joni Mitchell: For the Roses, "Woodstock" on Déjà Vu (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), and "Both Sides, Now" on Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
- Bill Monroe: "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (with the Blue Grass Boys) and "Blue Moon of Kentucky" on The Sun Sessions (Elvis Presley)
- Giorgio Moroder: "I Feel Love" (Donna Summer) and "Flashdance... What a Feeling" (Irene Cara)
- Jelly Roll Morton: Alan Lomax interviews and "Black Bottom Stomp" (with his Red Hot Peppers)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Il mio tesoro" (John McCormack), the "Queen of the Night aria" on Murmurs of Earth (Edda Moser with Wolfgang Sawallisch and the Bavarian State Opera), and "Porgi amor" and "Dove sono" on Signatures (Renée Fleming)
- Edward R. Murrow: I Can Hear It Now: 1933–1945 and Sep. 21, 1940 broadcast from London
- NBC Symphony Orchestra: Adagio for Strings (Samuel Barber; with Arturo Toscanini, conductor) and "Piano Concerto No. 1, op. 23, B♭ minor" (Tchaikovsky; with Toscanini, conductor)
- Ric Ocasek: The Cars and Weezer (Weezer; producer)
- Babatunde Olatunji: Drums of Passion and "All Africa" and "Tears for Johannesburg" on We Insist! (Max Roach; drummer)
- Johnny Pacheco: Celia & Johnny (with Celia Cruz) and Live At Yankee Stadium (Fania All-Stars; member)
- Dolly Parton: Coat of Many Colors and I Will Always Love You (recorded by Whitney Houston)
- Cole Porter: "You're the Top" (self), "Begin the Beguine" (Artie Shaw), Kiss Me, Kate (original Broadway cast), Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book (Ella Fitzgerald), "I Get a Kick Out of You" on Songs for Young Lovers (Frank Sinatra), "Love for Sale" on Go! (Dexter Gordon), and "All of You" on The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings (Bill Evans Trio)
- Leontyne Price: A Program of Song and Aida (Verdi)
- Prince: Purple Rain and "I Feel for You" (Chaka Khan)
- Ismael Quintana: Azúcar Pa' Ti (Eddie Palmieri), Live At Yankee Stadium (Fania All-Stars; member)
- Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra) and Rachmaninoff's Vespers (All-Night Virgil) (Robert Shaw and The Robert Shaw Festival Singers)
- Bonnie Raitt: Nick of Time and "Give it up or Let Me Go" on Wide Open Spaces (The Chicks)
- Paul Robeson: Show Boat (original Broadway cast) and Othello (Broadway cast)
- Marty Robbins: Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (self) and "El Paso" on Barton Hall Concert at Cornell University (Grateful Dead)
- Jimmie Rodgers: "Blue Yodel (T for Texas)", and "The Soldier's Sweetheart" and "Sleep Baby Sleep" during the Bristol sessions
- Rodgers and Hart: "My Funny Valentine" (Gerry Mulligan quartet and Chet Baker), "Ten Cents a Dance" (Ruth Etting), "I Could Write a Book" on The Audience with Betty Carter (Betty Carter), "Blue Room" on Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (Benny Goodman), "My Romance" on The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings (Bill Evans Trio), "This Can't Be Love" and "You're Nearer" on Judy at Carnegie Hall (Judy Garland), "My Funny Valentine" and "I Could Write a Book" on Live in Japan (Sarah Vaughan), "My Funny Valentine" and "Little Girl Blue" on Songs for Young Lovers (Frank Sinatra), and "Blue Moon" on The Sun Sessions (Elvis Presley)
- Rodgers and Hammerstein: South Pacific, Oklahoma!, The Sound of Music, and "My Lord and Master" (from The King and I) on People (Barbra Streisand)
- Nile Rodgers: "Le Freak" (Chic; member), "We Are Family" (Sister Sledge), Like a Virgin (Madonna; producer), and "Good Times", sampled on Rapper's Delight (The Sugarhill Gang)
- Roy Rogers: "Happy Trails" (with Dale Evans), and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" (Sons of the Pioneers; member)
- Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus, Brilliant Corners (with Thelonious Monk), and "Airegin" on The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (Wes Montgomery)
- Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like a Wheel, Canciones de Mi Padre, Graceland (with Paul Simon; vocals), and "El Puente Roto" on Partners (with Flaco Jiménez)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1941 Christmas Eve broadcast, complete presidential speeches, and "Fireside chats"
- Diana Ross: "Where Did Our Love Go" (The Supremes; member) and "When We Grow Up" on Free to Be... You and Me
- Carl Sagan: Sounds of the Earth (producer) and Pale Blue Dot (narrator)
- Pete Seeger: We Shall Overcome, several songs on Talking Union (The Almanac Singers), and "Turn! Turn! Turn!" (The Byrds)
- Robert Shaw: Mass in B minor (Bach; with the Robert Shaw Chorale) and Rachmaninoff's Vespers (All-Night Virgil) (Rachmaninoff; with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers)
- Paul Simon: Sounds of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel) and Graceland (solo)
- Stephen Sondheim: West Side Story, Gypsy and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Phil Spector: "Be My Baby" (The Ronettes) and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin" (The Righteous Brothers)
- Stephen Stills: Déjà Vu (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) and "Change Partners" on Partners
- Leopold Stokowski: 1942 recording of Native Brazilian music and Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (Rachmaninoff)
- Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Fritz Reiner), Winds in Hi-Fi (Frederick Fennell and the Cleveland Symphonic Winds), Four Last Songs (Jessye Norman), Leonard Bernstein debut (sections of Don Quixote),[137] A Program of Song (Leontyne Price) and Signatures (Fleming)
- Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring and Murmurs of Earth (also containing a section of the same piece)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 (Van Cliburn) and Signatures (Renée Fleming)
- Big Mama Thorton: "Hound Dog" (self), "Hound Dog" on Hoodoo Man Blues (Junior Wells and his Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy), and "Ball and Chain" on Cheap Thrills (Big Brother and the Holding Company)
- Arturo Toscanini: Piano Concerto No. 1 and "Adagio for Strings" (Samuel Barber)
- Jimmy Webb: "Wichita Lineman" (Glen Campbell) and "Up, Up and Away" on Sheffield S9 (Lincoln Mayorga)[61]
- Kurt Weill: "Mack the Knife" (both versions by Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin) and Saxophone Colossus (Rollins)
- Orson Welles: War of the Worlds and The Fall of the City
- Paul Whiteman: Rhapsody in Blue and "Whispering"
- Hank Williams: "Lovesick Blues" (self), "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)" on Heart Like a Wheel (Linda Ronstadt), "Hey, Good Lookin'" and "You Win Again" on Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (Ray Charles), and "I Saw the Light", "Honky Tonk Blues", and "Honky Tonkin'" on Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
- Brian Wilson: Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys) and "Good Vibrations" on Sheffield S9 (Lincoln Mayorga)[61]
- The Wrecking Crew: Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys), Forever Changes (Love), "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" (The Righteous Brothers), "Be My Baby" (The Ronettes) "Wichita Lineman" (Glen Campbell). Additionally, Carol Kaye on La Bamba (Ritchie Valens)
- Stevie Wonder: "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (Melba Moore & Friends), "I Feel for You" (Chaka Khan), I've Got the Music in Me (Thelma Houston) and Songs in the Key of Life (solo)
- Frank Zappa: We're Only in It for the Money (Mothers of Invention) and Trout Mask Replica (producer)
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