Goodwill in a vast and awesome universe
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Track:Dark Was the Night
Maybe you heard about the Golden Record that NASA included on the Voyager spacecraft in 1977. Looking over the digital collection of new MOGger Branford Marsalis, I saw Blind Willie Johnson and remembered his song Dark Was the Night is included on the Golden Record. Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode is there too, along with some Bach, Beethoven, Louis Armstrong, and music from a couple dozen countries. The music was selected "to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth" and you can see the whole list at http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/music.html. My post title comes from Jimmy Carter's recorded message on intro of the disc about sharing earth's culture with spacetravelers. So what song would you send to extraterrestrials to communicate our story?
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