The theme song for “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.,” the original cast album for “Fiddler on the Roof” and the play-by-play broadcast of the thrilling 1951 National League tiebreaker between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers are among the 25 recordings just added to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry.

The registry, created in 2000, is meant to designate recordings that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and are at least 10 years old. Carla Hayden, the librarian of Congress, selected this year’s inductees from around 800 nominations.

This new class ranges widely over the American soundscape, taking in radio broadcasts, field recordings, early women blues singers, jazz, opera and recent pop albums, including Dr. Dre’s 1992 rap smash “The Chronic,” Tina Turner’s 1984 “Private Dancer” and Cheap Trick’s 1978 live album “Cheap Trick at Budokan.”

Image Fred Rogers. The theme song for “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” has been added to the recording registry. Credit... Fred Rogers Productions

There are also obscure historical recordings, like a two-sided 1927 recording of Compagnia Columbia’s spoken-word piece “Protesta per Sacco e Vanzetti” and the tenor Raoul Romito’s “Sacco e Vanzetti.” They were both written in response to the 1921 guilty verdicts against and executions of the Italian immigrant anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, which set off protests around the world.