Professor Longhair’s 1953 recording of “Tipitina” was added to the U.S. National Recording Registry in 2011.

The colloquial phrase “put a sock in it” to tell someone to stop talking has an origin in old Gramophone players — when they needed to muffle the music, people would stick a sock or something soft in the old horned cone speaker.

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