From "The West Wing", around one of the last times Voyager left the solar system:
"Voyager, in case it's ever encountered by extra-terrestrials, is carrying photos of life on Earth, greetings in 55 languages and a collection of music from Gregorian chants to Chuck Berry. Including "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground" by '20s bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, whose stepmother blinded him when he was seven by throwing lye in is his eyes after his father had beat her for being with another man. He died, penniless, of pneumonia after sleeping bundled in wet newspapers in the ruins of his house that burned down. But his music just left the solar system."
It's pretty amazing how far we've extended our reach, if not our grasp.
The song might have left the solar system, but it's not arrived in the UK yet:
"This video contains content from PEDL, SME, PRS CS, AdShare MG for a Third Party and Warner Chappell, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
If the record is ever recovered and studied by aliens, I'd love to hear the RIAA try to explain to a star-hopping intergalactic civilization why they can't share it amongst themselves because it hasn't been licensed for their "region".
With our luck, they'll be Vogons and vaporize our entire planet for infringing on their patent for watering lawns with a garden hose.
"Voyager, in case it's ever encountered by extra-terrestrials, is carrying photos of life on Earth, greetings in 55 languages and a collection of music from Gregorian chants to Chuck Berry. Including "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground" by '20s bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, whose stepmother blinded him when he was seven by throwing lye in is his eyes after his father had beat her for being with another man. He died, penniless, of pneumonia after sleeping bundled in wet newspapers in the ruins of his house that burned down. But his music just left the solar system."
It's pretty amazing how far we've extended our reach, if not our grasp.