The part of the sentence "needed to be recorded" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express the idea that something was required to be documented in written form. Example: The details of the meeting needed to be recorded in the minutes.
I treasure history and it needed to be recorded.
He was deeply concerned about the temple of Karnak and how much needed to be recorded.
The film's music needed to be recorded beforehand (rather than in post) so performances could match the tracks.
It had to be decided, as the final at Wembley was in a week's time and the song needed to be recorded in the morning for immediate delivery to iTunes.
Guidance solicited from the registrar in December by the Tories' chief whip, Patrick McLoughlin, was taken to mean that the donations needed to be recorded only with the EC.
"Most jazz needed to be recorded live in a single take and artist improvisation was the standard," says Chang, explaining that hip-hop artists may not have produced the amount of extraneous material needed to fill the voluminous boxsets that are the staples of the rock and jazz reissue industries.
There are certain things that happen and they need to be recorded.
But what the city experienced in the past 30 years needs to be recorded.
Oral histories shape our future, and they need to be recorded.
In conclusion, our data suggest that baseline impact force measurements during walking are stable and do not need to be recorded between experimental conditions in walking studies.
"Many of us feel this needs to be recorded for history," said Rosina Rubin, a New York delegate who will be attending the Washington fund-raiser.
