Seeburg Mood Background Music Library 16 2/3 RPM Record M5B 7-1-1965

Описание: A fantastic set of Seeburg 1000 background music library tracks. This video contains a complete side of one of the discs from the amazing Seeburg Mood Background Music Library series.

Seeburg put out the Seeburg 1000 background music system starting in 1959, and it went clear to 1986. After issuing background records on 78 and 45 rpm records for some years prior, Seeburg tried to ensure that their new line of background records could only be played on their subscriber's dedicated record players by issuing them on nine-inch, 16 2/3 rpm records, with a two-inch center spindle hole.

They were designed to be played on a special record player that could hold 25 records and also had the ability to play both sides of the record without needing to flip over the records at any point in time, rotating through them in a cycle. The idea was that you would have heard 1000 tunes by the time the whole stack completed. Considering the average side was about 40 minutes long, so 80 minutes a record, multiplied by 25 records, and it was possible to go the entire workday hearing the same track twice. These records were issued by way of a subscription service, and all of them were supposed to be returned to Seeburg to be destroyed after they were rotated out of service on a quarterly basis. Yet, many of these records still made it to the present.

In some sense, they are akin to all those V-Discs in WW2, which were all supposed to be destroyed after the war. However, as the internet shows, many of them somehow avoided destruction, as copies still circulate around as hot collector's items. You can expect to pay around ten dollars per Seeburg background record if you wish to own one of them- but if one is into this sort of music, they are worth every penny.

Multiple background music lines offered Seeburg'ss subscribers various flavors of background music libraries to chose from. Their Mood series was made for restaurants and upscale establishments; it was as lush and posh as possible. Their Basic series was a little more uptempo and were made for shopping malls and supermarkets. Their Industrial series was intended for factories and other jobs requiring repetitive manual labor; consequently, these records' tracks were typically upbeat and varied to keep workers from getting tired of the music. By the mid-to-late 1970s, there were even disco tracks appearing in the regular rotation.

Other series were developed for the private market, like the Encore series (jazz-based and very classy), the Penthouse series, and such. Records from those series are not as common but highly collectible. They are most valuable due to their scarcity; relatively few people bought the expensive private background record players with their accompanying records sets.

Eventually, the old record-based systems failed to be competitive with the increasing popularity and more cost-effective tape-based systems; Seeburg went bankrupt, another company contained making them for a few more years, and then pulled the plug on the entire system. Today, we often have pop music being passed off as background music now when we go shopping. Many people hear these records today and find themselves remembering simpler times of decades past; perhaps someone should note the sentiment.

Feel free to ID the tracks, and do know that I did clean up the audio with Denoise and Clickrepair, so what artifacts from the record the audio comes from are very few and far between.

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