Seeburg Basic Background Music 1974 and 1977
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- Eight selections from 16-2/3 RPM Seeburg Basic Background Music records. The first six are from records labeled RR-70 and RR-71. If I am correct, RR-70 records were to be placed in use April 1, 1977 and RR-71 records were to be placed in use on July 1, 1977. The last two tunes are from a record with a place in use date of October 1, 1974. Played on an ELAC Miracord 40A turntable.
I'd buy more groceries if stores would go back to playing this kind of music!
Me too. In fact now this is making me hungry.
Me three. Shopping was so much more pleasurable and profitable when this music was played.
My father s radio station, which was WVOR-FM, played Seeburg background record player music, but it was all on reel- to reel tape. They were all automated
Muzak, which WVOR-FM played, was one room.(one puny little control room))
It was also an FM radio sideband of
Rochester, New York FM radio station WVOR, 100.5.
-Mark Weintraub.
@@markweintraub8551 BGM on a SCA channel? How cool was that!
This makes you want to get on a TWA jet to somewhere swingin'
A part of me misses this kind of store music. Compared to playing whatever is the current top ten hits. Like a lot of places do now.
believe it or not, I once heard Blitzkrieg Bop playing in Kroger!
Lurker1979 there is a place near me that still usually plays background music type stuff. It fits with the aesthetic of the place
Only a PART of you??
Now that kind of music is the kind of music that WVOR FM played. The Muzak equipment at the radio station, was sleazy, older Muzak equipment- older Muzak broadcasting equipment, which were great big reel to reel tape machines, built by Teletronix/Muzak. They had a round speaker, in which the Muzak came out of, and the Muzak had an amplified, hollow sound.
-Mark Weintraub.
Oh my stars the rendition of "Somethin' Stupid" at 14:40 is perfection. This channel is what redeems UA-cam from all the usually troll-ridden vile comments under most vids, whereas these comments are FUN to read! ("Courtesy Clerk to aisle nine, please, Courtesy Clerk to aisle nine." *klik*)
I agree! My thoughts exactly. It's nice to have a troll free U-Tube experience.
"price check on Totinos Pepperoni Deluxe Frozen Pizza, 16 inch size!"
I like that rendition. Reminds me of Lenny Dee.
The very jazzy version of Unforgettable at 5:45 also blew me away. Cheesy and brilliant, all at the same time!
I like this music it brings back memories.
music to relieve today's stressful times
Oh you think it's stressful in 2017? Wait till you see what 2020 is like!
4 years old...those were the days...
That first song (and the 2nd song which seems to be the sequel) is stellar!! I love the percussion work. And that elevating violin sound (very Mellotron sounding) transitioning to the expressive trumpets only a musical genius could have written. Sounds like a theme coming from war through the mid-century growth, success and expansion. No wonder this clip has more views than the rest.. Thanks for posting!!!
One day, I was out with Dad in the car for the day or so on Saturday morning, and we had lunch at a new place which was also called the Charcoal Pit,which also had a drive in.
We got out of the car, and as we did, the amplified, hollow, metal, transistor radio sound of Muzak caught my ears.
"That's the drive in.
Charcoal Pit has a drive in, and they also have the intercom system like they do at the Arrows restaurant, with the call microphones!!
Now the Charcoal Pit also has Muzak that's playing over the call microphones!!
I know. It's that
piped in music, in which you are very curious and turned on about, son!!" Dad said.
We went inside the restaurant,and I also heard Muzak in the restaurant, from a speaker in the wall, which was also an
old fashioned speaker, that had a volume control on it.
I ordered a Coke with plenty of ice in it, an egg and bacon salad sandwich on delicious seeded Jewish rye bread with a helping of ridged sour cream and onion potato chips and a few dill pickles, cottage cheese, and a dish of thick chocolate custard.
"I had the Marconi sandwich, cottage cheese, and custard for lunch today.
Man,oh, man, oh, man, oh, man, oh, man,oh, man, oh, man, was that ev-er a good lunch to-day.
Think what I'll do as to when we get home, I'll go upstairs and look in the back bedroom closet, and I'll look and see if there's any
cracks in the wall, and if there is any cracks in the wall, I'll squeeze one of my love pillows that Nana made.
Then,I'll pet my kitty Sam,and he'll start
purring like a pipe organ, and smell my right eyeball!!" I said, and I also asked to go and use the restroom.
"Are you kidding me??
Not in that freezing cold, dirty, filthy place that's way back there, you sure don't!!
Well, go ahead, if you have to go, and don't you scream or shout when you're back there,either!!
Because your voice echoes and reverberates back in there, HORRIBLY!!" Dad said.
-Mark Weintraub.
"May I have your attention! Will MRS. Brown please come to the courtesy desk? Your family is looking for you. Mrs. Brown to the courtesy desk. Thank you. " *click*
Foxonian 0:55
WVOR used to broadcast Muzak throughout the stores many years ago It was a special FM radio sideband of WVOR Mark Weintraub.
Muzak was an FM radio sideband of WVOR-FM-100.5 many years ago WVOR had a dreadful electrical fire one night, at 1:00 in the morning Their studios were up in Midtown Tower,up on the 3rd floor of Midtown Plaza. Mark Weintraub.
"We need a price check on register three, price check on register three" Click.
"Going up...Gentlemen, please remove your hats...thank you kindly ! Please step toward the back of the car...Mezzanine: housewares, china, books, cameras and records... 2nd floor: ladies shoes, mens department....3rd floor: linens....4th floor children's department and toys...Fashion 5th: Ladies high fashion....6th floor: furniture and appliances....7th floor: credit office.
Going down!"
reminds me of the theme song of "Are you being served" :)
@@dusterdude238 Mister Humphries.. are you free? Julian Assange looks so much like Humphries..
Love this. I use it to get my bearings in the morning and to go to sleep at night.
Also during the day when I've had enough of the OLDIES.
THESE oldies are the nazz!
GREAT Music! :) From the Heart I Really miss the Days when FM Stations everywhere played this kind of Music on their SCA Channels - Good thing I can still Tune in on the I-Phone - Tower Climbing just would not be the Same without good Musical Accompniment to make a Climb more Lively & Fun! :))
Man getting down in Aisle 2! These songs are cool!
This is by far my favorite out of all of these videos! Thank you for sharing!
5:41 Seeburg's version of Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable"
what an enchanting song💕
That would be great for an amazing fireworks show, this music will keep you going to see a dazzling display.
When I was little, I used to go to Southtown Plaza, and the plaza had
Muzak that was piped in through speakers in the plaza, which also had a hollow, amplified sound to it.
"I hear piped in music!" I said to
Mr. Domince.
"Yes. The plaza has a
record player that's in the main office!"
he said to me.
I heard a rock guitar
instrumental, which also had a hollow sound to it.
I then went,and I asked if it was a record player.
"It's music, that comes from a special radio station! We get a special station that
comes over phone wires !" a plaza personnel said to me.
"I was wrong. It is a
radio broadcast of some sort!"
Mr. Domince said.
-Mark Weintraub.
When I was at Convalescent Hospital For Children, Daddy took me to Rochester New York FM radio station
WVOR FM 100.5, and Ralph Rogers
showed me the
Muzak tape machines. They were big
Teletronix/ Muzak reel- to reel tape machines. They had a round speaker in which the Muzak came out of.
-Mark Weintraub.
When I was a little boy, I was in the Star Markets on Ridge Road in Greece.
I was in the back storeroom, and I heard the tinny, amplified, hollow sound of Muzak plus Star Markets commercials from a horn speaker in one wall.
I used the restroom, which was way downstairs and also way in the back
The restroom had an echo, because it was a big place. I saw a frosted glass outside window, plus l heard the tinny sound of Star Markets commercials from a horn speaker in the wall.
"Now more music on Star Markets radio!! The Star Markets radio network!!"the speaker blared out, and more music followed, which had a transistor radio sound.
The restroom was also a very, very dirty, freezing cold place.
I let out a deafening, bloodcurdling, pained, earsplitting yell and scream of,
"I WANT VANILLA ICE CREME WITH FILTHY DIRTY FIDDLE STRINGS ON TOP AND A DEAD MOUSE ON TOP!!
BLOW YOUR MIND OUT TO KINGDOM COME MAN!!"
-Mark Weintraub.
One day, I was out with Dad in the car for the day or so on Saturday morning, and then we went out for lunch.
"Now how about we go to Campi's??
Someplace that you've never been to!!" Dad said, and we had lunch at Campi's,which also was a pizza and sandwich restaurant.
We entered the restaurant, and I heard the amplified, hollow sound of Muzak in the restaurant, which came from a speaker in the ceiling. The music had a full high fidelity sound, and also an amplified, hollow sound.
I ordered a Coke with plenty of ice in it, a delicious hot Italian meatball and sausage sub on delicious toasted Asiago cheese flavored bread with a helping of ridged sour cream and onion potato chips, and a tossed green salad, with delicious chunky blue cheese dressing on top.
"I hear Muzak, Dad! Piped in music!" I said.
"It's a radio sideband,son.
One of the Muzak sidebands!!" Dad said.
-Mark Weintraub.
Wow nice! I just discovered the existence of the Seeburg 1000 a couple of days ago and am looking for some records (my Newcomb school record player I'm currently fixing up can play at 16-2/3 RPM).
does anybody knows the name of the first 2 tracks (the second tack from 3:00 on, sounds a bit like 5th dimension to me, but can't figure it out
The name of the song is "When I Take My Sugar To Tea" It's a 1930's song! Starts at the time 7:58.
+Edwin Harvey Do you happen to know the name of the first song? It's pretty rad IMHO :)
+dbug64 No. Sorry, I don't.
THANK YOU! Now I can find it!
Great name and swinging tune! It sounds like Herb Alpert game show music.
@@Jack21Spades But did you ever?
You can't get any more 60s than that! Surprises me that this was used in the late 70s, must have sounded pretty old hat then.
Oh, yeah... they sure got "mileage" out of the oldies. I recall hearing 1960s and early 70s tunes put out by the KPM and Amphonic Record Libraries (Syd Dale, Johnny Hawksworth, James Clarke, Alan Morehouse, Keith Mansfield, David Lindup, Alan Hawkshaw, Johnny Pearson, etc) playing over our Muzak system at work as late as the early 1990s. It was great!
I admit I had a similar reaction, and then remembered how back in the '70s this was what you would hear from store speakers. I have to think my parents' generation were doing much of the shopping and working back in the '70s, so music that they would feel comfortable might have been the target by all these background music companies. The tunes were more recent but the arrangements definitely sound like a decade earlier. Anyway, I definitely remember working at the local Kmart in spring 1984 and noticing how current the "Muzak" (as we referred to it generically) sounded, with "Beat It" by Michael Jackson instrumentalized in that inimitable background music way (punctuated of course with ads for the top-line Kmart car battery that produced "650 cold-cranking amps" and featured "Delco-Remy technology").
Yes I do love to relax in my easy chair, light up a cigar with a robe, pull out my newspaper, and sip a coffee to some Seedburg....
This is soooo cool! I can listen for this kinda music for hours...
Dan Bell's Dead Mall Series brought me here.
15:46 Ooooh that Wurlitzer organ coming on so strong.
10:15 is a classy sounding recording of "Lida Rose"; one of my Seeburg favorites.
I love the first song. I wish someone knew what it was.
Same here! I love the first track! It's so upbeat and mod. I was scrolling here to see if someone named it.
Correct. It’s from “The Music Man.” The orchestration and arrangement of this version is very interesting-it sounds very reminiscent of Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass.
7:57 This has a very game-show'esque kind of feel. If that made sense...
Tonight on The Dating Game!
Picturing what a contestant could win on a game show during the bonus round with this playing.
"Hang onto your seats folks! Because we are about to head to finale! Jim! Show us what our lovely audience can win tonight!
Will you go home with a brand new blender? Or maybe the all ne-"
the first song reminds me of an old Ep of bewitched. Samantha had some weird kind of witches disease or someone put a spell on her, and She and Darin were at the grocery store, and a song like that was playing over the speakers and she was dancing around, I mean really rocking out, and every one was just staring at her like she had lost her mind. HA HA
lol, I know it well. The spell actually came from Endora who wanted Samantha to act more like her free-spirited cousin Serena. So while Sam and Darren are casually shopping at the frozen food case, Serena is out at a nightclub. Naturally, she soon breaks out dancing. Well so does Sam - moving around, arms flailing around while Darren frantically tries to grab her and hold her down. One of the funniest things I've ever seen!
Thanky you Max.
So touching, brings a tear to me eye! =D
Wow, they really cranked up the tremolo on Somethin' Stupid.
this is great!
Agreed! This channel brings back memories.
Love this music! What bitrate did you upload at?
"When I Take My Sugar To Tea" at 8:05!! I have heard the tune at 10:14 before! But can`t remember the title! What is it?
Lida rose
Anybody up for lunch and a swim at the Savannah Golf Club? Yay!
What are those buzzing noises @15:34 and @15:43 ? It sounds like an electric razor.
Love the specially made spindle :)
dmine45 me too. Wish it and the record label were visible the whole video
Good for internet surfing.
Weirdly gorgeous
a huge thanks to Seeburg and it's HF100R from 1954- the jukebox that help me discover Seeburg's jukeboxes. boy, the sound altered from the HF100R speaker system, such depth to whatever song played through them. ALWAYS will be a Seeburg fan! BTW, what this records opening track? it's catchy!
Reminds me of "The Party". Kinda cool.
It's so gloriously cheesy.
First 5:30 is really ace.
Mervin Meckenfuss That's unforgettable by Nat King Cole all jazzed up
Ga-roovy.
Anyone know what thar first tune is?
It's not cheesy at all. It's beautiful. I never understood the hate directed at music like this. And I loved that the Seeburg background music system was designed to only repeat a song like every other day. Modern playlists repeat the same talentless top-40 noise like every 90-120 minutes.
I have a modest collection of around 60 Seeburg, Merrimac, and Customusic records ranging from the early 1960s to the mid 1970s, the majority of it from the Basic and Mood (and equivalent Customusic) libraries, plus one or two from the industrial series and even a rare Kingtone disc. I'm working to make high-quality MP3s of my records and acquire more if I can.
Now they play the top 40 in the stores and its awful.I love this music from my youth.
@NLCaptainJack It beats all those crappy top 10 FM shitty stations by a mile!
This kind of music makes me more impulsive. That's why sometimes I spend more time shopping at the mall
I walked into the giant Superplex grocery barn in search of some basic supplies. And what was playing in the background?
FREAKIN' HAIR METAL!! The cashiers / staff had tuned it out but I'm sure the idea of something sinister in the air must have been eating at them.
DEF LEPPARD... FRICKIN' GLASS TIGER... probably METALLICA... DAMMIT! I CAN TUNE INTO THE LOCAL LOBOTOMISED MORNING DJ'S for this stuff!
When grocery store music is no longer played in grocery stores...society is in serious trouble.
LoL
I sort of agree with you. For like a year my local supermarket was playing all these original '70s songs that yes, I do recall being hits, but Feel Like Makin' Love (not the Roberta Flack/Donny Hathaway tune, the Bad Company one) while I maneuver my cart around the elder ladies in aisle 14? Not just inappropriate - weird.
DIIIICTIIIIIIIIIIOOOOONNN!!!
You are correct on the dates.
This is superb!!
Thank you so much!!! ^o^
I could just picture Austin Powers and friends groovin to the first 3 tunes on this video.
YEAH BABY
I feel like doing the bob fosse down the store
Tasty guitar tones at 12:34, which is kinda eerie, if you think about it: 1 2 3 4.
What's the name & artist of the first song?
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Super.
yes a standard stylus will do, but the speed is probably 16&2/3
Wonderful Classy Corny Music !
And there's nothing wrong with IT BEING CORNY TOO ! 😉
14:37 - Nice landing into Blue Eyes Airfield!
Any ideas what that last song is?
Golly. This really swell music......kinda wanna buy stuff..........I smell Popcorn...
Meeeeediiicinnne tiiimmmeeee!!! :) :)
It would be ironic if I couldn't remember the name of the third tune. The fifth is "Somethin' Stupid".
Is this stuff public domain?
Is that a Shure Cartridge? If so, which model?
Sorrow TV brought me here.
Taaaaaaking meeee baaaack ~ Who said "Time Travel" isn't Possible? lol
#2 Nat King Cole unforgettable jazz version
To any store that plays this music: You have my business!
Can you play these with a standard LP stylus?
take it easy on the drums!!
8:08 ain't she sweet :)
That turntable is spinning kinda fast for a 16 2/3 record
Oof what is the song at 12:36..?
"Lida Rose" at 10:14!
What's the final track on this video. Sounds like it's from a movie but I can't remember it.
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That "Centerpiece"... xDDDDDDDD
slow speed laying down a lot of audio data.
Which is the first song
I don't know, also it definitely isn't Sandstorm by Darude either. I'm not one of those people with less than 100 IQ who claims all songs to be Sandstorm by Darude.
Great music, but it all sounds much more 60's-ish than 70's.
These were most probably recorded in the 60s and reused by Seeburg later.
@@PneumatinisPlaktukas15 Yep.
12:35
no nothing here is from 1977 no I have all of what you played and it's almost all basic records and from 73to maybe 70 the earliest
7:58
This one made Grandma dance so hard that her teeth fell out. It even made her start twerking lessons.
Covid hysteria or this 🤔
ILL MAKE THIS A ROBLOX THING TOO lightbulbchicken3055 will create audio
Seeing this comment ruined my day. D-:
It just doesn't fit my head that this is *really* the kind of dreck that polluted the air in stores in that decade. I mean, 1974 was just yesterday! This music sounds like it came straight out of a dystopia. This is music made to be as divorced as possible from everything that music represents. I mean, I understand that, in department stores and shopping malls, the less individuality and critical thinking people have, the more they spend, but, Jesus Christ, this is overkill. Listening to this thing is worse than being dead.
I struggle to understand how listening to regular pop songs arranged for orchestra is "worse than being dead".
@@PneumatinisPlaktukas15 Because these arrangements are intended to make you emotionally numb so you'll consume more. Think George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead".
@@FernieCanto They simply don't. Seeburg or MUZAK claimed that they did, but it's just orchestral music. Henry Mancini, Ray Conniff and Herb Alpert recorded music exactly the same as this. Alpert's orchestra even played on some Seeburg sessions. You literally have to be a snob with no taste and a terrible world view to dismiss these tracks as just "bullshit made to make you spend more". That's simply pure nonsense.
@@PneumatinisPlaktukas15 "You literally have to be a snob with no taste and a terrible world view to dismiss these tracks as just "bullshit made to make you spend more"."
As usual, someone on the internet wants to personally attack me without knowing who I am. In case you don't know, there *is* some orchestral music from that time that I kind of enjoy: Franck Pourcel, Paul Mauriat, Richard Clayderman, that stuff. Not that I'm the world's biggest fan, but I have some affection for them.
So yeah, I'm 100% a snob for liking Ballade por Adeline.
14:36