Seeburg 1000 - Los Angeles, CA

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@MUSWELL: In some UK shops etc. back in the day, yes they DID have background music; from systems like the Reditune from Rediffusion (which used over-size tape cartridges).

9 de junio de 2025 a las 12:00 GMT

Muswell

In the UK we didn't have music to shop by, this would be called "Test Card Music" - a patterned card shown in between TV programmes with this style of music to enable engineers to install

17 de abril de 2025 a las 18:04 GMT

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LOVE IT !! Thank you for this streaming channel. I now own a gorgeous Seeburg 1000 machine - I've wanted one for so long, but it is SO rare to find one in the UK -

17 de abril de 2025 a las 17:50 GMT

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If you prefer hearing music that was played 'live' by musicians instead of coming from a sampler or synth, the Seeburg 1000 station will definitely appeal! The music comes from the ten-inch, 16 rpm 'background music' discs and machines which Seeburg rented out in the USA to companies (and possibly to individuals?) from the late 1950s until the mid-1980s. The '1000' name derives from the machines — effectively, specialised jukeboxes — each containing 25 double-sided discs, with each disc containing twenty selections per side: hence, 1,000 selections in total wthin the machine. Seeburg would send new discs on a regular basis, and subscribers returned the specified 'old' discs. Some people did not bother to return the 'old' discs, which is why some are still in private hands today. The music is almost completely instrumental, though Seeburg did include a few vocal selections on the earliest discs. Presumably it was decided fairly quickly thereafter to stick purely to instrumental selections. Yes, some of the music arrangements are 'odd,' like "Feed The Birds" (from the Mary Poppins movie) played in Tijuana style (?!). And yes, there do seem to be a disproportionately large number of Tijuana-style selections in the library in general

22 de enero de 2023 a las 13:10 GMT