Seeburg Basic Library 12/26/1972

[@twhord]

It's really beautiful how it starts off with a lot of pops and skips, but slowly improves over time towards an almost crystal clear ending. Thank you for uploading this. It is a treasure.

[@RjBenjamin353]

Some Young people don’t get it, the pops and scratches are part of the whole experience. Back then you could tell it was your record by the scratches because they had become part of the music.

[@anndalene]

Was a little kid in those years. Absolutely every office, store, medical waiting room, played this. A friend even lived in an apartment building that piped muzak in every apartment.

[@ineedstuff8286]

they probably realized there was a lower instance of disease for those living with music like this... so they had to remove it.

[@melissarainchild]

Thanks for the pops and cracks, adds to the autenthicity! A recording like this without these is not very authentic...

[@edwardtrunk896]

Peter, my elderly mother and I love this great music, no longer on radio stations.

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

Brings back a flood of Memories from my youth in the early 70;s , Love it , Thank You :) QC

[@edwardtrunk2656]

Peter, this record brings a lot of enjoyment to me as well as my mother. The many less familiar songs are delightful. We don't mind the scratches. Many of my records have nicks, pops and scratches.

[@hunor2565]

Amazing! There is a sound of 60 Hz electricity hum in the background. I live in Europe, but I feel like I'm listening to this record in the US!

[@jodibolan438]

That's alright, it adds more to the nostalgia. Thanx 😊

[@montauk6]

I love the pops and skips! Don’t apologize please.

[@dugroz]

Interesting how a few minutes in, I don't even notice the pops and crackles anymore. It's kind of endearing.

[@InspectorCallahan.44]

Don't worry about the skips and pops, it adds to the vintage nature.

[@jamescanwell6158]

Thank you for taking the time to put this up! It's beautiful!

[@benjamingoldsmith3346]

Beautiful! Thanks for posting. Keep up the great work. Greetings from Montgomery, Texas!

[@andishifley5869]

It's a pleasure to listen to the easy sounds my parents used to play on their big console stereo when I was very young. I've been looking for easy listening from this era for awhile now. So glad I found your Seeburg recordings!

[@Aramanth]

"Miss Turner, take a letter... To the General Staff: Concerning Dress Code. Due to changing fashions and greenhouse gases, our office will allow tasteful miniskirts worn with a blouse and jacket."

[@happymeltedcity]

I imagine playing this on some broken down record player in the wake of an earth shattering apocalypse, listening to sounds that bear no resemblance in any way to the world of my new reality.

[@beaujaymes75]

i like it just the way it is. it has a lot of character

[@fargeeks]

at 5:30 its the instrumental version of The Ballad of Easy Rider by The Byrds

[@HeidisHereAndThere]

Sounds like dusty record, and ruins the quality of this beautiful music.

[@beaujaymes75]

@@HeidisHereAndThere Understandable but in hip-hop this is classic. I do see your point of view also.

[@katyanaprewetts6482]

The pops and skips actually made me enjoy it a lot more tbh! It was like asmr hahaha

[@justintyme1449]

Back in the late 80's my friend would play a loop of this music and lock down the Mike on the CB radio just to piss off some of the locals on their favorite CB Channel....Oh you should of heard them scream and swear!

[@patricialutz2092]

Justin Tyme 😂🤣🚛😠$&#?! I Can Only Imagine 😉, me personally, I like to relax at the end of the day with it brings back some good memories of when I was a kid.

[@supsound]

That's excellent!!!

[@michaellaco8334]

"Breaker breaker one nine, quit playin' that f****ng music"

[@jodibolan438]

I can imagine what they said and seeing their reactions. 😅😅😅

[@dixieboy5689]

I sure do love the authentic scratches on this release. Thanks. Great sound.

[@jb2wheeler]

Great music! It's a shamr that the record is wore out, but I can understand why it was played so much. Thanks for posting. JB2wheeler

[@donnapuckett4992]

Don't clean this up! It's the whole point of being "retro"! It sounds like this is being played on a record player from the 60's! Love it! "Thanks for the memories!"- Bob Hope

[@MaryNovak-lk1bv]

Speaking of which..belive it or not?...Jimmy page was once a session guitar player and he used to play for the muzak instrumental tracks in the very early 60's

[@jacobadams905]

dont be sorry for the pops, its the best part.

[@samanthavillagomez997]

I played all it so positive and relaxing!

[@marklucca3044]

This music is so bizarre. It reminds me of when I was a an unruly 6 y/o running around in FedCo in 1972 and there was no security back then. My mom use to wear a wig back then just like all women over 30. Only women in their 20's didn't wear a wig. They all had hair but for some reason fashion compelled them to wear wigs. That's so weird when I think of it now.

[@TM-em9ij]

My Mom never wore a wig. She went to the beauty shop every 2 weeks to get that platinum blond foot high beehive. Plus sleeping with curlers and bobby pins and pink hair tape for spit curls. Torture for fashion. lol

[@dugroz]

Really? Wonder what their husbands thought of that ...

[@GLC2013]

Not weird at all. In the late '50s, women who were young in the 1920s-30s were aging and still wearing their short, flat, tightly curled hairstyles. To young women in 1958, nothing seemed "older" than flat, greasy, short hair-so the bouffant styles became popular. Longer, cleaner hair fluffed up and arranged in softer styles looked young, fresh, new and HEALTHY. As the '60s progressed, a bouffant style or elaborate updo was a "must" for every well-groomed woman. However, these were very difficult styles to achieve, involving setting lotion, hot rollers and hairspray. By the mid sixties wigs were becoming popular as a fast, inexpensive way of achieving the bouffant look without the hassle or damage to hair. Don't know why it's so hard for people to get out of their radicalized 21st century echo chambers and view things in their historical perspecitve, lol.

[@titmouse-distribution]

59:48 - The Last Time I Saw Paris Note: This also appears on a Christmas record and Basic #7-A from replace no. 4 (10-1-1960) albeit with the intro intact.

[@lookoutleo]

thanks for posting a whole record

[@hdmuz8]

Track 2 [the orchestral waltz] sounds like "Valzer dell'allegria", sung by Claudio Villa...the arranger here took more liberties with the melody lines, but the structure and key points are the same.

[@AdamStJamesStJames]

Good catch!

[@hdmuz8]

Some pieces have identical chord structures anyway, and the minor section is even more different in Valzer dell'allegria, making it difficult to determine what it really is...

[@ScorpioSign]

*Liked... perfect, just the way it is.

[@davy1972]

This would be my first Christmas.

[@pelecyphora1]

good old analogue with its beautiful pops your flaws {character energy uniqueness}. Robot may kill us

[@staticmunk7777]

I love the staticy scratchy sound on this thank you for posting this sweet sounding treasure got any more real scratchy music like this can you post them if you can super thank you, and please don't clean this up it sounds so good like this please have more like this, and love the shaymin icon avi pic really awesome and staticool

[@EverythingRetro1]

Check out this video its amazing kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJu2cpynhM2Cq7M

[@staticmunk7777]

super awesome

[@vincenthagan2540]

@@EverythingRetro1 Yeah! Volume one is one of my favorites!

[@rockeryhudpeck3390]

I liked it then...I love it now.

[@chesteralexander4363]

True VINTAGE in more ways than one.

[@alltaken678]

8:33 is "Side by Side by Side" from the musical Company. 33:20 is "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from Cinderella.

[@fargeeks]

6:00 is "The Ballad of Easy Rider" from the Byrd's

[@SkinnyVinnie514]

I was gonna offer you to restore the track and clean it up for you, but reading the comments, I realise it might anger some of your more old school listener lol Anyway, thanks for preserving this and sharing! You should upload it at the Internet Archive too to ensure it get preserved longer!

[@fargeeks]

at 5:30 its the instrumental version of The Ballad of Easy Rider by The Byrds

[@rayjr62]

"Something" by the Beatles is one of these muzak songs on the SBL. I guess it is true that you know you've arrived as a songwriter when one of your tunes has been re-recorded as muzak.

[@aimeef3559]

I kinda like all the "pops and skips"!

[@DeadAbeVigoda]

Pop and skips? Life is full of pops and skips, mate.

[@harmono8766]

I used to work at a golf course and I can still remember a few tunes. I am pretty good at remembering older music, but these songs I think were from movies that I didn't see. So I can't find them. It's kind of bugging me. I want to find them for some reason.

[@fargeeks]

The 2nd track is from Easy Rider the movie Its called "the Ballad of Easy Rider" from The Byrd's who also sang "turn, turn turn"

[@MsKiTTy1138]

@ Peter Landry WOW I'M GOING TO CLEAN THIS 1 UP, ALSO, and don't worry I keep the original as is then save a digital copy so I have BOTH Before & After Versions. I KNOW MOST OF THESE SONGS HAVE TO CHECK MY ARCHIVE. I have a MUZAK collection of 152 albums restored digitally. now i'm getting as many of the Seeburg's I can to restore them. it is time consuming, as a music historian i'm working on the biggest collection of music. have 29,000 mp3's from late 1800's, 1900's, 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, & 80's. have 5,000 full playlist albums. it's so big now they take up two 1 TB Drives. might have a 3rd shortly. also music from around the world. the collection is just massive.

[@TheWorldOfBudgetVinylRecords]

I have made a cleaned up version of the audio, if you skip the first two tracks, it almost cleaned up to perfection. Totally would upload if I had the blessing of the user that upload this.

[@EverythingRetro1]

Sure. Be my Guest I always allow perfection especially when preserving history :)

[@AdamStJamesStJames]

@@EverythingRetro1 my brother and I agree with this 100%. We have been buying up what albums we can and consider this era of bgm and Muzak to be lost genre.

[@TheWorldOfBudgetVinylRecords]

@@EverythingRetro1, I have uploaded a cleaned-up version of this record, there are some passages that had hiss that could not be removed.

[@TheWorldOfBudgetVinylRecords]

@@EverythingRetro1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXmuk3SZfatghtk

[@Fardemark]

Yeah this record was the very first Seeburg record I ever got. I bought it off of 8 Track Shack. com for $15 in 2015. From there on the collection grew and channel Fardemark was created.

[@vietNguyen.]

Peaceful days in Germany....✌️😚 70s and also peaceful days in Asia ( Afghanistan )

[@duanespooner6649]

I can visualize the needle dragging a dustball the size of a cat.

[@PneumatinisPlaktukas15]

First track is definitely by the "Golden Dream" Orchestra.

[@chiaracaniaticarlucci4779]

Lovely just the way it sounds...wonderful with all the scrich,scrich...crak...please don't take them off...leave the "wrinkles " on the "face " of this "old but still gorgeous lady "named Music...

[@eduardo_corrochio]

I might be totally mistaken here (mea culpa in advance if I am) but after listening for a while it seems that these scratches and pops were added to make these songs sound like over-used vintage vinyl. It's too rhythmic, too repetitive. At least to me. Sounds like one five-second effect on a loop with a small gap between each time, at least on the first tune. But I do like the music here; very nostalgic vibe.

[@ProjectShocase]

How dare you..Why would want to clean tha audio up? I love this..it's better then Mallmuzak.. Ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ AF

[@majorcorn0526]

I agree with you

[@bradleighutz6715]

I really enjoyed listening to this. I tried to make a track list here but there are many songs I don't recognize. A few sound familiar. Ballad of Easy Rider I only know of the Percy Faith instrumental version and this isn't that one, so this version is new to me. For This Girl is a Woman Now I only knew of two instrumental versions - one is by the Living Strings and the other is a custom version by Pat Valentino for Bonneville Broadcasting System. This one is neither of those, so I'd sure like to know who the artist is. Maybe Seeburg did their own custom instrumentals like Muzak and Bonneville did?1. Sealed With a Kiss - Golden Dream Orchestra2. unknown3. Ballad of Easy Rider - unknown4. unknown5. unknown6. unknown7. A Nightingale Sang in Barclay Square - not sure, could be George Shearing8. unknown9. unknown10. Something - unknown11. unknown12. unknown13. unknown14. unknown15. unknown16. Maybe This Time - Golden Dream Orchestra17. This Girl is a Woman Now - unknown 18. unknown19. Cast Your Fate to the Wind - unknown20. unknown21. unknown22. unknown23. unknown24. The Last Time I Saw Paris - unknown25. unknown26. unknown - Golden Dream Orchestra27. unknown28. unknown29. All I Have to Do is Dream - Golden Dream Orchestra30. unknown

[@gazunt]

thanks for some of the tracks. additional - track 5 - And This Is My Beloved

[@dominatucocina]

Beautiful music, I invite you to enjoy International Sound in www.albatrosdigital.blogspot.com

[@fargeeks]

Yes i recognize that song at 6:00 The Byrd's sang that song

[@dvidclapperton]

When I Looked Into Eyes - Cell:Adore Moche en Maiorca - 101 Strings Orchestra & Trumpet 69 Olé - (Unknown) That's 3 of the other tracks on the record according to the KZbin playlist, but I have no idea which track is which.

[@diecastmania]

Anyone notice that the first tracks sounds a bit like "The Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel?

[@vado575]

its called sealed with a kiss

[@rahmemmanuel7159]

no.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Yep, that's what it is.

[@fargeeks]

The second track is " The Ballad of Easy Rider"

[@matthewjlock]

0:00 Sealed With a Kiss

[@majorcorn0526]

Thx for the song name.

[@fargeeks]

The song at 6:00 is called "the Ballad of Easy Rider" from The Byrd's who also sang "i wasnt born to follow" and "turn, turn, turn"

[@pompasduris]

What is the song at 52:06?

[@hdmuz8]

1:07:50 Can't Help Lovin' that Man of Mine

[@EverythingRetro1]

If you want to hear more music like this check out my other channel Fardemark

[@EverythingRetro1]

here are some more seeburg videos I uploaded on my other channel kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJu2cpynhM2Cq7M kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3SQmmWXjrehgrc kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaKsgKxmhdx8prs

[@JonesMediaMan]

Song name at 49:17?

[@TheGreatPumkin1]

What is the name of the first song?

[@michaelcook8487]

Sealed with a Kiss - Brian Hyland - 1962

[@TheGreatPumkin1]

@@michaelcook8487 Thank you sir.

[@TheGreatPumkin1]

I don't think thats it. I looked and cant find it.​@@michaelcook8487

[@timothylegg]

I would like to try at cleaning this up. I can also recommend the tool Audacity for cleaning the audio. Audacity is a volunteer project and is a free download.

[@EverythingRetro1]

I actually cleaned it on audacity, but the record is very worn out.

[@EverythingRetro1]

sorry I can't afford such software right now :(

[@andylindsaytunes]

He said the software is free. It costs nothing.

[@EverythingRetro1]

Ok, but I am still not really capable of sound editing

[@timothylegg]

I think a number of us are willing to volunteer and send the files back to you.

[@permafrost8894]

Which genre is this?? I wanna find more vintage music like this in this sort of style..

[@EverythingRetro1]

This is known as easy listening or vintage/retro easy listening. Links to more related videos are posted below this reply :)

[@lovewillwinnn]

“Easy listening” 🔈 👂 🛏 😴

[@ZilogBob]

I've processed the audio file with the Goldwave software's de-click function and re-encoded it at a more appropriate sampling frequency and bit rate. It sounds a lot better. You can download it as a 22MB mp3 file from tinyurl.com/declicked if you're interested.

[@bermlee]

I wish you still had this up!

[@bermlee]

Something is wrong with the content ID tagging by KZbin. That "music in this video" is totally wrong, at least the first item in there. It's not even from the same era (sounds like those sampled jazzy hiphop pieces popular right now) Sad to think that Cell:Adore is getting royalties for something they had nothing to do with.

[@dvidclapperton]

It only gives a maximum of 10 songs, only 3 for this. And I have no idea which track is which.

[@nutlet1]

19:15 , the song after the song ends, I swear I've heard it before

[@nutlet1]

19:39 , it sounds like some kind of muzak or sounds for the supermarket thing

[@allenfink8779]

Probably at a Lowery Organ store in your local mall. ;-)

[@seanmolloy9297]

@Daniel Vega Yep!!!.... featured in the old Bogart movie To Have and To Have Not.

[@dvidclapperton]

16:27

[@HeidisHereAndThere]

That record needs dusting! Sounds horrible😲

[@FreedomLovingLoyalist]

why should this be in a library