Seeburg 1000 Highlights Record from April 1976 

+hebneh You seem a little bitter lol

The music of today is generally steaming dogshit.

I miss instrumental music. Hearing vocals in the supermarket is distracting, especially when they are about grim subjects like drug addiction and suicide (as some popular songs are). I guess many shoppers just don't notice them.

@@DandyDon1 How’s that so?

No...this was a one sided promo disc...hence the colored vinyl. Thanks!!

The hole in the center seems a lot bigger. From the way this thing works, one can appreciate why RCA put a big hole in the center of their 45s; it must have made it much easier to engineer jukeboxes.

This was a seperate system from jukeboxes manufactured by Seeburg for backgound music to be played at restaurants, stores and factories. The large holes were so no one could play 45's on them so the music content could be controlled and not replaced by employees wanting to hear their own kind of music. Google Seeburg 1000 and you'll find a great website that explains it all. Thanks!

cricketrecords Half the recording speed, but 9" with a wide label, so each side is about as long as a standard LP side, so basically a 20 minute record per side, times two sides, times 24-28 discs. It could run about 24 hours before coming back to the start.

The BMS 1000 was so called because it played both sides of 25 records, each side containing 20 songs (hence 1,000 songs). The phonographs used the old Pickering "Red-head" stereo cartridge, introduced on Seeburg jukeboxes in late 1958 for the 1959 model year. Although the mono Seeburg jukeboxes used 1 mil styluses and the stereo Seeburgs used .7 mil styluses, the background-music systems used a .5 mil stylus, but played the special mono records. The BMS phonographs were non-selectable and only played these proprietary formatted 9" records with 2" center holes - sequentially, and at 16​2⁄3rpm.

5:10 "To the Door of the Sun" (originally by Al Martino). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KzZJCYTSl04.html

Rob Ricci The records get re-stacked upon the spindle, and the stylus plays them "upside-down."

Rob Ricci The claws on the black section of the spindle are where the stack of records would be held, with the underside of the next record running clockwise in relation to the needle. After playing the underside, the record drops to the midway point (shown here), to run the top side clockwise in relation to the needle. Once done playing the top side, the record drops to the bottom. Once all records have been played, a return mechanism lifts the entire stack back up to the black claws to begin the cycle again.

+gabbysbuddy Forgive my ignorance, but what is Spotify?

+dancebandleader Spotify.com is a music streaming site. Free with ads, or pay £5.00 UK per month for unlimited. Millions of tracks, find by artst or title.

Ashok...this video was created to highlight the colored vinyl Seeburg record...not the machine...I do have other videos that do highlight the machine. Thank you for your comments and for looking at my videos.

@@robyndaniels918 OK Sir

0:00 is the beginning of The Hustle

5:10 "To the Door of the Sun" (originally by Al Martino). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KzZJCYTSl04.html

@@pcno2832 It could also be the "Alle porte del sole" by Gigliola Cinquetti too. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SZBTPjQRo9g.html

@@retroandrailways Yes, that sounds like the same song. Google could translate the title as "To the Gates of the Sun", but when I tried to run auto subtitles, it totally garbled them. It seems like the kind of song that would have been translated into many languages. Thanks! Now, I just want to figure out what's at 6:15. I know I've heard it before; sounds like something Neil Diamond, or someone like that, might have done around that time.

6:15 is "We Will Never Love Like This Again" originally done by Maureen McGovern.

The Hustle?

Wait just one minute before you answer. How much did you guess-- $500? $1000? EEEEEEEEEEEEEVEN MORE? Only $99!!! except in Nebraska.

Big DogCountry Any idea how this disk was distributed? I have several Seaburg records but never heard of a colored vinyl release.

@@dave631bnetzero it was sent out to current seeburg subscribers hoping (and quietly begging...) that they would not discontinue using the seeburg service. at that time in the 70's rival companies were offering similar background music systems using tape rather than records, and systems that provided background music broadcast over fm radio using the sca system with no records or tapes required. lots of customers were ditching seeburg because the machines were leased, not owned, and so were the records which had to be mailed back to seeburg when they sent out new records, if you didn't return the records you were charged a fine. by the 1970's the seeburg machines that were made in the 1960's were old and becoming worn out and prone to breaking down as well.

Either the wrecking crew or some European easy listening orchestra.

I just purchased 2 boxes at the Salvation Army store...I hope that it will be beneficial to my family as an investment.

@@lyndenmclaughlin3474 valuable only to a collector and only if they are in good condition. on ebay the prices are ridiculously overinflated so i would not use that as an indication of their actual value. the green disc in this video is rare because most of them were never played and were thrown in the trash since seeburg didn't require them to be returned unlike the black records.

Not sure what you mean...

Delilah, there are two reasons, why this wouldn't work. #1: After the pickup is a special equalizer, doing a high cut and a low boost. The low boost would be at the wrong frequency and the highcut would eleminate higher frequencies #2: When you would do it linear and apply the equalizer in post production, another issue is, the pickup can't get frequencies above 18 kHz, so this would discriminate to 9 kHz. So, the 96 kHz doesn't help. The only way would be using a cartridge for the CD4 quadro process and a shibate stylus - both are harder to get, than a record player with 16 rpm.

@@robfriedrich2822 there are other problems as well. the seeburg records are cut with narrow grooves so you must play them with a 1/2 mil stylus or the sound quality will suffer and the records will be damaged.. such a stylus is not very common these days. and, the records are mono, not stereo, so to get a really good sample you need a proper mono cartridge, something else that is not very common these days. i have a setup built around the mechanism of an old rim-drive 4-speed record player that can do 16-2/3rpm, a tonearm from a rega rp-1 turntable that i got from a friend who upgraded to a different tonearm, and a sumiko black pearl stereo cartridge that has a 1/2 mil stylus, connected to a technolink tc-778 riaa/78 preamp that allows switching between riaa equalization or an unaltered output. now... you would think that if you simply connect the left and right outputs of the stereo preamp together you would get a good-sounding mono output from it.. this has not been the case. the best results i have gotten were by connecting the preamp output to a benchmark media systems ifa-2 stereo-to-mono summing amplifier, then running that output into either a mono bogen pa amplifier connected to a single speaker or into a cheapo behringer mixing board with mono xlr inputs with the stereo outputs connected to a pc sound card input. both end results sound pretty good, but not perfect, certainly not even close to cd quality. and the seeburg records were definitely recorded using riaa equalization, they sound terrible without it. i don't think the behringer board is the problem because i have fed it other mono source material and had great results. i'm wondering if it's just some sort of resonant quality that is missing..... i am very tempted to try building a mono foam dml panel speaker with a pair of the dayton exciters mounted to a single foam panel, driving the daytons with a small stereo amp from the preamp output bypassing the benchmark preamp.

+James Lembcke This music reminds me of the days when an album was $3.

This was pre-muzak.

@TC Fenstermaker You are correct sir!! Seeburg 1000 was introduced in 1959 but the first creations of Muzak were in 1922 ...the official format names Muzak appeared in 1934.

As cheesy as much of that was, I still prefer instrumental background music to a lot of the vocal stuff they play in stores now. The last thing I need to hear while walking down the isle at Wall Mart is some mediocre top-40 has-been singing about how much he loves me.

@@pcno2832 Well, with the copyright laws that are now in effect, you now hear "original" music from unknown artists. No longer are pop hits being used, because the royalty fees have reached very high amounts and they can no longer use even '60's Pop, so no more Beatles.