Seeburg Basic Background Music BA-112A/B (7-1-1972)
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- Five tunes from a 16-2/3 RPM Seeburg Basic Background Music record with a place in use date of July 1, 1972. The first two selections are from side A and the last three are from side B. Played on my trash-picked KLH Model Eleven record player. The city I live in (Phoenix) provides bulk trash pick up every three months or so. This is an opportunity for everyone to put large items like tree limbs, old furniture, appliances, etc. on the curb instead of having to haul it to the city dump. It is also an opportunity to pick up free record players! (One man's trash is another man's treasure)
Lovely! I feel like shopping at Eaton's and Simpsons again for new socks and Canadian-made leather shoes and 3 new, white dress shirts for 10 dollars. I might even cross the street to shop at Kresge's with the wooden, creaky floors and listen to all the budgies in the back bird section. Don't forget Woolworth's five and dime.
I am nuts about the first song, or anything played by the Seeburg Bossa Nova Band. In the late sixties/early seventies it seemed that every other Seeburg song was arranged as a bossa nova. If anyone knows the name of this song please post it - I swear I've heard it in a non-Seeburg context.
"Code 3 Security to Automotive. Code 3 Security to Automotive. Thank you!"
"Easy to be hard" sounds so great- kinda like a "Martin Denny" flair or rich to it
It's actually funny because that was such a hippie song from Hair a few years earlier, and by '72 it's just another instrumentalized easy-listening tune in Seeburg's background music repertoire.
"Proud Mary" is the last song on the side, so it gives us an opportunity to hear how those records sounded at their slowest point where distortion tends to settle in. I'd say that the sound quality of innermost grooves has more to do with the condition of the cutting head and of the stamper than with speed.
These are so cool. Also interesting flashing mirage effect at the center of the turntable mat.
5:24 "Can't We Be Friends" introduced on Broadway in 1929, covered by the likes of Bing Crosby and Sinatra
noticed that flash too. must be a slight wow on the turntable that the light picks up at a slightly different angle.
The song at 8:15 has such an intriguing dimensional effect..
Easy to be Hard
Last tune is "A Man Without Love"
"Attention, shoppers - This store is proud to announce the opening of our new Optometry department. For the first time, you can schedule a vision check AND order your new eyeglasses in one convenient location. Our selection of eyewear is the largest and most complete in town, with all the latest and most fashionable styles for men, women, and children. And our trained staff will provide expert service throughout. Come see for yourself, on the first floor to the right of our main entrance. Thank you for shopping with us!"
Sounds like the Optical Department at the Sears in Abington, Pa., ca. 1972. (It was down to the right as you entered the lower level near hardware and appliances.)
10:39 "A Man Without Love"
I once bought a KLH Model 20 in working order at a church jumble sale back in the late '90s for the whopping sum of $3.00... but I guess you got an even better deal than me!
I think Englebert Humperdink sang it.
My community has an "electronics recycling" center, but they watch when you come there and if you are not dropping off and try to look at stuff other people left and try to take it they yell at you and say they're gonna call the cops. I mean it's people's trash! Why do they have to be such bastards? Give the wrong person a little power and this is what happens LOL!
It's money... Things with circuit boards have gold in them... Literally. Not only that... It is considered stealing as it is on private property. I was in a courtroom when a couple was arrested for going through a goodwill bin. The property issue was the basis of the charges brought against them.
@@bettyh3747 You have a good point. I guess the county gets a so much money for each ton of electronic waste, so it's like taking money out of their pockets. On the other hand, the recycling place is on county-owned land, so maybe it's not considered private property?
Ditto for the third song (after the prolific Seeburg arranger Piccolo Pete's version of Rolling on the River and before Easy to be Hard). Is that a Bachrarach tune? Love the marimba simmering in the background on that one. Thanks so much for posting these. When you play them on your consoles the big woofers & cabinets really bring out the bass.
You've never "lived" until you've caught Leonard "Mr. Spock" Nimoy's version of "Proud Mary". It was so "good" that it made Rhino Records' "Golden Throats: The Great Celebrity Sing-Off" album!
@@MKIVWWI Really, tell me - what was the appeal of Nimoy's albums other than ripe for spoofing?
Funny how the actual arranger of that track used the name Peter as a pseudonym.
What adaptor are you using?
SeeburgUp2Speed -- great set of songs, but what was going on in with the center of the turntable? Keeps switching from white to silver to white?
MKIVWWI It's a textured material reflecting light as it hits a certain position with each half-rotation. I have an old 45 adapter that does something similar.
2:11
This is the only music anywhere if SOPA is enacted!
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