Seeburg Basic Background records 1972-1974 13 each

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Up for bid in this auction is a group of different used 16-2/3 rpm Seeburg Background Music records. These records are 9 inches in diameter and have a 2 inch center hole. They were originally used on Seeburg background music phonographs but will also play on the Rowe/AMI background music system.

This auction is for 13 different records of the Seeburg Basic Library as listed below in the chart.

Below the chart listing the records in this auction are representative photos showing two records of the type being offered in this auction. Below that photo is some infomation about how the Seeburg Background Music Library records were numbered, dated and classified into different styles of music. This auction contains the following records, listed by date of issue and sequence code:

The oldest 16 rpm records I have seen myself are from 1960 and were not dated. I believe the initial offerings were in sets of 24 or 25 records. When it became evident the records needed to be updated on a scheduled basis a system was devised that replaced all 28 records in a machine once a year. At first the records were just marked with which record they were to replace from the original grouping. By 1961 the replacement records were dated April 1, July 1, October 1 and December 26 of the year of issue.

Capital Custom Records was the first company contracted to press these records. In July of 1961 Columbia Records became the supplier and was so until December 1963. Records dated April 1964 through July 1966 are pressed by Decca Custom Records. All of the above companies used a one or two digit number (from 1 to 28) to identify which place the record took in the stack of 28 records on each machine. This changed in October of 1966 when RCA Custom Records got the contract. RCA numbered their records from 101 through 128.

As mentioned above the Seeburg phonographs hold 28 records when fully loaded. These numbers indicate the position in the stack a given disc is to occupy. When assembling a stack of records an operator would stack them 1 to 28 (or later 101 to 128) with the B sides up in the machine. This was done because the mechanism plays the BOTTOM (A) side of the record first, then drops it down and plays the top or (B) side.

Replacement sets sent out every 3 months normally contained 7 records. By changing 7 records at a time, 4 times a year, all 28 records were replaced annually. The operator would replace every fourth record in the stack with a new disc and keep the other 21 discs in place to complete the set. The numbers 1-28 or 101-128 were repeated each year so in order to properly identify the records it is important to take note of the issue date on each label also. Beginning in January of 1976 RCA quit dating each record. Instead they used a group or set number in place of the date. This number began with the prefix RR. The first set for the Basic Library is RR-66, issued for the first quarter of 1976.

The colors of the labels were changed from time to time and do not necessarily indicate the style of music (or “Library“) that they represent. The prefix to the record number indicates the library or style of the selections. Among others some prefixes are B or BA indicating Basic Library, N or IND for the Industrial library, M or MM for the Mood Library, and LS for the Lifestyle Library. Christmas records carried either a CH or X prefix and came 25 to a set. There were several different Christmas sets issued. Those I have listened to mix traditional Christmas carols with other styles of music, much as the radio stations did during the Christmas season.

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