Seeburg 1000 - Los Angeles, CA

When I was a teenager in the 1970's, I thought this kind of music was boring and depressing. Now, I find it very pleasant, and a nostalgic reminder of the past. And it took a lot of talented musicians to make the music. It is music that seems to have essentially gone extinct, as no one appears to be composing and playing it anymore, and it had been decades since I have heard it on the radio or in a store.

This is a wonderful and unique channel to hear the original authentic custom-recorded arrangements. There is a channel on YouTube called "TechMoan" that has a video showing how the Seeburg 1000 machine worked... it played 1000 songs before it repeated, and it was absolutely ingenious. In the USA this was the main competitor to Muzak back in the day. Thank you!

@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).

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

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 -

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