Seeburg 1000 Basic Background Music Library 4-1-1974 Part 5

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It is the Spring of 1974, Disco is still up and coming, and you hear these tunes at your shopping mall as you pick out a pair of funky fresh bell-bottom pants. If you don't remember those days because you had yet to make your entrance into the world, or even one or both of your parents, fear not, this album has you covered! 

"It's Bliss" The Best In Popular Music- Jack Jackson English Orchestra- Rondo-lette SA 64

 

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Do you like budget background music? I happen to, and chances are, if you are reading this, so are you.

This fantastic instrumental record album contains stereo versions of some tracks uploaded to this channel for many years, namely tracks A1, A3, A4, and B4- which appeared on the B-side of a Halo release of "The Vagabond King." It would be an understatement to say that hearing stereo versions of tracks one has heard a hundred times in mono is a treat.   

Tracklisting: 

A1 Jalousie 

A2 Night And Day 

A3 Chinese [Swedish] Polka 

A4 Star Dust 

B1You The Night And The Music 

B2 Street Scene 

B3 Solitude 

B4 Islands Bolero  

Rondo-lette Records was the great last flowering of Eli Oberstein's many budget record lines. It was 1959, and budget stereo records were really becoming a thing, to the point that even Eli Oberstein had to enter the market. Eli Oberstien had many stereo recordings, real and fake reprocessed mono, issued covering everything from jazz, show tunes, classical, polka, you know, the usual budget stuff the older crowd that actually had the money to buy a stereo capable record player in 1959 would be inclined to pick off the shelves and take home with them.   Rondo-lette Records also was home to cleverly marketed packages of the same 1940s material that Eli Oberstein had sold to the public multiple times via his stable of different record label lines that recycled and repackaged material with different records sizes, speeds, jacket art, and sometimes different generic artist credits.   But, Rondo-lette Records was also unique in the Eli Oberstein tradition since it featured unique back slicks with liner notes- something that hadn't been seen since the earliest Royale Record album line pressings. Nevertheless, the party ended quickly, as Eli Oberstein died in 1960. His son subsequently sold his father's massive record catalog to Precision Radiation Instruments, who bought out the Tops Records founders catalog around the same time. Even then, within a short span of years, Precision Radiation Instruments ended up selling its holdings to Pickwick. Pickwick seems to have only reissued a small portion of the material, mostly the super-famous big names that people of the 1960s and 1970s recognized still, like Lead Belly, Percy Faith, and such. Pickwick had its own library of generic music, so many Eli Oberstien generic recordings have not seen the light of day commercially since the 1950s. 

Red River Dave- Popular Range Songs (Varsity Records 6907)

 

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Varsity Records was yet another label in the Oberstien fold of budget labels that endlessly reissued content from previously released Royale Records albums. These are reissued Sonora Records sides by Red River Dave, i.e., Dave McEnery, from the mid-1940s.

Tracklist

A1 Red River Valley
A2 Home On The Range
A3 Wagon Trail
A4 Empty Saddles
Written-By – Billy Hill

B1 Take Me Back To My Boots And Saddle
B2 Ole Faithful
B3 The Last Round-Up
B4 Mexicali Rose
Lap Steel Guitar – Roy Smeck
Vocals – Bob Houston