Seeburg 1000 Basic Background Matching Christmas CH-21 1967 - A Christmas In July Special

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Seeburg 1000's various background music libraries aimed to fill all background music needs- especially during the Christmas shopping season during the 1960s and 1970s. Christmas music was played differently than it is today, not constantly, but between every so many non-seasonal tunes... just enough to remind you of the season, but not enough to overly saturate and get everyone fed up with Christmas music by the time the seasonal music was replaced the 26th of December. Christmas had a firm and fast time frame in the public's minds, and few dared to challenge that norm. Thus, while there are Christmas tracks, most of these albums are tracks one could expect to hear in the non-seasonal background music library record sets.

The set I have contains nine of an eleven-record set. Come to find out, I have owned and digitized what are likely the other records of the set, given that record 17 of the set mentioned above is an exact duplicate of one of the releases I digitized and uploaded last year. The box of this set notes they were placed into service on 11-27-1967; this was four days after Thanksgiving that year- Perhaps the replacement set arrived late that year? They didn't rotate the set out until early January according to the rotate-out date noted on the box in pencil, just like the placed-into-service date.

William Steinberg Conducts The Publisher Services Symphony Orchestra- Tristan and Isolde, Vol. 1- Full

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William Steinberg Conducts The Publisher Services Symphony Orchestra- Tristan and Isolde, Vol. 1- Full

After recording a set of 11 album sets of instrumental classical music for Music Appreciation Products, Inc. for their initial "World's Greatest Music" series between 1938-1940, RCA Victor recording engineers also facilitated the initial "World's Famous Operas" series recorded in 1940 (12 album sets in total). The artists were not explicitly credited on the original releases. However, recording session records have been found that identify who they were. The Stanford University catalog has information about this album compiled from scholarly works and their physical copy. See https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13751622. Image copies of the accompanying appreciation booklet, containing background information about the composer, the work, and German to English translations of the lyrics featured on these selections, can be found here: https://www.discogs.com/release/12044993-Richard-Wagner-Samuel-Chotzinoff-A-Condensed-Version-of-Tristan-and-Isolde-

This is the first of a two-volume album set recorded for Music Appreciation Products Inc. in 1940 by the RCA-Victor recording staff at the Philadelphia Music Hall. Volume two was acquired earlier, and a video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1n5DotZayk.

Artists:

Bampton, Rose. Performer (Soprano)
Summers, Lydia. Performer [Mezzo-Soprano)
Carron, Arthur. Performer (Tenor)
Unknown Baritone

Steinberg, William, 1899-1978. Conductor of the Publisher Services Symphony Orchestra

Freddy Laine Orchestra- Tops 45-R269-49 Full 45 RPM Tops Sound-A-Like Covers Record

 

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Tops Records was a giant in the budget record label world in the 1950s. Tops/Mayfield Records set the bar of budget record label releases to an all-time high, blowing the Eli Oberstien and Don Garner record lines out of the water in terms of quality and price. Every new budget record label company that joined the market in the late 1950s typically had, at least, full-color photo jackets and liner notes. Tops also issued their albums in 45 rpm EP sets, a practice larger record labels were employing at the time to make sure they were reaching for as many potential customers as possible. 

Tops originally entered the market as a seller of used jukebox records, quickly issuing their own records containing covers of the day's top-charting hits. After success with cover records, they moved on to releasing complete albums of various genres to fill the music interests of the mass market.