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.
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