Frank Sinatra's 1948 SEEBURG For Sale

Hi, I'm Mike Perlman, I own the Los Angeles jukebox company and I'm going to take you on a tour of some nice gear I found and where it belongs today, where I think it should belong, so a friend of The Friend A friend of mine calls me and says we have this big Seaberg unit in our living room, what is it and do we want to get it out of here? It's taking up too much space. They explained to me what it was and I told them it's a Seaberg. Home library system in

1948

, when it was built only the rich and famous could afford it, so someone could put this in their living room, but most places that wanted music put them in their stores, like May Company would have this in their store playing records. all day because in

1948

we didn't have iPads, we didn't have records, we only had 78 records, so I decided I wanted this and the guy came to collect for it and said it came from my mother's inheritance.

It was given to him by Marie McDonald, his best girlfriend, and Marie McDonald, the Hollywood actress, got it from Frank Sinatra. Okay, there's no real way to test it, so for me it's just a Seaberg Home Library unit, so I took it home, got this thing running and it goes down and picks up the records, plays them and goes up and back and whoever programs this unit will play the right side, the left side will play both sides of the disc or you can turn it all off little switches you can program each disc to go to the next disc, put this one in the back, take this one out and play it overseas and I went on thinking, well, maybe this was by Frank Sinatra, but there's no way to prove it, so I broke it all down.

I dismantled the mechanism. I took the amplifier apart. I'm looking for a little repair tag that says Frank Sinatra. Well, I didn't find anything, so I thought okay, it's just a jukebox, so what I did was look at these. cover books and they contained a bunch of records, all the records were on cover hooks, so I opened the index and looked at the first page of the index and it was all full and I said, oh, someone tore up the book, they filled the index so that you can never use the index again you would have to do something get rid of the correct answer wait a minute look at the t's that's how Frank Sinatra signed his name he did it at an angle all of that is Frank Sinatra's handwriting I was amazed I said, but I couldn't be , so I contacted a company called AWA and he was an expert on Frank Sinatra's lyrics and I sent him copies of the lyrics and they authenticated the lyrics and what he said was part of this is not just Frank.

Sinatra's lyrics, but it's also Bing Crosby's lyrics because they were friends in 1948 and maybe they were hanging out here playing records and filling out the indexes, so he authenticated the lyrics, so I called Nancy, emailed her and I said, Nancy, this was your father's jukebox, what? Do you think it's okay? I do not remember. I do not remember. She would have been six years old at the time in 1948. But if you want to sell it, call me first. She said, "Okay, well, I didn't call him back." However, it's been an interesting 10 years, so now that we know it's Frank Sinatra's lyrics, I've got it all cleaned up and working perfectly and I think I'd like to turn it around and show you how the mechanism on the back works, so Now I will show you the back of this mechanism.

It's amazing how they built them in the past. Yes, this is the mechanism and you can see when the door is open, you press this little button and it plays the record. turntable this whole mechanism look here if you can when the record reaches the end Rejects scans takes the next record and puts it in this is the reverse switch goes to the end there are all the records on the back is the preamplifier Up here and the amplifier is under. Here is the library unit from my home in Seaburg that belonged to Frank Sinatra.