Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of record covers from the golden age of LPs


Subscribe to feed Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Tumblr Follow us on Facebook
« Mass hysteria  •  The right time »

Petty girl lp cover

December 3rd, 2006 in Illustration, Jazz, Music for..., Records and Players by lpcoverlover | 3 Comments

pettygirl2.jpg

George Petty was one of the great magazine illustrators of pin-up girls and cheesecake models from the 30’s – 50’s. His “Petty girls” from the pages of Esquire were used on numerous covers in the fifties, most notably on this series of releases from Decca records. There was even a movie called “The Petty Girl” with Bob Cummings as Petty and Melanie Griffith’s mom, Tippi Hedron as one of his “girls”.

I also love the little line drawing of the guy with the stack of lps at the bottom. There used to be a mural of this on the wall of a record store. I think “Record Surplus” in LA? Anyone?

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (19 votes, average: 4.79 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

3 Comments

Comments feed for this article
Trackback link:
http://lpcoverlover.com/2006/12/03/petty-girl-lp-cover/trackback/
  1. #1 Otis says:
    December 5th, 2006 at 2:00 am

    If you carefully scrub that front slick with Simple Green sprayed on a soft cloth, I bet most of that dark rub-wear comes off. Ancient record dealer secret, makes VG an EX. Next lesson “invisible tape repair.”

  2. #2 lpcoverlover says:
    December 19th, 2006 at 12:39 pm

    Thank you confusious I’ll try that. I promise to use cleaner covers in the future. Send the invisible tape repair. I want to share with both of my viewers.

  3. #3 LP Cover Lover · Petty baby says:
    September 7th, 2007 at 4:04 pm

    […] Thanks to Paul Oberlin for send this from his collection!  There is a whole series of lps and 45’s in this series.  Here’s another one. […]

  • Wheel of Fortune

  • Recent Comments

    • sRw '66 on Hey Miki
    • Rev. bIGhIG on Masks are mandatory
    • Curt Lundgren on A great barn band
    • Curt Lundgren on “Please with sugar on top!”
    • Curt Lundgren on Happy Mother’s Day
  • Pages

    • Add a Cover
    • Archives
    • Chicks dig records
    • Contact us
    • FOR SALE
    • Gallery
    • Get the T-shirt
    • How to take decent photos of record albums
    • Joyful Sounds: Contest Finalists
    • Make the picture bigger
    • Records Wanted Still
    • Restoration Tips
    • The Smiths: Contest Finalists
    • Utne Reader Profile
    • Who we are
  • Categories

    • 10"
    • 45 Picture Sleeves
    • 78 RPM
    • A glass of…
    • Advertising
    • Alternative Cover
    • Animals
    • Art and Artists
    • Asian Pop
    • Bachelor Pad and Lounge
    • Beatniks
    • Big Heads
    • Black Comedy
    • Blaxploitation
    • Blue Note
    • Blues
    • Bollywood
    • Bongos and Bagels
    • Bootlegs
    • Brazilian
    • Calypso
    • Cartoons
    • Cha-Cha-Cha and Mambo
    • Cheesecake
    • Chicks dig records
    • Chicks with Guitars
    • Christmas
    • Classical
    • Clowns and the Circus
    • Comedy
    • Contest
    • Cops and Convicts
    • Country
    • Cowboys and Indians
    • Dance
    • David Stone Martin
    • Die-cut
    • Disney Land
    • DIY
    • Doctors and Nurses
    • Documentary
    • Drugs
    • Educational
    • Exotica
    • Families
    • Fashion
    • Fitness
    • Flaming
    • Folk Music
    • Food
    • For Heaven's Sake
    • For Sale
    • Fruit Cake
    • Funny Faces
    • Gay
    • Girl Groups
    • Go-Go
    • Golden Throats
    • Good Vibes
    • Gospel
    • Guitars
    • Guns
    • Hall of Fame
    • Hands
    • Happy Hour
    • Hawaiian
    • Heaven and Hell
    • Help Wanted
    • High In-Fidelity
    • Hot Rods
    • How to
    • Illustration
    • In Tribute
    • Incredibly Strange
    • Industrials
    • Jack Davis
    • Jazz
    • Jennifer
    • Jews
    • Jim Flora
    • Just Happy
    • Karate Kung-fu
    • Kiddies
    • Latin
    • Latin Loco
    • Legs
    • Little People
    • Monsters
    • Moog
    • Music for…
    • Nudes
    • Old New York
    • Organs
    • Oud-a-sight
    • Outer Space and Rockets
    • Party!!!
    • Paul Huf
    • Personalities
    • Photography
    • Picture discs and Flexi's
    • Playboy
    • Poetry
    • Politicians
    • Polka
    • Preachin'
    • Psychedelia
    • Puppets, Dolls, Stuffed Animals
    • Puzzled
    • Radio radio
    • Real People with Real Problems
    • Records and Players
    • Red Scare
    • Robots
    • Rock
    • Roots Rock Reggae
    • S+E+X
    • School Daze
    • SFX
    • Singers
    • Sitars and Stripes
    • Smoking Section
    • Soul
    • Soundtracks
    • Spies and Private Eyes
    • Spoken Wrod
    • Sports and Games
    • Starlets and Pin-ups
    • Strange Instruments
    • Super Stereo
    • Superheroes
    • Surf
    • Teens
    • The Big Hurt
    • The Office
    • Theremin
    • Tony Schwartz
    • Trains, Planes and Automobiles
    • Truckin'
    • TV
    • Types and Fonts
    • Uncategorized
    • Voodoo and Magic
    • Wanted Records
    • Where's the Phone
    • XXX
  • Album of the Week

    • Masks are mandatory
      This week's highest viewer-rated cover with 4.06 spins!
  • The Store

    • Are you a Lover? Order your t-shirt now!

  • Spin through Chicks Dig Records

    • Love LP Cover Lover? Place a badge on your website or blog.
      Embed:

      Link back to LP Cover Lover!
  • Dust & Grooves

    Groove Vinyl

    Just walking with my boombox

  • Blogroll

    • 365 Day Project
    • Album restoration
    • Bags Unlimited
    • Boogie Woogie Flu
    • Cha Cha Charming
    • Coisas Do Arco Da Velha
    • Collecting Vinyl Records
    • Courtney Cosmetics
    • Flea Market Funk
    • Frank Olinsky
    • Frederator
    • Funky 16 Corners
    • Golden Age Cartoons
    • Groove Vinyl
    • In Your Ear Records
    • Incredibly Strange & Exotica Vinyl Marketplace
    • Jim Flora
    • JR WIlliams Art
    • Kiddie Records
    • Laff Records
    • Martin Klasch
    • Mingering Mike
    • Mini Groove
    • Mosaic Records
    • Otis Records
    • Richard Mantel Graphic Design
    • Stupefaction
    • Vintage Sleaze
    • Vintage Vanguard


Subscribe to feed Powered by WordPress and Anubis.