There are maybe a dozen albums from the sixties that feature Playboy bunnies. Some are comedians and performers at the Playboy clubs like this one. Playboy branched out to become a label for a short time in the early seventies (I think Barbie Benton might have been the biggest name they had. She was Hef’s girl at the time.), but I like the classic look and feel of the early years. I’ll be back with others.

(18 votes, average: 3.06 out of 5)

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This is here because I like Laura Nyro and it’s a very rare alternate cover to her album New York Tenderberry from 1968. I’m not clear on the genesis of the cover that got released to the public, but this photo is on the inside of that gatefold version. Apparently some copies were distributed with this cover slick before Columbia caught the mistake. There are many rare, alternate, pasted over or withdrawn album covers (sometimes due to error, sometimes due to censorship) throughout the fifty year history of the lp. Think Beatles butcher cover. I’ll be posting others.

(30 votes, average: 4.23 out of 5)

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Many fine artists have created original art for album covers including Warhol, Basquiat, Haring and R. Crumb. Crumb most famously perhaps for the Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company record, but also for a series of lps by his own band, The Cheapsuit Serenaders. Others include a bunch of classic blues reissues on the Yazoo label.

(14 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5)

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