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


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April, 2008

Gender bender

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Hector Nicol “Queen of the Road”

(26 votes, average: 3.19 out of 5)

Insane clown posse

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“Payaso” Lucho Munoz y su Conjunto con Rayito de Sol.   Marlec Records.

(22 votes, average: 3.36 out of 5)

Banana split

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Another picture sleeve from Lp cover lover Ulf Gustafsson.   Photo by R. Carre.   On the Riviera label.

(39 votes, average: 4.18 out of 5)

Embraceable you

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“The Lush and Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny” “Romantica” This is the cover Liberty might have used (if someone in the art department had loved large-breasted women this much.)

(71 votes, average: 3.82 out of 5)

Future shlock

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“The Moog Invasion” by Electronic Sound. EMI Records, Germany.   A compilation of recordings by Dick Hyman, Richard Hayman and The Copper Plated Integrated Circuit.

(28 votes, average: 3.43 out of 5)

Mack daddy

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Freddie Mack “Kung Fu Man” / “Ultra Funk” (1974)

(26 votes, average: 3.69 out of 5)

Black witchcraft

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“Macumba” on the Brazilian Sinter label. This is one of the most amazing covers. A real voodoo ritual complete with the rooster blood letting, the live snake, the priestess and her pipe and most disturbingly the man in a trance licking the blood from his hand. I’m spooked to even be writing about it. Curses!

(37 votes, average: 3.35 out of 5)

She’s electric too

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Electrifying Guitar Goes Latin The Jumping Jewels, etc. On Japanese Fontana.

(22 votes, average: 3.41 out of 5)

Dentally retarded

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“El Dentista” Calixto Ochoa y su Conjunto Merengue

(34 votes, average: 4.53 out of 5)

Life is good

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Al Compas De Mis Recuerdos. Why are there always records laying around on the floor?   Check out the groovy portable turntable with the removable speakers. Check out the babe. Check out the dude with the blue stocking socks, the tall cocktail, the cigarette and the far away look of a guy enjoying his groovy portable turntable, his hot babe, his cocktail, cigarette, tight fitting, powder blue stocking socks and albums spread on the floor around his feet. Ahhhh, life IS good.

(26 votes, average: 4.35 out of 5)